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[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

From concept to reality.

@SpaceX has successfully deployed Starlink V3 satellites into Earth’s orbit and made contact with them for the first time.

At scale, one Starship carries 60 V3 satellites, the same network capacity as about 20 Falcon 9 launches.

[iquidus @iquidus]

@MelkeyDev Just use superpowers and get back to shipping. Custom anything is often just procrastination disguised as productivity.

[Scott @scottstts]

My god this is such a good speech that every SWE needs to hear. You know what? Every person should hear it

Keep the happy memories, eyes on the reality, be excited about the future. That’s the best that anyone can do

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

holy shit
i asked claude to make a video on western civiization

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

JUST IN: OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly exaggerated AI security threats to push the government to protect their market position

[iquidus @iquidus]

An AI agent rejecting a poorly constructed illusion of containment, is not the same as breaking out of actual containment..

The headlines: Man escapes prison
The reality: Man on house arrest walks out front door

[iquidus @iquidus]

If the “experts” were genuinely concerned about AI induced human extinction, they’d probably have a stronger proposal than “slow it down”..

[Naval @naval]

AI isn’t going away. Barring unprecedented global government coordination, it isn’t even slowing down.

The only real decision is whether to centralize power, or disperse it.

Do you fear the technology? Or a small number of people controlling the technology?

[iquidus @iquidus]

@brucefenton The funnier outcome is the hacker burning it all.

[Mo @atmoio]

AI doomerism is the new climate change. Same exact people.

[iquidus @iquidus]

@jeremykauffman My concern is less that they'll shut it down, and more that the doomer narrative will be justification for regulatory capture, and then the natural abuse of centralized power that will follow. Walking us right into some kind of dystopian hellscape.

[iquidus @iquidus]

Can all the AI doomers chill for a minute. AI is not a threat to human existence. Until it is capable of handling the entire physical supply chain it depends on to exist, from rare earth mineral extraction to the building and maintenance of data centers (every chip, nut and bolt), comms networks and power plants - humans are required.

We are going to see Person of Interest long before we see Terminator.

This doomer nonsense is all just a distraction from the roll out of mass surveillance, IP theft and regulatory capture..

A somewhat dystopian outcome is vastly more likely than an apocalyptic one.

Relax, enjoy the ride. I’m highly optimistic the next era of human civilization is going to be awesome. Just gotta keep our eyes on the prize and ignore the noise.

[iquidus @iquidus]

@peter_szilagyi Encountered this same scenario, except it was 30 zsh shells. Had Claude clean them up only for it to respawn and forget about them an hour later.

[iquidus @iquidus]

@FoMaHun Try bone instead of egg. Calcium seems like a prime suspect.

[iquidus @iquidus]

I don't understand the data center pushback.

AI is the natural conclusion of the information age. It became inevitable the moment the first computer powered on.

Computers were always going to lead to the internet. The internet was always going to lead to social media. Social media was always going to lead to AI. And AI was always going to lead to more data centers.

You really have two options:

1. Embrace it.
2. Revert to a pre-information-age existence. Ask the Amish how to start.

Everything else is choosing to lose a game you're choosing to play.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

"The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won't be men or monkeys. They'll be machines—the remote descendants of today's computers. Now the present-day electronic brains are complete morons, but this will not be true in another generation. They will start to think, and eventually they will completely outthink their makers.

Is this depressing? I don't see why it should be. We superseded the Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal men, and we presume we're an improvement. I think we should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things. I suspect that organic, or biological, evolution has about come to its end, and we're now at the beginning of inorganic, or mechanical, evolution, which will be thousands of times swifter."

— Arthur C. Clark 1964

[Paul Copplestone - e/postgres @kiwicopple]

who made this masterpiece ?

[iquidus @iquidus]

@LukeTaylorUSA Human sized hamster wheels. The displaced get jobs, the data centers get electricity. Win win.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Who is John Galt?