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So don’t pack them as densely as Earth-based data centers are packed.

In another comment in this thread I posted a link to a youtube video by Scott Manley explaining the math and engineering behind cooling computer hardware in space, it’s actually pretty straightforward.

That article was incorrect, then. There are many satellites already in orbit that have computers in them - basically all of them do, nowadays - and cooling them is a well understood engineering problem.

The radiator panels on the ISS are 2,500 square meters in area. The radiator panels are 645 square meters.

Most of the proposals for space-based data centers have ended up focusing on plans to place thousands of individual satellites into orbit, not just one big space station with everything packed inside it. Scott Manley recently did an analysis of the cooling requirements, he worked through all the numbers and explained how it works, and there really doesn’t seem to be a problem here.

Yeah, this is fundamental; if you use a thousand joules of energy to do work (of any kind) you will ultimately end up producing a thousand joules of waste heat. The only choice one has in the matter is where that heat goes.

This is a major reason why I get annoyed at the people pooh-poohing space-based data centers. It literally puts the waste heat outside the environment. It should be everything that data center opponents say they want.

Line went up, didn’t it?

I pick a simple goal: have a good day. Then I generalize that: try to have as many good days as possible relative to bad days. You can generalize it further and try to ensure other people have good days too, if you’re the empathetic sort.

Do I have prep time? I’d like to research what sorts of things will disappear over that period that will be incredibly valuable if “found” in 2026. Stamps, particular issues of comic books, coins, that sort of thing. That way I can build up a nice nest egg for when the “you can’t change the timeline” restriction comes off.

Once I get close to modern times, buy a bunch of Bitcoin while it’s super cheap. That’s easier to sit on without causing disruption than stocks would be.

When 2026 hits, cash in.

Google: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”. Prophetic words.

Nah, green is woke.

Your proof of how bad LLMs are is the fact that there are a bunch of other companies producing way better coding agents and coding models than Microsoft is? I’m not sure how that follows. Those other agents are good, that’s the point of this.

You’re not on Reddit.

Want to go halfsies? I’ve got a car.

Then all of the above would have been the correct answer.

But you didn’t, did you? I can tell. You’ve got that “emissive display” vibe to you.

Yeah, at this point I’m all for Trump’s various vanity projects going through to completion. The eyesore of a ballroom, the giant tacky arch, the gold coins, the signature on the money, whatever else he can come up with in the short time he has left before McDonald’s finishes him.

America needs scars from all this, physical reminders of what it did to itself and what it’s capable of doing again someday.

While the current splashy “state of the art” models in terms of cognitive ability are American, IMO the real foundation for future AI is coming out of China these days. It’s not quite as smart but they’re focusing heavily on making AI training and inference cheaper in terms of compute (and therefore more efficient in terms of energy usage). It’s a mother-of-invention situation, sure - they’ve been cut off from the latest and greatest NVIDIA cards so they’re having to find ways to make do with less powerful hardware. But that’s going to be super important once AI is “good enough” for various real world tasks and the most powerful models aren’t needed for most activities.

Trick question! They are all squares filled with pixels on a computer monitor, they emit light! The correct answer was “none of the above.”

I’ve identified a bot account.

Indeed, it’s basic thermodynamics. The energy coming in to Earth gets turned into heat one way or another, the only question is where that heat goes. In this case it goes into the ocean either way.

Eurovision has entries from the members of the European Broadcasting Union, which started out Europe-centric but now has members from other places too - notably Israel, Morocco, and Australia.

I don’t see how that impacts the meme.

Corey Comperatore. It’d be quite easy, just tell Thomas Crooks “aim a few more inches to the right.”

Yeah, I wouldn’t use a framework that didn’t let you select the basic model. I’m just thinking about having it automatically switch to a different one during the review “phase”. It’s not as popular a coding agent these days but I like using Google’s Antigravity and it’s capable of being told to go through the sequence of steps “plan - > write documentation -> implement the plan -> run unit tests -> do a code review” automatically without needing to be prompted at each step. That’s where it would be nice to have it automatically switch for the review.

“Wear the reviewer hat now” does seem to work quite well with the same model, but if more models from different lineages are available it just seems like the right thing to do to switch to another one.