Andrew Brenner
Thomas 🔭🕹️He is searching for a deus ex machina (in a literal, not literary sense)—it’s essentially religious fanaticism and we are all going to pay the price for it.
Seriously how can anyone see this and not assume the guy is literally insane
Sandor Spruit 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦@thomasfuchs Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and that did not end well. Maybe he should call the other one Icarus 🤔
stefan@sandorspruit @thomasfuchs Hyperion involves a lot of pain if I remember correctly
@stefan @thomasfuchs True. However, I cannot think of a more fitting mythological figure than one punished for his hubris 🙄
F4GRX Sébastien@thomasfuchs always has been
Joe (TBA) 🇺🇸@thomasfuchs That's approximately 17 sq/Km, give or take a few sq/Km.
Alda Vigdís@thomasfuchs It's almost as if you gave a 19 year-old huge amounts of VC money back in 2004, you'd end up with a very frustrated and confused 40-something in 2025.
I mean, who would have thought?
jonathankoren™@thomasfuchs this has the same feeling as as “if trends continue 1 in 3 Americans will be an Elvis impersonator”, only this dope has enough money to make this happen.
We are in the dumb times.
doragasu@thomasfuchs People just doesn't like to think. They see these monstrosities and still buy the "AI is not that wasteful" discourse.
eblu 🐘@thomasfuchs this happened in Rain World I think
@thomasfuchs And will use the power equal to 100 Mahattans.
Extreme Electronics@thomasfuchs it'll be great when he's peeled off the protective plastic from the roof.
@thomasfuchs did anyone get the blueprints so we can find the exhaust port?
esa@thomasfuchs
I'm reminded of the line city thing that some petrostate was going on about.
I'm reminded of the line city thing that some petrostate was going on about.
nilix@aral @thomasfuchs yep this as an ultimately religious project to become a virtualized god in a virtualized universe, organized religion 2.0
Chuck@thomasfuchs I think turning abandoned data centers into living space is going to be a thing at some point 😃
Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.@ChuckMcManis @thomasfuchs living space, heck, that's a whole Arcology right there.
jhey29@ChuckMcManis ~ electric heating ~ !
Liminal witch 🧙♀️ Sarah@thomasfuchs I wonder if we should change Skyscraper index to Data center index
Gondor@thomasfuchs
If you're ever asked how anyone could believe the Matrix or Skynet could ever become a reality. Here is your answer. 🤪
If you're ever asked how anyone could believe the Matrix or Skynet could ever become a reality. Here is your answer. 🤪
Jesse McClure 
We're putting humans concentration camps and building resource-hogging cities just for machines.
Humans are slaves. All of us. The machines didn't even need to demonstrate any self-awareness nor engage in any uprising against us. Rather the machines somehow convinced us to build their world while destroying our own.
The Terminator movies were wrong. There is no "rise of the machines" only a "suicide of humanity."
Thad@jmcclure The AIs that have taken over and which control us are corporations. @thomasfuchs
clarebee@thomasfuchs And before we all pay the price - a radical inequality accelerator. Short termism writ large, speed-running the end times.
JWcph, Radicalized By Decency@thomasfuchs I'd say you're half-right, namely the "we're all paying the price". About the Deus thing, well... I actually don't think any of these bros truly really care if their shit will ever work at all, let alone do what they promise.
They're past that & into literal reality domination. That's why Trump appeals to them so much; he's shown them that reality itself can be bullied.
Zuck doesn't care what's inside a building the size of Manhattan - he cares that his name is on the outside.
@jwcph They’re seeing this quite literally as religion and as a way to cement in their power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
Txo!?@thomasfuchs the fucking names... 😑
@txo_elurmaluta yeah not a lot of self-awareness there
mmby@thomasfuchs we gotta stop having kids, we can end this in one generation
UpLateGeek@thomasfuchs makes sense, considering it translates to “Machine born from an extremely pasty man taking a dump.”
Different Drummer@thomasfuchs A complete psychopath.
Mauser II@thomasfuchs
"We are calling the next one 'Rapture'. If that doesn't work, we will be looking at other religions for fitting end-times names."
"We are calling the next one 'Rapture'. If that doesn't work, we will be looking at other religions for fitting end-times names."
Bradley Gawthrop@thomasfuchs may it go as well for him as his Metaverse obsession did.
Andrew Hinton@thomasfuchs @lisamelton He is addicted to magical thinking. That somehow the lucky theft he stumbled into 20 years ago will repeat itself because he must be a special boy genius.
Also it feels a lot like FAANG et al’s massive hiring jag circa 2019-21 partly to impress markets that “we’re growing” until they could wait till the right time to impress shareholders with layoffs
Also it feels a lot like FAANG et al’s massive hiring jag circa 2019-21 partly to impress markets that “we’re growing” until they could wait till the right time to impress shareholders with layoffs
SchwarzeLocke
Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
We're actually building several multi-GW clusters. We're calling the first one Prometheus and it's coming online in '26. We're also building Hyperion, which will be able to scale up to 5GW over several years. We're building multiple more titan clusters as well. Just one of these covers a significant part of the footprint of Manhattan.
Ian
Will
日本語まあまあ@thomasfuchs "So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a Zuckyr"
(Hamlet, Act I Scene 2)
alanpaxton@thomasfuchs Hubris and Nemesis will be along shortly
Wenzel 👨💻@thomasfuchs to what end…?