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Marcus Hutchins 
We plan to decrease operational costs for our AI model by building custom servers that are immune to cosmic radiation, then spending trillions of dollars launching them into space. Yes, our CFO did tech themselves math using ChatGPT, why do you ask?
ROTOPE~1 ⭐️@malwaretech no, you see, our models are limited because of the biasing pressure of gravity. If we remove gravity from the equation, then the models will be able to develop equally in all directions and thus attain hyperintelligence.
v@malwaretech you laugh but bit flips are no laughing matter! imagine youre using your ai and suddenly it does something totally unexpected for reasons no one is able to diagnose?
Allan Svelmøe Hansen
Gabriel Adrian Samfira@NocturnalNessa @malwaretech Are you saying the AI is sentient?
* runs to buy AI stock and Tesla for no reason *
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eudoxos@NocturnalNessa @malwaretech Like... that space AI would halluicnate? ugh!
ferricoxide@NocturnalNessa @malwaretech
Used to work for a global ISP in the early 2000s. Sun had released a new line of mid-range servers (e250, e450, etc.). They had significant issues with random panic() reboots caused by ECC memory-errors. Sun never could figure out the problem, citing the possibility that the parity errors were coming from cosmic rays. Eventually, they issued a patch …to log the errors rather than act on them.
Used to work for a global ISP in the early 2000s. Sun had released a new line of mid-range servers (e250, e450, etc.). They had significant issues with random panic() reboots caused by ECC memory-errors. Sun never could figure out the problem, citing the possibility that the parity errors were coming from cosmic rays. Eventually, they issued a patch …to log the errors rather than act on them.
Cassandrich@NocturnalNessa @malwaretech "Imagine youre using your ai and suddenly it does something totally unexpected for reasons no one is able to diagnose?"
Pretty sure you don't need bit flips for that to happen. Just working as designed.
OblomovBIT FLIPS MAY BE MAKING YOUR MODELS GAY OR TRANS OR WOKE, OR ALL OF THEM, RIGHT NOW!!!1111
(Yes, this is a jab at that bcachefs thing.)
@malwaretech I would like to say this was funny, but ..... yes, here we are.
Emanuele Balla@malwaretech I think it was Grok, but yeah...
Viacheslav A@malwaretech We also desperately need a rail gun on the Moon to launch AI satellites into deep space for some universe AI thingy.... we do, it will certainly happen, give us more money
David PBecause nothing says "make my servers immune to cosmic rays like putting them closer to the cosmos"
Joe Vinegar@pewnack @malwaretech also, heat dissipation in the space void is super inefficient (basically only by radiation), another big win.
Joykill@malwaretech lots of billionaires need a place outside the law to store their child porn, the research and deployment will surely pay for themselves within two years
Tristan@joykill @malwaretech
Whenever musk talks about going to Mars I just know it's to build the new little st James.
Whenever musk talks about going to Mars I just know it's to build the new little st James.
Aleksandr Koltsoff@joykill @malwaretech Plus in this case there's the whole "undressing minors for fun" aspect. If that happens in space, it's legal somehow?
Simon ZerafaReminds me of the viral video where an electrician, finding major faults in grandma house, asked when her grandsons house burnt down (granadson being an alleged electrician).
Grandma: How did you know his house burnt down? 🫨
@simonzerafa @malwaretech
Though, in this case, it will be an orbit full of the cooled blobs of slagged CPUs and GPUs.
Though, in this case, it will be an orbit full of the cooled blobs of slagged CPUs and GPUs.
FandaSinGood explanation why it's completely stupid idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6G7VEwNq0
Space Data Centers Are Dumb.
Tom@malwaretech the cosmic radiation is there to add randomness
@tdelmas @malwaretech
Ooh! Space-borne entropy-sources. The performance of
Ooh! Space-borne entropy-sources. The performance of
/dev/random will be vastly improved …and we won't need to jiggle mice, any more!@malwaretech
"Oh. And, because of the lifecycle of the GPUs, we'll need to replace space-borne hardware every three-ish years."
Impact to the atmosphere by the (tens of?) thousands of annual rocket-launches to build and service those datacenters will be absolutely trivial, I'm sure.
"Oh. And, because of the lifecycle of the GPUs, we'll need to replace space-borne hardware every three-ish years."
Impact to the atmosphere by the (tens of?) thousands of annual rocket-launches to build and service those datacenters will be absolutely trivial, I'm sure.
curtmack@malwaretech reminds me of a short video that was shared with me:
Electrician (holding camera): "Who did you say wired your house again?"
Customer (in another room) "My cousin"
Electrician: "Okay, and when did his house burn down?"
Customer: "Oh, about two years ago... Wait, how did you know his house burned down?"
(As this happens, the electrician is showing that there's 120 volts between the customer's oven and metal countertop, capable of supplying enough current to light a lightbulb.)
cognitively accessible math@malwaretech Did they tech themselves spalling two?
Cenobyte 
@malwaretech While hackers can hack alot of things, they can't hack physics. (I do have a couple of cool ideas using lasers to dump the heat...but yeah physics)
Space data centers are a bad idea..lol. Imagine the poor sucker who's got to swap a gpu when a petaEV accelerated by some blazar comes crashing in.
Joakim Fors@malwaretech No need for an RNG if you can get random bit flips for free from cosmic radiation. They'll call it Galaxy Brain™