Quantum ⊂ AIThey're threatening us with a good time again
sleepfreeparent@pikesley "tiny, cheap drones in the sky disabling massive, critical data centers on the ground" uhh... guys... this is inherently asymmetrical warfare - we don't need to leave it to the nation states. The obvious sequel to "How to blow up a pipeline" is now "How to disable an AI datacenter." Especially since they're using all our water for their evaporative cooling on the rooftop - disable the cooling and the whole thing either shuts down or burns up
Neil Moffatt@sleepfreeparent @pikesley If you want to strike for maximum effect then a chip fabrication building would be perfect. -they cost in excess of a billion dollars and the planet depends on chips made by these buildings.
Point here is that insane levels of reliance of ultra complex chips that only a few places and businesses can manufacture is super precarious.
@NicelyManifest @sleepfreeparent that's the next stage, when China siezes Taiwan
@pikesley @sleepfreeparent Trump has ignited a firecracker across many nations. A domino effect is now in place.
@NicelyManifest @pikesley my point was just that the facilities slurping up water from those already suffering water shortage, while also being used to build a fascist surveillance state, are highly vulnerable to community uprising
@sleepfreeparent Very much so. The callous indifference to people needs when feeding the insatiable AI beast is scandalous.
60sRefugee@NicelyManifest @sleepfreeparent @pikesley TOO few, that's the problem: chip manufacture (and even more critically the literally unique facilities for creating the chip manufacturing machines) are essentially a global resource. Destroy them and you take away the capacity of the entire planet to create advanced chips. Something a techno-terrorist neoLuddite might aspire to do, but no partisan cause could benefit by it.
@60sRefugee @sleepfreeparent @pikesley Yup. Deeply precarious. And, so far, very surprising that virtual monopolies in chip manufacture has not sent prices skyrocketing.
Yet.
@NicelyManifest @sleepfreeparent @pikesley Chips could always have been expensive specialty items for niche applications like military or space. But the manufacturers knew that if they could mass produce them economically that they would more than make up on volume. Cheap chips created their own markets.
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen@sleepfreeparent @pikesley I'm thinking... what's the most compact and low-tech way to generate an EMP?