I kept getting 80s/90s dystopian cyberpunk motifs in my head when reading this article.
Schmidt does not possess the wealth of an Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos. His personal fortune is roughly $20 billion, so approximately an order of magnitude less. This explains why, according to financial industry sources, Schmidt is presently seeking additional partners to bankroll a revitalized Relativity.
There is an abstract, satirical beauty to this paragraph.
Also worth keeping in mind that Schmidt recently stated that we shouldn’t bother with climate goals and just focus on AI.
These individuals really need a dose of reality to get them down from the clouds and back to the ground.
Reality comes in many form factors.
Yes, we need a form factor that acts as a very strong incentive. A life changing incentive if you will.
Hope all the ICs in those data centers are rad-hardened, otherwise they’ll quickly become space junk.
Aside from that, it also raises some interesting questions about sovereignty of spacecraft if there’s not a lot to stop an adversary from rendezvousing with the satellite to hijack, sabotage, or exfiltrate data.
Aside from that, it also raises some interesting questions about sovereignty of spacecraft if there’s not a lot to stop an adversary from rendezvousing with the satellite to hijack, sabotage, or exfiltrate data.
If you wanted to disable it, all you’d have to do is tow it somewhere that it’s own antennae couldn’t maintain communication with ground stations.
If you got really good with remote-operated orbital rendezvous, you might be able to actually connect to the thing and steal data… but probably it would be easier to just intercept radio traffic.
They probably won’t? I believe, earlier predictions about radiation in space were seemingly to pessimistic and iirc there is a number of cubesats and other small junk that is powered by rpi or similar shit unshielded and works fine. But even regular maintenance of data center but IN SPACE must be a nightmare.
I keep seeing comments about it being untouchable in space. But if it was put their by human technology, it can be taken down by human technology.
such a punchable face
I can’t really tell when compared to Elon and Zuck as those are the ultimate punchable faces.
