Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.
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Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.
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Infrastructure alchemy: the datacenter dissolves into the network, the network becomes the computer, and the race to AGI is no longer won by who negotiates the biggest power contract, but by who can weave distributed intelligence from sea to shining sea. Congratulations to @Jsevillamol @EpochAIResearch and @atroyn for their remarkable vision.
Conventional wisdom in AI is that large-scale pretraining needs to happen in massive contiguous datacenter campuses. But is this true? Our research suggests that conducting 10 GW training runs across two dozen sites — linked by a network spanning thousands of km — is feasible.
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imagining one of pizarro’s men getting run through before he makes it to the second clause of the first sentence
the hardest part about being a male founder.. in my experience is finding a girlfriend / partner that understands the short term gains that we are forgoing and the long-term optimization game that we are playing. most women expect to have most dates paid for, their vacations covered and their partner to have the time and emotional bandwidth to support them. somebody they see as a reliable provider. this is completely understandable. but as founders, every dollar saved is additional runway for the company. we budget down to the cent because our life’s work depends on it. every 100-hour work week slightly increases the odds of success. at this stage of life, we’re both cash-poor and time-poor — betting everything on the hope that one day, it all works out. that one day, we’ll be sitting on generational wealth — the kind most men only dream about. even for women who understand that they might be investing in their man long-term , it’s hard not to compare. their friends are dating guys with high-paying tech jobs, who work from 10 to 3 and can afford to give them a luxury experience now, not later. optimizing for the short term is human nature — it’s hard to fight against. to all the girlfriends out there dating early-stage founders — you’re the real ones. and to all my fellow founders: may you find your person while you still have nothing. Because that’s the only time you’ll know she’s with you for who you are, not what you have.
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need to stop being allergic to schlep and wind the damn copper
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both us and chinese capital markets act rationally. before robotics becomes investable in the us, many other components of the supply chain - bread and butter manufacturing, with buyers other than highly speculative startups - must be creditworthy / investment grade
K-scale cancels orders and refunds deposits for kbot. I thought all the VCs were excited about US-based robotics, what happen?
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the work getting done today will probably inform the work that will get done when we do need it, though
Our TPUs are headed to space!  Inspired by our history of moonshots, from quantum computing to autonomous driving, Project Suncatcher is exploring how we could one day build scalable ML compute systems in space, harnessing more of the sun’s power (which emits more power than 100 trillion times humanity’s total electricity production). Like any moonshot, it’s going to require us to solve a lot of complex engineering challenges. Early research shows our Trillium-generation TPUs (our tensor processing units, purpose-built for AI) survived without damage when tested in a particle accelerator to simulate low-earth orbit levels of radiation. However, significant challenges still remain like thermal management and on-orbit system reliability.  More testing and breakthroughs will be needed as we count down to launch two prototype satellites with @planet by early 2027, our next milestone of many. Excited for us to be a part of all the innovation happening in (this) space!
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we will someday need a lot of compute in space but not today, and probably not tomorrow either
i would like to inform everyone that data centers in space still make me want to blow my brains out thank you for your attention to this matter
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Replying to @atroyn
Chinese offshoring was an early attempt by western capital at agi but after alignment issues we had to switch to a silicon substrate
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durable chinese advantage in ai is indistinguishable from a variety of so-called “loss of control” scenarios for humanity at large
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based on a conversation i had with @Halikaarn1an and @ChrisCatoya sometime last year. this is an important question and i hope you will join us!
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are we going to reach prosperity before the old world shakes itself apart? or does ai threaten further civilizational stagnation? what structures are necessary and desirable, and how might existing ones change (or warp?) let's talk about it.
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the ai infra buildout, one of the most complex projects ever undertaken, requires civilizational stability to succeed. stability which ai itself threatens to disrupt; economically, politically, and culturally. what happens next? humandirectedfutures.org/app…
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announcing human directed futures, an invitational summit about ai and civilizational stability. nov 14 - 16, san francisco. apply to attend below.
The Datacenter Stability Paradox is staring us in the face and we're launching an invitational summit to tackle it. The datacenters we rely on to run AI models (and buoy US GDP) are among the most complex technological assemblies ever produced by civilization. /1
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woman in the cafe talking about what chatgpt says about her texts with her boyfriend. “he needs therapy”. we are so cooked.
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if anyone builds it everyone dies it’s just the way it is
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sorry, human cognitive enhancement will obviously result in fast intelligence takeoff as exocortex owner/operators recursively self-improve with goals potentially unaligned with un-augmented humans. the only rational solution is air strikes on neuralink facilities.
why doesn't an iq enhancement company exist yet? this problem is not that hard. just look at the brains. calculate the differences. do biotech until they look similar. we're literally shooting fucking particle beams at sand until it starts fucking talking bro get good
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bro they made ferc into a real thing 😂
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