For a 75 inch screen I’d have to watch it from my front yard through a window.

They may seem pointless to those outside of the organization. As long as someone is willing to pay them then someone considers they have value.

No one is “starving to death” but you’d have people just barely scraping by.

What do we need the mega rich for anyway? They aren’t creative and easily replaced with AI at this point.

Can’t AI replace Sam Altman?

I wonder how long AI will function when it starts feeding on AI generated junk data. Like a photocopy of a photocopy.

We can send them to work camps like during the Depression.

I’d like to read the stackademic link without signing up.

I wish they’d replace the executives first.

This is right up there with the Louvre security being connected to the internet and was hackable. Maybe some old fashioned alarms and guards would’ve been better.

Can’t just unplug them?

I could say anything is a crutch that removes the burden from our minds. Calculators remove the burden of doing basic math and map apps remove the burden of maintaining a mental map. Both of these can result in a person who can’t independently do basic calculations or navigate and won’t understand the methodology behind the calculations. Now if this is a problem is open to debate.

Now using AI to avoid learning is a problem since it results in fraud. “I claim I understand this but I don’t.”

People were ignorant in previous centuries because they didn’t know better. Today they are willfully ignorant in spite of having the facts available.

It is also inherently weak. With a sphere it is all compression. With a cylinder you get compression and tension.

So his goal was to make a deep sea taxi of sorts. Rich guy affordable and capable of carrying more than 1 or 2 people at a time. Based on what I’ve read and seen he had two main reasons for the design:

1. Titanium/steel would’ve been too heavy and required a different design.
2. A sphere has too little volume to carry the number of passengers he wanted so he used a cylinder.

His use of CF was not only mostly untested but where it had been tried it was found lacking. It is strong in one direction but not others. The manufacturing process was very difficult and fraught with issues. Making such a large component that thick meant many many wrappings that had to be precisely done. For instance, they would get bulges that had to be reduced immediately or they’d amplify with more wrappings. So they would grind down those spots and wrap over them. The problem here is now you’ve broken the fibers and created end points and fracture initiation points. Things like the junction between the metal end caps and the CF tube were also an issue.

He was very cocky about how often you could reuse the vessel and tried to be cheap on testing which would involve sacrificing vessels. At 5,600 PSI small things that you could ignore in, say, an airplane structure, become wildly amplified.

Personally I didn’t see the point of the whole trip except for bragging rights. You’d be watching most things on a monitor anyway and your porthole was this little, very thick, acrylic hole. You might as well send a robot down and watch on a screen on the ship.

Trying to do extreme engineering on the cheap.

Taking bets on the last data recorded on it. I’m going with “0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0…”

Enshittification

I remind people as much as possible that it is essentially a federal sales tax.

Actually they should close that loophole.

4chan is likely using this to take it to the courts.