Rover222

there are in fact plenty of ways to earn enough money to get by on a simple lifestyle

I worked 10 years in commercial fishing before getting into tech.

Although now sometimes I yearn for a solid day of physical labor out on the ocean.

But yeah, grass is definitely greener on this side. I can always go shovel dirt o a saturday.

Lots of Americans are only capable of this logic for now: billionaire bad

Oh you know, probably his clearly stated intentions of driving industry off-earth and into orbit.

Is SpaceX also a vanity project? No, Musk actually wants to expand human civilization beyond one planetary sphere.

Just because they're billionaires doesn't mean they're full of shit. In fact, in both of their cases, it means they're extremely driven by... real ambitions.

So obvious.

You're extremely limited by the amount of mass you can even launch from a mothership aircraft.

There's no future in this idea outside of small sat, and probably not even there.

Nah, failures that destroy the launch pad are just bad, any way you try to slice it.

Calling Blue Origin a vanity project is so ridiculous.

I'm allegedly a fullstack dev, often working on fullstack features, but I haven't had to think deeply about much on the frontend all year. 90% of my thought/work goes into backend work. The AIs just handle the FE stuff easily based on our existing patterns. Not saying it's perfect or can't be improved, but it pretty much always "just works" perfectly well enough.

blowing up on the pad is a whole different level of disaster (which yeah spacex has done a couple times)

SpaceX has had several unplanned explosions on the launchpad.

Please look at total mass launched to space by SpaceX vs the rest of the world combined. They are the most incumbent launcher in history.

Unless you're talking about moon landers specifically.

Anyway, competition is good and this is a bummer.

the video is available, it's a large explosion, but nowhere near a trinity mushroom cloud

Keep drinking the kool aid

Hard to argue with that

It's a classic paranoid conspiracy theory, IMO

He talked with the Anthropic team, and his concerns lessened. It's actually a good thing to be able to change one's mind.

The datacenter advantage, obviously

The entire Starship program has *only cost 15 billion so far.

Anthropic using their spare Colossus 1 and 2 capacity will help a lot with this money hole.

You should also really look up a video about what neural synapses really are.

Seems like a very tin-foil-hat-take to me

Recycling has largely been a virtue signal act for decades.

Not saying people do it only to virtue signal, they just don't realize the net positive effect is very, very low.

Driving an electric vehicle (instead of ICE), on the other hand? Actually quite a large impact that 1 person can make.

I mean just because OP wanted to "ignore" that he was at Tesla for 5 years, he was... still at Tesla for 5 years.

I think it happens on both ends of the spectrum, the folks you described, and also the ones with a good reputation and network who get recruited into new opportunities.

5 years at Tesla is an eternity in the tech world.

And 2 years is probably pretty average for the whole tech industry.

I JUST got a notification from Google Home that Gemini is now available for Hey Google stuff. Finally.

Yeah, it's a cool idea, but just can't compete economically with normal solar panels.

"also in the Nevada desert" - huh? The first test was in NM. Probably irrelevant to your point, but...

bla bla bla you don't have to choose between doing interesting stuff and fixing all problems.

I actually looks like the vertical stabilizer of the lower plane got lodged into the fuselage of the other.

Startups that don't leverage AI are just getting crushed and/or not funded.