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Enough Musk Spam

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He read that in an Iain Banks novel. That guy has just completely lost touch with reality. But sure, let's give him a trillion bucks. What could possibly go wrong.

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[–] magnetichuman@fedia.io 21 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

In the Culture novels robots assigned to this task have super accelerated consciousness, beyond human cognitive capabilities and can basically harmlessly stop you with a force field if you do anything to attempt to harm another person. Can Elmo's bots do any of that? Not even close.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But the next model will do all that! Just one more data center! Trust me, bro!

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

fwiw, data centres aren't a problem.

Techbros are the problem.

For example - water cooling has been used in data centres since the 70s, and more commonly in the last 15 years but always as a closed loop, the water just transports heat away to a heat exchanger then is cycled again.

Techbros - nah, we'll just let the water capture the heat then dump it into sewer, taking in fresh water constantly.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

Elmo's robots are barely able to walk

I've seen student projects that were more impressive than his shit, let alone (for example) the (honestly scary) Boston Dynamics bots

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

But what if there were special circumstances?

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think the plan is that the team of human handlers that control the robot will step in and stop a felon from breaching their conditions.

The robot is just theatre to help prop up Tesla’s share price.

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For now they can close an oven door in 5 minutes top, with a remote operator from Pakistan.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Astounding! Definitely worth a gazillion billions. The shareholders decision finally makes sense.