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[-] HeckGazer@programming.dev 50 points 6 months ago

Oh ez, that's only 17 orders of magnitude!

If we managed an optimistic pace of doubling every year that'd only take.... 40 years. The last few survivors on desert world can ask it if it was worth it

[-] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago

Rather amusing prediction that despite the obscene amount of resources being spent on AI compute already, it's apparently reasonable to expect to spend 1,000,000x that in the "near future".

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