If you assume zero opportunity costs, but that’s a terrible assumption.

Presumably that’s not a single satellite.

Nope, it's a single massive panel sat and they're using $30/kg as their launch costs.

Up to you how plausible you think that is.

There's an artist's impression of the frigging thing in the whitepaper! It's very obviously a single enormous thing!

> Figure 3. A data center in Sun Synchronous Orbit, showing a 4km x 4km deployed solar array and radiators.

Right, the goal here is a more realistic Dyson swarm, not a Dyson sphere (yet)

That’s not even true though, leadership is coordination, even if you trust someone else to do the right thing wrt their own problems that still may be globally suboptimal wrt the goals of the overall team / project.

If there are not history books out there that try to discern the etiology of those decisions, there really should be.

I’m not disagreeing with your preference for human authored writing, but I don’t know that I agree with the content of your argument.

If you consider that what humans are doing during conversation is a form of compressed encoding / decoding from some latent representation through a quantized signal then if you interpret it that as a compressed sensing problem you absolutely can infer to a very close approximation the original latent representation using far fewer than those 1k bits.

From an information-theoretic perspective, if I can effectively transfer a latent concept to you in 300 bits of quantized communication, then by definition the latent concept itself isn't more than 300 bits. Any bit over 300 in the communication I send to you is fluff.

I don’t think the bauhaus one is horrible, nor is the cubist one. They’re not great works of art, but if I saw one out in the wild, my reaction would not be: “bloody ai art making everything visually putrid again” nor, do I think they’re worse than the clip art and badly taken digital photograph agglomerations they would be replacing.

Oh no, the bottleneck is understanding what the fuck you’re doing! Think of the time you could save!

> Everything therefore becomes a hobby or a game. People do things because they enjoy them for their own sake, or because they are endeavours used as vehicles to socialise and enjoy others’ company, or because a shared social belief exists and is cultivated such that doing such and such a thing confers social status.

There is actually a big leap in logic you’re doing here that it seems you are naive to. The world looks the way it does today because human societies, businesses and individuals are fundamentally in competition with one another for scarce resources, and having more resources leads to more capacity to survive, so there is always an incentive to acquire more. If you can no longer compete, you can and will be exploited. You don’t have to look very hard, far or back in time to realize that this is what society looks like. If everyone is incapable of competing except those who can afford to run a datacenter, that will not end up in socialist utopia.

Quantization is a category error, the thing you care about is not in weight space, so there’s unbounded error introduced by doing it. The thing you actually want to preserve is the knowledge manifold, but that is in a different vector space. Until we have some better understanding of how to interact with that space directly, rather than inferring it through distillation of reasoning traces, I would not anticipate truly low bit models to be useful.

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