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by wyager5 days ago |
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upvoteby kurisufag5 days ago|
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I have excellent news for you. Lux @ ORNL and Equinox @ Argonne are to be completed by EOY, with Solstice (100k NVIDIA chips, currently spec'd to be Vera Rubins) in the next five years.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/laun...

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upvoteby wyager4 days ago|
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> Solstice (100k NVIDIA chips, currently spec'd to be Vera Rubins) in the next five years

Is this supposed to be impressive? Five years for the equivalent of, what, Colossus 1? What a joke

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upvoteby kurisufag4 days ago|
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It's certainly large enough for trillion-param frontier-tier trainings, which will likely result in capable open-weight models, the thing you just wished for.
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upvoteby runtime_terror4 days ago|
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Lemme guess, Nick Shirley is your favorite journalist?
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upvoteby komali25 days ago|
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What makes you so sure? There's been massively successful government funded and run projects before. Soviets beat the Americans to space, after all.
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upvoteby wyager4 days ago|
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The entire US lunar effort cost only $330B in current USD, commensurate with the amount AI companies have raised on private markets alone, and there was also a cold war
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upvoteby komali24 days ago|
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I'm not sure I understand your point, sorry. What do you mean?
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upvoteby palmotea4 days ago|
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> What makes you so sure?

Doctrine and propaganda can make someone that sure, and the thing they're sure about doesn't even have to be true.

> There's been massively successful government funded and run projects before. Soviets beat the Americans to space, after all.

Don't let facts get in the way of ideology!

Also the Americans subsequently beating the Soviets to the moon was the government literally allocating huge amounts of capital towards the literal trope-namer moonshot.

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upvoteby palmotea4 days ago|
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> It would be impossible for the govt to allocate this much capital towards such a moonshot...

You have a false definition of "impossible." It would be true to say it could be challenging, given current political dysfunction, but it's not impossible.

> ...and even if they could, they would do it in a way that would get 90% frittered away to fraud and waste

Same with private business.

I'd prefer government funding, because there a greater number of important goals than the two or three the market is capable of optimizing for.

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upvoteby wolvesechoes4 days ago|
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> impossible for the govt to allocate this much capital towards such a moonshot

Oh, how funny.

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