Are you OK? Are you OK? Are you OK?

I’m going to ask you so many times that you stop being OK. AI is overly attached girlfriend.

What do they plan to accomplish with this?

Remind them that we can burn their house down with them inside or shoot them in the face. They’re just sacks of meat like anyone else.

I feel like the implication here is obvious so I’m not sure what’s confusing to you about it.

They don’t have profit margins though

Too bad for them. I’m Mr. Nimbus and I control the police.

Booo

Fair enough lol. Do what you enjoy

That feels like a lot of work for very little benefit. Do you just want to jerk off with no cleanup or what?

The unbounded profit motive, or more simply greed, ruins everything. This happens across time, continents, cultures, everything. It’s human nature, or at least common enough that we’ve never been able to do anything more than slow it down temporarily.

That is the thing though, they don’t have any actual work. In theory, they simply ingest data and spit out logical decisions based on that data. In reality, the data has been so selectively filtered and manipulated at every layer of management on the way up that it becomes functionally meaningless. Executives are so bad at making the right decisions that their subordinates actively hide what’s really happening from them.

Further, executives serve no useful function beyond tricking employees into feeling like they matter and the company cares about them. This is why they have hour long all-hands meetings where they communicate no useful information but constantly repackage obvious business goals like “sell more stuff” as “increase sales velocity” because they think using the right keywords is the same thing as intelligence. This performative but ultimately useless behavior is the primary reason for their exorbitant salaries. They distract everyone from the reality that the company is stealing all the money the business generates.

Sum all that up and you get a superfluously verbose moron working with bad data to make decisions that have, at best, marginal impact on the stated goal of the organization and consumes a hugely inflated amount of resources in the process. That does sound like the perfect human equivalent of an LLM to me.

Sure, but if the law doesn’t stop them then somebody else is going to have to anyway.

The longer it takes for the justice system to do anything useful the more it feels like that’s exactly what we need.

It’s late and I’m tired so my math could be wrong but if they downloaded 195 TB in 40 minutes then the attacker is working with an internet connection that is at least 81.25 Gigabytes (not bits) per second. That isn’t a script kiddie. That’s serious business.

Be grateful that is a choice you can afford to make

Seriously. The business classes I took in college were the most ridiculous bullshit ever. “To run a successful business you need to sell your products for more than it costs to produce them”. Oh my god, what a revelation! Thank you business school.

“If you build it, they will come” refers to a homemade baseball field in a work of fiction. It’s not a valid argument for spending trillions of dollars to support demand that doesn’t exist just on the off chance that some day it might.

I would think dealing with radiaton would be the most difficult thing about massive amounts of electronics in space. That’s why a chip on a satellite is much more expensive than an equivalent chip that stays on Earth.

As ridiculous as that sounds, it is true

Let the internet do what it does best, create all kinds of weird and unnecessary porn. That should do it.

Kind of but not as much as you might hope. Most of the time when telcos add more capacity to a fiber route they are either pulling more fiber through existing conduit or laying new ones along the same path. Being able to shoot farther is great if you’re building an entirely new route and can plan out your regen locations accordingly but not as helpful if you’re using the same huts on the side of road that were designed for shorter distances. They already have land and/or lease agreements, power, access, and all the other required infrastructure in place using shorter distance calculations. It would be expensive, and probably impossible in many cases, to set up new regen points along their existing routes.

Then there’s the added expense of testing, certifying, stocking, and training people how to use all this new gear, which probably has longer lead times to acquire. Add all that up and a 40% reach boost isn’t quite as enticing. That’s not to say it won’t be done in some cases. I believe some subsea cables use hollow core fiber and added reach in a situation like that is awesome. I just think most of them would rather invest in improving reach on the glass they already have in the ground than going with something like this.

That’s pretty cool, but it isn’t going to help AI data centers get bandwidth faster any time soon. Most fiber in the ground today, especially the kind of long haul fiber being discussed here, isn’t hollow core. Laying new fiber across the country is arguably just as difficult and expensive as building these AI data centers and it’s spread out over very long distances. It costs more than $1/ft to lay relatively cheap fiber in rural areas with no permitting fees and it only gets more expensive from there. Fiber builds between major US cities cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Additionally, glass based fiber can do these same speeds and even higher today. Granted, this reach is about 40% longer on average at 200 km without a regen, but that doesn’t save network operators as much money as it sounds like it would. Not enough to justify overbuilding their entire network with hollow core fiber, that’s for sure.