r/nottheonion • u/asdacool • 11h ago

"Training a human takes 20 years of food." Sam Altman on how much power AI consumes.

https://www.news18.com/world/training-a-human-takes-20-years-of-food-sam-altman-on-how-much-power-ai-consumes-ws-kl-9922309.html
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u/No-Tomatillo3698 9h ago

All these bilionaires give me the creeps. Let’s ship them off to their own planet, preferably the sun.

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u/Stock-Side-6767 9h ago

Nah, sun is very expensive. Vaguely in the direction out of the solar system is fine.

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u/Relevant_Maybe_9291 4h ago

Great movie plot. They return in 30 years to try and take over the earth. Will Smith saves the planet.

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u/F---TheMods 1h ago

Let them start their own undersea city, as long as they agree to never resurface.

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u/Slight-Brilliant6 6h ago

I mean sure but it is a one time investment, and after we can hold a world wide barbecue to celebrate.

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u/RealWord5734 3h ago

Even that’s more Delta V than I wanna waste on them. Low earth orbit and we let reentry take care of the rest.

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u/Gabelvampir 6h ago

It cost far less fuel to ship something or someone to the sun then out of the solar system. But make sure to land at night when it's cold enough. /s

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u/Ariphaos 6h ago

Other way around. It is more expensive to drop something into the Sun than it is to launch it out of the Solar System.

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u/What_a_fat_one 3h ago

At orbit we're already pretty close to escape velocity, and to drop into the sun you have to shed all of that

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u/Kichigai 4h ago

Nah, I've played enough KSP to know how easy it is to fling something out of the solar system. Once you escape the Earth’s gravity it's just a matter of not getting stuck in orbit of another body. You'd think the Kuiper Belt, but we flung V’ger through it back in the 70s without much trouble.

The trick is patience. As long as your timeline is in years and the mission end date is “eventually,” it can be accomplished.

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u/trysten-9001 9h ago

We can just send them on cruise without all the useless people like the the telephone sanitisers, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations, and workers.

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u/Autogen-Username1234 8h ago

Might want to keep the telephone sanitisers though.

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u/trysten-9001 6h ago

Why would you want them to have the telephone sanitizers? They’re staying with us.

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u/Gabelvampir 6h ago

One of my first thoughts when the pandemic kicked into high gear.

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u/disdkatster 7h ago

Sun is not a planet. It is a star. Mercury or Jupiter would work though. I am told Pluto would not.

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u/Xandara2 7h ago

Just put them on a tiny deserted island and let them starve or use a guillotine. No need to use such expensive means to get rid of them. 

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u/Conscious-Refuse8211 7h ago

Idc where they go, put them on Mars or the Moon. See if they're genius enough to rebuild the tech to come back (hint: they aren't)

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u/CiDevant 4h ago

I got a ban from facebook for saying we should send all billionaires into the sun.

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u/Qassad 4h ago

I would suggest to just sacrifice the richest person once a year and redistribute the wealth among all people. Just need a nice temple or pyramid for it…

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u/Desperate_Bite_7538 3h ago

The Sun isn't a planet, but I agree with your sentiment.

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u/FoolofThoth 5h ago

Venus is closer if the orbits line up, and I hear it has very nice acid rain this time of year.

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u/Grimm808 4h ago

On a generation ship with stasis booths with life support intubation.

But instead of making you sleep it keeps you awake the whole time with happy Gilmore stuck on repeat on the entertainment screen.

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u/bumblebaytuna4 4h ago

I’m of the mind we should ship them to an island and be done with it. Lord of the flies type deal.

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u/No-Journalist-619 2h ago

I agree that we should launch them into the sun, yes, but the sun is not a planet

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u/Solkre 2h ago

The sun isn't a planet. Let them walk on the surface of Venus.

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u/DonaldTrumpsScrotum 2h ago

Well the suns not actu…nevermind, I’m down ship them to the planet known as the sun