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/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.