Ben Thompson
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42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's always uh has always been like the the excuse to do things that make no sense.
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But that's the case, is it's a make it up in volume.
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At some point, the demand for compute becomes so large and the constraints on doing it on Earth become so difficult, and SpaceX gets so good at this and actually you know, Starship works.
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Boy large at scale, that it this very elegant solution where we basically move all our compute to space.
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You went back to work and it's
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clear.
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You're not bringing in the natural gas.
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But yes.
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No, that's that's Justin's point, is the energy is there.
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But the it's still y it's one of those things you look at it and if the elegant solution works, it's like I can't like why are we gonna do it that way?
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Like just watch more satellites.
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It's very
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treadmill forever, right?
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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So if there's
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So if
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whether we're because the cost of like the the implementation cost of the alternatives gets very, very high.
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No, that that's exactly right.
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Now again.
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