Ben Thompson
speaker
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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Yeah it's a lot it's way easier to invent the second booster that lands precisely
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Because you know it's doable.
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Just like it's gonna be easier in some respects for China to invent.
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Just like
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Turbines varies right because they know it exists and a lot of the the equipment they need they can take apart and look at it and try to figure it out.
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And and so th the that's absolutely a a fair point.
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This is maybe an argument for why continued investment in XAI is a good thing if you get there first and your model and your tooling use you accrue like software type network effects.
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in part because you were there and you had like way more capacity than everybody else, that is provides more durability than just having infrastructure.
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I think that's probably the point there.
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It's like like actually it is important to get something defensible in the long run.
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The way I look at it though, not coming here as an Elon Musk Musk fanboy or like a SpaceX stock stock advocate.
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If we get to the s state where multiple companies are
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Reusable rockets and there's multiple companies putting compute in space.
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Thesis was correct for space.
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That's right.
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I'm feeling great.
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It's a wonderful world.
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It's a world I want to live in.
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So I'm actually not worried about it.
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Fair enough.
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