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A ship with 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs worth $500 million could become the first ever sovereign territory that relies entirely on artificial intelligence for its future

The first AI nation? A ship with 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs worth $500 million could become the first ever sovereign territory that relies entirely on artificial intelligence for its future

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-first-ai-nation-a-ship-with-10000-nvidia-h100-gpus-worth-dollar500-million-could-become-the-first-ever-sovereign-territory-that-relies-entirely-on-artificial-intelligence-for-its-future

The BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster would be a roaming AI powerhouse at sea

The first AI nation? A ship with 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs worth $500 million could become the first ever sovereign territory that relies entirely on artificial intelligence for its future

Building a floating platform specifically so you can do digital crimes against humanity.

93 comments

RNAi

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Ah the high sea, the place particularly famous for having good internet connection, yes

krolden

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When you're spending this much money on something like this, running new undersea cable is trivial.

RNAi

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Is it tho? Can a roaming/floating thing be attached to a optic fiber cord?

EmmaGoldman

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If it's a stationary platform or a barge that's parked in a location for a while, absolutely. It's basically the same as how submarine internet cables between continents work.

RNAi

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Ah ok,

silent_water

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it's slightly different because a floating platform is more susceptible to storms. it's pretty expensive to repair those lines when they're connected to a platform that inevitably gets battered about by a hurricane and the cables get damaged.

EmmaGoldman

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That is true, but it's what Google and a few other operators do. Usually oil rigs will use satellite, but they're not usually going to need the same sort of bandwidth

Judge_Jury

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“Government overreach not only stalls the pace of innovation, but also interferes with the cosmic endowment of humanity,” the firm said.

I'm very glad these ancap dweebs are just scamming investors

SkingradGuard

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cosmic endowment of humanity

WTF does this even mean? cat-confused

Tankiedesantski

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The human race has a giant collective space dong.

SkingradGuard

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crush

krolden

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I can get behind that

And on top of it

somename

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Think of all the Space Colonialism we could be doing right now! Think of all the profit we could be making, if not for the poisonous overreach of central banks!

usernamesaredifficul

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I think Bill Gates had some idea about become an interstellar emperor. it was bigged up on "in a nutshell"

Collatz_problem

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Bazinga manifest destiny.

bazingabrain

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UlyssesT

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Same as "bringing the light of consciousness to the stars." Absolutely nothing, but it sounds epic and transcendent if you do rich people drugs.

Shinji_Ikari

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This will be complemented by “kinetic risk mitigation” provided by an on-board security team.

THEY GOT WATER COPS DOING THE COP LINGO ferret-poggers

usernamesaredifficul

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if it's on water cops are traditionally called marines

marines were the branch of the navy that suppressed mutinies

Shinji_Ikari

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Water. Cop.

culpritus

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NK hackers free-real-estate

usernamesaredifficul

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it's libertarians I assume they'll decide Plimsoll lines are just big government regulation and sink the ship due to overloading

LaughingLion

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ive done digital piracy for forever but physical piracy might be cool too

TankieTanuki

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What are they gonna do? Call the police?

emizeko

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another use for my idea for an underwater drone that attaches to target ship hulls and drills holes

nat_turner_overdrive

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we need mad science to make these things capable of boring through steel hulls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_navalis

emizeko

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we're gonna want sailboats in the future to move cargo though, might not want to give up on the "target" part of "target ship hulls"

nat_turner_overdrive

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have you heard the good news about TORBEDO?

emizeko

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may it always find its target terrorists-rule

emizeko

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Awoo

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Not even an underwater drone. A small solar powered drone that stays on the surface could feasibly have a satellite connection to the internet for controlling it. Anything small won't be seen in the ocean anyway or will be disregarded as drifting rubbish.

Saoirse

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God almighty, I lived long enough for seasteads to come back in style. What ancient SA threads will we resurrect next?

Ho_Chi_Chungus

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WTYP will never run out of content

EmmaGoldman

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WTYP is gonna have to list off half of the Trueanon rules for life for this one

vettnerk

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This reminds me of the WTYP bit about these modern supervillains with their supervillain lairs are just dorks who do dorky stuff like mining bitcoin, and aren't worthy of a James Bond visit.

zifnab25

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In fairness, a Bond villain would more likely be some evil genius who wants to blow up all the Bitcoin mines and capitalize on a sudden drop in valuation. One of these dipshits would be represented by a stacked 10/10 hottie who runs a Cyberpunk themed casino/brothel, has sex with him, and is found dead in the following scene after having been stabbed through the heart by a graphics card.

Dolores

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found dead in the following scene after having been stabbed through the heart by a graphics card

rated R for Graphic Violence

InevitableSwing

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AI seasteading? Are you fucking kidding? I didn't think anything could be dumber than seasteading which is the libertarian dream of living on the sea to live without laws or taxes. Stupid me.

Seasteading

Seasteading is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, called seasteads, in international waters outside the territory claimed by any government.

krolden

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https://lovedeathrobots.fandom.com/wiki/Three_Robots:_Exit_Strategies

frippa

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Orcas, do your things.

RNAi

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It's for illegal porn isn't it?

EmmaGoldman

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Always.

Zvyozdochka

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tightly-guarded barge

Huh, is that so? stalin-joking

Alaskaball

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kristina

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irl loot box just dropped

SacredExcrement

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joker-gaming

Assian_Candor

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Bazinga seasteading

krolden

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Prime target for piracy.

vettnerk

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Or unrestricted submarine warfare. Cruiser rules can be set aside for this one, me thinks.

combat_brandonism

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Dunktank material

theother2020

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kelly

BodyBySisyphus

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GOVERNMENT BUDGET:
$10,000,000: Tracking ownership of monkey jpegs
$20,000,000: Pictures of people with Lovecraftian Horror Fingers
$15,000,000: SEO pollution
$35,000,000: Stonk analysis that works about as well as a reasonably well-trained octopus

Somebody help, my citizen is starving.

frippa

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Have you tried to feed them stolen art juice through dall-e?

BodyBySisyphus

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All they want is slurp juice sadness

ProfessorAdonisCnut

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Just remove the citizen, humans are obsolete!

SpiderFarmer

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This sounds like some Torment Nexus kinda shit.

PointAndClique

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The one from the tv show "the torment nexus is totally cool and awesome and you should definitely build it"?

ProfessorAdonisCnut

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It will for sure end up as part of The Raft from Snowcrash, assuming it stays afloat long enough

UlyssesT

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As the smartest geniuses on the planet, making the blue curtains in cyberpunk dystopias come to life is the smartest thing you can do! lord-bezos-amused

MaxOS

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steering-device

Venus

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This sounds like the kind of thing that will result in a headline like "100 dead in boating disaster" that everyone will skim over because it doesn't sound that interesting, and those of us who read the article will be like "yeah that makes sense, idk what they were expecting"

buh

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If we’re lucky we’ll get another steering-device