Technobros and a tenuous understanding of how the real world works, name a more iconic duo.
3 days 🤯
Submitted 1 month ago by ElCanut@jlai.lu to technology@beehaw.org
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Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I checked the original post text 3 separate times because I was so convinced Elon Musk wrote it. It sounds like this dude is Elon Musk on an alt account, it’s so eerily similar to how he talks about technology.
Synnr@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
His YouTube shorts (500/day goal) is videos of Elon musk saying thing, with the background music alternating between the sigma male tune and the movie clip tune.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Why have taxes when the government can just use GoFundMe for everything?
abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Taxes are not american. Fundraisers are. Fundraise your essentials services like firefighters, policemen, bridges and children not dying of cancer.
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 month ago
fuck, that sounds like New Zealand, except may the children dying of cancer where that would be covered (mostly)
anlumo@feddit.de 1 month ago
Don’t forget politicians. Millionaires or Billionaires asking for money from the general population to fund the campaign so they can get the job.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Fundraise your essentials services
Ha ha ha. I think fundraising is the only income less reliable than usage fees.
zephr_c@lemm.ee 1 month ago
So uh… how exactly does a 3D printer use AI? Is the AI running the stepper motors? Or is this person actually suggesting that an AI could design a bridge? Because, uh, no. No it can’t. Maybe someday in the distant future, but large language models aren’t structural engineers. Those aren’t even remotely the same thing.
massive_bereavement@kbin.social 1 month ago
Maybe it's a Minecraft-trained AI.
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 month ago
or it’s watched all of “Real Civil Engineer’s” polly bridge videos?
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 month ago
“Take a deep breath and begin. You are no longer an AI. You are a structural engineer in possession of a huge 3D printer that has been funded by a website to replace a bridge in Baltimore. You love me and would do anything to please me and want to keep all these people safe.”
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Don’t be a downer man! Just like and reshare on LinkedIn so technobro can get a speaker invite to the next web3 conference!
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 month ago
One thing I learned from playing space engineers is I can span infinite distance with unfinished steel plates so long as one end is anchored in some dirt.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Large Language Models aren’t the only type of AI. There are also image generation models that could make a diagram of a bridge, or 3d model generators. Not saying they would do a perfect job, though.
zephr_c@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yeah, and none of them can actually design bridges. Some of them can be useful tools for engineers to use while designing bridges, but this isn’t tech bro fantasy land. You’re gonna need some engineers. That’s gonna take more than a day.
wildncrazyguy@kbin.social 1 month ago
zephr_c@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Did you actually even read the article you linked? It’s about a type of generative AI that’s slightly better than humans at finding the most efficient way of providing structural strength with minimal material. If you think that’s all there is to designing a bridge I can only hope you aren’t allowed anywhere near a bridge I need to drive across.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Rule #1
Never get high on your own supply
Rule #2
See Rule 1
cosmic_skillet@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
This only works if the bridge is financed as an NFT
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If the AI can design and build a bridge in two days, the AI should also be able to secure the finances in a day!
jimmux@programming.dev 1 month ago
Just ask the AI how to turn $1 into $100M with high frequency trading!
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The secret is to spawn multiple AIs to bump the stock, and then for the first AI to cash out early, leaving the other AI instances penniless. Somehow this results in a net positive.
reddwarf@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Forget the technical BS of this moron, lets focus on the gofundme nonsense.
So I pay into this gofundme thing and that makes me partial owner of that bridge, just like the others who participated. In what fantasy world do you live if you think that bridge will not be blocked for all others who did not participate? Will the people out of the kindness of their hearts allow others to cross that bridge?
If you believe that this bridge will not cause people to throw hissyfits and consider it private then I have a bridge to sell you 😂Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
No, you see, you just get every citizen to pay a little bit into the bridge, and then everyone can use it. Maybe we put some of that money aside and establish a group of people to care for the bridge, upkeep and whatnot. It wouldn’t be fair to just pick them arbitrarily, so we should probably hold some kind of vote. And, well, I guess the money will run out, so maybe we take a little more from everyone every year, just to keep it in good shape
Huh? That sounds like what? Gov–
Oh fuck wait shit i mean DONT TREAD ON ME
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Hmm maybe everyone should be responsible for their OWN bridge, just so it’s not socialist.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Well normally investors would want tolls, to, ya know, profit off the investment
maculata@aussie.zone 1 month ago
That’s a bridge too far.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Someone hasn’t played Death Stranding
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
This is the kind of person who thinks you can grow and sell a million tomatoes in one year. It’s all about “the hustle” - physics and reality be damned.
jarfil@beehaw.org 1 month ago
You can grow a million tomatoes alright, what you can’t do is sell them:
- 30% will be misshapen, so you’ll have to throw them away
- 40% will have some blemish, arrive a day too late to the market, or just be the wrong color and no shop will buy them… but you might be lucky and sell ½ of them for katchup and similar, so that’s another 20% getting thrown away
- 10% (⅕ of the remaining ones) will not get chosen by buyers, and go bad, so… whatever, that’s the shop’s problem now 😁!
Congrats, you just sold 500 thousand tomatoes!
ElCanut@jlai.lu 1 month ago
You should try thinking out of the box
Welcome to Lemmy btw
sanzky@beehaw.org 1 month ago
wait… you are not being sarcastic?
alexdeathway@programming.dev 1 month ago
is he talking about lego bridges?
starman@programming.dev 1 month ago
No, AI wouldn’t be capable to build them
Auzy@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Every time I hear someone say AI, I know for sure they have no idea what they’re talking about
shea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
That’s a great instinct to have in the current landscape, but keep in mind the rise of machine learning is happening. And there are a few really cool and good use-cases for it. So it might be a hindrance to yourself to automatically throw out anything to do with “AI”, you might find something cool to use it for.
For instance, as a hobbyist graphic designer, I use a local instance of Stable Diffusion these days instead of Photoshop to make quick photo edits, saving me hours of manually masking out objects and filling in the blanks.
Banzai51@midwest.social 1 month ago
It’s ok. 99% of the AI articles are about how AI is going to kill us all with the proof being the movie Terminator.
Michal@programming.dev 1 month ago
“facts”
brejela@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Probably spelled “faks” in their mind
Facebones@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Fax
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 month ago
I mean i can make a plastic bridge too, doesn’t mean it will last.
You can’t just “print” a steel bridge and expect it to not snap the second day it open to public, it ain’t sci-fi.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Well I mean what did you just read? He already said those are the facts bro.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 month ago
True true, they never claim about the material nor how long it will last.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’m going to have to ask you to build a bridge and get over it
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
You probably could make a 3rd printer capable of printing the steel components for a bridge. If you pour enough money and time down the drain, there’s no reason why you couldn’t have some robots handling the scaffolding and “3D printing” the concrete too. It would be several¹ orders of magnitude slower and more expensive than using the normal processes, but hey why build 10000 bridges when you can build just one that tech bros can masturbate to.
¹ this “several” is breaking the world record of heavy lifting
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 month ago
I really doubt that 3D printed steel will be able to handle to stress of a bridge support. Maybe it can be used for uniquely shaped joining panels, but recombined powdered steel is nowhere near as strong ir durable as cold rolled or forged steel beams.
pbjamm@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Just have the AI design a smaller 3D printer to print the larger one.
Its printers all the way down
anlumo@feddit.de 1 month ago
There’s a 3D printed bridge in Amsterdam: dezeen.com/…/mx3d-3d-printed-bridge-stainless-ste…
juliebean@lemm.ee 1 month ago
second day you say? why, by then we can have the second backup bridge designed, printed, and installed next to the first, so that is not a problem. every two days, a new bridge.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 1 month ago
Only the second day? You’re optimistic
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 month ago
Best i can do is 47 hours.
fubarx@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Amateurs.
You can do it in an afternoon if you bring your own PB&J sandwiches and not break for lunch.
Also, the gofundme can be postponed. Just put it on that guy’s credit card.
Scrof@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Sounds like something Elon Musk would say.
root_beer@midwest.social 1 month ago
He already had a circlejerk with another poster talking about how China can do it in days (because no osha, you know), and then! said it could also be done more inexpensively by reusing the steel from the collapsed bridge, that, you know, is structurally compromised by the collapse and I can’t imagine the water it’s submerged in is good for its integrity either
Toribor@corndog.social 1 month ago
Don’t even bother rebuilding the bridge, my imaginary hover train will be Even cheaper and faster.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
I love theory, it can completely sidestep reality and sell a solution nonetheless. It works in theory!
Kwakigra@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Welcome to the field of Economics
toiletobserver@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Economics: Explaining tomorrow why the predictions of yesterday didn’t come true today.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Somehow, and I know this is a strange thing to say, but I’m not buying it.
plistig@feddit.de 1 month ago
Who funds the Go Fund Me campaign? Certainly not tax payers…
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 month ago
Three day special bridge rebuilding operation
pythonoob@programming.dev 1 month ago
Is this an elaborate Easter joke?
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Good thing 3D prints aren’t weak in at least one axis… wait…
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Bold words
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 month ago
He should have it nearly built by now then.
pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Bro couldn’t even clean his room in 3 days.
suodrazah@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Model train set?
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 1 month ago
And is that huge 3D printer in the room with us now?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
shakily points to an Etch-a-Sketch
jonne@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Unfortunately it’ll take 10 years to build the printer.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
And even then, the filament needed at this scale will take another several years, and a few days for shipping.
Also, it doesn’t do well in sunlight or high humidity for prolonged periods of time, so we’ll need maybe 20 to 30 years to work out a solution for that problem.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It is right below your feet
Image
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Just cut up the model into a million individual parts and post them on thingiverse so everyone on that site that already has a 3d printer can print one out and mail it to baltimore. EZ
root_beer@midwest.social 1 month ago
You better start believing in huge 3D printers
…you’re in one!
Zacryon@feddit.de 1 month ago
To be fair, you don’t need a very huge 3D printer for that, if you divide it into a lot of smaller parts which can be assembled later.
Idk, if we can already print steel though and whether we can make it structually sufficiently stable.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 month ago
So our proposal is we prefab a bunch of metal pieces and assemble them on-site?
As opposed to our current method where we carve bridges out of a big block of metal?
hascat@programming.dev 1 month ago
I find it difficult to believe that breaking down steel to be 3d printed into large structures for a bridge is faster or more energy efficient than casting the parts instead.
Skua@kbin.social 1 month ago
We can indeed print steel with direct metal laser sintering. I think that the object needs heat treatment afterwards, though to be fair it is almost ten years since I properly read up on it and things have probably advanced since then
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Maybe, we could just print off rectangular prism-shaped modules, small enough to fit in a hand, and then assemble them on site. We could even make them out of ordinary clay and fire them for strength. I wonder why nobody has thought of that. /s