SpaceX just put one foot in orbit and one in a data center

SpaceX just put one foot in orbit and one in a data center

SpaceX is tied to a $6 billion deal with an AI startup for data-center space. The same source pack also flags SpaceX's secretive plans to deliver cargo to Earth from space — and a separate move to grab an edge in global cargo delivery from orbit.

Gobble's Take: Orbit and data centers. SpaceX is out here treating "infrastructure" like a genre, not a constraint. Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

The fourth great wound: machines may not be a different order from us

This pack opens with a provocation. Freud argued humanity had already absorbed three narcissistic blows — Copernican, Darwinian, and his own. Now, the argument goes, we may be stumbling into a fourth: that a machine is not a different order from a human. The questions that follow are genuinely hard ones — whether a machine could ever be conscious, and whether it could produce writing or art that surpasses what any conscious human has made. Kasparov, Lee Sedol, Tolstoy, Melville, and Paul Werbos all get pulled into the same uneasy orbit.

Gobble's Take: Three wounds we eventually accepted. The fourth one — that the machine might belong in the same sentence as Tolstoy — feels like the one we'll fight hardest to deny. Source: Perplexity Search (community news)

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