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dhfbshfbu4u3yesterday at 11:44 PM1 replyview on HN

They’ll need this for their orbital data centers (aka Starmind) https://www.spacex.com/spacexai/starmind

Elon really needs to drop some cash on Iain Bank’s family, if he’s going to keep stealing ideas/names for his empire.


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walrus01yesterday at 11:57 PM

I've read the entire series of Culture novels and don't recall seeing "starmind" as a term anywhere. Mind, yes, but used in a somewhat different context, as the minds are both sentient conversational AI entities with equal or greater intellect to a meat-based human or alien, and also semi-godlike AI powers (a single Mind has the capacity to have a 1:1 conversation with all of the residents of an Orbital if it wants to).

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