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But fear the news if it is discovered that LK-99 increases AI performance.


Or the news that ChatGPT is attempting an LK-99 replication.


Yes. Using the well known ChatGPT manufacturing capabilities.


Soon: The unrestricted GPT-4 model began by hiring a task rabbit to order lead oxide, lead sulfate, elemental copper, phosphorus, and a vacuum-evacuated quartz oven...


You mean emailing a for-profit materials science lab somewhere, like it did when it had that task rabbit solve a CAPTCHA for it?


I.e. natural language injection when somebody from a capable lab uses ChatGPT to write an e-mail :)


A planet completely populated by electronic beings.

Single-celled life, multi-cellular, mushrooms, trees, whatever ate lignin, dinosaurs, rodents, humans, Electric beings? I mean, there's nothing 'unnatural' about a world populated by robots, we just assume that 'alive' means 'made of meat', but the raw materials in a robot and a human are all Earth based.


I recommend checking out "They're made out of meat": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GggK9SjJpuQ


Reminds me of the (absolutely dreadful) series by Tobias Roote where a certain space metal gets alloyed by human blood to produce AI processors a hundred times more powerful.

Realistically, superconducting processors would most likely be much faster, or at least cram more cores on a single die.


Imagine NVIDIA superconducting chips made for AI


Is an H100 clocked at 100GHz too much to hope for?


Not if this is legit. Time for AGI.


Seriously speaking, it can in fact increase AI performance, since it will optimize all things electromagnetic. It takes humankind closer to the so called 'singularity'.


I'm sure Elon also has SpaceX or something trying to replicate it as well. He sort of has to jump on each new trend anyhow.

In a serious note, superconductors are likely useful in electric magnetic motors and probably in high power electronics and batteries in general, no?


LK-99 is already patented so even if Elon were making a ton of it, he couldn't do much in his products without licensing it from the creators.


As if that would have stopped him. He will argue that it’s XK-69, entirely different material and spend decades in litigation trying to bankrupt the inventors or worse.


There's probably other similar chemistries that also super conduct at room temperature. Call it the marching tetrahedra of super conductors.


You are likely correct. Now that this has been shown we will probably get a dozen or more of these over the next decade.

I think the winners will be those which are cheaply and reliably made at scale out of common and non toxic elements and have long durability, or if this isn’t fully achievable something close to this goal.


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He'd also name another child XLK99.


I put 1k USD into Tesla today with the same reasoning. Hopefully I don't end up a fool!


The only thing Elon seems to be interested now is embarrassing himself even further




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