SnapDragon
1d ago
My guess is that it just takes a while for the paperwork to clear. The length of time an investigation is "open" might be pretty unrelated to how much manpower is actually put into it.
SnapDragon
1d ago
They're not "appropriating" resources. They're negotiating with authorities to be graciously permitted to pay for them. Water, electricity, chips, land, buildings, employees. None of these are free.
SnapDragon
2d ago
I mean, good? I do not want members of the public to have veto power over what smart engineers are permitted to develop (as long as they're paying for it, of course). Imagine if we'd held a plebiscite on whether universities should continue spending money on this "Internet" thing in friggin' 1973, 4 years after ARPANET began. Imagine if journalists were publishing articles in 1907 asking for the government to shut down research on these new-fangled planes because they're flimsy and dangerous and nobody they know has seen any benefits from them.
Experts have, well, expertise in the subject. They know the technology has a ridiculous number of use cases. But it takes time for it to percolate through society.
That's fair. And the same could be said for AI, of course! There's at least an honest debate to be had there. Not like this highly-motivated special scrutiny of datacenters.
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