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> In 10 years, nearly all new data centers will be being built in outer space,” Johnston predicts.

Can I bet on the contrary odds? Could throw down my whole retirement with confidence

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Yeah, who throws out these sort of timeframe in earnest? We haven't built anything in space since the ISS (which is in LEO mind you, not "outer space"), and we're building full data centers within a decade? Give me a break, that's an Elon level prediction.

I read it as something an ambitious founder would say, not to be taken literally.

Think: "AI will replace all software developers in 6 months"

This used to be called fraud, now it’s cutesy lying?

I think now it's called 'the pitch deck'

Musk has been doing it for more than a decade now and didnt really face any real problems doing it...

Didn’t face any problems doing it… you mean when was charged by the SEC for lying on Twitter? Or do you mean when he was forced to buy Twitter to avoid another case against him?

"Naughtiness," to use the technical term (https://paulgraham.com/founders.html).

> Sam Altman of Loopt is one of the most successful alumni, so we asked him what question we could put on the Y Combinator application that would help us discover more people like him. He said to ask about a time when they'd hacked something to their advantage—hacked in the sense of beating the system, not breaking into computers. It has become one of the questions we pay most attention to when judging applications.

This doesn’t seem like naughtiness. Seems like incoherence

It being unmeasurable claim is why they get away with it.

Yep. It is now legally called puffery if you commit massive fraud. Truly we live in the best of all possible timelines.

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