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If you get a little into grounded scifi the buildout seems more realistic. Robotics are making great strides while this buildout is happening. Imagine the implications of a human shaped robot? Now it isn't just knowledge work but literally every job on earth that is on the table. Now you can't get enough of that compute as you chew through obsoleting 8 billion humans from their current levels of participation in the economy.

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> Imagine the implications of a human shaped robot?

Now imagine an army of those that can't function without access to a couple of cloud providers.

That simply won't happen. It's a massive vulnerability both in terms of downtime and poisoning, and it's a problem in terms of latency.

Serious robotic compute will be much, much closer to the robot. If not we're all screwed.

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