A ship with 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs worth $500 million could become the first ever sovereign territory that relies entirely on artificial intelligence for its future
Think of all the Space Colonialism we could be doing right now! Think of all the profit we could be making, if not for the poisonous overreach of central banks!
Not even an underwater drone. A small solar powered drone that stays on the surface could feasibly have a satellite connection to the internet for controlling it. Anything small won't be seen in the ocean anyway or will be disregarded as drifting rubbish.
This reminds me of the WTYP bit about these modern supervillains with their supervillain lairs are just dorks who do dorky stuff like mining bitcoin, and aren't worthy of a James Bond visit.
In fairness, a Bond villain would more likely be some evil genius who wants to blow up all the Bitcoin mines and capitalize on a sudden drop in valuation. One of these dipshits would be represented by a stacked 10/10 hottie who runs a Cyberpunk themed casino/brothel, has sex with him, and is found dead in the following scene after having been stabbed through the heart by a graphics card.
AI seasteading? Are you fucking kidding? I didn't think anything could be dumber than seasteading which is the libertarian dream of living on the sea to live without laws or taxes. Stupid me.
Seasteading is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, called seasteads, in international waters outside the territory claimed by any government.
GOVERNMENT BUDGET:
$10,000,000: Tracking ownership of monkey jpegs
$20,000,000: Pictures of people with Lovecraftian Horror Fingers
$15,000,000: SEO pollution
$35,000,000: Stonk analysis that works about as well as a reasonably well-trained octopus
This sounds like the kind of thing that will result in a headline like "100 dead in boating disaster" that everyone will skim over because it doesn't sound that interesting, and those of us who read the article will be like "yeah that makes sense, idk what they were expecting"
Also how the fuck is anyone believing this "sovereign territory" dribble. That isn't how blue water ships work, inspite of what brain dead libertarians want to believe.
For fks sake, just because you are sailing in international waters doesn't make you somehow sovereign. You sure as hell aren't sailing a ship worth a better part of a billion dollars around without being registered under the flag of a real internationally recognized nation-state because other than being uninsurable, without that protection you can come under the jurisdiction of literally anyone who decides they want to seize your vessel. Screaming "you're violating NAP" doesn't mean shit if not under the flag (and jurisdiction) of a great power or nation allied with a great power. Not gonna have the US, Chinese, Russian, or EU governments flexing economic and military power if someone decides they want to come up on $500,000,000 in GPUs because you are legally not their problem.
I am so glad that GPUs just run on unicorn farts these days. Since they have lots of virgins on that boat, they will be able to run them no problem and with no huge, stupid cost!
i have never watched one piece but i must assume that this is incredibly close to the premise. a massive pile of wealth for pirates to gather, all in one place?
Who knew that 01 would become a reality not in Mesopotamia, but the ocean. And that it would largely function as a massive cp library instead of a manufacturing powerhouse.
This is a libertarian grift that comes around every 5-10 years. It's never worked and it never will, because libs don't live in reality. Don't worry about it
Water cooling your 10,000 GPUs with seawater, running your entire barge off of a nuclear reactor that you cool with seawater, having your security dingdongs drink the seawater, fuck it all sea water