Literally half the threads on one of the technology communities I am on are complaints about how much AI sucks. Probably a similar ratio on the other technology communities, I didn't count for those.

Most people complaining about capitalism don't even know what the word means. They're often really complaining about market economics or such.

Yes, that's the plan, tens of thousands of satellites. SpaceX has actually proposed a million of them in the long term, this sort of constellation is one of the things that a launcher like Starship is intended to support.

Starlink is already on this scale and that's just using Falcon 9.

Perhaps if one wanted to, one could set up the cryptographic wallet with a "smart contract" built into it that lets you use more sophisticated controls - keys that only allow small amounts of money to be taken out, backup keys that can lock the wallet down if keys are compromised, and so forth. Since you'd be the one who assigns the smart contract to your wallet you'd still be the one ultimately in control of it. And, ultimately, you'd be the one to take responsibility since the money is under your own control this way.

In case you hadn't noticed, I'm describing Ethereum. This is what cryptocurrency is for. It's what it's been for for a decade already, eighteen years if you go back to the start with Bitcoin, but most people just think "Monkey jpeg NFTs and ponzi schemes, scam!" And dismiss it.

Guess that leaves everyone at the mercy of the banks for managing money. Oh well, maybe someday someone will invent this thing that we've had all along.

Add a cryptographic layer so that only a computer with access to the private key could issue transactions from that keys wallet.

It'd be nice if there was a way to store and transfer money electronically without any sort of central organization to grant or withhold permission.

Over and over the "it can't be cooled" refrain. The math and engineering says otherwise. Here's a video by Scott Manley that walks you through the calculations. It's quite straightforward, this is not an obstacle.

It's against the Geneva convention to conscript POWs. Add it to the pile of war crimes, I guess.

I heard he started to lean left.

So don't pack them as densely as Earth-based data centers are packed.

In another comment in this thread I posted a link to a youtube video by Scott Manley explaining the math and engineering behind cooling computer hardware in space, it's actually pretty straightforward.

That article was incorrect, then. There are many satellites already in orbit that have computers in them - basically all of them do, nowadays - and cooling them is a well understood engineering problem.

Google: "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI". Prophetic words.