[SystemSafety] Technical information on Airbus A320 recall?

[Les Chambers]

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It's worth abstracting the essentials of this "situation" and projecting them 
onto the current proposals to deploy AI data centres to space. 
The skinny:
Current wisdom indicates that as transistor sizes shrink (Moore's Law), chips 
become more susceptible to Single Event Upsets because less energy is required 
to flip a bit. Add to this the risks introduced by the planned massive space-
based expansion in vulnerable silicon real estate exposed to radiation. 
Imagine xAI’s "Colossus" supercomputer, the largest terrestrial operational 
concentration of 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs off planet.
This should give the hyperscalers pause when considering space-based data 
centres. 
Let us explore the question, "Are space deployments exposing the jugular of 
the world's future electronic intelligence to incremental solar-particle-
induced randomness - added to our present malaise about how little we 
understand AIs inner workings?
My view: this is a "wait‑a‑minute" moment. I cite Andy Grove: "Only the 
paranoid survive." A heightened paranoia is definitely required.
Further discussion here:
https://bit.ly/4piBeL5

Les
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