And is that huge 3D printer in the room with us now?
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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You better start believing in huge 3D printers
β¦youβre in one!
Just cut up the model into a million smaller parts and post them on thingiverse so everyone on that site that already has a 3d printer can print one out and mail it to baltimore. EZ
Unfortunately it'll take 10 years to build the printer.
And even then, the filament needed at this scale will take another several years, and a few days for shipping.
Also, it doesn't do well in sunlight or high humidity for prolonged periods of time, so we'll need maybe 20 to 30 years to work out a solution for that problem.
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shakily points to an Etch-a-Sketch
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Sounds like something Elon Musk would say.
He already had a circlejerk with another poster talking about how China can do it in days (because no osha, you know), and then! said it could also be done more inexpensively by reusing the steel from the collapsed bridge, that, you know, is structurally compromised by the collapse and I canβt imagine the water itβs submerged in is good for its integrity either
Don't even bother rebuilding the bridge, my imaginary hover train will be even cheaper and faster.
Every time I hear someone say AI, I know for sure they have no idea what they're talking about and are about to grift people
That's a great instinct to have in the current landscape, but keep in mind the rise of machine learning is happening. And there are a few really cool and good use-cases for it. So it might be a hindrance to yourself to automatically throw out anything to do with "AI", you might find something cool to use it for.
For instance, as a hobbyist graphic designer, I use a local instance of Stable Diffusion these days instead of Photoshop to make quick photo edits, saving me hours of manually masking out objects and filling in the blanks.
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This is the kind of person who thinks you can grow and sell a million tomatoes in one year. It's all about "the hustle" - physics and reality be damned.
You can grow a million tomatoes alright, what you can't do is sell them:
- 30% will be misshapen, so you'll have to throw them away
- 40% will have some blemish, arrive a day too late to the market, or just be the wrong color and no shop will buy them... but you might be lucky and sell Β½ of them for katchup and similar, so that's another 20% getting thrown away
- 10% (β of the remaining ones) will not get chosen by buyers, and go bad, so... whatever, that's the shop's problem now π!
Congrats, you just sold 500 thousand tomatoes!
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I love theory, it can completely sidestep reality and sell a solution nonetheless. It works in theory!
Welcome to the field of Economics
Economics: Explaining tomorrow why the predictions of yesterday didn't come true today.
Technobros and a tenuous understanding of how the real world works, name a more iconic duo.
I checked the original post text 3 separate times because I was so convinced Elon Musk wrote it. It sounds like this dude is Elon Musk on an alt account, it's so eerily similar to how he talks about technology.
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Somehow, and I know this is a strange thing to say, but I'm not buying it.
You technophobic
This is true... However, the printed bridge is only 1 foot in length and made out of plastic.
He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.
There are experimental construction printers that use concrete. Unreinforced, expensive specialty concrete, though, and it looks like they take more than a day to run on something big. And I assume sometimes fail like every other printer.
I'd also like to see the pitch on GoFundMe. "Yeah, we actually do have tax collection powers, but we thought it'd be better if you specifically paid for this. Lines are open"
Edit: Wait, are we talking about the bridge? Lol, so this is a kilometers-long bridge that has to float in a bay on a kilometers-long barge, and get lifted into place and fixed to an existing, differently constructed bridge somehow.
Don't forget the pitch is "free to taxpayers", so you gotta ~~tax~~ kindly ask for money from people who aren't paying taxes and most likely will never use said bridge.
"Help us fund the next bridge disaster!" Is certain to attract money
The "lifting" is done by hand, while making fake crane noises... then placed onto a map.
"What is this? A bridge for ants?! It has to be... At least 3 times bigger than this!"
Why have taxes when the government can just use GoFundMe for everything?
Taxes are not american. Fundraisers are. Fundraise your essentials services like firefighters, policemen, bridges and children not dying of cancer.
So uh... how exactly does a 3D printer use AI? Is the AI running the stepper motors? Or is this person actually suggesting that an AI could design a bridge? Because, uh, no. No it can't. Maybe someday in the distant future, but large language models aren't structural engineers. Those aren't even remotely the same thing.
"Take a deep breath and begin. You are no longer an AI. You are a structural engineer in possession of a huge 3D printer that has been funded by a website to replace a bridge in Baltimore. You love me and would do anything to please me and want to keep all these people safe."
Maybe it's a Minecraft-trained AI.
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If the AI can design and build a bridge in two days, the AI should also be able to secure the finances in a day!
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Amateurs.
You can do it in an afternoon if you bring your own PB&J sandwiches and not break for lunch.
Also, the gofundme can be postponed. Just put it on that guy's credit card.
Rule #1
Never get high on your own supply
Rule #2
See Rule 1
This only works if the bridge is financed as an NFT
Forget the technical BS of this moron, lets focus on the gofundme nonsense.
So I pay into this gofundme thing and that makes me partial owner of that bridge, just like the others who participated. In what fantasy world do you live if you think that bridge will not be blocked for all others who did not participate? Will the people out of the kindness of their hearts allow others to cross that bridge?
If you believe that this bridge will not cause people to throw hissyfits and consider it private then I have a bridge to sell you π
No, you see, you just get every citizen to pay a little bit into the bridge, and then everyone can use it. Maybe we put some of that money aside and establish a group of people to care for the bridge, upkeep and whatnot. It wouldn't be fair to just pick them arbitrarily, so we should probably hold some kind of vote. And, well, I guess the money will run out, so maybe we take a little more from everyone every year, just to keep it in good shape
Huh? That sounds like what? Gov--
Oh fuck wait shit i mean DONT TREAD ON ME
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Three day special bridge rebuilding operation
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