- Elon Musk claims his planned Terafab chip plant in Texas will be the largest building on Earth by a wide margin, with volume production said to start in 2027 while construction continues for years.
- The plant is planned to enclose 100 million square feet, roughly 15 times the Pentagon's floor space, yet would employ only about 3,000 people against the Pentagon's roughly 27,000.
- The writer treats the claim as early bluster from someone who tends to overpromise, and suggests the site may end up as a campus of smaller buildings opening in stages.
- The second piece ranks AI jargon that has spread into public discourse, placing p(doom) at the bottom and calling doomer, AI safety, AGI, singularity and transhumanism degraded or too vague to be useful.
- Terms judged still worth using include eval awareness at the top, followed by RSI, frontier, open-weights and reward hacking, while superintelligence, alignment and takeoff are said to need extra clarification.
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Words fail us
By Mitchell Howe
A really big building, and a really opinionated glossary
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