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The big delta-v is getting from an Earth launch pad to orbit. Everything after that is much cheaper. A fully fueled ship in Earth orbit can go to Mars, land, and return. Same with …

> "Exhausting" So it isn't just me (disclaimer, contains wording lifted from others): "COMMUNICATION We have a problem. For some reason, the Anthropic engines powering you have pic…

I think in this case, the existence of pedigree isn't a strong enough argument to keep around an uncommon, and uncommonly unintuitive, phrase. "Gaslight confession" or "gaslight ap…

A human wrote this. The gratuitous critique, devoid of any substantive relevance, gives them away.

These words can definitely help in isolation. But I have noticed that when discussing anything complicated, the sum is far more ambiguous than the parts: "fold", "honest", "answers…

> [...] a “limited hangout”. >> The words are non-intuitive Yeah. "Incomplete mea culpa", "Incomplete admission", "Incomplete penance", "Incomplete contrition", "Incomplete remorse…

More likely just ecosystem consistency. Selling wired headphones to wireless-iPhone users for wired-MacBooks could (arguably, maybe) create Apple sponsored interoperability dissona…

Ah, I get it. Your emphasis is on the "cope" framing. You say that, but it didn't click for some reason. Don't mind me. I suppose I have also interpreted downplaying of AI's impact…

> it’s starting from an obvious base of “people who disagree are all wrong and their arguments aren’t worth taking seriously”. Taking arguments seriously doesn't necessitate agreem…

> The fundamental flaw of the constitution is that it had no ethics built in Yes, that would have been a really good intent to make explicit, to guide the courts. I think of that w…

Said with no rational given. The solar system readily provides both the motivation, and the means, for technological colonization. It quickly pays and provides for its own utilizat…

The industrial revolution was a mini-quake compared to automated cognition. But we can learn some things from it. I see the industrial revolution as the invention of the cart. It m…

I agree completely. I don't describe utopia, but change, and stoic (but real) appreciation for the big picture beyond myself. But AI in an unethical society is suicide for humanity…

Those "demons" didn't eat our lunch? (I know that can be interpreted as flippant, but it is intended as a serious answer. Because each impact like this, is not an end to some trans…

You are pushing me hard! :) > And if you had two separate copies of the universe, you could measure this compounding. > But even if it did ruin cyclic behavior, how long are your c…

> Pointing at entire fields is not helpful. Can you give me one specific measurement and an estimate of how far off it would be? You are dismissing my point, then asking me to make…

> What's an experiment we could do that verifies pi doesn't have an offset of 1e-1000? Quantum mechanics, the wave equation. Electron shells, photochemistry, general chemistry, jus…

A great application for sure. It prompted me to wonder why environments haven't evolved into fully realistic room makeovers yet. As the writer notes, the hardware is ready for more…

> If your measurement of energy is 150 +/- 2, you only need a handful of digits to do calculations involving that value that preserve it just fine. Insisting that that billionth di…

Pi, i and e show up with apparent perfect "precision" in all kinds of physics. Waves are pervasive and described by relationships involving those numbers. They show up in other rel…

None of which addresses what happen when self-engineered cognitive forms adapt millions of times faster, than biologically evolving cognition. I would be happy if you tried again a…

Anti-replace. They are going to breed us. Speciation. Not extinction.

In this case, the term "uncomputable" also means "undefinable with less than infinite symbols". As in, not even computable in theory. It is isn't about normal "computable" concerns…

I agree but with a slightly different definition. There are no numbers in the real world, that require and infinitely long definition. 1/3 has infinitely many digits in decimal, bu…

It is too bad we don't have a pithy familiar term for the computable / definable / "nameable" / constructible reals. The most general class of undisputed numbers, consistent with t…