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Worth noting that aluminum is the most abundant metal of the Moon’s highland geography, thus excellent for bootstrapping beyond Earth.

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This lowers p(doom) for me. It makes sense that reinforcement learning on reasoning about coherent principles should bias toward principled action in real situations. Probably also…

Philosophically, this looks like breaking the training data limit in the same way that humans do: by using an internally consistent view of the world to imagine new scenarios and i…

Feels like 1999 all over again. This time, I think it really is different.

It is insane that the Paris agreement requires a centered 20-year running mean of global surface temperature to define global warming thresholds. That bureaucratic sleight of hand …

Missing from the article: Jared Isaacman offered to fix Hubble for free, and NASA turned him down.

Best one-lesson favor I ever got was dimensional analysis in high school. Do it, and most basic physics is trivial.

Hop David is the person on the internet who the author wants to talk to about whether their math on orbital tethers is correct.

Engineering an improved rubisco into the food supply (or the notional biological carbon capture stream) would significantly boost to the carrying capacity of our planet.

FWIW, the SO2 injection rate for climate engineering is about 1/10 of our current tropospheric injection rate from burning fossil fuels. I bring it up to illustrate that we are alr…

There is no chance that we will remain below 1.5C. Because there is (rightly) moral value attached to staying below 1.5, that fact is (also) hard to accept. The formalized narrativ…

No, just put them inside a radiation shield and pump heat out. Same protocol for the humans.

ChatGPT is the perfect VC. Superhuman pattern matcher, and unable to recognize any signal w/ non-zero Shannon entropy. Exact replacement. POSIWID.

Fuckin’ A… I don’t have a charitable explanation for why folks are holding their breath for another neutron source, while the world burns.

Worth noting that the Outer Space Treaty prohibits “weapons of mass destruction” in space, though that is generally interpreted to apply only to nuclear weapons.

Seems naive that, as the article claims, nations might agree to limit their detection technology to enhance survivability of their adversaries’ nuclear forces. If “ocean transparen…

I will hazard that the problems with nuclear are not technological but political, and the economic problems with nuclear are there because of political reasons. France gets ~75% of…

No mention of what the tool does. Anyone know?

Which traditional mores might you have in mind, and how would you suggest others (North Americans?) should think about them?

Long term hydrogen storage isn't that bad with the proper architecture. You need a cryocooler which can be powered by the nuke, and thermal shielding for the tank which in vacuum i…

A 95 4Runner restored to like new condition would be an excellent ride today, Gad mileage notwithstanding. Run out vs. new is a straw man w/r/t/ old tech vs new.

You are exactly mentioning it, and the concern is ridiculous as almost every non-plant thing excretes CO2 and breathes oxygen.

Given that there's nothing forcing the Fed to unload these mortgages, the option of putting them on the market (thus driving commercial mortgage rates higher) seems like a policy l…

Yes, indeed, and they offer signal and TOR instructions as well OFC, don’t visit with a work/personal devise if considering whistleblowing.