I am such a sucker for technical Aspie writing. I've seen it mistaken for LLM output many times but this is not that.
> The shell is not merely a strength structure; it is a fixed logistics skeleton.
Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
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Re: Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
#12Bootstrapping an electronics supply chain on another planet seems harder than building the dyson swarm itself.
Re: Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
#13What about orbital mechanics? Wouldn't that create issues with/for objects in the solar system?
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#14Please someone, send grey goo to Mercury.
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#15I encourage Dyson sphere enthusiasts to listen to the interesting argument that Dyson spheres they may be deliberately designed as an "sounds neat but is impossible" filter joke, ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM .
Sped through that, couldn't stomach the whole thing. Is there more to it than "argument by sneering dismissal"? (Basically, so far as I can tell, her point seems to be "this was intended as a joke to see if you're stupid, so if you believe it, you are, neener-neener!")
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#16Reading the "endgame" section, and I feel that some serious thought ahould be given to what the replicator colony will do after it has finished dismantling Mercury.
Re: Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
#17Bootstrapping an electronics supply chain on another planet seems harder than building the dyson swarm itself.
Just let Claude figure it out
Re: Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
#18I encourage Dyson sphere enthusiasts to listen to the interesting argument that Dyson spheres they may be deliberately designed as an "sounds neat but is impossible" filter joke, ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM .
Somehow I new before clicking that it was going to be Angela.
Two years ago: AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway
Re: Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury
#191-6 years can't be realistic can it? does someone have a better estimate of how long this would take?
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#20Does Mercury not have any useful radioactive material to provide more power?
Are there reactor designs that could work up there? There's not much water for coolant.