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Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

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Re: Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

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Post by grandrew »

bravogamma wrote: post #9
contingencies wrote: post #5

First enhance on-earth supply chain efficiency. Then worry about space. Purchasing and sales departments really should be eviscerated and replaced with semi-autonomous systems in most cases. Get that done and you'll have more than enough money and cred to tackle space. My ideas @ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/globalcitizen/ifex-protoco...

What are some supply chain inefficiencies you've identified?

Supply chain is a black box with people who are aggressively not interested in transparency. So the approach is to model the black box as good as we can, and start cutting away the pieces with automation.

Re: Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

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Post by grandrew »

macspoofing wrote: post #37
ceejayoz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because "reusable rockets" got laughed at by the existing space industry doesn't mean every laughable idea is secretly feasible. "My new database will make building a Dyson sphere easy" is a slightly... loftier claim than "we can probably land rockets and reuse them".

>just because "reusable rockets" got laughed at by the existing space industry … Were they laughed at? After all, the Space Shuttle was around for decades. It turned out that reusable rockets were not cost effective nor particularly safe. Space X has yet to show reusability is viable.

I'd say what this all proves is that a free market and private sector is much better at those things than a communist'y government-run project.

Re: Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

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Post by ncmncm »

czbond wrote: post #41
ncmncm wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet, I do.

Why? Don't we have enough unambitious things to go around? I mean - as long as the project owner realizes the probability of failure is high.....

Not ambitious enough.

Re: Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

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Post by grandrew »

alasdair_ wrote: post #53

“ Build the MVP prototype of commercially usable, no-compromise, pure A.I. engine that learns to solve any formally defined task” So, PROLOG from 30 years ago then.

Yes, PROLOG with modern Python syntax and mostly imperative flow, commercial database experience instead of "build everything yourself", and ML-based heuristics that are learned on the fly instead of whatever hardcoded logic the particular interpreter had.

This is sometimes referred to as "Automated planning and scheduling" or simply "AI Planning" in academia.

Re: Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

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Post by grandrew »

Animats wrote: post #3

This seems to be some kind of planning tool that uses Python and a database to do something logistics related.

Yes, behind the scenes it lowers the high-level logic of Python to predicate logic, uses RETE on that predicate logic to do the fastest possible JOIN operations on the tables, and uses machine learning to extract heuristics from the task and data to enable feasible monte-carlo search for valid plans.

All that means you input the rules for the "game", and it finds the way to reach the goal, no matter how complex the interactions or data are inside.

Re: Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

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Post by grandrew »

cryptoz wrote: post #2

Super cool and insane ambition, but I don't get the part about the Dyson sphere. I don't see that as a guaranteed requirement to accomplish the goals set out, and it's going to be insanely controversial. That part seems like a solution looking for a problem, to be built mostly because it's 'cool'. But I don't want to rain on the parade of long-term, crazy-ambition in space, so I think this is pretty awesome overall.…

Thank you very much for support!

Re: Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

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Post by mikewarot »

schappim wrote: post #14
sammalloy wrote: post #8

Instructions unclear. I’ve converted the entire Solar System to paper clips instead.

But did you release the hypno drones? Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Paperclips https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

In the early days of Long Covid.. I played that game through 100 times.

Re: Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

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Post by toss1 »

farmin wrote: post #49
toss1 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm thinking he's talking about running out of phosphate [0]. Phosphate is a critical plant nutrient and mining it has been essential in increasing yields in the last century - it's literally sustained the population growth. The known supplies are running low, and it washes out of the soil on an annual basis so needs to be replenished to keep up yields — or we need to find other sustainable sources. The 50 years corr…

The overarching problem with the statement is soil is so different everywhere. And managed differently everywhere. You can't just make a blanket statement. If I was going to make a blanket statement I would be more concerned with erosion than nutrition because soil is an ecosystem that can be repaired. But if it is gone, then that's a different story.

True, and good point — erosion rates also fit the "50 years and it's gone" prediction

Re: Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

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Post by SonOfLilit »

secondaryacct wrote: post #22
SonOfLilit wrote: post #4

Sadly, from a lot of experience in tech, one man projects that have "build self-aware AI" as a step in their roadmap have a tendency to underdeliver.

It s a crypto company, this increases the scam factor a tad.

It's a non-crypto company (HyperC) advertising on a crypto organization (Asgardia)'s forum.
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