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by unchocked 11d ago
Geophysically, there are 3 pillars to climate stabilization: 1. Emitting fewer greenhouse gasses. Need to do that more than ever, but we are now in overshoot so… 2. Actively remove greenhouse gasses from atmosphere. Will need to do that, bu
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by unchocked 2mo ago
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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by unchocked 3mo ago
w00t
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by unchocked 4mo ago
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 illuminates moral interpretability.
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by unchocked 1y ago
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 integrate them into an updated worldview.
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by unchocked 1y ago
Feels like 1999 all over again. This time, I think it really is different.
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by unchocked 2y ago
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 builds roughly a decade of delay into the system. Sclerotic
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by unchocked 2y ago
Missing from the article: Jared Isaacman offered to fix Hubble for free, and NASA turned him down.
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by unchocked 3y ago
Best one-lesson favor I ever got was dimensional analysis in high school. Do it, and most basic physics is trivial.
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by unchocked 3y ago
Hop David is the person on the internet who the author wants to talk to about whether their math on orbital tethers is correct.
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by unchocked 3y ago
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.
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by unchocked 3y ago
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 already making consequential choices about the climate.
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by unchocked 3y ago
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 narrative makes sense through a values-based lens, as does the conve
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by unchocked 3y ago
No, just put them inside a radiation shield and pump heat out. Same protocol for the humans.
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by unchocked 4y ago
ChatGPT is the perfect VC. Superhuman pattern matcher, and unable to recognize any signal w/ non-zero Shannon entropy. Exact replacement. POSIWID.
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by unchocked 4y ago
Fuckin’ A… I don’t have a charitable explanation for why folks are holding their breath for another neutron source, while the world burns.
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by unchocked 4y ago
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.
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by unchocked 4y ago
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 transparency” comes to pass, it seems much likelier that we’d have to
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by unchocked 4y ago
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 its power from nuclear, safely and economically. France inh
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by unchocked 4y ago
No mention of what the tool does. Anyone know?
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by unchocked 4y ago
Which traditional mores might you have in mind, and how would you suggest others (North Americans?) should think about them?
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by unchocked 4y ago
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 is thin film and of minuscule weight. Hydrogen leakage a
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by unchocked 4y ago
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.
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by unchocked 4y ago
You are exactly mentioning it, and the concern is ridiculous as almost every non-plant thing excretes CO2 and breathes oxygen.
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by unchocked 4y ago
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 lever that will be good to have, cooling real estate inf
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by unchocked 4y ago
Yes, indeed, and they offer signal and TOR instructions as well OFC, don’t visit with a work/personal devise if considering whistleblowing.
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by unchocked 4y ago
Well, it was founded by the NSA 12333 whistleblower, and assisted in representing the Facebook whistleblower, so… a pretty good chance?
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by unchocked 4y ago
For potential whistleblowers: there are legal avenues to expose wrongdoing. http://whistlebloweraid.org offers free representation to those navigating the process, founded by a (legal) NSA whistleblower.
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by unchocked 4y ago
Another reminder of how much less overhead human-scaled systems require. In this case, the battery swapping robot is you.
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by unchocked 5y ago
While the essay is cringe, given the enriched pool of unbounded ambition here I want to address the clickbait title. If you want to be a trillionaire, the first question you should ask is why: to what end? That kind of money is power, and p

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