Yeah if Starship gets the same degree of reusability as Falcon I think we're looking at ~$1B/GW in launch cost which would be a few billion in savings over paying for power and cooling. Gives a few billion $ in margin for space headaches, uncertain but overall credible that it works imo
@Liv_Boeree@deanwball@DKokotajlo This was great, kind of grass is greener with Dean who has been in govt saying we need to lean on private enterprise and Daniel who has been at a frontier Lab saying we need to lean on Govt
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The question of if present or future AI systems could be sentient as well as if people like us could ever be digital rather than biological is being tackled by a growing scientific field and is increasingly a topic of public interest