Elon confirms "Starmind" will be the official name of @SpaceX's AI satellite constellation.
Earlier this year, SpaceX filed a request with the FCC to launch and operate a constellation of 1 million AI satellites.
SpaceX's AI1 satellite:
People who are complaining that he spends the first half of the movie murdering white people not migrants fail to understand that it’s hammering home an important premise.
“Always hang a traitor before you shoot an enemy”
I’m reading an old collection of interconnected science fiction stories by Jerry Pournelle, written in the early 70s. His best books were later co-authored with Larry Niven, but it is still solid work in my favored “competence porn” genre, with entrepreneurs as protagonists.
It stands out to me that he was despairing for America when he wrote the stories. Things looked bad at the time, and his fiction projected it into the future. Social unrest, Vietnam, Watergate, economic recession, energy crisis, and for a patriotic space guy, abandoning Apollo.
The backdrop for the stories was that America was unfixable, which is, of course, a motivation to go to space in fiction, but I do think he was genuinely worried by what he saw around him.
But over the next decade, things got better, and Jerry had a front row seat for the rise of the technology sector, writing the Chaos Manor column in Byte magazine for many years. He also got to see the founding of SpaceX, a company straight out of a hard SF novel, and they re-flew a landed rocket shortly before he died.
Trends aren’t fate.
Bad situations can be fixed, and good ones still need to be defended.
RIP Jerry, I’m glad you got to see things turn around.
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The strange thing about progress is that it only counts if you ignore where we started.
Every civilisation practised slavery.
The civilisation that ended it is now told it should feel guilty forever for having once participated. How does that make any sense?