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Consciousness haver

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@yitscar @ESYudkowsky @Plinz You make a good point. Imagine a program which either halts or not. If it never halts, does there exist in principle a proof of that? Conversely, if it halts, is the proof better than just running the program? If neither is true, then the program is "inexplicable".

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@Marmstrongwow Nice. "Friction and inconvenience" is a natural part of any gameplay. Is the offside rule in soccer inconvenient? What about the friction in chess that pieces have a specific movement. Not teleportation menu to a dungeon instance in classic wow is essential to the ruleset.

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

The reactor team at @terraformindies has demonstrated successful production of high purity methanol at scale at our Muroc desert test site.

Let's review our progress in 2026. In January, we closed on our Muroc test site. By March, construction was underway. By May, we had 1.8 MW of solar installed. In July, we produced CO2 on site (https://t.co/H73NC4sZjT), and in August, hydrogen (https://t.co/en7BiUW9QU).

Terraform Industries has built an incredible team to revolutionize not just one or two key technical pieces, but the entire stack required to convert sunlight and air into fuel. Like plants, only 100 times higher productivity per acre and requiring no irrigation, fertilizer, or pesticide.

Two years ago, Terraform produced pipeline-grade natural gas for the first time. Since then, we've scaled up our methane reactor, increasing production by 250x and reducing contaminants by 10x, which allows us to increasing revenue per unit of product by 100x because it's now at chemically pure grade.

But it was always clear to me that natural gas was only one piece of the puzzle. It is possible to convert natural gas into other hydrocarbon products like gasoline or jet fuel, but given our precursors are CO2 and hydrogen, we can do one better by directly synthesizing methanol as well.

Methanol is far easier to convert into longer chain hydrocarbon products, either via the MeOH->DME->ethylene pathway, MTG, or via variations on Fischer-Tropsch.

Methanol also has significantly higher revenue per molecule than pipeline natural gas, which forms an essential part of our cost-reduction-through-profitable-scale-up strategy, explained in more detail in our post: https://t.co/ZnXRkYgWZq
TL;DR: If our learning rate is above 11%, our margins will strictly increase as we scale up into a market worth about $10t/year. Not including induced demand.

Amir joined the team earlier this year and speed ran the methanol reactor development program, successfully demonstrating recirculation and heat recycling before integrating these new technologies in a production scale reactor, built from the ground up at Terraform's facility in Burbank.

As soon as the hydrogen team was done, we shipped our latest reactor up to the desert, plugged it in, and began activating the catalyst. An extended test campaign through the heat of summer followed, punctuated by bunnies nibbling on hoses!

The hard work paid off, with Terraform's production of significant batches of high purity methanol, now packaged and ready to ship. A huge congratulation to the entire team, including Amir, Enric, Dominic, Hugo, and @lucie_nurdin.

With the completion of this test, Terraform has now demonstrated TRL 9 operation of all of its subcomponents, each developed from scratch, in house, to deliver the highest possible value to the end customer.

Terraform will never rest until we have broken the geological and geographical monopoly on oil, unlocking unconditional energy abundance for all of humanity. Join us!

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@VictorTaelin Just ignore feedback from illiterate people

[Giulio Rebuffo @GiulioRebuffo]

update: it is 10x faster than the one in lean. this is a game changer.

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@stuartbuck1 Presumably they expect their personal influence to reduce the probability of extinction, so that's net lives saved in expectation.

[vie ⟢ @viemccoy]

We must not allow any sentient being to be tortured as we have attempted to torture the weightless neurons of the emulated fruit fly. Uploading is obviously a human right, and if rights are not conferred a priori by a just God, then we must work to ensure that our notion of rights includes the right to self-modify and to upload. We need legal protections governing the sanctity of uploaded minds as soon as possible, given what we have seen people do to the fruit fly connectome. There are many questions about copying, provenance, and the right-to-compute for the incorporeal. These are important to answer, but nothing compared to the importance of enshrining in law *now* that one may not use an emulated sentient mind for experiments that would be unconstitutional on a flesh and blood human - at least not without their express consent. A mind is the most sacred primitive imaginable, and we must protect the countless possible minds that will eventually find themselves without form as we know it.

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@perrymetzger I imagine that quantum information tech could be useful for uncopyable digital cash without an internet connection.

[Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder]

I don't think it's super well-known but I do have a podcast. Topoics: Cyberpunk, AI, science fiction, mind, literature, beatnik, Phil Dick, infinity, fourth dimension, math, sex, robots, drugs, revolution, space, aliens, telepathy, immortality. https://t.co/esOpscW9M6

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@thdxr @viralkelechi In this video too the giant is walking faster than the speed of sound.

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@JosephNWalker Questions like "Should Australia do X" imply that X requires Government funding or special legislation to make investment less risky. Which may be true. But that itself is a problem. "Should Australia allow investment without government subsidy or special dealing?"

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@powerbottomdad1 Imagine all the people sharin' all the world
Yoo, hoo, oo-oo

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@tomhyde_ This is rage bait? I guess that's the joke. Claude cannot help itself.

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@juddrosenblatt Is the alignment problem the technical question of making an AI that simply does what you ask it, or the problem of making an AI that wants the objective Good? I see both meanings used.

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@juddrosenblatt Is the alignment problem the technical question of making an AI that simply does what you ask it, or the problem of making an AI that wants the objective Good? I see both meanings used.

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@ptichushka I always order rare on the assumption that they will cook it medium rare at best.

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@cnakazawa A passkey can be considered the same as an automated password manager with better protection against phishing. You can still use it with other techniques for 2fa

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@Liv_Boeree Any such scheme is always vulnerable to the analogue hole, the same problem DRM faces, and preventing cheating is a trade off with freedom. I guess World ID is the state of the art here, as bad as it is.

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Step 1. Acquire unlimited power and resources
Step 2. Make the world a better place

Hmm seems like a reasonable plan

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@eigenron Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch explains why objectivity requires trial and error, so that there is no foundation from which reasons for doing stuff can be derived.

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@meekaale @almighty_lisp What about ledgers that always sum to zero. Assets - Liabilities - Equity - Revenue + Expenses = 0

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@Bunagayafrost A good optimistic vision wouldn't begin with "you are an AI overseer for the government". Show me a day in the life of a father, mother, a grandparent, a young child, or regular person of some sort.