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The world needs you to be a pragmatic optimist. Remain ruthlessly realistic about short term realities while remaining ruthlessly optimistic about the long term possibilities. The challenge in this age of overwhelm and doom is to do both. We must dream our way through.

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@Erdayastronaut Has anyone done the calculations on what it would take to refill a second Starship-fuel depot in LLO? (Once you have the first or several depots in LEO, of course.) Just curious, because it would be needed for HLS to do multiple trips between LLO and surface.

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@Nomads_Crypto_ @Erdayastronaut What you’re missing: HLS, even if unable to return to earth, is primarily about getting mass to lunar surface. You can’t build a permanent base if you’re only able to deliver 2 tons (Apollo) to lunar surface (including astronauts). HLS can probably do 12-100 depending…

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@jonmudd @waitbutwhy Interesting. You are the first person who matched my reasoning. Which world would I prefer to live in — that was the only consideration. I prefer to live in a blue wins world. If red wins, then it doesn’t matter.

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@BarbaraPorras2 @CheckCanopy Said the woman, using her phone, which over the years had slowly taken over more and more functions she used to do manually (like remembering phone numbers), so much so that now she had become dependent on it, almost as if it had become a digital appendage.

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@MatiAllin @elonmusk They always land on their feet.

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@OccupyLibraries @elonmusk There will always be edge cases where both human and machine make consequential errors. The important question: multiplied by millions of driving hours which produces overall greater safety results—human or machine? My guess: even at this flawed state of the art, machine wins.

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@michaelnicollsx Seems like the ISS ought to be top of the list for getting one. Any news on when that might happen?

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Starlink down in Portugal. Downdetector shows massive spike in reports.

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@pli_cachete @Liv_Boeree Damn straight

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@serdarsoydemir @taggin_t @hothandsports1 @ianmiles Not "near" instant. The photon doesn't experience time at all. Or space, for that matter. The logic is embedded in the math of relativity. At light speed, all distance collapses into a singularity. Feynman even proposed the idea that all "photons" are really all the same photon.

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@BigPUSMC @hothandsports1 @ianmiles That assumes instantaneous transition to light speed. Acceleration induces added g-force (what astronauts feel as they speed up going to orbit) so you'd be crushed if you accelerate too fast. Increasing speed constantly at 1-g force, it would take you 2 years to speed up to C.

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@Liv_Boeree Come on, Liv. You are brilliant, mostly. How is this surprising, in the least? Trump is 100% cynical, misanthropic, 100% of the time. It is his core DNA. He’s not even coy about it.

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@JoshuaFisher @waitbutwhy What is Summit?

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@FelixSchlang SpaceX has broken SO many barriers, reset the “impossible” bar time and again, in so many different realms. The design flaw in Block 2 Ship is merely a temporary bump. They’re not just designing RRR ships, they’re building the machine that builds the machine.

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@Liv_Boeree Bravo for posting. There are so many careers and so much money tied to "AI MUST be a net positive" that any views re: existential risk have become almost religious in nature. That kills honest intellectual inquiry, to our detriment. All points welcome: doomer, boomer or zoomer.

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@solsynarchy @Liv_Boeree Bravo for posting. There are so many careers and so much money tied to "AI MUST be a net positive" that any views re: existential risk have become almost religious in nature. That kills honest intellectual inquiry, to our detriment. All points welcome: doomer, boomer or zoomer.

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@BecauseCulture @8teAPi It’s true about gatekeepers but it wasn’t unchallenged. Certain papers (e.g. WaPo) would compete against rivals to break stories that completely shattered the government propaganda (e.g. Watergate.) The problem now is we no longer have venerated institutions that can hold center.

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Perigo! (Danger) Beauty Alert

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Tristan Harris has a solution to the Moloch trap of AI — to raise awareness of the possibility of a narrow safe restricted path and to call for a broad citizen movement to bring it about. But ... where is the spark for that movement? The organizers...

hello... anyone there?

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@tristanharris sat down with @elisewho on @TEDTalks Daily to discuss his urgent new talk on the dangerous AI path we’re on now—and how we can chart a better one: https://t.co/AM3I8MmlQ6

And listen to the full talk here: https://t.co/tDjCpKuYr2