Peter Dotchev

@adcock_brett Battery energy density in robots is much lower than in biological organisms, so continuous high-energy locomotion like running drains power quickly.

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@musicalscience and gravity allows for space flight is this all random coincidence...

Earth has to be in the top 100 coolest planets in the universe. It has everything. Total eclipses, advanced civilization, enormous singing whales, auroras, snow leopards, fire, rainforests, blobfish, thunderstorms, butterflies, underwater volcanoes... what a place to be alive

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so true yet shocking that single individuals still decide the fate of millions

X just sux

the human brain is a quantum computer

Will the environmental activists opposing nuclear electricity ever admit mistake? If the goal is to protect the environment, it’s hard to name a movement that has achieved the opposite of its intent more spectacularly. If only they had been on the right side of history 50 years ago… If the world embraced nuclear electricity instead of burning fossil fuels for electricity, 60% of Earth’s greenhouse gases accumulating from human activity would not be there. We would not have a climate change crisis to worry about. But it’s worse than that. I just finished reading Boemeke’s book Rad Future last night: “In a single year, the pollution from burning fossil fuels causes at least four million deaths” (p.11) “Nuclear has the lowest impact on ecosystems of all energy sources.” (56) “Exaggerated fear is killing us. After Germany shut down its nuclear plants in response to Fukushima, coal was used to replace lost power. A study found that this shift resulted in at least 1,100 premature deaths every year due to the increase in air pollution. There’s even a specific word for this specific brand of terror: ‘radiophobia.’ This fear can be a lot deadlier than radiation itself.” (69) “It seems that Germany is hell bent on being consistently on the wrong side of history. Germany chose to rely on coal and imported gas, making its electricity nearly ten times dirtier than France’s. By the start of the Ukraine conflict, Germany was paying Russia about $220 million a day for gas to keep its ‘nuclear free’ dream alive.” (158) “Greenpeace started as an anti-nuclear weapons group, but its opposition expanded to include nuclear electricity. Greenpeace and other organizations overstated the dangers of radiation to get people to push back” (146) “A few environmental non-profits [still] take a very loud antinuclear stance, Greenpeace being the biggest offender.” (206) “Nuclear energy now ranks as one of the safest forms of energy, thanks in part to those vocal hippies. But it’s time for them, and the ones who followed in their footsteps update their world view based on facts. The data doesn’t just say nuclear is safe, it proves it is the energy source with the smallest environmental footprint.” (201) But will Greenpeace change their stance and admit they are protesting the cleanest and most environmentally benign alternative, as they have with nuclear electricity, GMO crops and deep seabed mining? Sadly, as I learned from a recently departed Greenpeace executive, protesting along a vein of fear has proven to be their best fundraising strategy. Even if it’s rank misinformation, fear of the "new thing" is more powerful than data-driven pragmatism. It is a tragedy writ large for the oceans and the planet. Enter WePlanet, a new "environmentalism of hope.” They are new to me, but I am delighted to see a pro-science, data-driven environmental activist organization arise. Meaningful change always comes from new entrants, and for the environmental movement, it is long overdue.

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@elidourado who is going to those bases on rocky planets? sounds like prison with high chance of death humans are not designed to live in space

The more concerned you are about the survival of humanity in a post-ASI world, the more you should be getting into space. Yes, human progress into space has been slow. Humans have not been beyond low-Earth orbit since 1972. But aside from a tiny fraction of engineers and entrepreneurs, we have not actually been trying. They got to the moon in 1969 using slide rules. We could make rapid progress today if we were playing to win. Excuses that ASI would follow us out into the cosmos and stamp us out are lame. Yes, ASI could expand in many directions. But the universe is so unbelievably vast. Humans have expanded across our planet, and we kill ants when they are in our houses, but we don't care if ants are out in the world somewhere not bothering us and not consuming our resources. ASI goals are not guaranteed to include "hunt down every last human." Playing to win means: • New manufacturing paradigms based on in-situ resource utilization and low minimum efficient scale. • Closed-loop life support, turning common molecules like H2O and CO2 into food directly through electrochemistry. • Space-rated nuclear reactors. • High-cadence heavy-lift rockets that start putting serious cumulative mass into orbit. • Founding permanently occupied bases on rocky planets instead of planting flags and sending rovers. If you've read this far and are concerned about human survival, what's stopping you from devoting your time and energy to expanding human civilization into space as fast as possible?

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we need to train a codex that deletes code

@adcock_brett peeling eggs

Humanoid robots doing laundry and now dishes, what do you want next?

@jack <=>

i love deleting code

@lexfridman many people especially seasoned programmers fret about AI but it is not going away only getting better so better get used to it

Programming with AI is insanely fun. Process is: 1. generate code 2. read & understand code that was generated 3. make small changes "manually" (still with great autocomplete) 4. test & debug 5. make big changes with new prompt 6. go back to step 1 Pure vibe coding skips step 2 & 3. And I think we'll need human expertise & experience for steps 2, 3 (and 4) for quite a while. But holy shit, I'm learning much faster, being way more productive, and having more fun. Not sure we're close to "AGI/ASI", but the software engineering world is definitely getting transformed very rapidly. It feels surreal to be experiencing it directly on a daily basis. Of course, there are both scary (jobs, security) & exciting (productivity, access) consequences to this transformation, as with all powerful technology. This post was fully written by human in one-shot without spellcheck, it's 100% organic human writing 🤣

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jack did it again

@elidourado @MarathonFusion this proves that energy is the universal currency

Congrats to the team at @MarathonFusion for identifying a plausible, scalable process for transmuting mercury into gold. This is something that drove Isaac Newton insane.

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