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If we want to achieve the true sci-fi world we imagine, we need to change our population growth now. Population (mass) is extremely critical to progress, and the decline movement from the last few decades was the worst decision our species made. For our entire history, all we did was grow, and to achieve our ultimate goal as a species, increase our odds of survival through expansion. But over the last few decades, we have reversed that so badly that within a few decades we stagnate, and a few more decades we reverse growth. The global average needs to return to the 1960s 2.2%+ peak so that we achieve the true population mass to colonize our Solar System and increase our rates and speed of success in advancement and productivity. It's the ultimate wired purpose of all life forms; the odds are in numbers, and they increase expansion, against a hostile universe that is indifferent to our existence and an environment made to kill us. A few thousand years of survival and two centuries of modern advancement shouldn't fool us on the reality of a universe that works in terms of millions of years and basic math, odds, and likelihoods, and we should always aim to make them in our favor.

Agreed. Ultimately, most colonies would be strictly alien anyways, but WARP will be like the first ships for early humans societies that never knew of each other's existence for hundreds to thousands of years were interconnected and eventually merged into one world over centuries.

@EmpireEnjoyer3 @marsrepublica Yes, warp drive helps a lot. Not strictly necessary, but it is if you want anything more than a very loose coalition of planets.

There should be an American Empire here.

@is_OwenLewis @EmpireEnjoyer3 I would say it depends on how fast we launch true ASI Von Braun self-replicating robotics probes, with human and variety Earth life form seeds.

@EmpireEnjoyer3 Human territory in the galaxy. How long this takes depends on whether warp drive is possible or not.

@deltaIV9250 Starship single launched blue Moon architecture trust

@aaronburnett I think there aiming for the movie "her" type of device if you have watched it.

Not sure what I was expecting but this feels like a pretty big let down if true

@aaronburnett @farzyness Same issue here. The hardest part is proofreading it to remove any slop, but then being confused between what's slop and what's not, as you have consumed so much AI content and conversations that it's confusing to tell the difference. Especially as more people use AI to post too.

We actively work on removing slop regularly. But as our team spends more and more time with AI I find we naturally write a bit more like it. I’m also seeing some subtle signs of that kind of vocabulary making its way into spoken conversation. In reality that’s good because AI is technically a better writer. But it is interesting to see that transfer happening.

I will say that Grok is still not the quality writer that Claude models are. It's less consistent in applying the same voicing, tone, and style rules through a long form piece that's multiple pages long. It drifts a bit more. You have to build more safeguards to ensure it's executing what you want it to execute. The speed definitely helps in getting it right, especially when Anthropic's models are taking SO LONG to freaking respond. But I definitely wish it was more consistent. I almost wish LLMs had an 'Anti-AI' rulebook that I can check by default that would remove all the AI-ness when it writes anything. You should be able to train on this, right?!

That's actually when the real fun starts. No more just enjoying future possibilities; we get to debate current execution and everything that comes with it.

@aaronburnett @noah_schochet The space industry will see many niche startups pop up in the coming years, and you're right: the third most important thing to Mars after Starship and AGI robotics is heavy manufacturing and construction machinery made for Mars, but especially for the Moon in the very near term.

We need more founders like @noah_schochet who are building important economically viable infrastructure today with clear obvious foundations for Mars. Note his conviction on how soon Mars will viable. Looking forward to many more of this archetype coming out over the next few years.

The door to MB1 is opening to reveal Booster 20 ahead of rollout tonight! nsf.live/Starbase

Its getting close would say about <60% done, for those who dont know this will be done around end of this year, with a goal of producing 1000 starship a year together with starfactory that is also being scaled up, super exciting times ahead for SpaceX.

@space_jm_ Here I am complaining about every starship delay and taking falcon launches as just another Monday.

Kids nowadays have it easy, being a spaceflight fan in 2017 was hard because there was maybe a ULA launch once a month, a Falcon 9 launch every now and then an ESA launch with the same cadence of today pretty much.

There has never been and will never be for at least 10 years ahead.

They be playing too much. They don't know how tense we are right now. We're 48 hours out from a flight that will determine SpaceX and Starship for a while.

Will be interesting to see how we carve out the mountains to let light enter while maintaining natural protection barriers and local terraforming.

@aaronburnett @beffjezos Truely disturbing especially the mass grave part, I dont know how there board is approving all this.

@beffjezos Hard not to get cynical about people behind these decisions.

Wow I can't believe this is the new Claude ad. Doomer marketing is hitting all time highs

New SpaceX @Starlink V5 Terminal vs V4 Terminal: V5 is a lot smaller (~28% linearly), while being more powerful, lighter, and durable.

@aaronburnett Were gonna need your deep dive analysis on it, I always use yours to compare with mine for reference.

Smaller lighter and more power efficient sounds like it’s built to scale well into the 10s of millions of customers. We’ll see

Major upgrade!

@boneGPT @bryan_johnson I'm afraid I'm going to have to report you to the board for this unsolicited medical advice without having a medical license, Mr. BoneGPT.

@marsrepublica @bryan_johnson try drinking a diet coke for that upset tummy

This is a practical, thoughtful proposal to win cooperation. And Demis has done an admirable job, personally and professionally, to have the credibility to play this role. Stepping back, I kind of can't believe the craziness of this moment. What's about to happen has never happened. It's not clear the mental models we have of ourselves and the world will be relevant in the future. Each of us is trying our best to use our pattern matching skills to predict what will be. We talk about the immediate things that we can understand like jobs and meaning making, but the scale of what's at stake, I think, is far more consequential than that. It's possible that the speed of it all, plus the increased complexity, will feel bewildering. It's also possible that it will feel natural and intuitive. I do hope that we've hit peak fever pitch in acrimony and division and that we'll turn a corner and become more cooperative.