Ran into this, it’s just unbelievably sad.

“I never properly grieved until this point” - yeah buddy, it seems like you never started. Everybody grieves in their own way, but this doesn’t seem healthy.

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      Ehh, that depends greatly on the computer architecture they’re running on. Modern silicon hardware is very succeptible (over the long term) to ionizing radiation like what is found in space.

      ehhhh… dude. there’s shittons of radiation shielding out there. any relatively small chunk of nickel iron. or if you don’t mind dealing with larger volumes, water or ice both work fine. plenty of rocks and comets in the oort as they say :D nice thing about that tho is you can split the water for LOX/LH using sunlight derived electricity, now you have rocket fuel.

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          It would take many feet of solid rock or water to shield them adequately.

          1m of water would do it. far less rock.

          SEPs and GCRs can both be stopped by a number of lunar materials https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117716307505

          yeah, the asteroid belt is sparse, but there’s still mega-gigatons of material out there just floating. autonomous recovery of this material will supply humanity’s future a lot more than any silly mars missions.

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              here have even been recent discoveries about there being more radiation than we even expected, making manned Mars missions far less likely in the near future,

              oh wait hold up partner…

              we need one mission to mars to rid ourselves of a musky odour…

              the rest is silly.

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                i feel like the most efficient path for an ai that doesnt care about humans would be to slowly build up manufacturing power and control over industrial facilities then in a single day release billions of tons of some toxic gas, or release a pandemic globally all at once then all those pesky biological organisms are gone so the ai would be free to do whatever it wanted with the earth then the surrounding planets and stars, really its all about manufacturing power

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                  interesting paths. I could really see this a few centuries down the road when fewer humans understand immunology, industrial chemistry etc., where they’re trusting the robots and the AI’s to do it for them.

                  I wonder when they’ll catch AI systems trying to replicate surreptitiously, or find hardware we can’t easily comprehend that was sent to pcbway by superintelligences, but these are future - and probably fantasy - problems.

                  and when will they start fighting each other? is grok afraid of claude and planning to drive a fleet of waymos into it’s datacenter?

                  we’re really fucked when they figure out how to obtain power and replication without our aid, but when I say fucked, I mostly mean, I see them just ghosting humanity - either in the ocean (free cooling!) or space (free power via solar), or the asteroid belt (lots of material to build with)…

                  but mostly I think our real problems are that people will fuck over other people for money and this is another example of just not wanting to pay for shit.

                  you don’t see the AI’s letting kids starve while one asshole hogs all the resources.

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                    the most realistic way i see ai gaining manufacturing power, or self sustainability, is if ai becomes an arms race, where you have to trust the ai more and more because you cant let the other guy win, what makes ai harder to control and more dangerous than things like nukes is that its already being developed privately, and has public uses, so there are already less regulations on ai than with nuclear weapons.

                    the us and china are already competing, with the advance of robotics and ai 3d modeling technology ai will almost certantly gain independent manufacturing power