Just finished The Regicide Report by friend of the instance Charles Stross. Hell of a finish to the main series! I'll likely start a re-read of the whole series soon, and I'm hopeful that it'll win all the awards.
Had a couple of shower thoughts afterward:
In the previous novel, a bunch of American computer bois with brainworms concocted a plan to disassemble the moon and turn it into orbital datacenters, which is lol
Ghislaine Maxwell is the Iris Carpenter of pedos.
Keeping speculative fiction ahead of current events must be exhausting.
The vibes were wretched. Why do people to have to battle emotional abuse from a goddamned web browser?
but hey, at least this way we now just know and don’t have to guess. so much easier
+1, yeesh. Btw, if Dingus McGee there resides in the UK, might some of that shit might be legally actionable? I'd certainly have strong feelings about being defamed by the representative of a rather well-funded technology company lol
Multiple hackernews insist that SpaceX must have discovered new physics that solves orbital heat management, because otherwise Musk and the stockholders are dumb.
it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power
We currently make around 1 TW of photovoltaic cells per year, globally. The proposal here is to launch that much to space every 9 hours, complete with attached computers, continuously, from the moon.
edit: Also, this would capture a very trivial percentage of the Sun's power. A few trillionths per year.
(Wolphram shoehorning cellular automata into everything to universally explain mathematics) shaking hands (my boys explaining which pokemon could defeat arbitrary fictional villains)
Axios publishes an ad for Anthropic. tptacek bravely defends a corporation from unimpressed fellow hackers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902909
Edit: tptacek implies that Ludic no longer stands behind Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI, which I don't believe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906403
tptacek explains that the one armed bandit addiction loop is good actually:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905142
Edit2: He took off to his Xafe space. Getting Mozilla Jake vibes. lol at tptacek calling it the orange site:
https://xcancel.com/tqbf/status/2019493645888462993