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> So we may have to wait a century or two. It took some thousands of years to be able to circumnavigate the planet, and some centuries after that to do it quic
by hcarvalhoalves 10y ago
> So we may have to wait a century or two.
It took some thousands of years to be able to circumnavigate the planet, and some centuries after that to do it quickly and safely.
It feels IST in a matter of centuries from now is extremely optimistic.
- mtgx 10y ago100 years if probably too optimistic. 200 years probably isn't. Don't forget our technological progress has been exponential. We've had more progress in the past 100 years than in the entire human history. We're also supposed to create the "singularity" this century, which will give us orders and orders of magnitude higher intelligence than what we have today. Hopefully we can use that intelligence to create those engines.