> By analogy, this is claiming "New, larger steam locomotives are strictly faster than older, smaller ones, so this shows with enough coal it's possible for ste

> By analogy, this is claiming "New, larger steam locomotives are strictly faster than older, smaller ones, so this shows with enough coal it's possible for steam-engines to someday drive interstellar transport at 0.5c" Making that argument about scaling up high energy fuels and engines would make interstellar travel possible would be a pretty good hypothesis. Turns out you need rocket fuel and rocket engines, not coal and steam engines. GPT-3 might not be the engine, but throwing insane amounts of electrical energy and computing power at the problem might just get us there.