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I see the dyson cloud becoming Elon’s next big project to help maintain this network. Our energy production is too outdated and primitive. The same to our legi

by idclip 6y ago

I see the dyson cloud becoming Elon’s next big project to help maintain this network. Our energy production is too outdated and primitive. The same to our legislative bodies, human society is having an anally retentive crises when it comes to technology. The system’s chocked and cant function well.

arethuza 6y ago
That would make an interesting answer to the Fermi paradox - nobody is travelling because everyone stays at home to perform PoW calculations in a dyson cloud. Which does rather remind me of Accelerando by Charlie Stross - maybe Economics 2.0 used by the vile offspring is a giant PoW scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
- dave_sullivan 6y ago
  There's a paper that talked about this quite a bit and is very interesting: https://www.accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis https://www.accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis Accelerando is great btw
adflux 6y ago
Dyson sphere you mean? We are centuries away from achieving anything like that...
- haarts 6y ago
  A Dyson cloud is a similar mega structure but not a continuous surface. I think it is more commonly referred to as a Dyson swarm. Isaac Arthur [0] had an episode about it in which he mentioned such a structure to be quite feasible with modern day technology. [0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
- Slikey 6y ago
  He means a Dyson swarm and we are not centuries away from achieving this. The economical sense is on a different paper. Having ASIC miners in space connecting to something like Starlink is entirely possible even though not cost effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm
  - deeeeplearning 6y ago
    Go ahead and do the math on how long it would take to launch enough bots to match current energy spend on earth.

by idclip 6y ago

arethuza 6y ago

That would make an interesting answer to the Fermi paradox - nobody is travelling because everyone stays at home to perform PoW calculations in a dyson cloud. Which does rather remind me of Accelerando by Charlie Stross - maybe Economics 2.0 used by the vile offspring is a giant PoW scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando

dave_sullivan 6y ago
There's a paper that talked about this quite a bit and is very interesting: https://www.accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis https://www.accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis Accelerando is great btw

adflux 6y ago

Dyson sphere you mean? We are centuries away from achieving anything like that...

haarts 6y ago
A Dyson cloud is a similar mega structure but not a continuous surface. I think it is more commonly referred to as a Dyson swarm. Isaac Arthur [0] had an episode about it in which he mentioned such a structure to be quite feasible with modern day technology. [0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
Slikey 6y ago
He means a Dyson swarm and we are not centuries away from achieving this. The economical sense is on a different paper. Having ASIC miners in space connecting to something like Starlink is entirely possible even though not cost effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm
- deeeeplearning 6y ago
  Go ahead and do the math on how long it would take to launch enough bots to match current energy spend on earth.