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This is the future I want to live in. Bountiful cheap energy is much more attractive than the futures most people write about now, that vary between some sort o

This is the future I want to live in. Bountiful cheap energy is much more attractive than the futures most people write about now, that vary between some sort of managed decline, dystopianism, or other negativity. I hope to see you or your faithful recreation in the Matrioskha brain one day.

morphle 2y ago
> I hope to see you or your faithful recreation in the Matrioskha brain one day. That where my earliest thoughts, 11 years old, that got me into computing: upload my brain into a Matrioskha brain or at least study the human brain by building a supercomputer to simulate it. I'm still working on building cheaper supercomputers and cheaper clean energy 50 years later. Deep zoom Mandel calculations are still a good benchmark to measure my progress. Three Sci-Fi stories that describe faithful recreation of a human in a computer [1][2][3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annals_of_the_Heechee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annals_of_the_Heechee and the last part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heechee_Rendezvous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heechee_Rendezvous [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3001:_The_Final_Odyssey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3001:_The_Final_Odyssey
morphle 2y ago
>Bountiful cheap energy is much more attractive than the futures most people write about A squandrable abundance of free and clean energy means we solve the climate change and sixth mass-extinction crises in the next few years! It should be the only future we fund today. Just cheaper solar cells would do that. No new inventions needed. Cheap clean energy is the most important next step for humanities survival. It will only cost 100 million, maybe a few hundred million dollars at most [1]. It also means we would get a money free economy as depicted in Star Trek The Next Generation. Even interstellar travel by solar laser and solar sail would become possible if energy is nearly free. [1] Alan Kay, How? When “What Will It Take?” Seems Beyond Possible, We Need To Study How Immense Challenges Have Been Successfully Dealt With In The Past https://internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf https://internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf

morphle 2y ago

> I hope to see you or your faithful recreation in the Matrioskha brain one day. That where my earliest thoughts, 11 years old, that got me into computing: upload my brain into a Matrioskha brain or at least study the human brain by building a supercomputer to simulate it. I'm still working on building cheaper supercomputers and cheaper clean energy 50 years later. Deep zoom Mandel calculations are still a good benchmark to measure my progress. Three Sci-Fi stories that describe faithful recreation of a human in a computer [1][2][3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annals_of_the_Heechee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Annals_of_the_Heechee and the last part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heechee_Rendezvous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heechee_Rendezvous [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3001:_The_Final_Odyssey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3001:_The_Final_Odyssey

morphle 2y ago

>Bountiful cheap energy is much more attractive than the futures most people write about A squandrable abundance of free and clean energy means we solve the climate change and sixth mass-extinction crises in the next few years! It should be the only future we fund today. Just cheaper solar cells would do that. No new inventions needed. Cheap clean energy is the most important next step for humanities survival. It will only cost 100 million, maybe a few hundred million dollars at most [1]. It also means we would get a money free economy as depicted in Star Trek The Next Generation. Even interstellar travel by solar laser and solar sail would become possible if energy is nearly free. [1] Alan Kay, How? When “What Will It Take?” Seems Beyond Possible, We Need To Study How Immense Challenges Have Been Successfully Dealt With In The Past https://internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf https://internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf