lachlan-sneff

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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
Nah, I was assuming it'd take 111 years to send the minds there. It's really not a very long time when we have digital immortality.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
For sure, maybe future humans won't want to do that. The important takeaway is that they'll have the opportunity to do so if they wish. They could even clone them back on the other end and install the preexisting mind, basically t
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
There are lots of people in the comments here talking about how long it would take to send a probe, or how many generations a generation ship would have, but it seems clear to me that that's not how humans are going to go to other sola
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
What a cool visual. Setting up a small beacon like object on the ground, standing back a couple hundred feet, and then a beam of bright blue light bursts several kilometers into the air, sending a quick burst of data while the capacitors po
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
No wonder people break the rules when they're almost impossible to actually find.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
Love this series! Hope the next one is on the way!
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Made in Space – Satellites with 3D Printers(techcrunch.com)
2 points by lachlan-sneff 7y ago|0 comments
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
Perhaps it would be possible to contain materials at such high pressures inside other materials like carbon nanotubes or diamonoid structures?
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Encyclopedia Galactica – Orion's Arm(orionsarm.com)
1 points by lachlan-sneff 7y ago|0 comments
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Transhumanist Resources (2000)(aleph.se)
1 points by lachlan-sneff 7y ago|0 comments
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
1 million events an hour is just 278 a second, which is a much more surmountable number than 1 million.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
Rod logic is super cool! Wish more people were looking into it!
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Introduction to Diamond Mechanosynthesis (2018)(molecularassembler.com)
3 points by lachlan-sneff 7y ago|0 comments
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
A few months back, a team reported that they'd found room-temperature superconduction in gold/silver nanoparticles. Unfortunately, there has been no more news about it since.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
With current technology, definitely.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
I'm not an expert, but I believe that after a certain point, the magnetic field created by the wire destroys the superconducting state.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
My immediate thought was to wrap them in some sort of diamondoid shell through some sort of mechanosynthesis process, but maybe a carbon nanotube would be stronger?
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
I wonder if the path to room-temperature superconductors involves finding ways of containing hydrides at very high pressures, rather than finding materials that superconduct and ambiant temperatures and pressures.
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Hydrides come within a whisker of room temperature superconductivity(chemistryworld.com)
82 points by lachlan-sneff 7y ago|38 comments
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
So this is what they've been up to! How well will this interact with the upcoming (hopefully before the heatdeath of the universe) rich gc types extension?
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
I'd love to buy a t-shirt with their logo (in Japanese), but it doesn't look like that's something they offer.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
There is further discussion about this library on the rust subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cr85pp/announcing_asy...
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Drexler-Smalley debate on molecular nanotechnology(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lachlan-sneff 7y ago|0 comments
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
This is exactly why we need Eric Drexler's molecular assemblers: so we can build large quantities of molecules that are "built" atom-by-atom!
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Neural network compute with engineered matter(techxplore.com)
1 points by lachlan-sneff 7y ago|0 comments
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Engines of Creation, by K. Eric Drexler (1986)(en.wikipedia.org)
19 points by lachlan-sneff 7y ago|10 comments
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
Webassembly would probably be an ideal executable format for a synthesis kernel. Safe to execute, easy to generate these days from all sorts of programming languages. Plus, you can actually inline syscalls and whatnot into your compiled app
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
This is a cool idea, but I bet that modern cpu cache effects would counteract, to some extent, the gains from a synthesis kernel.
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
In science-fiction, engines that can accelerate at a constant 1g (more or less) are called torchships. Interestingly enough, there are theoretical designs that achieve that and give us huge amounts of ΔV and still large amounts of thrust. A
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by lachlan-sneff 7y ago
I'm curious as to why the mandatory prefix syntax wasn't chosen (`await {...}`). It's less magic than a magic field and it fits into preexisting syntax better.

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