One big lesson from the ISS is to put as many systems as possible on the inside, instead of needing spacewalks to service anything. The ISS has a lot of systems on the outside and they are almost impossible to work on and maintain. Another big thing is inflatable modules for much larger volume.

It would be cheaper to send up all new modules and build from scratch. The poor old ISS is getting really old, many systems are at end of life, there are cracks in some vital areas, and nothing in it was designed to handle spin.

It's a "Lens Flare" artifact. It's not really there, it's made by your camera lens. Lens Flare

Sell body parts you don't need. One lung, one kidney, healthy heart sold and replaced by a pump, bones and skin from amputating all limbs, teeth, even eyes if they have direct optic nerve connections. Better hope there's no power outage.

They are actively working on various projects in AI. Just one example: Recently two different teams flew an F-16 autonomously in lots of combat scenarios. They beat the humans mostly because of precision, and lack of self-preservation. The human pilots said the computers were "too aggressive".

But for LLMs like Bing and ChatGPT, yeah that would be interesting and powerful like you say. The military moves slowly in terms of budgets and projects, but I'm sure they have at least a small team on it dreaming and investigating.

Pretty cool. I guess in future versions it will be able to remember what you talked about previously, and it will build up more insight into your mind and behaviour.

This is very interesting, i also suffer from bad depression, can you mention some ways it's helping you? What do you folks talk about? (one folk and one human.) Do you have any tips for what to talk to it about?

If all else fails, you can simply put colossal cables on the surface around the whole planet and make a magnetic field the old-fashioned way, with electricity. A lot of electricity. A LOT. But scientifically possible.

>Gorgon - Tony Hoagland

Wow that's appropriate. Poetry for the end times.

Here is a great quote from C S Lewis about fear of annihilation

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In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways.
We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances… and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
― C.S. Lewis

Another approach is to focus on family and friends, cultivating relationships and helping people you care for, hanging out with friends. That's what really matters in life.

You can't really affect anything coming, so there's no point in dread and fear. What comes will come. It's fatalistic, but a wholesome kind of fatalism, with a life filled with good people you have connections to.

Your private diary would leak eventually, everything leaks eventually.

I wonder if it can speculate on themes and motives and causes. Like the guy who asked the "theory of mind" test question about bill and the dog shirt, and it answered correctly.

True, but to the recreated being it will feel exactly like the same person. I don't want recreated me endlessly checking 33 times a second for a signal, without rest, on and on, like that poor person in the Expanse.

This is exactly my worst nightmare. If I'm ever threatened with digitization/uplift I'm going to find a way to pulverize my brain so nothing can be recovered and enslaved. Better oblivion than digital servitude.

No, I'm not prepping. I don't have the energy for all that malarkey. I'm just gonna die in the chaos, get some rest finally.

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Clinical trials of what?

That lab seems to be a good group of people, it would be sad if their work was stolen.

Which part is the airtight suit? Is that the white part ? I notice the green layer also has glove sealing rings.

Wonderful new bioweapons. Creative ways to kill

It's something a psychologist told me one time. He said of the people he treated, very few ~5% were interested in purpose and meaning, like I was meeting with him about.

Why would AI be interested in accepting the guidance of monkeys?

So true, many people confuse external validation, with purpose.