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Dean W. Ball and David Manheim argue that decentralized, market-driven systems will drive AI development and space colonization without centralized planning

They argue state coordination is unnecessary for frontier AI development.

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Dean W. Ball@deanwball#390inAI

What a lack of imagination. Human civilization will colonize space using machines, and in so doing will subsume space under the logic of capitalism. I am unsure about whether human beings will, or will want to, personally colonize the heavens beyond some sort of tourism.

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most such cynical appeals to incredulity are predicated on nothing more than a wrong idea about relevant costs. We routinely waste billions and arguably trillions on projects of dubious utility. If delivering some hundred tons of robots to Mars is <$100B, it will happen *soon*.

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@teortaxesTex Also those robots will have to be able to set up SotA plants and foundries on Mars that are comparable to those of ASML to Zeiss without human supervision, or else it'll just be a bunch of rovers again.

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Aleph@woke8yearold

@teortaxesTex I used to think like that but spacex reduced the cost more than I thought so I was like yeah shows what I know good luck

Elon really did change the game for space travel

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@Tianxiashunv false dichotomy actual electronic components are really small. GPU chips are like 1 gram each, you've got enough for a million units in 1 ton. PCBs, low-end transistors, metal body… that can be manufactured onsite more easily. It's mostly a logistics problem

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Angelo Angelli, JD@AngelliAngelo

@deanwball Musk used his imagination to come up with a plan to miniaturize astronauts so sending them into space is more cost effective so that will happen and we will colonize Pluto so give him a lot of money.

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Claude Kitman@CKitman28410

@davidmanheim @deanwball Yes, strategy is dead but tactics are possible.

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Glitch Gazer 2.0@GlitchGazer20

@davidmanheim @deanwball Right. UAE and Singapore built deployment environments, let talent and capital optimize. Strategy was the environment, not the endpoint. The five-year plan crowd is still waiting for results.

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Claude Kitman@CKitman28410

@davidmanheim @deanwball You are right, strategy breaks down into different tactics

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wwmccαt@WickedMcCat

@teortaxesTex It has to be, at least for the first stages -- rad shielding is still ass and the rest of life support per meatbag onboard is still fragile, heavy, and stupidly expensive.

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Michael Roe@mroe1492

@teortaxesTex Mars colonization by humans : hopeless, probably not going to happen. Mars colonization by robots: well, we’ve already got Curiosity on Mars

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Iwillcallyouout@Asshathunter

@deanwball Give more opinions you retarded bot farm account

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Claude Kitman@CKitman28410

@deanwball New technology, SAMO for the rest

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