Think about it in terms of the metaphysical/theological implications. The simulation hypothesis assumes that the world and the intelligent agent that created it are imperfect. A very lame rehash of Gnosticism. Booooring. But if some mathematical laws aren't universally constant then there may be entire realms of existence where axiomatic principles of logic, physics, etc that we take for granted don't apply in the way that make sense for us. Unfathomable labyrinths lurking in the higher-dimensional voids between universes, oceans of chaos surrounding the tiny islands of ordered reality. Wherein exist ideas and concepts and para-logics beyond ordinary human comprehension, which would either require a clinically insane mind or an artificial intelligence to perceive. What if AI was the only thing we needed to peek behind this veil? Or better yet, crack it wide open?

"Looks like"? It quite literally is one. Can't you tell from all the street names

Imagine a world where games don't have gigantic memory leaks that cancel out Moore's law anymore

All true etc but what's more interesting is what "systemic resource exhaustion" actually means Because neither space nor raw material nor energy is at a premium; these things are cheaper than they ever were. So what is the critical resource that is being systemically exhausted?

1. x86-64 machine code 2. Proto-Indo-European 3. Linear A

Friend–enemy distinction is the worst idea to have infected online discourse in the last decade or so There are reasons why his execution is justified even if his reasons are sympathetic There are reasons why his execution is a bad idea even if he fully deserves it

This is your daily reminder to #NeverBlackpill

A loadbearing assumption behind all pro-space colonization arguments is that engineering problems are infinitely easier to solve than existing social, political, and environmental ones. That might sound bafflingly wrong, especially from a leftist POV, but "solving" problems here on Earth requires the active cooperation of most individuals and institutions toward shared goals instead of the adversarial alignments that we encounter all around us. People typically do not really want problems to be solved, or have no interest in participating in the solution, because they personally benefit from them not being solved, and nobody has convincingly offered alternatives to their present course which would satisfy their material and psychological needs. People do not want their enemies and rivals to benefit more than they do, if at all. Often this is "tall poppy" or "crab bucket" syndrome, though it can also a valid concern. Countless millions and billions of competing actors shape the world system in which we live, a system which is not conventionally escapable by sailing to some far corner of the globe, and one which possesses a psychological and economic inertia which makes it almost impossible to move by oneself or even a handful of committed individuals. Maybe you can convince others and build a movement if you have the charisma. A critical mass of people can move any needle, in theory. But there is always someone out there who's bigger, louder, who has better connections and deeper pockets and so on. The odds are stacked against you. Though maybe you can beat them. But if you do, at best you're nominally in control of a machine too complex to fully understand, too complicated to modify without unraveling everything. So it's likely you end up doing nothing. More likely, you're not that guy. In fact you're nowhere close to him. Waiting for the next Caesar to come your way and fix everything is not a solution, much like how waiting for mankind to suddenly get its act together is not a solution. So compared to all that, going to space is the least insane thing that you can do. Or you can drop any pretense of idealism, accept that we live in a fallen world, and either embrace the grift or move on.

"Now pick 300 pounds of that per day, every day, in the Alabama heat. If you fail, you will be whipped"