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All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
HoldenKarnofsky
1y
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Claims & Assumptions made in Eternity in Six Hours
Ruby
3y
7
38
Colonization models: a tutorial on computational Bayesian inference (part 2/2)
snarles
11y
6
34
[Link] Space Stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation
Kaj_Sotala
11y
20
34
Space colonization: what can we definitely do and how do we know that?
Ruby
3y
6
29
Decelerating: laser vs gun vs rocket
Stuart_Armstrong
3y
16
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Purposefulness on Mars
JamesAndrix
12y
7
23
Which parts of the paper Eternity in Six Hours are iffy?
Ruby
3y
9
20
Quantifying anthropic effects on the Fermi paradox
Lanrian
3y
5
18
Politicians stymie human colonization of space to save make-work jobs
Roko
12y
98
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So You Want To Colonize The Universe Part 3: Dust
Diffractor
3y
9
17
Musk, Mars and x-risk
Kawoomba
10y
65
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So You Want to Colonize The Universe Part 5: The Actual Design
Diffractor
3y
4
15
Stanford talk: easy step to universal colonisation
Stuart_Armstrong
9y
1
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Beyond Astronomical Waste
Wei_Dai
4y
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Is the potential astronomical waste in our universe too small to care about?
Wei_Dai
8y
17
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To reduce astronomical waste: take your time, then go very fast
Stuart_Armstrong
9y
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Snyder-Beattie, Sandberg, Drexler & Bonsall (2020): The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
Kaj_Sotala
2y
20
79
Astronomy, Astrobiology, & The Fermi Paradox I: Introductions, and Space & Time
CellBioGuy
7y
22
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Astronomy, space exploration and the Great Filter
JoshuaZ
7y
68
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Astrobiology III: Why Earth?
CellBioGuy
6y
12
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A Proposed Adjustment to the Astronomical Waste Argument
Nick_Beckstead
9y
38
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Astrobiology IV: Photosynthesis and energy
CellBioGuy
6y
8
18
[LINK] Updating Drake's Equation with values from modern astronomy
DanArmak
6y
3
10
So You Want to Colonize The Universe
Diffractor
3y
18
10
Types of Boltzmann Brains
avturchin
3y
0
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A terrifying variant of Boltzmann's brains problem
Zeruel017
6mo
12
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The (Boltzmann) Brain-In-A-Jar
PlatypusNinja
12y
1