>> My utopian hope for the future is that we start sending rigs in orbit close to the sun.
Dyson spheres and stellar engineering to power cryptocurrency mining rigs.
I shudder at the thought.
Dyson spheres and stellar engineering to power cryptocurrency mining rigs.
I shudder at the thought.
Another storyline I came up with is this: Imagine that an alien civilisation has the ability to send electromagnetic signals faster than light by some mechanism such as a micro wormhole but not ships and such.
They still want to destroy other civilisations before they become a threat. They are able to connect to some unsecured wifi networks and start posting on forums. The username: Satoshi Nakamoto
- that this is not technologically possible with current or future tech
- no one would possibly do something this stupid
- it is nearly 100% certain that our universe exists in someone's hair-brained web3 Ponzi scheme
Not sure whether I should welcome my simulator overlords or search for weaknesses in Bostrom's argument.
Considering Humanity's capacity and even drive for destruction (entropy incarnate, that's us), by having handed us this concept they will have certainly accelerated the destruction of potentially hostile civilisations... but also their own, the rest of the universe, and whatever surrounds it.
There is some really good fiction to be found in this vein on https://old.reddit.com/r/HFY/
Economics 2.0 in the later third of the story.
> Welcome to decade eight, third millennium, when the effects of the phase-change in the structure of the solar system are finally becoming visible on a cosmological scale.
> There are about eleven billion future-shocked primates in various states of life and undeath throughout the solar system. Most of them cluster where the interpersonal bandwidth is hottest, down in the water zone around old Earth. Earth's biosphere has been in the intensive care ward for decades, weird rashes of hot-burning replicators erupting across it before the World Health Organization can fix them – gray goo, thylacines, dragons. The last great transglobal trade empire, run from the arcologies of Hong Kong, has collapsed along with capitalism, rendered obsolete by a bunch of superior deterministic resource allocation algorithms collectively known as Economics 2.0. Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Luna are all well on the way to disintegration, mass pumped into orbit with energy stolen from the haze of free-flying thermoelectrics that cluster so thickly around the solar poles that the sun resembles a fuzzy red ball of wool the size of a young red giant.