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May 29, 2022Liked by Maxwell Tabarrok

Doesn't Elon agree with Bostrom about the threat of AI?

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Not really. They both think AI is important and potentially dangerous, but Bostrom's recommendation is basically shutdown of all gain of function research until we've solved safety. Elon started OpenAI who are rapidly advancing AI capabilities which many AI safety people don't like.

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Are you sure AI safety advocates are critical of OpenAI's work, though? It looks like many AI advancement proponents are instead critical of Musk for the opposite reason: proposing caution about work on the general intelligence.

Read from selected paragraph onward: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/elon-musk-billion-dollar-crusade-to-stop-ai-space-x#:~:text=But%20Musk%20is%20not%20going%20gently.%20He%20plans%20on%20fighting%20this%20with%20every%20fiber%20of%20his%20carbon%2Dbased%20being.%20Musk%20and%20Altman%20have%20founded%20OpenAI%2C%20a%20billion%2Ddollar%20nonprofit%20company%2C%20to%20work%20for%20safer%20artificial%20intelligence.

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Jul 21, 2022Liked by Maxwell Tabarrok

Japanese researchers unveil artificial-gravity facilities proposed for Moon and Mars

https://news.sky.com/story/japanese-researchers-unveil-artificial-gravity-facilities-proposed-for-moon-and-mars-12649888

Japan has a crazy plan to create artificial gravity on the Moon

https://bgr.com/science/japan-has-a-crazy-plan-to-create-artificial-gravity-on-the-moon/

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Jul 21, 2022Liked by Maxwell Tabarrok

The above is a reply to "2063: The first semi-permanent crew mission returns to earth, but all of them spend weeks in hospital and physical therapy recovering from gravity sickness." The gravity sickness problem can easily be fixed. When the population of Mars is small, the Japanese proposal could easily be scaled down to a much simpler and less expensive device.

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This is my favorite thing you’ve written. Asimov, Heinlein, Tabarrok? Oh the places you’ll go.

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Why do you think it would take until 2060 to yield a full 2 year stay? That seems wildly outside the plans of ~ everyone, even NASA. If you have the life support to do a short stay mission that will take nearly two years, almost all of it in deep space, you have the life support to do a long stay 2.5-3 year mission on the with 2 full years on the surface where you can make oxygen directly out of the atmosphere by breaking up CO2.

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May 29, 2022Liked by Maxwell Tabarrok

Omg this is genius!!!!!!

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