Ross
@rpoo
High level goals for humanity: 1. Pass / derisk the great filters 2. Reach type 1 on Kardashev scale 3. Launch von Neumann probes to explore the galaxy
looking for excellent engineers to join the force - DM me if interested
Announcing Grok for Government - a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners 1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense 2) our…
Plants suck at converting photons from the sun into energy (0.15%) vs pv solar panels (20%) - the one thing going for plants is they self replicate. But if we have a choice of how to use land & how to store / consume energy it should be PV + battery + electric system
Corn crop is effectively a really inefficient solar panel. It's absorbing and converting solar energy to stored energy through photosynthesis. Then we need to do work to harvest it, process it to fuel and eventually burn it for energy, creating waste heat along the way. Remove…
sometimes I wonder if I’m playing a variant of Roy: A Life Well Lived, and if so how does that change the game play
if you play the game on easy mode, you eventually get the point where you want to restart on hardest level, only now you have one life, skip to hard mode and try to play the perfect game with no regrets
the sensation of feeling an answer to a big question fleeting just beyond the edge of awareness, seeing only glimpses makes me really want a slightly bigger head
our universe is pretty rare in configuration space - if strong nuclear force were: * 1% weaker - stars wouldnt make much carbon preventing carbon based life & less heavy element production would delay planet formation & take longer for evolution to occur before stars die * 1%…
if you ever want to feel late stage civilization vibes just try to do a simple home improvement in san francisco involving the city
let it not be late state civ vibes - "my permit for a legion was stuck in the system"
when you’re using so much power at home that pg&e offers you to join a reward program.. 50c a kWh with half the fee on transmission 🫠
this is the way - the real race
China is winning the race to Type 1 Civilization and we're not even aware it's happening. By 2030, China will have the manufacturing capacity to build an entire U.S. worth of generation from solar and storage alone - every single year. The flow of energy is what drives physical…
fusion - not 30 years away, been here all along & fastest growing power source/ will be into the future
If you could design your ideal power generation system - you would put a giant fusion reactor in space, electromagnetically and wirelessly transmit the energy to earth, and have very low cost receivers that you can plaster anywhere to convert the energy to electricity.
