Epistemic status: Flippant, but do you have a better plan?Step 1: Land a mining research robot in a lunar polar crater Step 2: Start 2 robotic lunar strip minesHumanity should have 2 of everything, for competition & redundancyStep 3: Launch unprocessed lunar resources into lunar orbitUltimately these will be lifted via 2 lunar space elevatorsStep 4: Manufacture fuel & solar panels in 2 lunar-orbit robotic factories Step 5: Invent digital people Multiple ways to do thisStep 6: Invent harmonious multispecies egalitarian democracyStep 7: Crowd lunar orbit with computers containing digital peopleStep 8: Crowd solar orbit with digital peopleStep 9: Send robotic factory expeditions to 2 exoplanetsThese will require ongoing cargo resupply shipments for a whileStep 10: Let digital people live on exoplanet outpostsStep 11: For each resource being shipped to a exoplanet, substitute a local sourceStep 12: End war Step 13: End racismStep 14: Solve physicsStep 15: Invent all technologiesStep 16: Solve entropy Each of these steps should only take a finite number of decades, thus we will end poverty & X-risk in finite time :)Discuss Read More
The Plan
Epistemic status: Flippant, but do you have a better plan?Step 1: Land a mining research robot in a lunar polar crater Step 2: Start 2 robotic lunar strip minesHumanity should have 2 of everything, for competition & redundancyStep 3: Launch unprocessed lunar resources into lunar orbitUltimately these will be lifted via 2 lunar space elevatorsStep 4: Manufacture fuel & solar panels in 2 lunar-orbit robotic factories Step 5: Invent digital people Multiple ways to do thisStep 6: Invent harmonious multispecies egalitarian democracyStep 7: Crowd lunar orbit with computers containing digital peopleStep 8: Crowd solar orbit with digital peopleStep 9: Send robotic factory expeditions to 2 exoplanetsThese will require ongoing cargo resupply shipments for a whileStep 10: Let digital people live on exoplanet outpostsStep 11: For each resource being shipped to a exoplanet, substitute a local sourceStep 12: End war Step 13: End racismStep 14: Solve physicsStep 15: Invent all technologiesStep 16: Solve entropy Each of these steps should only take a finite number of decades, thus we will end poverty & X-risk in finite time :)Discuss Read More
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