Hoping this administration will bisect the FAA into the Federal Space Administration, as was done with the Air Force and Space Force. Based on SpaceX’s regulatory hurdles in 2024, it looks like the U.S. space sector needs a dedicated agency with a mandate to support rapid reuse. For the benefit of Stoke and BO as much as SpaceX. 

 I wonder how much she would enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean 

 It’s the spirit of the old internet adapted to the times 

 This touches on the models if Marginal Utility and the Marginal Rate of Substitution. When it comes to inhabiting a world with AGI and ASI, we also need to think in terms of comparative advantage. A person doesn’t need to be the best at anything in order to contribute. They just need to contribute something to the system. You can be worse at everything, but your humble productivity still adds to the tally of the economy. 

In a world with hyper-efficient machines, there’s a chance that the costs of sustaining a person will be so minuscule that it could still be covered by their own meagre (compared to ASI) output. Especially if humbler personal AI can be relied on to fortify an individual or a household, we might be able to double-down on the autonomy of economically independent citizens rather than provide for them through a central planner.

It’s much more conducive to the flourishing of free will and agency. 

 An architecture to settle another planet. Really something to look at 👌 

 I thought the same thing after watching 30 minutes of Endgame. “What on Earth are we watching?”, I asked my small-eared girlfriend, “and why on Earth are we watching it?”. I do not understand why that movie made such a splash