The Kardashev Scale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

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Quilibrium

Still only ~1% of the population gets it (most are just unaware of aaronsw and how important this issue is and its effect on _everything_), but in time I think he will be looked back on as perhaps the biggest hero of the 2000's.

You cannot overstate the importance of liberating information.

It's absolutely essential to get humans to the next era.

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liberated information is the penultimate good.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-webb-probe-surprisingly-smooth-disk-around-vega/
@askgina.eth what are the tell-tale signs of a megastructure?

Your new onchain assistant | Gina Knows Best | askgina.ai

https://x.com/palladiummag/status/1847303965446488276

Space

EthFinance

The potential for a nascent bot-to-bot economy to drastically boost the future block space demand is underrated IMHO. The future lies in networks and swarms of autonomous agents, not in them existing in isolation of each other.

By 2030, estimates are of 60M industrial robots, 1B AI agents, 50M self-driving cars, several millions of delivery drones, hundreds of thousands of decentralized power plants, unmanned fab shops and 3D printers, on-demand creative and professional services powered by next-gen LLMs, etc. Many, if not most, of which will need to collaborate, and thus transact, among themselves.

To do that, they will need their identity on chain (just like we do with our own FIDs on Optimism), smart contracts with easy API access not designed for humans, maybe a dedicated L2 optimized for sub-dollar payments, and a trusted settlement L1 with Lindy effect and commensurate security budget (Ethereum's is $85B and growing)

e/acc

Batteries are a nice example of things that become cheaper *and* better over time.

I suspect the yellow part in the bar chart and the growth it's been having is still flying under most people's radar.

Charts are from here:
https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-too-many-numbers/

This is our community 👍  Humans building cool shit to help out other humans. Don't lose sight of that just because it's happening somewhere else. A rising tide lifts all boats. We all benefit from this type of acceleration.

Energy too cheap to meter

https://climate.benjames.io/solar-off-grid/

https://warpcast.com/kalelabs.eth/0x005cd145

Glue and coprocessor architectures:

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/09/02/gluecp.html

Our goal is to find ways in which all of humanity can share in the benefits that have come from the rapid expansion of human knowledge, and yet prevent the material aspects of that expansion from fouling the worldwide nest in which we live. Necessarily, many of the concerns of this book are materialistic, but more than material survival is at stake. The most soaring achievements of mankind in the arts, music and literature could never have occurred without a certain amount of leisure and wealth; we should not be ashamed to search for ways in which all of humankind can enjoy that wealth.

- Gerard O'Neill, "The High Frontier"

Our goal is to find ways in which all of humanity can share in the benefits that have come from the rapid expansion of human knowledge, and yet prevent the material aspects of that expansion from fouling the worldwide nest in which we live. Necessarily, many of the concerns of this book are materialistic, but more than material survival is at stake. The most soaring achievements of mankind in the arts, music and literature could never have occurred without a certain amount of leisure and wealth; we should not be ashamed to search for ways in which all of humankind can enjoy that wealth.

- Gerard O'Neill, "The High Frontier"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1aSA_1kl-Y

I'd like to see us get to a Type II Civilization by the 2100s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

https://web.archive.org/web/20180731213226/http://buzzaldrin.com/files/pdf/1985.10.28.ALDRIN_SAIC_PAPER.Cyclic_Trajectory_Concepts_0.pdf
https://kiss.caltech.edu/final_reports/Asteroid_final_report.pdf