Wesxdz
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Comment · 3 years ago
Personality engineering a team of NPCs as an audience for reading and encouraging me to write my fiction, helping to build an IDE for writing, deploying website CI/CD pipelines writing Dockerfiles, APIs, etc.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sine qua non ad astra
Comment · 3 years ago
I think a synthetic womb/cloning would counter the fertility decline among more advanced civilization
Comment · 3 years ago
also, seastead near san francisco
Comment · 3 years ago
relative robotics will do it
https://news.mit.edu/2019/robots-large-structures-little-pie...
Comment · 4 years ago
I am starting a bcorp to develop a visual metaprogramming interface for generating ecs code if any Unity engineers laid off are interested in being a potential cofounder you can message me on Discord Wesxdz#1518 :)
edit: link if curious (http://paphos.one)
Comment · 4 years ago
Sounds like a soft vulnerable world hypothesis. I think it's training, collaboration, motivation, and funding of engineers that really matters though. I think what's happening in Ukraine shows that as long as brain drain happens it doesn't matter if knowledge is open because it cannot be used effectively.
Comment · 4 years ago
maybe you can recreate them? otherwise https://acf.org/ny/how-you-can-help/ get them in a couple years
Comment · 4 years ago
Darling 58 in your polyculture orchard folks,
maybe the US can catch up to Chinese chestnut production by the 23rd century.
Comment · 4 years ago
I spent 6 months helping to prototype and build the Seed Eco Home at Open Source Ecology ('a modular incremental 1000sqft home that two people can build in a week for $50,000') to help solve housing. https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Eco-Home
Unfortunately, the apprenticeship program was underfunded due to the lack of participation caused by COVID, and maybe more broadly, despite what people say, they are not actually interested in collaborating to reduce human suffering/advance humanity by solving problems like housing when there are personal sacrifices/opportunity costs involved. Look at something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_the_Great_Plai... and it's pretty clear that the problem with housing is mainly social inequality rather than any underlying technical bottleneck...
Comment · 4 years ago
Energy descent hasn't even started yet lol
https://youtu.be/uqwWdranB5A
Comment · 5 years ago
Really like the high quality design of the paper! €250 for a kit + shipping/assembly time does seem like a heavy price that would take a long time to pay for itself if not used in a centralized commercial facility. I like to imagine in the future we'll all have circular economy infrastructure built directly into open source hardware appliances in our living spaces, no need to 'take out the trash'
Comment · 5 years ago
I'd love to have an open source CNC machine to design joinery with http://ma-la.com/tsugite.html
Ideally a whole house and most of the furniture...
If anyone has any ideas on how to accelerate build times of open hardware, that's something I'm trying to solve. Creating high quality instructionals is a huge amount of work and I think instructionals should be automatically generated by computer vision and have interactable elements, ideally AR, but even just highlighting wiring diagrams on hovering would be hugely helpful. Even if things are well documented, replication is still insanely pyrrhic without economy of scale or universal fabrication. It's time consuming because it's hard to replicate knowledge/tool environments quickly.