ricdavis

Commented on Rinse, Drain, Spin ... more Laundry!
Even if they are restricted to visible light, you could use something like the Keck telescope to wage interstellar war. The only restriction would be the axis of the target planets rotation. Maybe Dyson spheres are poplur in the Laundryverse?...
Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
If your simulation is teleported, is punishing it still equivalent to punishing you?...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)