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• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  There's some hilarious-if-it-wasnt-exactly-what-this-article-is-warning-against discussion on hubris relating to this article over on hackernews. I particularly enjoyed this quote "The story of Icarus is the story of inadequacies of wax as an adhesive." Don't worry sci-fi authors! We'll get the torment...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  Some really great ideas in the comments here. My concern is that most versions of this make it way too easy to destroy the universe. In fact, so easy that it would certainly have happened before most of the interesting...
• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  The other big one will be rules relating to mortmain. If I can have an immortal AI that is an extension of my will beyond my death, we could end up with the kind of situation C S Lewis describes...
• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  My Core-I7 desktop with 16G RAm and terabytes of storage And if you do much more with all that power than access services run on cloud compute then you're not the normal person. I'm finding that even dumb simple...
• Commented on Crimes against Transhumanity
  The horrors that will be available to those controlling the compute resource will be appalling, however it is likely to be something that gets sorted out within a generation or so - most probably, it'll be the elite that get...
• Commented on Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
  I'm not sure of the calculations here, does beaming with all the losses definitely outweigh space trucking batteries? How about if we assume an order of magnitude improvement in battery technology and extremely cheap space trucking, with rockets shuttling up...
• Commented on Because I am bored ...
  If the probe only signs things it's told to sign by the 'owner', then I don't think this is very different from just trusting certain people/organisations to sign blocks of transactions for you (proof of authority - enterprise ethereum, and...
• Commented on Burn The Programmer!
  It sounds especially mysterious if you mention that many of the sigils in your regex are in fact ancient ways of describing different characters that are entirely invisible....