[idclip]

I see the dyson cloud becoming Elon’s next big project to help maintain this network. Our energy production is too outdated and primitive.

The same to our legislative bodies, human society is having an anally retentive crises when it comes to technology. The system’s chocked and cant function well.

[arethuza]

That would make an interesting answer to the Fermi paradox - nobody is travelling because everyone stays at home to perform PoW calculations in a dyson cloud. Which does rather remind me of Accelerando by Charlie Stross - maybe Economics 2.0 used by the vile offspring is a giant PoW scheme:

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

[dave_sullivan]

There's a paper that talked about this quite a bit and is very interesting: https://www.accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis

Accelerando is great btw

[adflux]

Dyson sphere you mean? We are centuries away from achieving anything like that...

[haarts]

A Dyson cloud is a similar mega structure but not a continuous surface. I think it is more commonly referred to as a Dyson swarm. Isaac Arthur [0] had an episode about it in which he mentioned such a structure to be quite feasible with modern day technology.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

[Slikey]

He means a Dyson swarm and we are not centuries away from achieving this. The economical sense is on a different paper. Having ASIC miners in space connecting to something like Starlink is entirely possible even though not cost effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm

[deeeeplearning]

Go ahead and do the math on how long it would take to launch enough bots to match current energy spend on earth.