But we’re not.

I think it’s a good idea, but I’ve never seen someone run the numbers.

I’ve seen estimates that it’s frequently cheaper to demolish the building and build a new one.

It’s the plumbing, mainly. Not designed to carry that much throughput.

Ah gotcha I somehow missed that part

Yeah I was surprised the state propagandists left the corpos that much market share.

Also remember the periodic waves of “Hillary is bae! Mother of dragons! Yas Queen!” and “I love Mayor Pete” and “KHive ftw!” and even a smattering of Mitt Romney fanboi-ism on /r/politics, as their campaigns rose and fell.

Literally no, I was there and I don’t recall that at all.

If Roko’s Basilisk is ever created, the resulting Ai would look at humanity and say “wtf you people are all so incredibly stupid” and then yeet itself into the sun

That’s…what?

Apathetic voters are too stupid to have developed an understanding of object permanence yet.

No.

Point 1: if it did exist, it wouldn’t be this novel thing, it already happens with humans

Point 2: …but it won’t exist.

Helios is another one of the Sun’s names. It’s the more poetic version. But Sol is a proper name, exclusive to our sun.

Yeah but that’s not a Roko’s Basilisk scenario. That’s the singularity.

Sure, but if you’re taking that tack it could feel anything. We could build an AI for love and forgiveness and it decides it’s more fun to be a psychopath. The scenario has to be constrained to a sane, logical AI.

Sure, but that particular AI? The “eternal torment” AI? Why the fuck would we make that. Just don’t make it.

Maybe, but I don’t trust generations to consistently maintain it. I’d rather a self-correcting natural process.

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Fair point, but doesn’t change the overall calculus.

If such an AI is ever invented, it will probably be used by humans to torture other humans in this manner.

In this hypothetical future we’ve learned how to live with an equilibrium. Also we’ve fired all the terminally pessimistic doomers into the Sun. Not for any scientific reason, just because it was the right thing to do.

I don’t like the idea of a tenuous bunch of satellites keeping an atmosphere in play. Relying on technology to keep atmosphere on a planet sounds super risky. Like if we wanted to live in such a place, we’d live on a space station. Planets are supposed to be safe and solid.

The current theory is if we grab a few asteroids and hit mars just right, we can speed up its rotation enough to restart the dynamo. Sounds way cheaper than a permanent planetwide shield.