Ok I’ll try:

Starship becomes “fully and rapidly reusable”, needing little to no refurbishment between launches. Then the lower bound of launch costs is just the expendables (methane, oxygen, nitrogen) which could cost as little as $1M per launch.

SpaceX uses custom silicon (produced by “TeraFab”) that can run at higher temperatures then the radiative cooling requirements goes down significantly and a 100 kW satellite might weight around 1 ton.

Starship should be able to launch at least 100T payload. Assuming they could fit that many, that puts the launch cost per 100 kW at $10,000, which is a rounding error compared to the cost of the chips alone, even if it’s off by a factor of 10.

Obviously a lot needs to go right for this to happen, but it’s not impossible.

This is one of those things as a pedantic technologist I've had to accept, like DJs referring to USB thumb drives they store their music on as "USBs".

Casual use is one thing, but this is documentation so I hold it to a higher standard…

The vast majority of Starlink satellites do have laser interconnect now. They started launching them in 2021 or 2022 I believe.

I feel like we need a distributed system/protocol that allows people to have pseudonyms not linked to their real identity, but with a shared reputation/trust score, so if you’re a bad actor using a pseudonym your real identity and all your other sock puppets are penalized too.

I know very little about this but sense that some combination of buzzwords like homomorphic encryption, zk-snarks, and yes, blockchains could be useful.

Of course this would present problems if any of your identities were ever compromised and your reputation destroyed.

Driving everything by reputation-weighted identities just creates echo-chambers you then cannot escape.

The most useful time for the blowhard spout off at me is at the moment it makes me most uncomfortable. Because the blowhard probably has a valid point at some level, he’s just being an ass about it.

When we meet that moment with discipline, are able to identify and respond to the kernels of truth and ignore the chaff belted out, focus on the merits of the argument irrespective of the source of an adversarial viewpoint, we thrive.

I like the blowhards just the way they are, unruly and insolent.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Is it really that amazing? It’s a pretty simple idea, and seemed pretty buggy when I tried it out.

Does any credible approach to prompt injection even exist?

Anyone who figures out a reliable solution would probably never have to work again.

Not that I'm aware of, but I probably won't be interested in these kinds of assistants until there are.

Don’t forget “Moltbot” between “Clawdbot” and “OpenClaw”!

I think that named lasted about 24 hours, but it was long enough to spawn MoltBook.

Is he? My impression of Clawdbot was it was a good idea but not particularly technically impressive or even well-written. I had all kinds of issues setting it up.

It’s a wonderful idea. Vibe coded, but not his first rodeo.

Exited on his first company on 110M, then some years of the whole huasca and forest thing, then started creating projects.

Clawdbot (later openclaw) was his 44th try.