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Thanks for your comment! The goal should be to colonize our solar system before advancing to another. Learning to develop an atmosphere would be man's greatest achievement because then we would not be dependent on our planet but we could colonize any planet with the right composition/distance from its star etc.

Space travel is Man's next journey and I'm here for it, if that means downloading my consciousness onto a self-replicating robot, count me in haha although I'm only studying to be a pilot; I don't pretend to be a computer engineer or neurologist.

Surgery Works Well Without The FDA

Kassi Dick3mo1

Great discussion and examples. I often struggle to explain why bad business fails without regulators but is propped up by them far too often. This was a helpful article on the topic and your ideas are valuable. Keep writing!

Philosophy in Space

Kassi Dick1y1

I understand what you're saying. It seems like encryption is the answer to that problem, but I don't pretend to understand how that works, or how to implement it. I do understand that regular software updates can mitigate security threats.

I agree, Musk drives people to the edge of what's possible. In a business as cut-throat as his, one must race other companies for the rights to very few jobs. SpaceX is essentially breaking ground just ahead of their competition. I have no doubt that the reason they maintain their slim advantage is because they are workin... (read more)

1Christian Kleineidam1ySoftware updates give you protection against known attacks but not against zero-day attacks. Jeff Bezos divorced largely because zero day attacks exist. He Saudi's hacked his phone by having access to zero days they brought and blackmailed him and he didn't do what they asked so they released data about his affair. The US famously had the data about all their personal with security clearances [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cybersecurity-usa-idUSKBN0OL1V320150606] hacked by the Chinese. Boeing seems to have a quite bureaucratic culture. Given that it's a defense contractor, I would expect that it has processes where it pays more attention to cyber security. Blue Horizon is likely also not good at cyber security because not being good at it is the default for companies.

Philosophy in Space

Kassi Dick1y1

Hello Arturo, I loved your article, and I agree, there is a lot more to space colonization than rockets. I was researching NASA's two training stations (by the way, if anyone has a Masters in STEM, you can apply to live on one of the practice stations) https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a37349989/nasa-mars-colony-simulation/ and I think the main solutions to the problem of an isolated community on Mars would be:

1. 3d printing/CNC cutting with multiple materials
2. hydroponic systems using GMO plants and fish
3. automated construction systems wi... (read more)

1Arturo Macias1yIf fussion propulsion is possible, probably fussion would be available for energy production on Earth, and that would imply "energy too cheap to measure". The kind of economy under that regime would extremely different from ours. Under that conditions, for example, materials would be extremely easy to obtain from Earth (we could profitably mine minerals with far lower ore grades than we can now). I think that if we ever reach the "energy too cheap to measure" economic regime, for example, extiction risk would be far lower than now. But we all know that Brazil is the country of the future, and allways will be, and that nuclear fussion will allways be 30 years in the future either... I hope I am wrong in both :-)

Philosophy in Space

Kassi Dick1y2

Thanks J,

I will incorporate those into the medium article, https://medium.com/@kassandra-dick/philosophy-in-space-57809bac9e75, though I think I've covered the second one fairly with the discussion of what kinds of minds are really capable of being space pioneers. I like the way you say it, "they will not be an escape hatch for the wealthy at all"

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Philosophy in Space

Kassi Dick1y1

Thanks Christian, what makes you think their cyber-security is subpar?

1Christian Kleineidam1yGenerally, the cyber-security of most systems is subpar. The military goes to extraordinary lengths to make its systems secure. Elon Musk's philosophy of building things includes pushing engineers to work as fast as possible to make progress. That's helpful for getting to orbit as fast as possible but it's not helpful for having a system that lacks zero-day vulnerabilities.

Introductions thread (please introduce yourself)

Kassi Dick1y2

Hello, I'm Kassandra Dick, a freelance writer from Canada. Progress is the only viable option for humanity and I'm all about surviving and thriving. I love the work and writings of Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler, as well as Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand, Alex Epstein and David Eagleman. You can find my work and my poetry here: https://kassandra-dick.medium.com/