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AMA: Jason Crawford, The Roots of Progress
I know this is a minor point of yours, but I think straightforward extensions of existing web technology could solve the problem of communication between Earth and Moon or Mars, at least when interactivity with another human on earth is not required. CDNs already cache a large % of media your browser downloads. The number of round-trips needed is an optimization target in modern web engineering, and e.g. HTTP/2 introduced many new improvements for that. Compute also can move closer to the user; one can imagine AWS opening a new region "mars-1" with most or... (read more)
22yI think the Earth–Mars communication problem is definitely solvable, and it
makes sense that the solution would be built on top of existing web standards.
But I think new solutions and new standards/protocols would need to be
developed, and it would be less than straightforward—it will require real
engineering. And no matter what the solution, the overall user experience will
be different.
I enjoyed this post, especially the concept of an error budget which was new to me.
As an implementation detail, these meta-regulations seem to fit into concept of House Rules, a version of which probably exists in most legislative/regulatory bodies. However, AFAIK these are usually set by the body itself, so perhaps the meta-regulation would need to be written into the constitution or charter of the body.