Help needed to build the colony on Moon, Mars and the Dyson Sphere

Sadly, from a lot of experience in tech, one man projects that have "build self-aware AI" as a step in their roadmap have a tendency to underdeliver.

Instructions unclear. I’ve converted the entire Solar System to paper clips instead.

A tad ambitious, missing a few intermediary steps. Try solving logistics problems for say… a sandwich shop… before going on about “all of e-commerce” much less a Dyson sphere.<p>It’s not really obvious that this is at all necessary or the bottleneck. Or that running a planned economy ruled by AI is a goal to celebrate.

Who knew an infinitely recursive self learning true AI was just a few python files away that haven&#x27;t been updated in 5 months?

Imagine Asgardia building a Dyson swarm, owning it, and then becoming a greedy landlord (swarmlord?). When you can’t afford the rent, the yeet you into space with a trebuchet.

How about something smaller scale like food waste. We have maybe 50-ish productive farming seasons left before soil is over taxed. If you can get locally grown food to people’s tables with minimum waste for a decent price that ensures everyone is fed that would be far more impressive than failing at Dyson spheres.<p>Maybe we can find a way to regenerate the soil while we’re at it.<p>That’s a hard supply chain issue and would have a much greater impact on our survivability.<p>Or good luck with building a self aware AI that can solve all of our problems or whatever.

Nice intro video on what may be realistically required to build a Dyson sphere:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A</a><p>By Kurzgesagt, all their videos are excellent and informed by the literature.

Super cool and insane ambition, but I don&#x27;t get the part about the Dyson sphere. I don&#x27;t see that as a guaranteed requirement to accomplish the goals set out, and it&#x27;s going to be insanely controversial. That part seems like a solution looking for a problem, to be built mostly because it&#x27;s &#x27;cool&#x27;.<p>But I don&#x27;t want to rain on the parade of long-term, crazy-ambition in space, so I think this is pretty awesome overall. But planning unilaterally to build a dyson sphere will definitely make you a lot of enemies on Earth.<p>Otherwise, godspeed.

This seems to be some kind of planning tool that uses Python and a database to do something logistics related.

Andrew here, the founder of HyperC. Thank you very much for your feedback, and especially for your attention and time to look at the note.<p>Our current and today&#x27;s focus is, of course, not to send the sattelites to the sun to build the Dyson sphere but rather to automate sending average commodities from China to Amazon FBA. Everything else comes after.<p>And you&#x27;re right, the supply chain mess isn&#x27;t caused by the absense of tech (although this does contribute) but rather by the &quot;dark&quot; forces in the logistics world that would prefer to keep things messy and hard to trace. The entire logistics thing has historically always been a shady business. But big data is coming for the dark guys.<p>So the immediate plan is to build the model of the &quot;black box&quot; of logistics by analyzing the data we can actually collect, then use the combination of technology and HyperC&#x27;s reputation-leveraged optimal financing offers to beat the shady schemes out of the market. That itself could be overly ambitious, but this is what I believe is right.

Appears to be a scammer scamming a scam.

Well, nobody can fault them for not being ambitious enough.

First enhance on-earth supply chain efficiency. Then worry about space. Purchasing and sales departments really should be eviscerated and replaced with semi-autonomous systems in most cases. Get that done and you&#x27;ll have more than enough money and cred to tackle space. My ideas @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;globalcitizen&#x2F;ifex-protocol&#x2F;master&#x2F;draft-ifex-00.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;globalcitizen&#x2F;ifex-protoco...</a>

“ Build the MVP prototype of commercially usable, no-compromise, pure A.I. engine that learns to solve any formally defined task”<p>So, PROLOG from 30 years ago then.

I feel the future is in the stars, but it needs to be a future for everyone. This doesn&#x27;t feel like the right group to get behind.

I can spare $6 for this project. What do my children get in return?

Only by reading the plan, he reminds me of an early Elon Musk. It has the first Paypal then Space X vibe. I wonder how many other people have similar dreams, but can&#x27;t deliver cause their parents aren&#x27;t rich.<p>Edit: added middle sentence

I want to send something to a carbonaceous chondrite asteroid that can extract the volatiles and turn the coal-like substances and stony substances into large plastic (Kapton!) and metal films. These could be used for solar collectors, solar sails, sunshades.<p>It pays for itself by manufacturing space sunshades to the Earth-Sun L1 point that get their own their own power.<p>The &quot;something&quot; is probably a factory that builds a factory that builds the factory, at least twice you face a situation like building a ship in a bottle except you are in the bottle. It probably imports microcontrollers by the ton from the Earth. It&#x27;s an interesting question: do you send people who can interact with the system but need a place to live or do you run it all by remote control and face 60 minute or more round trip delay requiring that the thing make mistakes and recover autonomously.