Do you have a link to his space elevator proposal? I need more comedy in my life.
So it's not even his proposal, but a proposal by someone else. He clearly doesn't understand why it's not viable with our current technology.
A persistent problem with these loons seems to be that they can't tell the difference between science fiction and reality. They live up their own asses in the world of Fucking Magic where the complexities and limitations of Actual Machines don't apply (because they didn't think of them). If something on Star Trek seems like it could exist, that means it can exist and will exist; we just haven't invented it yet.
I thought the main issue and why this idea is science fiction rather than science at present is we don't have materials compatible with doing it, and while it's possible it will become practical to manufacture such materials in the future, we aren't there yet. You would also still, I think, have to put in as much energy as for a rocket, especially if you were using something like a cable because then you'd have to be lifting all that cable as well.
I think it may eventually happen, although I believe this midwit meant "sapience" and not "sentience," which are two very different things. Even a crayfish is sentient to some extent. Humans (and possibly elephants parrots and cetaceans) are the only sapients.
And just like that you already put in more thought into the idea than Roko himself did. Conservation of energy didn't go anywhere, the extra amount to accelerate a rocket by the required ~7 kms has to come from the runway's engines.
That's kind of why they're only used in SPAAAAAACE. And not for hopping out of gravity wells. Almost every part of this proposal only makes sense if you imagine like every bit of space technology that could possibly exist already exists. Like this would probably work if you had Sinclair monofilament from Ringworld.
the energy isn't the issue its the expensive way we have to deliver it like a the energy of the rocket is less than 14th of the energy in the fuel of an airbus (≈ ( 0.074 ≈ 1/14 ) × maximum fuel energy of an Airbus A330-300 (97, 530 liters of Jet A-1) ( ≈ 3.4×10^12 J ) from wolfram) not an inconceivable amount its just that rockets are really fucking bad at delivering the energy everything else is spot on though.
AI will never develop senriemce more than your dishwasher or conputer will, not in a million years from now. It's a machine and will always stay a machine, no matter how complex and elaborate it becomes. I don't think most people are aware just how ridiculous the idea of AI-consciousness is - AI doesn't have a mind; it can't turn lightrays into color, vibrations in the air into sound nor electrical signals into thoights and emortions...
There's no way humans will ever develop sapience, because all they have is 3 pounds of meat in their skulls and most of that's cholesterol.
You're asking me to believe in thinking meat?
I see what you did there.
