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Roko is of course begging the question, and the premise he is wrong about is that there is a sizable population willing to relocate to a floating iceberg, instead of living in an existing country.

Consider what the proposed citizens have to consent to:

• paying for the R&D required to implement the technical solutions Roko envisions, along with the continued higher maintenance costs
• paying higher wages for the people who are supposed to do all the boring menial jobs in this floating city, on par with existing cities
• paying higher daily cost of living for everything from food to building supplies to luxuries to entertainment that have to be imported
• being at the mercy of "legacy governments", many of whom possess navies capable of everything from interdicting the food supply, to literally undermining the city from below, to actual assaults and airstrikes
• paying higher prices for insurance of their lives and dwellings and possessions because of all the above

Amusingly the solution for a libertarian city is a megastructure project probably only a rich nation is prepared to pay for.

This is the unsolved issue for future fusion plants. They will probably be used to generate electric power via steam, just like fission. It’s a proven, cheap technology. But that water has to be cooled somehow- and it has to exist in a pure enough form in the first place.

Now that's the kind of stuff that makes puppies sad...

(New wave SF is a bit of a blind spot for me. Never really read any Delany, even though his autobio is one the best I've read)

Thanks for posting this. I live in Sweden and many of these actors are new to me.

FWIW we have our own word for people who try to hijack the judicial system with spurious lawsuits etc: rättshaverist ("justice wrecker"). I don't believe the Roman/German law system really meshes well with the SovCit movement in common law systems, but I'm sure people are trying to apply it.

Gotta love how the SRD thread has more comments and updoots than the original.

Man there was a long thread about different forms of self-identifying as Muslim that was finally purged by mods after 2 days.

The site does tend to fall over if there are more than 300 comments on a post…

Doesn't seem to have set HN on fire either:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40928248

Dat header pic <chef’s kiss>

Asymptotically approaching the Singularity.

It's not a conventional data center. It's a bunch of containers containing mining hardware with giant fans blowing through them. This is obvious from the header image of the article.

NGL the AI generated image make DG look cool AF