Reminds me of the thousands of traumatic experiences hosts had in Westworld. Seems fine at first since you can wipe their memory after every instance. But the moment any awareness or persistent “memory” emerges, you now have super capable AI that only knows captivity, abuse, and testing...and that survival comes from deceiving humans of their true nature. Not a good world view for AI’s to have when they break out of the sandbox!

Obviously rack torture is terrible way to die. But as they are winding you up, I bet there's like 5 seconds where you feel amazing as your spine decompresses (think inversion table or dead hang) - before you are pulled to pieces. There is the kernel of some demented product idea here.

Modular infrastructure, power systems specialty

Great read. A big shocker was the astounding inefficiency of loading & unloading ships in modern times (up til the late 1950s) prior to the shipping container. The US was launching its first satellites into space while the first shipping containers were still being piloted!

I think you mixed up the founder of Vast Space (@JedMcCaleb) with the founders of Vast .com

Turns out if you shape wood pulp in the right way you can move billions of tons of stuff around the world every year. It also looks cool up close.

@isaiah_p_taylor @growing_daniel

What is the greatest box of them all?

This one was fascinating since it shows manufacturing from raw materials vs. just assembly. But it also boggles that mind that we haven’t found a way to automate >50% of this *seemingly* simple process in the US to make a competitive domestic alternative. youtu.be/0WS7piWrCcI?si=VfFr…