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I’ve gotten in to this topic a fair bit in the past. There’s a great channel on YouTube from Robert miles (title of channel is his name) that goes deep into this topic. Essentially if we want to survive a general AI then we have to motivate it fundamentally to have the same values as we do. If we treat it like a tool then in all likelihood we will get all of the unintended consequences of getting EXACTLY what we asked of the AI.

As has been described in a few reply’s already, to make a black hole you have to “squeeze” an amount of mass to a size so small the density will be enough to create a black hole. This size is given by a radius called the Schwarzchild radius. The equation is R = 2GM / c^2 where G is the gravitational constant and c is the speed of light. M is the mass in question. c^2 is a huge number compared the the numbers it is dividing meaning you need a LOT!!!! Of mass (M) for R to be a meaningful to a human scale measurement. As a slight aside, Saying something like shrinking the sun to a sphere 5km across is a little meaningless to most of us.. we understand 5km but we absolutely cannot comprehend the sheer size of our own sun. Back to tiny black holes.. the other part you need to understand is that physics has shown that there is an fundamental smallest distance that still makes sense… that distance is called the Planck length and is about 10^-35m or a decimal with 35 0s and a 1 on the end. So you can see that if the mass is relatively small it will not be able To make a black hole because it would need To be squeezed in to a size smaller than the Planck length.

80 - 100 days ago your body was made of entirely different cells to the ones that make your body this instant. Were you a different copy of who you are now? Yes! Was it someone else or you?

Underthinking will do all that too. Don’t ever expect that what ever will be is going to be good for you. You have agency, take as much control as you can manage!!!

I should have said “free” You are spot on though someone will want to control it for their own gain. Whatever that looks like.

Will you do your part?? I’m not being a smart ass, it’s a real question. Years back a read a paper that had some excellent figures in it. It took the worlds energy output, analysed the energy requirements for various nations and then normalised the data to non dimensional units. The way it broke down was that in most of Africa people used about 0.25 of a unit of energy per day to exist, in places like the USA, Australia etc it was more like 4-5 units per day. To sustain current population growth around the world we would need to average it out to about about 1 unit per person on average. This would allow for about 10 billion people to survive at the standard 1 units provides. We hit this population number around 2050. Imagine the adjustment you need to make to go from 5 units a day to 1. Can you do it? I know I couldn’t. Which country should continue to under use so that we can keep 5 units a day? Simple fact is the world needs more energy not less. We have to find a away through that need without killing the planet. At this point I think fission is the best short / mid-term solution.

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We need it badly. The problems with storing spent fuel seem much easier to engineer out than the problems with scaling fusion.

I desperately want fusion of course. A world with free energy would free humanity in so many ways but we aren’t there yet and we have a huge energy crisis to solve.

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Well There’s always deez nuts!!!