by andyjohnson0
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- Reading the "endgame" section, and I feel that some serious thought ahould be given to what the replicator colony will do after it has finished dismantling Mercury.
- > The shell is not merely a strength structure; it is a fixed logistics skeleton. Its purpose is to provide: dense distributed launch/capture corridors large-scale routing geometry attachment points for high-temperature radiator fields buffering volume for material and coolant traffic alignment and vibration-control structure for the mature transport system...
Roger that
by rafterydj
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- This reads like an LLM plagiarizing this video from Kurzgesagt:
https://youtu.be/pP44EPBMb8A?si=fSwWPOCnCsC1QEny
- Author here: just noting that this is a first-draft and still evolving.
Also, it is LLM output and I have updated the readme to show that. But I didn't just ask an LLM to one-shot this. It was a process of iteratively throwing ideas at it, doing calculations, and getting other LLMs to critique. Probably ~100-200 calls to top of the line consumer reasoning models went into this so far.
by andrewflnr
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- > The mirror fleet does not increase the total power available to the project; Mercury still intercepts only a fixed amount of sunlight.
I think I must be missing something important, because this doesn't make sense to me. If you put your mirrors in orbits where they don't block the dayside surface (sun-synchronous?), then they increase the total surface area receiving solar radiation.
by nacozarina
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- this seems to ignore the fact that Mercury is way too deep in Sol’s gravity well to be useful, all it’s looking at is Mercury mass.
- Bootstrapping an electronics supply chain on another planet seems harder than building the dyson swarm itself.
by throwaway270925
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- From the Readme:
> Note: the written report is currently "vibe coded" physical and engineering analysis using various LLM-based AIs, with the author acting as a guide and sanity check and putting pieces together. The intention moving forward is to move calculations to code and simply report the results.
by thot_experiment
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- If someone can't be bothered to write it I can't be bothered to read it.
- Stuff like this is why I read HN
by LoganDark
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- I am such a sucker for technical Aspie writing. I've seen it mistaken for LLM output many times but this is not that.
- 1-6 years can't be realistic can it? does someone have a better estimate of how long this would take?
- What about orbital mechanics? Wouldn't that create issues with/for objects in the solar system?
by mrlonglong
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- "Shellworlds". With just two shells. As described in his books by Iain M. Banks.
by trebligdivad
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- Does Mercury not have any useful radioactive material to provide more power?
- I encourage Dyson sphere enthusiasts to listen to the interesting argument that Dyson spheres they may be deliberately designed as an "sounds neat but is impossible" filter joke, ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzEX1TPBFM .
- Please someone, send grey goo to Mercury.
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