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Densely populated isn't a problem for everyone (I like dense), and the pollution isn't as bad as it used to be, right?

The authoritarian part is a major major issue of course, but my layperson perceptions of the material conditions of China is that it's not nearly as bad as it used to be, and is getting better

And another upside, good public transit

I don't even understand what people buy so often. I can easily go a month without buying a new physical item that's not like, food

Oh I fully get you, and it is a problem, but at least enough of the people I know consider discord's behaviour problematic already that it would be possible to get things rolling with migrating smaller communities and friends

The big communities though? Yeah no. There's a reason Facebook is still used, it's used a lot for organizing things

If they were on the position to produce it, they would have. I highly doubt they chose to not make high end cards "just because", especially because that's where the profit margins would be the highest

I think that you're simply expecting a bit too much, and a little too far ahead in terms of your requirements. 4K RT 120fps is something that's just barely starting to get achievable at the absolute highest end, and even then not without compromises

Don't worry, once it goes public it will get worse and easier to replace

What do you want the geneticists to do? They are educated in their domain, you can't just plop them into another field

The applications of their work is likely plenty in medicine and bioengineering

We build the thing on the moon itself

Sure, it's mostly barren rock, but it still got useful stuff there, like for example water (hydrogen and oxygen, rocket fuel), carbon and oxygen in the rocks (methane, also rocket fuel), metals (building rockets), and various other elements

From what I've read we know, it's relatively poor in nitrogen and carbon, so the moon is not as useful as it could have been, but water is really all you need. If you can produce fuel and rocket parts on the moon, it's about as useful as it can be for space exploration and development

Since, remember, the alternative is getting those resources either from the surface of the earth (expensive in terms of fuel, and requires powerful rockets, aka bigger ships, also expensive), or from some place further out like the asteroid belt (time consuming). Gravity on the moon is much much smaller, so even if we don't have a space elevator, it would be far cheaper to use the moon as a starting point, or at least as a refueling point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources?wprov=sfla1

They are also useful for maintaining orbits (like the ISS), and could potentially be useful in long duration missions such as interplanetary transfers. If it takes months to get to Mars anyway, low thrust won't matter if it means you get more total delta-v, and able to reduce the travel duration anyway, but of course this depends on the specifics

I appreciate it, but my comment was just as much of a throwaway comment, intentionally so

It's possible AI data centers will just be outsourced to other countries. You don't really need the data center to exist locally in the US

You're seeing the US fall into fascism in real time, and this is what you're concerned about?

...now the question is do we want to implement a command for that