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Sentient Developments
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Sentient Developments is a personal blog at sentientdevelopments.com about science and philosophy. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How to build a dyson sphere in five easy steps”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links it as the source for a figure on how long a galactic empire would take to colonize the Milky Way, from a 2012 post on the spread speed of such an empire. HN readers use it for Dyson sphere and galactic expansion math.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
futurism, transhumanism, bioethics, ethics, science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, personhood.
Most-linked posts?
- How to build a dyson sphere in five easy steps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-18
What Hacker News says?
> If they can build Dyson spheres, wouldn't they already be all over the place? The number I’ve seen quoted is 50M years to colonize the galaxy: http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2012/01/new-mathematical... > they calculated that any galactic empire would have spread outwards from its home planet at about 0.25% of the speed of light. The result is that after 50m years it would extend over 130,000 light years, with…
Comment linking /2012/01/new-mathematical-study-reveals-that-our.html
on “Upper limits on partial Dyson spheres in the Milky Way”Submitted There's more to Singularity studies than Kurzweil as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build a dyson sphere in five easy steps as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted "This is your body speaking. You're about to have a heart attack." as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build a Dyson Sphere as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Putting an end to dolphin exploitation at aquatic theme parks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Branded prosthetics of future. as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
