[ExI] A use for canonizer/consensus

[Brent Allsop]

Hi Keith,

Yea, obviously no need to convince me.  Having a place where more people 
can be found, and so more can join and brainstorm about, and work 
towards such in a prioritized way certainly wouldn't hurt.

Is there such a place, anywhere, where people that want to work on such 
exciting new projects can find each other, and work together, in a 
leaderless / networked way?

I think we should definitely have an entry for such a project on the 
prioritized list of things for humanity to do we've started here:

http://canonizer.com/topic.asp/120

and, like the consciousness survey project, we could start some 
dedicated survey topics where people could sign up, and start 
contributing ideas for how to best move forward with such.  I'd 
certainly delegate my support to you, Keith, as I consider you much more 
of an expert on this topic, than me.  In other words, any camp you'd 
join, dictating what we should do, on such survey topics, my vote, and 
votes of anyone delegating to me, would follow you.

Brent Allsop




On 4/23/2012 8:24 AM, Keith Henson wrote:
> Given an understanding of the physics of lasers for beamed energy and
> hydrogen for reaction mass, there seems to be a very strong feedback
> between the existence of power satellites and low cost transportation
> to build them.
>
> In fact, the physics and feedback indicates that future energy costs
> will be very low.  This seems to be inevitable if you build power
> satellites at all and take the beamed energy route to power lifting
> the parts.  The energy cost looks to be so low that solar energy from
> space will displace fossil fuels by underpricing them.  (Half or
> less.)
>
> Further, with only a ten percent feedback, that is dedicating ten
> percent of new power sats to propulsion, the construction rate triples
> every year, offering the possibility of ending the fossil fuel era in
> a decade.
>
> The minimum investment to reach the self sustaining scale is not
> precisely known, but seems likely to exceed $10 B and to be less than
> $100 B.
>
> I can go into the technical and math details if anyone cares to see them.
>
> Keith
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