[ExI] ai comments on m-brains

[spike at rainier66.com]

Our local AI expert BillK and I have had a lively interesting exchange
regarding my notions on M-Brains (or Dyson swarms (depending on who or
what.))  BillK asked ChatGPT, which came back with some interesting
comments.  I have cheerfully invited that lad to forward the list the entire
discussion.  Since BillK initiated that offlist discussion, I am treating it
as his intellectual property, but I do hope he forwards all of it, for a
reason: it demonstrates the strength and weaknesses of AI when dealing in
novel concepts.  

 

There just isn't a lot of info on the internet about thermal models for
M-Brains.  Robert perished before he could publish much of anything on it.
I had green bound notebooks full of hand calcs I did while he was here.
However. I didn't write papers the topic and now it is likely too late for
that.  Family circumstances necessitated my cleaning out a room in my house
to make room for an elderly relative.  Among the casualties of that cleanout
were a stack of my green books, for I realized the detailed analysis on
M-Brains will now be the responsibility of the next generation of futurist
engineers.

 

Given all that, the existing space engineers will get nowhere on M-Brain
analysis until they recognize this is an entirely new thing, where their
traditional software and mathematical tools do not necessarily apply.  The
software and math models we space cases have always used are for one
spacecraft, one very hot spot and one warm spot.  The moon is a second warm
spot but seldom matters in thermal analysis.  There are no scholarly papers
online that I know of where any serious space case has done a deep analysis
of what happens when some ET figures out how to make an M-Brain and what
engineering challenges go with it.  Consequently. ChatGPT doesn't know how
to do it either.

 

Fun parting shot: we are now at a level of technology where we could start
making an M-Brain.  We can come up with plausible designs now.  We are not
waiting for any new tech.

 

spike  

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