<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Gemini 2.5 Pro<span class="gmail_default" style="">: </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">You've hit the nail on the head. </span></i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I found that one problem with publicly available AI's<span class="gmail_default" style=""> is their excessive sycophancy. AIs have told me that I've said something really smart many times, but just between you and me, and I know you'll find this hard to believe… but ... I'm really not that smart. </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px" id="m_7416571285904657485m_8509751398074559130gmail-model-response-message-contentr_5a02510629620391" dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span> </span><i style=""><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Gemini 2.5 Pro<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">: </span></span> M-Brain isn't just a power collector. It's a computer. That "waste heat" is the energy being used for computation. The design is a cascade:</font></i></p><ul style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><li style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><p style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><i style=""><font size="4"><b style="font-family:"Google Sans Text",sans-serif;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px">Shell 1 (Innermost):</b> Absorbs sunlight, runs computers at a very high temperature (e.g., 1000K), and radiates its "waste" heat.</font></i></p></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I'm sure Mr. Jupiter Brain could figure out how to make a computer that operates at 1000 K, but it will always be true that the colder something is the easier it will be to make a computation, so I think Gemini 2.5 Pro has made a poor engineering decision.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> If you want to improve efficiency then it would be better to put all that engineering effort into improving the efficiency of solar cells that operate at something close to room temperature, not 1000K.</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Only after a Dyson Swarm with roughly the radius of the Earth<span class="gmail_default" style="">'s</span> orbit has been completed and 25% of the sun's entire energy output being converted into electricity has proven to be insufficient for your needs might <span class="gmail_default" style="">it </span>be wise to consider building a second shell m<span class="gmail_default" style="">ore</span> distan<span class="gmail_default" style="">t</span> from the sun composed of certain types of microcrystalline powders embedded in a polymer <span class="gmail_default" style="">that </span>can turn several low-energy infrared photons into a single high-energy visible photon that a conventional solar cell can turn into electricity. But I don't think a computer that operates at 1000 K <span class="gmail_default" style="">w</span>ill ever make much<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> engineering sense.</b></font><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><h3 style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.15;margin-top:0px"><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif">As for the<span class="gmail_default" style=""> gravitational or e</span>lectrostatic <span class="gmail_default" style="">i</span>nstability<span class="gmail_default" style=""> of the Dyson Swarm, that problem could be solved if each member of the swarm was about a thousand meters on a side and was about a meter from the next member. To make sure each member was at a safe distance from its brother element small low thrust ion engines could be included. Or maybe another form of active stabilization could be used if each member had a small magnetic field that could be manipulated appropriately and was generated by a superconductor on its cold shaded side. </span></font></h3><div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Another more radical idea is to dismantle the sun so that the hydrogen in it can be used more efficiently. Even after the sun has turned into a white dwarf it will still have a lot of unused<span class="gmail_default"> </span>hydrogen <span class="gmail_default">in</span> it because only the hydrogen in the core is hot enough to undergo fusion, and there's not a lot of convection (mixing) between the core, which is relatively small, and the rest of the sun.</b></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b>John K Clark</b></span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="color:rgb(0,29,53);font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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