<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><br><div>"<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:owners-text,"owners-text fallback",serif;font-size:20px;background-color:rgb(255,254,247)">But the <b>emerging consensus</b> is that the plan isn’t just overly ambitious; it would require several technological revolutions to overcome glaring engineering challenges.</span>"</div><div><br></div><div>Right, and the emerging popular linear progress thinking consensus is that humanity will never achieve immortality.</div><div><br></div><div>It's too bad we lack a more formal way to build and track "emerging consensus"; without that, we're screwed.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 7:20 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering<br>
from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue<br>
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"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper<br>
written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get<br>
VC funding these days."<br>
By Victor Tangermann  Published Jun 30, 2026<br>
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But the emerging consensus is that the plan isn’t just overly<br>
ambitious; it would require several technological revolutions to<br>
overcome glaring engineering challenges.<br>
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