Dwarkesh Patel: belief

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…It just keeps changing. Not just your idea, our idea, everybody's idea has changed a lot in my lifetime and may continue to change. In some sense, it's because you have the lever arm, the long lever arm of asking about the very, very distant future that makes even small uncertainties pan out to absolutely ginormous distances in the distant future. I think earlier you said, "I wouldn't be that crazy." But also, "It's not as easy as a Dyson sphere. " What are we talking about here? How much energy would it take to... The energy requirements are probably pretty small, much more than we can currently make in our particle colliders, but much smaller just in terms of MC squared than the energy in your body. For example, the energy is not going to be the hard bit. The hard bit is going to be concentrating it together in a really small little bubble that's shaped exactly right in order that it doesn't form a black hole, expands in just the way that you want it to expand, and lands in the vacuum that you're aiming for. So it's more going to be a control issue than just a pure energy issue.…

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