Space Ex­plo­ra­tion & Colonization

[Question] Space coloniza­tion: what can we definitely do and how do we know that?

“Far Co­or­di­na­tion”

The En­ergy Re­quire­ments and Fea­si­bil­ity of Off-World Mining

Grabby Aliens could be Good, could be Bad

[Question] Steer the Sun?

Beyond a bet­ter world

[LINK] Wait­butwhy ar­ti­cle on the his­tory and fu­ture of space ex­plo­ra­tion, SpaceX and more

All Pos­si­ble Views About Hu­man­ity’s Fu­ture Are Wild

To re­duce as­tro­nom­i­cal waste: take your time, then go very fast

A Quick Tax­on­omy of Ar­gu­ments for The­o­ret­i­cal Eng­ineer­ing Capabilities

Musk, Mars and x-risk

[Question] Is it definitely the case that we can colonize Mars if we re­ally wanted to? Is it rea­son­able to be­lieve that this is tech­ni­cally fea­si­ble for a rea­son­ably ad­vanced civ­i­liza­tion?

[Link] Space Sta­sis: What the strange per­sis­tence of rock­ets can teach us about innovation

Neil Arm­strong died be­fore we could defeat death

[Fic­tion] IO.SYS

Quan­tify­ing an­thropic effects on the Fermi paradox

Luna First, But Not To Live There

[Question] If Star­ship works, how much would it cost to cre­ate a sys­tem of rotable space mir­rors that re­duces tem­per­a­tures on earth by 1° C?

De­cel­er­at­ing: laser vs gun vs rocket

So You Want to Colonize The Universe

So You Want To Colonize The Uni­verse Part 3: Dust

So You Want to Colonize the Uni­verse Part 2: Deep Time Engineering

So You Want to Colonize The Uni­verse Part 4: Ve­loc­ity Changes and Energy

So You Want to Colonize The Uni­verse Part 5: The Ac­tual Design

SpaceX will have mas­sive im­pact in the next decade

How would you gov­ern Mars?

[Question] Which parts of the pa­per Eter­nity in Six Hours are iffy?

Claims & As­sump­tions made in Eter­nity in Six Hours

Prepar­ing to land on Jezero Crater, Mars: Notes from NASEM livestream

Will Mar­tian G be enough to make healthy baseline ba­bies?

The Price Of Space Is Friendship

On Falsify­ing the Si­mu­la­tion Hy­poth­e­sis (or Em­brac­ing its Pre­dic­tions)

The Anti-Carter Basilisk

[Book Re­view] “Suffer­ing-fo­cused Ethics” by Mag­nus Vinding

Ge­or­gism in Space

How Do We Pro­tect AI From Hu­mans?

Be Not Afraid

Fore­sight In­sti­tute: 2023 Progress & 2024 Plans for fund­ing benefi­cial tech­nol­ogy development

Pre­serv­ing our her­i­tage: Build­ing a move­ment and a knowl­edge ark for cur­rent and fu­ture generations

Use tardi­grades to spread life in the universe

The (short) case for pre­dict­ing what Aliens value

Astron­omy, space ex­plo­ra­tion and the Great Filter

Link: White House wants your ad­vice on space exploration

Poli­ti­ci­ans stymie hu­man coloniza­tion of space to save make-work jobs

Stan­ford talk: easy step to uni­ver­sal colonisation

So­lar sys­tem colon­i­sa­tion might not be driven by economics

Coloniza­tion mod­els: a pro­gram­ming tu­to­rial (Part 1/​2)

Coloniza­tion mod­els: a tu­to­rial on com­pu­ta­tional Bayesian in­fer­ence (part 2/​2)

[Question] Why is it valuable to know whether space coloniza­tion is fea­si­ble?

Pur­pose­ful­ness on Mars

[Question] Is a near-term, self-sus­tain­ing Mars colony im­pos­si­ble?