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The cost of O’Neil habitation

fun

scifi

economics

To win (?) a twitter argument, we calculated the energetic cost of O’Neil habitat per person. Oddly, it is just affordable by modern standards. About 0.6 million dollars per person. Let it be known that the SF housing crisis is cheaper to solve by building O’Neil cylinders.

Whalefall

AI

economics

Thoughts on the recent ‘DeepSeek shock’ of the stock market. The market is being even less efficient than usual, and much of the ‘professional’ commentators are idiots or bullshitters. I wrote this post to prevent my Gell-Mann amnesia.