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Very temporary. If it's going to be very has to be close to the Earth or no one will see it. But if it's close to the Earth it moves so fast there's no point, orbital speed for that altitude is something like 7.8 km per second.

The only way to make this work is to have a truly vast mirror and have it out at geostationary orbit, then angle the mirror as needed to turn on or off the sun but then you're going to be covering a significant area of the planet.

To demonstrate how utterly insane this idea is, this is the sort of thing a civilization would do if it decided it wanted to terraform Mars. Doing this wouldn't be the efforts of a single corporation it would have to be a global effort, we don't currently have the capability of putting something that massive in orbit, we don't have a way to reliably control the mirror, we can't even manufacture a mirrored surface that large, and there have been zero studies on the environmental effects of doing this. It would honestly probably be easier to build a space elevator.

Oh and even if we did do all of this, despite it being impossible, it would only work for a couple of years and then the mirror would get pushed out of orbit by light pressure. The only way to counter that is extremely complicated mirror geometries, and even more mirrors, making the total surface area in the hundreds or even thousands of kilometer range.

Well unless the mirror is 20km across, they won't notice because the whole idea is insane.

This is like the Romans thinking they are going to build aircraft, we are no way we are near the level of technology required to do this. This is like stage 2 civilization level stuff.

Read the article

It's because no one ever reads the article they just read the headline and make up their own story.

In this guy's head Elon Musk personally did this.

Even SG-1 aliens speak English.

Yeah and then they had counselor troi pretend to be a Russian.

I mean I don't like the guy either but let's stick to reality shall we?

Literally the second paragraph in the article

Still, the ambassador had nothing on senior enlisted crew members of the littoral combat ship USS Manchester, who didn't like the Navy's restriction of onboard Internet access. In 2023, they decided that the best way to deal with the problem was to secretly bolt a Starlink terminal to the "O-5 level weatherdeck" of a US warship.

So this is one thing he is not responsible for.

My ISP gave me an access point called CSP218891F Which I'm rather worried about.

It's an exponential increase as well and humans are very bad at judging exponential increases they look at something like this and they see no promise in it because they can't see that four or five iterations down the line (and in the world of AI that could very easily be 3 months) it will be hundreds of times better.

Why do you think it needs an existing game to train the model on? They used Doom precisely because it already exists.

The entire point to the research paper was to see if humans could tell the difference between the generated content and the real game, that way they have a measurable metric of how viable this technology is even if only in theory, that means that they have to make something that's based off a real game.

Obviously the technology isn't commercially viable yet. But the fact that it looks even remotely like Doom shows that there is promise to the technology.

It's a proof of concept demonstration not a final product. You might as well say the Wright brothers didn't have anything other than their party trick.

So many practical applications for being able to do this beyond just video games in fact video games are probably the least useful application for this technology.

So you think a project should be killed immediately upon inception because it's not immediately perfect? That is a really really weird attitude.