Comment on The most outlandish tech CEO quotes from 2025
borth@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
It’s missing another incredible line by Sam Altman, the one where he thinks that ~“we’ll have a Dyson Sphere in less than 20 years”… You know… That joke paper written by Freeman Dyson… That he surely “read”, since he’s a billionaire, and the paper is only 1 page long.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
tbf there’s a continuous transition between ordinary space station and dyson sphere. and we already have a space station today.
borth@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
There is not. The Dyson Sphere is (now) a sci-fi concept that was never based in reality. This is from the guy who wrote it. It was a joke paper because he thought that SETI was a waste of time, just like that paper he wrote. Look up the paper, it literally won’t take more than 15 minutes to read, it’s like 1 page long and there is NO math or science in it. TLDR: We’d have to disassemble a planet the size of Jupiter to get enough “raw” matter to build one. It says nothing about how that matter would be converted into usable materials.
Then for a billionaire to pretend to be a physicist just because he’s got money, who won’t even bother reading the source papers, shows their sheer stupidity to even utter the phrase “maybe we could build a Dyson Sphere in our lifetime”.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
yeah i mixed it up with an O’Neill cylinder.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 days ago
To be fair its absoloutely something you could build in reality within the realms of current science but nowhere near within current logistics or technology we actually have yet. Plus it would take a couple of thousand years and be more of satelite swarm than a solid shell.