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Holy Grail of Rocketry

d_silin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:50:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/content/starship/holy-grail-of-rocketry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49735859

Points: 3

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New comment by d_silin in "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"

d_silin — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:47:55 +0000

Why don't they use their AI solutions for software development?

New comment by d_silin in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

d_silin — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:50:26 +0000

This is the question I don't have a satisfactory answer for. But neither does Sam and Dario.

New comment by d_silin in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

d_silin — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:39:44 +0000

...absolutely nothing will change short-term. Long-term, you still have to pay all the bills, but you won't be able to find a job (all taken by AIs).

New comment by d_silin in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

d_silin — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:29:48 +0000

The actual solution link https://t.co/tz1shoCZZo

New comment by d_silin in "How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?"

d_silin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:45:40 +0000

Current AIs are closer to bottle rockets than to the Starship on the intelligence scale. Some property damage already happened, but you can't master the art of rocketry without trial and error.

New comment by d_silin in "How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?"

d_silin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:28:49 +0000

Market bubble will pop, not the first time and not the last, most likely after OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs.

New comment by d_silin in "How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?"

d_silin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:56:42 +0000

To add a bit more constructive feedback, think of the "AI cornucopia" and "Superintelligence destroys humanity" as opposite ends of all possible outcomes distribution (low probability event).

The most likely one is the "business as usual, but with AI" - some things will get better, some things will get worse, but overall state of affairs will remain mostly the same.

New comment by d_silin in "How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?"

d_silin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:53:00 +0000

A debate between grossly incompetent against grossly immoral, honestly.

You should ignore anything LessWrong or OpenAI says and do your own research.

New comment by d_silin in "Why HPSC Is a Big Deal for Space Exploration"

d_silin — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:18:47 +0000

Intel is also interested in this market.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/9234...

New comment by d_silin in "Felony Bench"

d_silin — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:10:01 +0000

But humans can be. I am sure Sam Altman wants to avoid serving multiple decades in American prison for felonies his AI did.

New comment by d_silin in "AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows"

d_silin — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:09:44 +0000

While I am not 100% opposed to this idea, it should come with liability to the provider AND its error rate be better than best human doctors.

New comment by d_silin in "Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)"

d_silin — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:36:53 +0000

I suspect that you can definitely use planned economy tools down to a certain scale and then let the markets sort the rest.

At some level, Indian and Chinese economies have their development centrally planned, not just financially regulated, like in the West.

New comment by d_silin in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

d_silin — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:34:09 +0000

Neat. Note that battery life is reasonably good (2 years) even with Bluetooth sync feature.

New comment by d_silin in "Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead"

d_silin — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:38:28 +0000

I followed the story and he absolutely did, in multiple instances.

New comment by d_silin in "The AI Apocalypse Is Here"

d_silin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:16:05 +0000

This is deeply unsatisfying answer.

New comment by d_silin in "The AI Apocalypse Is Here"

d_silin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:06:54 +0000

The question to Sam and Dario would be: if the thing you are building is going do displace humanity, then why are you building it?

New comment by d_silin in "Humans Will Never Leave the Solar System"

d_silin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:39:55 +0000

Low quality bait.

If humans would be able to settle Mars and asteroid belt, there is no limit to how far you can expand onwards.

New comment by d_silin in "Universities would prefer no AI"

d_silin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:06:30 +0000

That's a cost, though. And in today's world, companies rather burn millions on AI than train their own labour.

New comment by d_silin in "Universities would prefer no AI"

d_silin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:44:50 +0000

I sense a certain contradiction? If majority of students are just not very good at self-studying methods, then they don't scale well.

Mediocre student that sits through lectures, does the homework and submits assignment on due dates will get a good level of mastery in the subject. The very same student would be totally lost relying only on self-studying - he would not even know what he doesn't know.