Zach Weinersmith

We knew it went wrong.

Uh, LLMs have done both the physics and the biology, and most importantly, Zach got Claude to fix his printer.

Uh-

Whoa.

We're screwed.

I'm Chris Slowe, and as ever, I'm between two Weiners.

We have Zach, uh, Zach Weinersmith, and Marty Weiner.

Great to see you guys today.

But Bezos's idea is to have a whole bunch of enormous space stations, each one with millions of people on them the size of Manhattan, uh, or more, and then he wants to have, like, hundreds of thousands of them so we can have a trillion people living in space stations in the solar system.

And this is, you know, um, as I think Kelly and Zach Weinersmith say in their excellent book that covers a lot of the same stuff I'm talking about today called A City on Mars, and I should really bring them on this show at some point, and I think we will.

They say, you know, such space stations are, are not the worst option, but they're still really bad.

Yeah, you could have them roughly the same distance, uh, from the Sun as Earth, and you could have them be giant cylinders that spin around their long axis, and so then you'd have something like gravity on the inside.

Welcome to the lucky 13th episode of Last Humans in the Loop.

I'm chief nerd for the day, Marty Weiner, and I'm here with fellow nerds Chris Slowe and Zach Weinersmith.

We're gonna start today with looking at some of the comments we got on the last video.

Uh, we got one, uh, MarkOlson8569, uh, I'll paraphrase it a little bit.

I'm a particle physicist, and I write books about aliens and the nature of science.

And I'm Kelly Weinersmith.

I study parasites and space, and I'm interested in medical history this week.

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[laughs] Not that we're talking about that today, but that's what's on my mind.

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[laughs] Well, speaking of interests in the Weinersmith household, I have a question for you, Kelly.

Oh, go for it.