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FAILSAFE BUTTON NEEDED. “Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world, strict containment requires simulations of such a program, something theoretically (and practically) impossible.” Disturbing at the least, https://lnkd.in/ddCku3H View in LinkedIn

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“STRANGE MATTER is thought to exist in the interior of neutron stars. These stars are what remain after massive stellar cores have exhausted all their fuel and collapse, birthing a bountiful supernova in the process. Electrons and protons merge into neutrons, reaching a maximum density at a radius of about 6 miles (10 km).” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

UPDATED PHRASE. “Wheeler even coined the phrase "it from bit" to serve as a modern alternative to the Cartesian epigram "Cogito ergo sum." https://lnkd.in/dRTpKuH View in LinkedIn

NEUTRON STAR SPEW. “This is strange matter. And it could exist here on Earth already, deposited in our water or tucked away in Arctic meteorites. This strange matter is like a pathogen — infecting and converting normal matter into something altogether different. “A lump of strange matter has an insatiable appetite for neutrons and grows fat by eating them.” Anything coming into contact with the border of strange matter would be consumed by it, altered at a subatomic level until the normal matter itself became strange.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

FROM NEUTRON STAR TO BLACK HOLE. “The universe is now home to a new dark, sucking sphere. Less dense material that isn’t scraped into the black hole will orbit around in a fast-moving torus extending hundreds of miles. It is during one of these events that scientists hypothesize a dangerous, unpredictable substance might be ejected into the universe.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

NEUTRON STAR MERGERS. “Its contents form a spiral shape surrounding the merger while the larger star continues to get heavier. It grows, becoming more massive, soaking in the superdense material of the erupted star until it can no longer hold itself up against gravity. The star wavers, but finally succumbs into a black hole.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

SHITSTORM. “In one of the most violent events in the universe, two neutron stars are gravitationally latched onto one another. They perform a cosmic dance where immense forces draw them together and deform their once neat, round bodies into gnarled and oblong shapes. It takes only a few milliseconds — less than the blink of an eye — for their crusts to shatter open and the less massive star to burst in a gory mess of material.” https://lnkd.in/dj52j3n View in LinkedIn

THE POND. “By looking for ripples in the fabric of space-time, scientists could soon detect "strange stars" — objects made of stuff radically different from the particles that make up ordinary matter.” https://lnkd.in/dtC2gzg View in LinkedIn

STRANGE QUARK DWARFS, (no really). “The researchers noted that strange planets might also orbit what appear to be white dwarfs — the remnants of normal stars that have burned all the hydrogen fuel in their cores — but are actually strange quark dwarfs. They found five exoplanets around white dwarfs orbiting suspiciously close to these stellar remnants, suggesting that they might also be strange planets.” https://lnkd.in/dhCeUnA View in LinkedIn