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Quality Contributions Report for March 2026

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@self_made_human:

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@self_made_human:

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@Markass:

@Shakes:

Contributions for the week of March 23, 2026

@Tetridict:

@ControlsFreak:

@aiislove:

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I’m sort of mixed on the @self_made_human post on space exploration. While im sure that if everything turns out to work out as he assumes (costs continue to fall, colonies can eventually be self sustaining, and that eventually there will be value to extract from the colonies) it’s still probably at least several centuries of spending about 500 million a cosmonaut to build these colonies. The problem, to be blunt is even if it all works there are lots of other ways to use trillions of dollars besides trying to build those colonies. You can give the entire population of the USA universal basic income. You could build lots of AI data centers. You could give universal healthcare. Send every kid in the Americas to college. You can take care of most of the superfund sites. Transition to nuclear energy. You could probably do all of these at once, and they’d be likely to deliver value within a couple of generations. Space may not pay off for centuries if at all. The cheat code used is that of course the peasant isn’t being taxed to pay for the eventually valuable new world land. He just gets the benefits later (much later, obviously). Space isn’t free, though. We pay for the rockets, we will pay to build the colonies, and we will pay to supply them.

Oh, I got three QC's! Thank you, I appreciate whoever enjoyed my posts.

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