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uhm, develop FTL ? Break causality and the universe ?

I don't know about faster than light, but as soon as we have real AI, it will simply be information and should be able to travel at about speed of light.

It may be simply information, but if you put it into a radio signal and send it into the universe it won’t do anything on its own. Not unless someone receives it and understands it well enough to execute it. Assuming they’d want to - I guess it’s the interstellar equivalent of downloading and running a program from a spam email.

You the Neptunes Pride guy?

Looks great - curious to know what broweser tech is it built with?

Yes! NP was originally written in 2010 so it's vanilla js on the client. Had a python server for many years, but when I had to move from python 2, I switched to js for the server as well. When the server was python I was using googles app engine database (can't remember what its called right now). These days, just a vanilla postgres and boring old SQL statements.

What are you working on these days?

Built 15 years ago and still running!

Is Neptune's Pride still paying your bills?

err. NP never paid any bills :) Was always just a hobby project. It makes enough to cover the hosting, but not much more than that.

My day job is working in a small games company called BlueManchu. We made Void Bastards, Wild Bastards, and have a new one we are prototyping now.

well there are two options. without FTL traveling to other stars is impossible and the future won't go beyond communicating with aliens.

so i am being optimistic and hope that FTL is possible.

It's probably not possible, but don't worry, you can still reach other galaxies in your lifetime due to time dilation.

While physically possible, that is even less likely than FTL. It takes enormous amounts of fuel to reach relativistic speeds even with things like antimatter engines. Speeds fast enough for other galaxies are not possible unless invent impossible reactionless drive.

I don't know how you can say it's even less likely than FTL since everything we know shows that FTL is impossible. Virtually impossible is much easier than actually impossible.

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