It’s a fascinating journey of a) shrinking constructions b) coming up with new constructions. There’s probably a Moore’s law of telescopic power. I think microscopes have evolved more radically between Leeuwenhoek and modern atomic-force microscopes, but I stan telescopes
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‘The purpose of humanity is to build bigger telescopes’ isn’t a bad philosophical axiom. It’s certainly more meaningful than ‘build bigger computers’ or ‘create more material comfort’ or ‘relieve more suffering’ imo. Ground species purpose in boundary conditions of consciousness.
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Damn. TIL NRO spy satellites are probably more powerful than Hubble in raw optical terms though designed for spying on your phone rather than distant galaxieshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1292596559184420864?s=21 …
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The universe has to be read-only before it can be acted upon. For a newborn, there is only read-only, then the realm of agency expands together with learning
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I never enjoyed optics