i like how he started on the premise that iceberg is cheap real estate, then okay let’s cover underside with thermal insulation, and also reinforce top with freshwater ice, that freshwater will be have to be transported there and then frozen in place, and also let’s cover top with expanded glass and concrete, and let’s put wood pulp and basalt fiber rebar in ice, and

all while never counting beans, and any and all numbers are entirely pulled out of his ass

even on lesswrong the guy going through his numbers for how concrete behaves

Roko even said the ‘I think agricultural waste products like straw can be substituted for sawdust so maybe you are paid to take it off their hands.[emph mine]’ line. which is always a good sign when somebody is trying to the economically feasible math.

yeah let’s just divert entire global straw output so that Roko can build his libertarian crypto paradise

also straw is not a waste, wtf is he thinking

Maybe he was thinking of straw that has already been through the horse?

Ahh, horseshit. It is a key libertarian building block.

New form of pykrete made out of manure and ice. Eventually the Icebertarians will get use to the smell (an AI company is also working on a CRISPR fix), and with the problems of excessive manure and thus nitrate in places like the Netherlands, you are paid to take it off their hands! Win win!

A Turdburg on a turdberg. It might not be a shining city on a hill, but it would have high albedo.