I think that the coder looking up and saying that the Sun burning is distasteful but the Great Transhumanist Future will come in 20 years, along with a later mention of “the Sun is a battery”, together implies that the Sun is getting dismantled in the near future. I guess you can debate in how strong the implication is, maybe they just want to dismantle the Sun in the long term, and currently only using the Sun as a battery in some benign way, but I think that’s not the most natural interpretation.
I think the 20 years somewhat unambiguously refers to timelines until AGI is built.
Separately, “the sun is a battery” I think also doesn’t really imply anything about the sun getting dismantled, if anything it seems to me imply explicitly that the sun is still intact (and probably surrounded by a Dyson swarm or sphere).
I think that the coder looking up and saying that the Sun burning is distasteful but the Great Transhumanist Future will come in 20 years, along with a later mention of “the Sun is a battery”, together implies that the Sun is getting dismantled in the near future. I guess you can debate in how strong the implication is, maybe they just want to dismantle the Sun in the long term, and currently only using the Sun as a battery in some benign way, but I think that’s not the most natural interpretation.
I think the 20 years somewhat unambiguously refers to timelines until AGI is built.
Separately, “the sun is a battery” I think also doesn’t really imply anything about the sun getting dismantled, if anything it seems to me imply explicitly that the sun is still intact (and probably surrounded by a Dyson swarm or sphere).