If they were getting closer they'd be blue dots

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A new study by SFI and MIT researchers shows that as systems grow, from cells to governments, the pace of adding new functions steadily slows. Though they vary in how much they invest in novelty, once new functions exist, subsequent growth follows a universal pattern known as sublinear growth.

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Sakana AI’s office looks like this.

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By the way! Gargantua, the supermassive rotating black hole in "Interstellar," was rendered with relativistically accurate ray tracing in a Kerr spacetime. Kip Thorne and collaborators at Caltech developed tools with folks at Double Negative Visual Effects. arxiv.org/abs/1502.03808

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You could probably arrange something similar with, like, two asteroids or something, instead of sacrificing your friend. But the ravenous maw of the dark lord of spacetime demands tribute. (24/n)

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