Bearing in mind the laser-focused determination of the current US administration to quash any and all renewable sources of energy.

It is good for speculating, money laundering, extortion, and maybe other criminal activities.

Crucially, too far away in space and/or time. Because of this we might never be able to detect any alien advanced civilizations before becoming extinct.

Precious little, and never the really impressive bits: faster-than-light travel and transporters still remain firmly in the sci-fi realm.

That does not change the fact that there isn't a shred of objective evidence that such has been the case. Even more: taking into account the vastness of space and time, the speed-of-light limitation, and the comparatively short life span of individual biological species, the most likely scenario is one in which humans will go extinct without ever finding out whether any other advanced civilizations exist, or have ever existed, out there.

Those items that he's avoiding can be very obnoxious, but also very useful. Use them smartly. Is he also going to avoid modern medicine, because it can be obnoxious, not to mention outrageously expensive?

It is not. The days in which very expensive, proprietary hardware could run rings around off-the-shelf hardware are over, and as of 2026 it still remains to be seen whether QCs will ever amount to anything beyond lab curiosities.

That's the kind of thing that is bound to happen with a commodity that is good for speculation, criminal purposes, and precious little else.

I am not sure about that: Trump might pardon him.

The physics has been very well understood for decades. It's the engineering that requires much more than just 'suggesting'.

They indeed have much patching to do.

You have to be able to do much better than 'suggest' if you are going to be have any credibility: the controlled, net energy-yielding nuclear fusion field is littered with the corpses of entities who 'suggested' that much.

I understand why they are doing it. Trying to spin it as a good thing for users amounts to adding insult to injury.

If I understand the summary correctly, both groups start from a small set of requirements plus a number of assumptions that are not observed in nature, the whole thing leading to the near inevitability of something that looks like string theory. Hardly the endorsement one would wish for a physical theory that, after half a century, has yet to be seen to have much to do with the observable universe.

What is remarkable is that said trophy wife looks like a cheap hooker - I have seen streetwalkers that looked more classy than her. If you have the wherewithal to purchase a trophy wife at least show a modicum of class.