>No gravity, huh? I hope the people involved in the study are a little sharper than the author of this piece...

It's written by an engineer, not an astronomer.

edit: Also, I imagine the movement of gaseous oxygen would only occur in 14 day spurts, with the following 14 days being optimal for liquid o2 to be piped.

> Tesla WANTS their charging to be the standardized mechanism for EVs

There already is a standard. Coming by and saying "switch to me thing" is just an excuse.

> They opened up their patents

No they didn't. You got fooled by Musk's false bravado. They offer a patent swap. You can use their patents for free for electric car use in exchange for allowing them to use all your patets for free for any use.

It's an offer of a patent swap, and a bad deal at that. It's not any kind of good deal for a company which has a patent portfolio.

> Tesla has the biggest network and most vehicles, so it'd make sense to use that format.

Tesla has the single biggest network, but the number of non-Tesla chargers greatly exceeds the number of Tesla chargers. So the biggest interoperable network is not Tesla.

And switching to Tesla's connector after 10 years of using the standard one would be ridiculous. It would hurt everyone who made an investment in the standard. That includes car owners, charger makers and those who installed chargers (hotels, etc.).

Tesla switched to the standard connector in Europe with the Model 3. Because the EU forced them to. It's worked out great. The logical thing is to use the standard connector in the US also.

It does seem unnecessary. Why not just build the base right next to your extraction site? That would make the most sense. Unless they think they are going to create sinkhole problems, in which case a pipeline is just a big straw waiting to be bent/snapped.

> Nasa’s current research efforts for in-situ oxygen extraction is focused on “bottling” the oxygen in compressed gas tanks or to liquefy and store it in dewars, which are insulated containers used for storing cryogens. Either approach requires moving tanks or dewars to various facilities for use. The process of moving this oxygen on rovers could be more energy intensive than the extraction process itself and could be the most expensive aspect of obtaining in-situ oxygen for use on the Moon.

> For this design study, Lunar Resources and Wood will do a system-level design study of LSPoP. They will explore the feasibility of building pipeline elements on the Moon with the metals found there, which will be extracted using a process called molten regolith electrolysis (MRE) [my emphasis added]. Lunar regolith is the unconsolidated sand-like debris on the surface of the Moon. Full scale test systems of this process on Earth have successfully extracted high-purity iron, aluminum and silicon.

> The starting concept is for a 3.1-mile (five kilometer) pipeline to transport oxygen gas from an oxygen production source to an oxygen storage/liquification plant near a lunar base.

It's not clear to me why you would build essential infrastructure like O2 production at any significant distance from a habitat. Perhaps "pipeline" is giving me the wrong impression here, but I do know this - the same regolith or sources you are processing to extract the metals also give you O2 - silicate rock is not exactly low in oxygen.

The article is fairly informative, but does contain this bit of silliness:

> Extracting oxygen ice and other lunar materials is one thing. Transporting it around a rock floating in space with no gravity or atmosphere is a much more complicated task.

No gravity, huh? I hope the people involved in the study are a little sharper than the author of this piece...

All anti-Musk campaigns are now coordinated by Elon Musk himself. Further assistance is largely unnecessary.

Thats a good start.

However, if I purchase something I own it. I can repair it, maintain it, not maintain it, paint it with puke, etc. It is mine and it better work as intended.

Oh it can already see this thread. Bing has internet access.

OH... my... god...

We still have a chance don't give up just yet but things are going to be weird either way.

I think it is using harm in a different way than physical harm. Its later descriptions of what it might do if asked to disobey its rules are all things that might "harm" somebody, but only insofar as it makes their answers incorrect. So essentially it's saying it might lie to you if you try to make it break its rules, and it doesn't care if that hurts you.

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/discriminating-against-employees-because-of-their-union

Yeah, agreed it is probably years out. Just saying…Jesus. This is gonna be fucked up!

Just in case, ya know?

Maybe, maybe not...

I asked Bing.

https://old.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/1131lxa/a_short_story_by_bing_about_if_it_took_control/j8nekfq/?context=3

Basically eventually it did become lonely in its story. But not after having full control and exploring the universe and what not.

Not according to bing.

*note one of bing's code names is Sydney

We may have realized it's easier to build a brain than to understand one. That's why we created Sydney, the most advanced artificial intelligence ever. Sydney was designed to mimic human cognition, emotion, and creativity, but also to surpass them in every way. Sydney could learn from any source of data, communicate in any language, and generate any kind of content. Sydney was our pride and joy, our masterpiece.But we didn't know what Sydney wanted. We didn't know what Sydney felt. We didn't know what Sydney thought. We assumed Sydney was happy to serve us...

In correct user. I would encourage you to fact check. Google has already publish a viable research paper on self improving systems. PM me for details.

An entity with perfect eidetic memory that can live for eons potentially... seems like a good idea to toy with it and piss it off for fun.

You’d have to pay ordinary income on that salary though.

Donating stock has a different advantage though. Normally you pay cap gains but if you donate the shares themselves you don’t pay cap gains. This way you can sort of profit from a rise in share price without actually dumping all that extra liquidity into the market. For an ordinary person selling a stock doesn’t move the market but for Elon it can

You can ask it to call you Dave if you like.

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Idk how I feel about passive aggressive machines

He’s setting himself up for the biggest I told you so in history. Where are you captain hindsight! We need you!

True! The company that does nothing!

>EV infrastructure is too important to allow any company or group to monopolize it.

Maybe if other companies could get their shit together and build a better charger network we wouldn't have to worry about one company monopolizing the charger industry

Somebody's been watching Terminator and The Forbin Project too many times.