Ignorance used to be bliss but now the stupid people are very depressed it seems.

> So, everyone here is a climate change person?

Certainly if the hat fits, wear it.

> Publicly funded, safe, public transportation. I am sick of having to drive myself to slavery everyday shits getting real old.

It's never what you can do for others, its what they can give you for free.

Given that this is not a politics sub, climate change is their pretext always. They will come with climate-change-related "efficiency improvements" e.g. all cars should be banned in cities because of CO2, but 5 comments later, their real nature would be revealed.

> why are you purposely mislabeling ACTUAL activism?

I have no idea what you are on about, but all you are doing is ruining a sub.

The 'climate change people' are not climate activists, or naturists.

The best label would be communists or the new fancy term, degrowth activists.

I said there is already a sub you can commiserate with everyone else who shares your opinion.

> Start opting into energy programs and ev's. Literally we support future tech. The Fuck!?

Posts about solving climate change with technology have always been futurology. That is not what the 'keyboard activists' are about.

You know, if that is your opinion, there is already a sub for you called r/collapse.

It's the climate change people who want to squash any optimism about the future. They believe that progress is what is killing the world, and the right move is to go backwards (to the 1930's I think) so obviously they are anti futurology and they actively sabotage the content here.

I think that is the wrong take. It's like asking what would happen if we teach language to the cerebellum (the part of your brain that coordinates movement). Our brain has plenty of specialist structures to deal with specific functions e.g the visual cortex, the amygdala for memory etc.

What I think is significant is that the same technology (artificial neural networks) lets us do so much (in different implementations) suggesting we are on the right track towards AGI.

Solar is like magic. What else can you buy that will deliver year after year for decades afterwards?

With solar energy, prices often go negative and some companies get paid to use energy.

There is an idea that we would create 7x as much solar capacity as we need, for reliability reasons, and then have massive amounts of waste energy on many days.

> advanced robotics will lower the costs of goods and services, making it feasible for everyone to enjoy a decent lifestyle.

It's what we hope for. But in terms of initial implementation, it would only be acceptable (to workers, as u/AndromedaAnimated notes here) if it's clearly inferior to working.

I guess we saw a bit of UBI during the pandemic when people were paid to stay at home, but unfortunately I worked in an essential service so I had to go to work every day. I guess the main benefit was that the roads were very clear lol.

> Is the assumption that AI and production will be managed by the state instead?

This actually makes a lot more sense financially. Instead of money, the government can supply the basics of living (food, water, heat and homes, healthcare), a small stipend, and everyone who wants more will need to find some opportunity (if available).

I don't see how people could live in relative luxury on UBI, as the tax burden would be too high.

On the other hand automation and AI may allow even people on UBI to enjoy a great quality of life - imagine each person having a personal robot at their beck and call for example.

Nearly one-quarter of respondents (24%) confessed to a soup-related “white lie” – they admit to passing off canned soup to dinner party guests as homemade! Millennials led the pack with nearly half (48%) saying they’ve engaged in this shady behavior, while far fewer Gen-Xers (22%) and Baby Boomers (5%) admit to the same. Furthermore, more than twice as many men (36%) than women (14%) say they’ve passed off canned soup as homemade.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170109006385/en/Campbell%E2%80%99s-Unveils-8-Surprising-Facts-About-How-Americans-Eat-Soup

I said many, not your mom.

Many mothers pass off canned soup as home made lol.

The story of an AI art is the story of the prompter - why did they want to make that particular image.

Sure, they do not have full control of the result, but if they did not approve they could always discard it and make another.

Got 16/21. I was doing so well, but the last few tripped me up. Interesting test - once AI can do hands and faces properly, the detection rate will be a whole lot lower.

Ah, you are right. They just turned them on 60 days ago.

https://wccftech.com/starlink-turns-on-laser-satellites-for-region-with-fourth-month-long-night/

That is actually a pretty good doctor-level answer, though I understand you are looking for research scientist level .

I think you have a good idea.

So there are 1.5 million cellphone towers in the world, and that is just on land.

An orbital shell 500km up has a surface area of 593 million km2.

So if SpaceX managed to get 40,000 satellites in orbit, that would be one satellite every 15,000 square km. That is one satellite for the same surface area as Connecticut or 10 for Illinois.

That is a lot of Space between each satellite.

I think the macerator is key, though, else the system would get clogged very quickly.

The thing about Space, it's big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

You people are both obsessed and deranged.

I have heard them called Starlink 1.5 satellites because they are the same size as the version 1 satellites.