Brave Little Hitachi Wand

But imagine how powerful computers would be if they used every number 🤯

I broadly agree… But I’m doing it using a pile of tech I only vaguely comprehend.

Interesting point about the only side that is emphasizing unmanned weapons and avoiding unnecessary casualties. Are you noticing how biased you sound right now?

TOS can’t protect a company from legal requirements, and I’m not clear on what the legal requirements are in terms of safeguarding and content moderation but my initial hunch is that they’re very lackluster. I hope that the suit will bring attention to this issue with legislative bodies, but I suspect that’s the most that can be realistically hoped for.

I’m trying to give Russia some credit here, they’ve always been better at spygames than westerners. Seems like the only reason not to give them their flowers on that is to downplay the risk that they’ll succeed. I’m all for elections and letting Zelensky go, but it has to be done perfectly or a lot of people’s lives get completely ruined.

“Conceived in a meth pipe” brightened my day, thank you 😆

Let’s all just pretend hybrid warfare isn’t a thing suddenly, sure. Great point

It would be cheaper than any given war, and end energy scarcity indefinitely. It’s just a matter of solving several engineering problems (fusion mainly) and mustering the political will.

Wait. The research said “preventing 40,000 people from becoming homeless would save taxpayers £370 million”… But he’s not proposing preventing homelessness, he’s proposing making homelessness more tolerable. So we’ll be out over £400 million and we won’t get the benefit of preventing 40k people becoming homeless? Am I reading that correctly?

Edit: To clarify, I’m all for making homelessness more tolerable, it’s the sloppy thinking I’m concerned about.

Compared to fusion energy and autonomous mining robots, that’s a pretty trivial engineering problem.

I like the idea of building into the Moon’s volcanic tubes. They’re probably very cold, and well protected.

Any time I imagine work getting done in space I’m thinking robots. Maybe someday human space travel won’t massively suck, but there’s really not much point when robotic labour is so much more achievable. This is all speculative anyway, recall that job one would be to solve fusion energy.

Also, how do you make sure none of the candidates are secretly collaborating with Russia?

By hand, certainly not. But by robot… Especially if the energy can be generated and used onsite, e.g. lunar data centres. Pretty easy to keep things cool on the Moon, after all.

There is something on the Moon: He³. If China can develop fusion energy, they’ll want regolith at scale.

Probably the most on the nose example of that German idiom, “the devil shits on the biggest pile”.

Agreed

I’m not saying it’s good news, it’s just more mixed than you’d expect. Just criticising the headline.

That’s a lot of nuance hidden by an upsetting headline.

I’ll consider my flabbers so gasted at this insane twist; eat your heart out, M. Night Shyamalan.

Listen, I wish you well but I have to disengage from this interaction. Good luck out there.