I don’t think there’s some inherent “dangerous” level of hedonism. If it was impossible to overdose on heroine, no one would have a problem with it. The human brain can only process so many positive chemicals before it reaches a plateau. We’d have to augment the brain itself to both process more of those chemicals and make it possible for us to perceive those increased chemical loads. It might be a useless endeavor, since peaking and returning to baseline is how human brains are wired, and if we keep raising the baseline and peak capacity, we’re just staying the same, relatively speaking. But will it do harm? Nah.

And remember, different cultures see different things as “degenerate.” There isn’t even consensus among the human species on what is and isn’t socially appropriate. And social rules and tastes shift within cultures overtime. Many would say that maximizing the ability for individual expression should be the goal of humanity. As long as you’re not hurting others, let your freak flag fly.

Saying “advanced aliens could do this” is basically just a science “gotcha” headline to get people to publicize their article about how we could eventually do this.

if you wrote a paper that said that humans could do this in the future it would be just as accurate but probably wouldn’t show up in a social feed.

Science fiction is fun!

Who are we to determine the next course of evolution.

[removed]

Interesting. … Black holes are a bevy of information. Makes sense.

The issue there is, the chinese government hasn't exactly been transparent with a lot of things that affected the entire world, not just their people, so this could potentially go horribly wrong, if their AI doesn't respect the needed restraints on A.I.

Using the term “degeneracy” unironically. Neoludditism is getting a hell of a boost from these guys.

If people aren’t causing interpersonal, societal, or economic issues, and they can afford to do it, what ground do you have to bar them from it?

University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao and Associate Professor Yao Zheng from the School of Chemical Engineering led an international team that successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen.

Professor Qiao said, “We have split natural seawater into oxygen and hydrogen with nearly 100 per cent efficiency, to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis, using a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyser.”

The team published their research in the journal Nature Energy.

A typical non-precious catalyst is cobalt oxide with chromium oxide on its surface.

Associate Professor Zheng explained, “We used seawater as a feedstock without the need for any pre-treatment processes like reverse osmosis desolation, purification, or alkalization. The performance of a commercial electrolyser with our catalysts running in seawater is close to the performance of platinum/iridium catalysts running in a feedstock of highly purified deionized water.

Professor Zheng added, “Current electrolysers are operated with highly purified water electrolyte. Increased demand for hydrogen to partially or totally replace energy generated by fossil fuels will significantly increase scarcity of increasingly limited freshwater resources.”

[removed]

Customer profiles already exist. The analysis that can be done with the information is getting better over time definitely

A hypothetical fire eating refrigerator might sing in a Kvarkopillian language when it's drank AF at Guelperaptul's pub.

HyPothEticaLly speaking ;/

sometimes I think physicists are just science fiction writing wannabes.

[removed]

Why bother with aliens? How about we use black holes for this purpose? Let’s be the advanced civilization that makes it happen.

Bonus points for not getting our solar system crushed into a singularity.

I don’t think either of them imply aliens definitely exist. I think both are basically saying “If aliens exist, they could use black holes as quantum computers”.

One sounds sciency and the other sounds more standard English.

Which is actually a lot more people than you think, all over the world. Elderly care in particular is insanely expensive.. and automating some of this work is probably one of the best applications of robotics. It would be a game changer technology.

Also maybe recruiters

Can’t even prove aliens exist but we’re theorizing about their computing processes?!! Goddamn! This belongs in /r/jokes

Glass tube. In Texas. Sounds pleasant.

That would never make a difference to me.

Seems reminiscent of the "threads of fate" from "Wanted" (the movie where they curve bullets).

I am hesitant, however, to call the notion outright ridiculous...

My personal take on the theoretical utility of black holes? Blast 'em - find a means of destroying or destabilizing them - there's probably gold in them there black holes...

Autonomous highway driving is a very different animal than autonomous driving in a city. The highway driving is relatively easy when compared to city driving. There's a bunch of other driving situations that have very different levels of complexity.

I just think about how many accidents that I have avoided in the past. There have been times when I just knew that someone at the stop sign was going to blow thru it, I couldn't tell you how I knew but I did. I have seen other instances where I just knew someone was going to do something total boneheaded, again, there were no obvious clues but my brain picked up on them. As humans we process a ton of data in real time, when there isn't enough data, our brains fill in the blanks. We have intuition, I have no clue how you would make any machine have intuition. I just don't know how you could ever program for those kinds of things.

In the end, I don't think that we will ever have a fully autonomous driving system that works in all situations. Yeah, I know, humans do make a lot of mistakes and maybe autonomous cars will make fewer mistakes, I don't know.

A bigger concern is how my autonomous car would make decisions. What are the priorities? Is the life of the passengers top priority? Will my car sacrifice me to save other persons or people? The questions can get into some pretty philosophical/moral areas.

[removed]

Yeah fuck that.

If you think people from a time where we're wrecking the environment, engaging in Fascism, genocide, and capitalism gets to say that future people who become furries are bad then you're not paying attention.

Aliens use this one simple trick.