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If "we" is America, we were prepared for an epidemic, but sadly we were governed at the time by a bunch of drooling knuckle draggers and criminals who ignored the preparations and actually worked against the medical experts to spread disease. Most countries in the world did very much better against COVID because they were prepared and motivated and governed by normal governments

Unlikely to happen. How would you power it?

Or access to your military drones

"Your take is bad. My fanfiction proves it."

Just as carriage returns, in their turn, were replaced a while back

I can imagine scenarios. Say we're building a new jet engine. Prototyping is expensive so automatically we're iterating with a digital twin. Currently that's done through 2D interfaces, maybe augmented reality at best, and nonstop video conferences. That is ripe for improvement. A jet engine is going to be a large engineering team with global assets, depending on which part of the engine is being developed at any one time. And instead of a bunch of engineers standing over an actual piece of machinery or using computers and talking over the phone, they are in a perfect duplication of a real world lab, except when they make a mistake or drop something or whatever, it doesn't matter, and it also doesn't matter where in the world anyone is.

That's still a little bit ahead of us but not by much. Valid and valuable use case for, idk, next-gen engineering call it. That's one hypothetical where a "metaverse" (which is just a 3d environment with extra sensors) is useful, bringing together AI, VR, advanced computing, haptics, all of it, into a new way of working. That makes sense to me.

What doesn't make sense is asking someone to pay for the experience. Large companies can afford this shit, and if there's breakthrough innovations, I think it will come from the industrial space funded entirely by R&D.

There is no conclusive evidence that it's only temporary and it's rather hotly debated but the evidence leans in flavor of lasting effects if you take it for an extended period of time.

Have any HIV cure been revisited to see if HIV still exists after a long period?

Hypothetically, we could realize a wholesale benefit to all of society due to something like this, but typically those benefits start by accruing to the wealthy, and it's a hard battle to get them for everyone else.

They still use leeches in medicine! Not as much as in politics of course.

Change your brain chemistry temporarily. You can stop taking them if they do more harm than good.

What was banned on Twitter?

Spacex banned use of offensive weapons using starlink. Not defensive.

"Remain unaffected?" It's been pretty affected already, I'd suggest. Biotech is some of the hottest tech in terms of innovation. Random example: COVID vaccines. Lifetimes? There are people alive today who were born before antibiotics, before vaccines against polio, smallpox, measles, chicken pox, before effective cancer chemotherapy.

The "medical industry" is almost unrecognizable compared to a lifetime ago, and I'm confident it'll be even more so in our lifetimes, certainly in our children's.

Whatever, but that take certainly is the basis of an apocalyptic novel.

The person you replied to mentions cellulars “never ending growth and speed increases.” You’re referring to a comparison right now, they are talking about the near future.

So.... exactly like any other ISP?

Only on land? That's pretty limiting.

It's happened on Twitter.

And he's banned Ukraine from using starlink for their drones.

I mean, somebody has the write the script that pipes the output into a book.. Somebody has to actually mail said book off to the publisher.... Somebody has to cash the checks....

Your opinion on the structure of society that causes intelligence loss is pretty cool, I liked that.
I think we help "dumb" people just to prevent chaos, mainly. But of course the economy and so on need all these people to behave in a certain way for the means of money.

You said these AIs for example ChatGPT don't do logic. I def. remember that in a Joe Rogan podcast one of these experts mentioned that AIs like ChatGPT are programmed to use a certain degree of logic, the logic being executed through the principles of the code.

Except that hasn't happened, so...

Aren't surgeons lately using robotic tools in the course of their work? Not to replace them, obviously, but as tools esp in, e.g., laparoscopic procedures? Is there a logical progression whereby robots do more functions, and is there some stopping point that prevents them from becoming autonomous?

Capex of 5 billion a year and revenue of 25 billion when the constellation is complete.

They already have over a million users.

It's expected that starlink will carry 50% of global rural internet access once it's complete.

Each v2 satellite is an additional 480 gbps.

The amount of global customers will be in the billions once its scaled. The price is coming down.

This price point is for global access, it's much cheaper for stationary access, as the price is country dependent.

It's a huge money maker.

Exactly. One can only look at the curve of adoption for ChatGPT and see how a new useful and desired technology is picked up. It spreads like lightning. Zuck bet on the wrong horse.