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That... that's exactly how they would "stimulate the economy" though. That tracks.

"Rods from God" kinetic orbital bombardment.. soo many launches for Starlink could definitely sneak a few tungston telephone poles up there.

and thus the knowledge (and wealth) gap will continue to widen.

The commute is the biggest issue imo, it's wasteful as all hell here in the states. Makes no sense to drive half an hour or more just to sit in an office that is less comfortable than my home. Not to mention the added cost. Thankfully my job has always been fully remote and will not be changing.

I’m really looking forward to making payments on my robot and paying robot repair bills.

Currently all forms of mental illness are diagnosed based on symptoms. There is no biological test to confirm any DSM-V diagnosis. That will change. There have been large genetic studies done that show that what we think of as different disorders actually share genetic material. For example bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. So in the future, I predict there won't be new disorders but the way we think of existing ones will change. I think it highly likely that the biochemistry of psychosis is the same regardless of what disorder it results from. There is compelling evidence that psychosis happens when dopamine receptors get overstimulated. The future is not in refining our classification systems. It's making the leap from mental illness to neuroscience.

 

Also, addiction is known to be a brain disorder and probably the disorder that causes the most suffering out of all of them. Unfortunately very few good treatments exist. The best treatment is abstinence but getting there is problematic.

It was like a short term raise and work life balance improvement for around 3 years for me only to go back to the bleak office environment a few months ago. It was nice while it lasted and I’ll never agree on the arguments they make towards employees coming back.

To be fair, the majority of office work is: drive to work, clock in, sit at your desk, field emails all day, work in Xcel/PowerPoint/etc, take meetings on zoom or whatever, whatever feeding yourself for lunch entails, returning to the office for more of the same, and then fighting traffic to get home. None of that requires an office. Just a laptop and reliable internet connection.

Society is ruled by extroverts. 96 percent of managers are extroverts, according to one study. They're reasserting their control and arranging things to suit themselves as always.

More than 40% of domestic tasks are already done by robots. Dish washer, clothes washer and dryer, water heater, oven, vibrator, microwave, refrigerator, and other small appliances. Utilities like water, sewer, and electricity mean no fetching water, disposing of waste, or burning wood for everything too. Modern life is great.

They already do.

I've lived without a dishwasher for a few years and it was nightmare.

I've had a robot vacuum for less than a year and I hate it without it now and want it back.

And the washing machine is a game changer.

These three are a backbone of home automation.

Another HUGE thing is the multipot, not sure what's it's called in English. It can make perfect sushi rice 10 times out of 10. It prepares really nice pilav for you. It can make the soup. It automates a lot of food processing stuff.

So basically the only big thing for me that robots can't do yet is dusting, washing the bathrooms (I've seen the big ones that do but they're the size of a fridge) and preparing food as in cleaning and chopping. But you can do that with multiple small kitchen appliances.

Oh and another one is the window washing robot. I don't have one but I've seen a lot of people say these are great.

It’s a combination of companies trying to justify keeping a building, managers needing to make themselves seem needed when work from home has shown they really aren’t, the government trying to pump money back into fuel/restaurant/parking, ramp up collection of traffic/parking fines that they can’t if people aren’t driving as much, propping up their commercial property income that they are losing when businesses figure out that WFH is more efficient/less costly, and in some cases it’s just a case of narcissists in high positions needing to exert their “power”.

Cope cope cope

Not surprising at all. Especially when it comes to major hubs like San Francisco and Seattle.

So, Rivian beat them by years. Let’s see if any of this ever happens. You Elon stans are hilarious with the cope

I mean, "I know Kung-Fu" is kind of the end game here isn't it? Just plug the info directly to our brains. This is probably the next step.

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It’s coming whether you like it or not. Are you already willing to give up and throw up your hands in submission that it’s going to ruin the world? You’re not willing to fight for a better world at all? As far as I see it AI is inevitable and fighting for it to benefit everyone is our only option. So if you’re giving up on that fight already then you’re fucked.

It's to appease the office renters, which contribute to political campaigns.

You are modifying it right now. It is called reading

I don’t teach people how to memorize stuff. I teach people how to science.

At least there wouldn't be a mess that needed to be cleaned up.

That was dark, I'm sorry.

A fucking global pandemic happened and they’re still releasing it this summer. Jesus.

Ecovacs Deebot but its mainly on carpet. The main problem with it, is that it's dumb and just goes around a room randomly. So one area gets cleaned five times and an other only gets done once. It's a few years old and was pretty cheap for the time.