This doesn’t look like gain of function but overall resistance. Surviving doesn’t make you more of a carrier but, yes, you still might be walking around if undiagnosed.

I think the countries that are able to weaponize a virus are few, and it would be very hard without being obvious. Infecting a population isn’t that hard, so no point in developing immune super carriers. Better to use propaganda to tell people to ignore their experts. Then you have the big problem; you can’t be sure how effective an attack is and if it is, that it won’t come back and bite you. And of course, the rest of the world would be very pissed.

Viruses are not good weapons and they would do more to make your enemy have the resolve to go to war than anything else.

Haha. Yeah fucking right.Tesla Investor day is next week and they will be discussing the new platform. Tesla has over 100k employees making things happen and have been averaging 50% growth almost every year. They don't let up on that front and robotaxis, the new compact car and robots will all be in full swing this decade.

If Tesla doesn’t come out with a smaller, cheaper ev than a Chinese company will.

I like the idea. One of the things that scares me about dying is being forgotten.

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What if they used this sort of technology in conjunction with cloning. Your clone could basically ask the original self everything it needs to know to be you.

Don't forget James Earl Jones.

It'll be really fun to have your grieving family pester your afterlife over inheritance problems or have your descendants criticize your life.

I want to be dead in this timeline and universe that's it.

This would be complete torture and the foundation of hell.

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I fear my copied brain would be running as a test subject, while some brain of Carolyn would be Glados operating routines testing me. I am not even top dog in this real world.

Just need a couple more days

I doubt they'll ever make a high volume low cost compact vehicle. There's no money in it which is why so many companies have left that segment. Tesla is never going to anything but a niche player that a lot of people lost a lot of money betting on. When it all comes crashing down it will end up being a Chinese brand.

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Electric vehicles should be reliable and cheap to maintain but in practice they're regularly in the shop. I'm sure this will stop being a problem at some point but it's just weird.

People still take Tesla seriously? Lol.

Just buy a used Bolt or Kona if you want a small, relatively inexpensive EV, they’re on lots now. I’ve had my electric Kona for a couple years now and it’s the best commuter car I’ve ever owned.

The report says the industry just needs to pay 3% of its income to reduce methane leaks by 75% and that the yearly methane leaks are equivalent to Russia's entire methane production. Since methane is 80x more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 it's a very cheap climate solution.

Less need for human labor is a good thing, now we need to have the difficult discussion about how to democratize this non-human labor so all people can benefit from technological advancement.

Somewhere there are records of every text message that someone sends and receives. It seems like it would be fairly trivial in the near future to use that to model an AI version of a person that you could continue to text with even after they are dead. The experience would be the same even though you would know that the AI wasn't real.

I am going to assume you are talking about really good AI and not the actual person's consciousness:

I mean, I think it might have some implications of stunting the grieving process for some. It might be unhealthy for some. It might also be good for others. It's hard to say really.

I know there are people I wish I could see again and talk to and hear them laugh. Maybe on their birthday or on a holiday, sit down with some whiskey and pour your heart out. Cry and grieve.

I could also see some Miss Havisham types who would interact every day and lose some sense of reality and get kind of fucked up with it.

Actual consciousness? There would be a lot of issues around legality and personhood. Can a person exist like that and not go insane? That's a tough one.

Obviously. This is so obvious. You know how many simple things a human does? Try the workplace. There are so many things that can be replaced. There are countless stories of people getting 15 minutes of work done, while getting paid to watch tiktok. Could you imagine how many people are doing this? Automation just helps

I know everyone in this sub is like 16 and too young to remember but they were literally saying the same shit a decade ago.

Except in extreme cases I don't see why it would be worth any effort.

I would think might put the psychics out of business and could be the ruin to those who act on the responses from the dead.

I don't care at all since I am not important to have anything bout me preserved.

But I can see models trained to mimic philosophers and poets and such. Even if it is just manufactured, it would be interesting to hear what could Descartes thinks of the current model of the universe, how Shakespeare would direct a contemporary movie (or even a sci fi one!), how Socrates would view modern issues, and so on.

Heck, even something more recent. I miss Hitchens rebuttals and speeches. Imagine what and how he would talk about current affairs today.

What are you on about