i can see an engineer easily being automated away versus a plumber.

I’m not saying it’s problematic… I’m just pointing out a simple function of the limits engineering… the biggest problem is electricity needs to be consumed the instant it’s produced and there just isn’t an energy storage technology available today that is efficient enough to make it viable.

Don't worry, it will only be another few hours before some other bored college student reads something about ChatGPT and asks "What will the future hold now that AI is here?"

We’re doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Not enough historians? No. Too many chucklefucks who don’t care or snakes who benefit from suppressing the truth.

Okay Im a moron and haven't done any homework. What's the chance of screwing this up and wrecking tidal lock or the whole orbit so we don't get to play anymore?

I think your confused… I’m not talking fusion, I’m talking fission, technology that has existed and has been used for many many decades… arguably out of all the “green energy” technologies that exist today it is the most scalable, affordable, safest as far as deaths, injuries and illnesses (that includes aftermath of things like Chernobyl, Fukushima, and 3 mile island) … and over its life the only energy technology that is truly carbon neutral and with little improvement carbon negative.

I’m sure I could, don’t care enough to go look. Feel free to go look at union payscale different places in the country, I know of more than a few that are over $50/hr

I’ve never found BLS data on income to be particularly accurate in ANY job. It’s also entirely too broad, since you’re looking nationally at that fails to take into consideration the differences in COL and thus pay.

I’ll rephrase; If you live anywhere near a medium-large sized city, making $100k+ is easy to accomplish in the trades.

Average is just all your data points added together and divided by the number of data points.

Median is the mathematical middle point between the highest and lowest data points.

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>The splashdown of NASA’s Orion spacecraft last month in the Pacific Ocean may have ended the successful Artemis I mission, but humankind’s return to the moon is just getting started, and with it a fantastic opportunity for Canada.
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>There is enthusiasm – and funding – for more space exploration. A $100-billion-plus lunar economy beckons, and one of the most anticipated components of that economy is space mining.
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>Is this some pie-in-the-sky fantasy? No more so than establishing a base camp on the moon, which is what NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and other partners are preparing for as part of the Artemis program by the 2030s. China and Russia announced jointly in 2021 that they are planning the same.

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Totally retarded all going to black projects while the flat earth enclosed system has been near confirmed and still people are too afraid to just research for themselves they are ignorant of the books disproving ball earth a plethora of video crushing the curvature we should see!!! Wake up the elite made up the glide Idea long ago with not a scrape of evidence since!!! Pathetic!!!

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>Imagine you are 40-something and want to go on a date looking like you did 20 years ago. This is impossible in the classical physical world but not in the quantum world, which refers to the subatomic particles that are the foundation for all reality. Miguel Navascués and David Trillo, Spanish researchers from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), conducted several studies with Austrian researcher Philip Walther and the University of Vienna’s experimental physics group. The team published papers in Physical Review X, Quantum, Arxiv, Physical Review Letters and Optica on theoretical research and experiments proving it’s possible to “accelerate, decelerate and reverse the flow of time within arbitrary, even uncontrolled quantum systems.” These unique physical processes, capable of disrupting the normal course of time, are universal: they have the same effect on all particles, regardless of their nature and interaction with other systems.

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You are worrying about these big picture problems because all of your immediate needs are already met. Don’t spend so much time looking at societal issues when you have figured out how to take care of yourself first.

The idea of a living creature loving you because of a relationship you’ve built with them, is a MILLION times more valuable than a machine that mimics love because of its software and upgrades and the premium subscription you have auto debited every month. That sounds really weird actually. Like owning a toy as an adult

There you go.

Either use it to bring down expenses for everyone

or

use it to maximize profits for a select few.

It's only a threat in one of those situations. In the other it's a blessing. People argue about which outcome goes with which option, which is confusing to me but not surprising.

Rather than focusing on individuals survival techniques, we should be focusing on how we can use this technology to make a better world for everyone.

In general we should be prioritizing education for everyone. STEM gets a lot of attention but we will always need social workers, etc. If AI can reduce or eliminate paperwork and red tape all the better.

Can you provide any evidence to support your claim other than your own personal experience? And can you provide any evidence that would suggest that the information I supplied is incorrect or misleading? Because the BLS is completely transparent with their methodologies; they provide multiple sources on their website that details this in pretty excruciating detail.

Because if not, it seems like you just want to prop up a narrative that fits your worldview and not necessarily reality. I'd be happy to consider contradicting data if you can provide it but if you can't, I'm going to stick to the data that I do have considering it's the best (only) data that's been offered so far.

It's also a super easy google search to show that blue collar jobs make a median annual income of $39,850 so I'm not sure what the $100k comment is about.

Actually, as an afterthought, I have a question that I should probably ask. I promise I'm not meaning this in a rude way but do you understand what mean (aka average) and median actually indicate? I made an assumption that you did but that wasn't necessarily a fair assumption on my part.

The scientific article isn't even about solar power, but about photodetectors.

The ustrend.us article reads like it was written by an AI.

Thankfully perivskites should be significantly cheaper than silicon solar panels.

Of course! I proof everything. Even my own stuff.

It’s not confidence that they are similar at all. There is potential, that’s what I’m saying — and folks like yourself a the once being overconfident that “the current AI / LLM are definitely not smart or thinking.”

I’ve yet to see a reason why we’d dismiss the idea that these LLMs aren’t similar to our own thinking or even intelligent. That’s my piint

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Mass customization is the buzzword for it in marketing. Interesting read, bit depressing at times, but well thought out!

i think you are being overly optimistic that ai will push commonality and banality. if it never becomes conscious, it will likely push what most think is the highest form of arts, which could be almost anything - ie: its not really predictable,

if it does become conscious it will share your concerns in simulation, as well any other point of view it can imagine up, and quickly lose interest in anything we are interested in (bad for us)

i feel like we are talking about the movie idiocracy, and i know its a bit ironic, but what can i say?

>Hell, do we even know how HUMANS think?

Hell no. So why the massive overconfidence that we're on the right track with these bullshit generators?

Mining the moon was never a loony idea. If you wanted to construct large structures in earth’s orbit the the moon is the cheapest place to get the metals needed because it takes 25 times less energy to get stuff from the moon to earth’s orbit than to get it from the earth surface. You don’t even need a rocket. You can use a mass driver to fling the material from the moon to earth’s orbit.