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But aren't you just..uhhh..nvm.

That’s just your opinion, Docteur Faustroll!

It's called putting water on top of a hill and it's existed for millenia. It's not widespread because there isn't enough VRE or inflexible generation like nuclear to require it yet.

Closed fission fuel cycles are scifi, safe, clean thorium separation doubly so. And the largest uranium mines and deposits like Inkai would produce more power as solar farms than uranium mines.

What a load of BS! I wish it was true but it isn't.

As a bit of background I've been waiting for 'auto chef' for about a decade.

Chef is the fancy word for cook. They go to school for it. and they can all take a standard recipe, standard ingredients, and produce standard results. The chefs of the star and superstar variety invent new recipes. There are a few dozen of the hyperstar variety who become world famous, the regular stars of the day who run 'starred' restaurants, and billions of everyday cooks (us, our mothers, and the folks running diners and food carts the world over).

Inventing recipes is dead easy: if you don't believe google meatloaf recipe and some 26 million people will disagree. If that doesn't convince you then expand your definition of meatloaf to include hamburgers (personal meatloaf?) and another 234 million, mostly distinct!, people disagree.

Cooking itself is not difficult. Learn to use the knife! That means learning how to chop veggies. Yeah when the recipe calls for julienned carrot you need to learn what that means and how to produce it from a raw carrot. You also need to learn how to carve up various pieces of meats. This part of cooking is basically prep work: get your ingredients to the stage that they are ready to be cooked. This is mise en place. Think of being at the counter ordering a pizza and watching them make it: a bit a flour, a dough ball, lots of technique and voila a naked pie! the sauce is premade, the ingredients pre sliced and diced and the pie gets tossed into the oven.

Watch it over and over again. There is nothing hard to pie making*! You can see it! Still the pizza maker is reasonably well paid and the automation crowd can't make a bot to perform this 'simple' job.

I picked pizza because it is so 'easy' to automate not to mention being absolutely delish. The pizza guy is stretching the dough and assembling the ingredients requested by the customer. The oven is at a constant temperature...and still I keep track of who is working at my favorite pizzerias.

Think about it. The dough gets made in an industrial sized food processor: automation require? add ingredients and hit start button. The sauce is canned. Slicing and dicing ingredients is a no brainer. If we can't automate that then there is something seriously wrong with our expectations.

Same thing when I hit a sandwich shop. Doesn't matter if it's a burgher, a dog, a ham and cheese on rye, or a really nice deli sandwich. People assemble them for me, not bots! Even kids can make sandwiches but it is beyond the capabilities of bots? Give me an 'effing break!

*Pizza pies only. making a proper crust for meat or dessert pies is specialist work..

Even in northern ireland in mid winter GHI is about 1kWh/m^2

That is over 1kW time averaged hitting the space required to park a single car. A small 2 bedroom apartment sharing its roof are with apartments above and below has about the world average final energy hitting its roof in ireland in mid winter.

Space is not even slightly a problem.

> "The U.S. Air Force has completed a project to develop face recognition software for autonomous drones, sparking concerns that individuals could be targeted and killed,"

I don't know why people keep jumping to the conclusion that our new face-seeking missiles would be used to kill people. They have lots of uses.

Murderbots are gonna kill a lot of people, i hope im dead before local police departments get their hands on tech like this

Would you happen to know the name of that startup? I’m wanting to know more.

Seriously, this sub ought to be renamed r/antiAI or r/neoluddite

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Probably going to need to supplement with technologies like iron seeding in the ocean, carbon capture plants, and the like.

I hope whoever wrote that headline gave themselves a giant pat on the back.

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Needing a lesser version of yourself, robot or not to pretend to be you because you cant accept death sounds depressing

They contain a certain very small amount of lead. It is stabilized in the cell, so exposure without destroying the cell is difficult, but any exposure to lead is...

The trades will always be in demand. You think a robot is going to come out to your house to try and figure out why your drain is clogged and fix it? Nope. And in health care, Do you think anyone is going to want to see a machine for couples counseling? Nope. In STEM fields AI is just going to be another tool to make people more efficient. Eliminate the drudgery so people can focus on high level thinking. If your job is drudgery though, I'd be worried.

 

I'm sure AI will get good enough to fool a lot of people into thinking it is truly intelligent. But that just points to the gullibility of humans. There are more synaptic connections in the brain than there are stars in milky way. the brain is the most complex thing in the known universe and we do not understand it at all. To think that AI is some kind of sentient being is ridiculous.

IKR? That was my thought. Another "what could possibly go wrong," scenario. We're so awesome at bioengineering. We'll probably find some way to completely fuck it up and wipe out the phytoplankton entirely.

Good luck saying that to your boss when another mass layoff happens

Dammit I got all excited but it all faded away after reading replies in your thread lol

Look around at the price of things, even if the war ended tomorrow, they most likely will never go back down, this is the new normal because of greed and need for record profits year after year. Also wages aren't going up, in fact the government which should be looking out for the worker is trying to artifically keep wages low.

Go look at Lake Mead, Lake Powell, or the Great Salt Lake. They know all these lakes are collapsing and going empty, and Great Salt Lake will make a disaster zone when it does. Who is stepping in to stop this? The answer is no one, because profits won't allow it.

People will try to make it out that technology will save us, but save who exactly? The rich want to exploit you for every cent they can then throw you away without you even having healthcare, and if they could they would ruin Social Security tomorrow. They know the system is headed for collapse, so they tried to take it over before it offically did. Oops that failed, so they say "sorry" and wait for you to go back to sleep so they can try again. They will try again.

I dont think anyone can be certain of how long it will take for something to develop, if theres anything to learn from the past, its that its very difficult to predict the future