Yes, I get that. Sorry for my sarcasm, but I have been told since the late summer of 1980 that humans going to the moon again is just about 5 years in the future. I have simply just stopped being excited about “ZOMG, we need a lunar timezone because humans will return to the moon any day now”.

Given that doom creates clicks, the simplest solution would be rules for social media that mandates a percentage of wholesome news in feeds.

In short, the companies control the feed, and they can put whatever stories they want in them, irrespective of the clicks it gets.

Given the impact of the deluge of negative news on the mental health of people, they have a social responsibility to address the issue and correct the skew.

Print me a new spinal cord, please. kthx.

Already there…time moves in circles, nonlinear.

I approve to have my brain used for this. Please.

This is the tack I would have taken if I had written the original matrix movie.

Humans as batteries is ridiculous. Humans as a hijacked complex quantum neural network? Hell yeah.

"In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war" In all seriousness this is pretty cool technology.

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It's likely that the birth rate will stabilize in the future as we figure out how to create a society that supports families.

Do you have any clue how much kids cost? There are massive economic incentives to stay child free and have very few children, yet the birth rate is still 1.5 in wealthy countries.

A big part of the reason the birth rate is so low is that affordable family housing doesn't exist in many places. Effectively people are rationally responding to resource constraints. If the next generation is much smaller, that will free up a lot of housing and other resources that will make it easier for them to have more kids.

Population change may look exponential, either up or down, but it really isn't. There are a lot of constraints people respond to that affect population growth, like availability of resources, pathogens, and biological desires that we affect this.

-What's that smell?

-My computer died.

-Oh, God.

I read it and the author doesn't seem to have actually understood any of the issues. What even is "personal dignity", and how can anyone claim with a straight face that it's universal and self-evident? Hell, you can't even translate the Latin word "dignitas" to the closely-related English word "dignity" without giving a few sentences of explanation about the cultural differences in meaning. You'd run into even more trouble if you look at cultures that aren't related so closely.

And he sure does like to call things "universal and self-evident", even when this is trivially false. For example, one thing he describes this way is the principle that "State, religious, economic and other office holders are in [each human being's] service." This is not at all an obvious idea, nor one that all cultures would agree with. People in various times and places would tell you that government office-holders have power due to the Divine Right of Kings, or the Mandate of Heaven, or would simply describe governments as bandits who have settled down in place. You could come up with similar counterexamples for the statement about religious and economic office-holders.

I could go on, but if the paper fails such basic sanity-checking I don't see much point.

> Moonlight needs a common lunar reference time in order to provide accurate location data to users on the Moon’s surface. In order to keep time on different lunar missions in the past, each mission synchronized its clocks with those on Earth and used antennas in space to correct from drifts in time. ESA says this solution will prove inadequate as space agencies plan to send more humans and autonomous rovers than ever to the Moon. These different teams may need to communicate with each other, rendezvous, or conduct joint observations, and a standardized clock could smooth out issues in that regard.

That good enough a reasoning?

> This is partly due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine which started in February 2022, and which exacerbated an energy crisis across Europe, as European economies sought to wean themselves off Russian fossil fuels and Moscow stopped delivering gas to many countries.

Putin's legacy in the end would be saving the world.

Still faster than Musky's.

I mean, most comments are copy and paste these days already. At least AI will add some spice

Great! Just what we need. Computers with mental health issues.

AI will figure that shit out for us. And if not AI, then SAI.

That will likely arrive before this sort of stuff does.

Yeah. About 30 km/h.

Coincidentally, they’ve also unveiled an amazing, new nutritious food supplement called Soylent Green.

This was newly-implemented technology on Star Trek: Voyager.

Well, moisture is the essence of wetness.

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It’s possible to think tech in general is good while also believing certain specific technologies should be avoided. Nobody thinks Nazi experiments on human eugenics was a good idea, for example.

They're really making murderbot irl huh

honest answer: read the fucking article