You are speaking sense; however, the people in charge have never had ANY direct experience with a reality that tells them no. They are completely incapable of leading a project like this and they will not give up enough control to allow anyone who could do it, to actually do it.

No. We are locked into permanent incompetence now. Look at the Secretary of Defense. ROFL.

When a reservoir as large as the ocean overflows, it will be sudden and catastrophic at biblical proportions. Once it overflows, the changes will be extremely rapid and extremely overpowering. Some anaerobic bacteria may survive.

We may notice some issues as the reservoir fills up, but the real fun starts shortly after the reservoir is entirely full.

The overlap between the dumbest humans and the smartest bears has caused a number of issues for park rangers. Look at garbage cans: How do you create something hard enough to get into, a bear can't figure it out, but a human can?

You are not wrong...

But FAR more than that is needed.

Well, you are in luck. The economic policies being enacted will reduce the population by quite a bit. The deaths will be due to starvation and exposure, but hey, your goal is achieved. Lucky you indeed. Your will is being done. (maybe not in the way you imagined? perhaps you thought war would reduce the population? voluntary death panels?)

I see why you posted anonymously:

The vast majority of those areas never had forests to begin with. The soil and weather patterns were insufficient to support trees. They were called "The Great Plains", not "The Great Forests".

So essentially, you are saying to kill off cash crops and plant trees that will die.

I get it, I really do. Cash is not more important than life... but, you can't let that blind you.

This is how you know your nation is utterly failed: no planning for the future, just sitting in filth, perfectly happy with what what they have but not even trying to maintain it. Ah well, here in America, we get to see what we will be in the not-to-distant future... assuming WW3 doesn't break out before then.

Sure, they have a few, but the British money is 101% involved in chasing more money for the already wealthy. There is zero money to bad had for infrastructure or future thinking.

This is a failure of government. It is happening right now in the USA, so it appears we are infected with the same disease that ended the British Empire.

What a miserable future of incompetence and waste. I guess our BREXIT will be NATOEXIT?

Interesting analogy. I wonder what your interpretation of "jumping out" is for the typical American citizen. If it involves voting for Democrats, then you are still too stupid to speak to.

The spec it came up with includes: which specific material is used for which specific component, additional components to handle cases where there's chemically incompatible or thermally incompatible materials in proximity, what temperature regulation is needed where (and how), placement of sensors, pressure restrictions, details of computer network security, the design of the computers, network protocols, network topology, design modifications needed to pre-existing designs - it's impressively detailed.

I've actually uploaded what it's produced to GitHub, so if the most glorious piece of what is likely engineering fiction intrigued you, I would be happy to provide a link.

I've mentioned this before, but I had Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude jointly design me an aircraft, along with its engines. The sheer intricacy and complexity of the problem is such that it can take engineers years to get to what all three AIs agree is a good design. Grok took a look at as much as it could, before running out of space, and agreed it was sound.

Basically, I gave an initial starting point (a historic aircraft) and had each in turn fix issues with the previous version, until all three agreed on correctness.

This makes it a perfectly reasonable sanity check. If an engineer who knows what they're doing looks at the design and spots a problem, then AI has and intrinsic problem with complex problems, even when the complexity was iteratively produced by the AI itself.

A long time ago in the far off land of EFNET, there was an IRC channel called #c. They ran an eggdrop bot that was written in C++. I asked why that was since they were all C programmers and a bot isn't that hard to write. Same situation.

So I wrote a bot, in C, for the #c channel and it mimicked all of the used functions of the eggdrop that used to be there. The bot I created is still used there today. (in the #c channel, type clac 2+2, not calc (i made it usable with a common typo))

*blink* *blink*

Those two classes should be core. WTF? There is nothing more "knowledge" based than Physics and Philosophy except possibly Math itself. It is arguable that Math is a subset of Philosophy.

That is an interesting assumption. It is not true though, as it is only the pressure of the unfairness that is causing them to act that way. Once the pressure is removed, many will revert back to their original fascist tendencies.

In other words, spying and authoritarianism is fine as long as "I'm" the one doing it.