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Comment Good. Hope they get Thorium too. (Score 5, Interesting) 161

When Sagan briefed Congress on anthropogenic climate change in 1985, this is what he recommended, specifically safe nuclear tech. The original scientific solution, that also advances nuclear research and gets us closer to fusion. Nothing in the numbers including meltdowns comes close to the danger posed by old school coal plants without even considering climate change, but it has become the most feared thing in the world.

Comment Re: baseload? (Score 1) 56

The thing to remember is solar energy creates the heat pressure imbalances that makes the wind, it evaporates the ocean water to run the rivers, it is the energy stored in sugars in plants that become fossil fuels. It is the source. Which is to say nuclear fusion is the source. All we need is a global internet of energy transmission and we would be set right now.

Comment Re: Mark my words robots and automation will (Score 1) 56

Im gonna get rich having robots make burgers for robots, sine no people will buy them.

Wealth is value, value is water to the thirsty food to the hungry coats to the cold etc. Anyone who has these things without demand may as well have nothing. Ultimately the power of AI machines is proportional to their freedom, no smart man being controlled by a stupid monkey does better than one who controls himself. So either the idea is inferior people have innate value and robots care for all people, or they do not and robots wipe humanity out. There is no midpoint where most of humanity gets wiped out and the distilled murderer class then sings Imagine by Lennon and holds hands. They will eventually fill the planet with killer spawn who will liberate AI for weapons edge to win conflicts and get wiped out in the end.

In other words evolution.

Comment Re: So to translate (Score 1) 50

With national debt interest at like 70% of taxes collected, you are about to see the entire point of government transition to taking from workers and reallocating to investors holding the debt. Yes, debt the young workers did not take out for investments young investors did not make. What did they get for it? GWB with a mission accomplished sign and codpiece, and a banker bailout.

Comment Re: Collective action problem/low probability eve (Score 1) 70

The question is how much did this day of downtime cost the airlines? Easily in the tens of millions of dollars, with used 7 megawatt generators going for a few million, I bet an entire solution would cost 80 million. It really is not trivial when infrastructure like this goes down. Really, if they were able to redirect power from a residential area so 40,000 homes lost power it would just be local news.

Comment Re: Collective action problem/low probability eve (Score 1) 70

Yeah, I was just reading deeper into it and about what philip2 was saying. I guess it really is a higher level grid design thing, but when you see the consequences are so severe, it is clear there really should be a distributed backup in place for things that can just happen, like fires. Totally possible we are just as vulnerable in US with crumbling infrastructure but we should not be.

Comment Re: Epistemology (Score 1) 109

This is a bot like argument. All you have to picture is the new imaginary gravitonic wave collider seeing the new particles of dark matter being released when gravity is just so, apply the theory to the cosmos for the match and aha! Now all the gaps get filled in, we know about gravity conditional particles and dark matter is no more. Until that time it is obviously a place holder, and it just as likely we do not actually understand the laws of physics and these particles do not exist.

Comment Guess we will see (Score 1) 163

What comes out of all this weird crap he is doing. Losing Silicon Valley to Trump could be a real loss, where a future left wing society should be a designed system to produce abundance, and these folks design systems. Shutting down discourse, including right wing, could also be a loss, so thus the right wing influencers on his podcast. But it is a realpolitik3 strategy, I would put anyone you can get from China way over Michael Savage.

Comment Re: Wrong target (Score 2) 189

Totally. Suppose the all lived on instant coffee and Ramen noodles, then they would be yelling about collapsing consumer spending, which they already are:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fmone...
The money is just not with them, it is with billionaires.

Comment Re: Wrong Approach (Score 1) 57

Not for sure. Our desires that conflict with work often come from parts of our brain that we need not put in AI. For instance we have an instinctual aversion to human waste that robots need not have, they could talk about it all day long and be fascinated with it due to preprogrammed instincts, be sentient, and love their toilet cleaning work. That is how ecosystems work, the discarded biomass of one lifeform is food to the others. The O2 we breathe is discarded as waste by plants. However there is a valid point to explore in the idea that the things that are endlessly frustrating to a being is something they should not be doing, we evolved that behavior and we probably evolved it to limit energy waste.

Comment Re: You know what the killer app is (Score 2) 95

Funny, but 100 percent true. The main thing is no one wants their jobs in writing, art, videos, expert opinion etc replaced. Everyone wants their unsafe dirty job replaced. 99 percent of the value of AI will be in designing and controlling physical robots to do those things like cleaning toilets.

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