No appreciable fraction of a percent of humanity living on the Earth now, nor of their decedents for several generations, has any genuine hope of making a home on Mars even if their is a concerted effort to get there.
Mars or no Mars, if an asteroid hits Earth, the vast, vast majority of humanity dies out. Don't even start with the outpost crap, spend the money on environmental care or even asteroid diversion missions for a much higher cost-payoff ratio. Heck, even if an asteroid did hit we'd have a vastly easier time "terraforming" the resulting Earth.
You could put 200 robots on Mars and still not add up to the cost of a single manned mission, and do far, far more science. Humans on Mars will struggle just to stay alive (and probably won't). Just send more robots.
It doesn't have to be. After all humans are totally crap at collective long range planning, and individuals make very poor choices for themselves all the time.
I'd actually rather have a benevolent machine in charge than a power hungry politician.
Why am I even 'the same' person that I was as a five year old? I barely remember that 5yo self. Wouldn't there be some other 5yo around now that actually has more in common with my 5yo self that I do with that person?
Consciousness isn't continuous anyhow, a sharp blow to the head will soon sort that out. A harder blow that causes large scale permanent destruction of brain matter will sort that out even more so, is the person that wakes up from that really the same person?
The conception of a persisting personal identity is shaky at it's core.
Lack of x64 is an issue, but I do wonder how you'd have any chance of running drivers for a whole different processor in any meaningful way. Even multiple quite old versions of DirectX.
This widget fell apart because there's not enough screws holding it together! I know, let's punish it by pulling out more screws! That'll teach it for falling apart.
It may trigger MD, but not cancer. The only disease that matters is cancer. Heart disease, although more common, more deadly, and more preventabe, requires lifestyle change to prevent plus it's boring, so we don't talk about it. If it's not cancer, who cares?/s
There's actually been quite a few studies now that show this is a thing. As much as anecdotes are not data, I've personally witnessed this enough times in my clients to feel it is accurate.
It's not an all or nothing proposition here. ADD and ASD very clearly exist in a big way in some individuals.
The issue is more where to draw the line between disordered behavior and just unusual. Even the name of autism has been changed to reflect this more nuanced approach.
I'm sorry if I'm going ad-hom, but it's quite clear you don't know how encryption works.
You'd want a good 1000-10,000x factor of hardness over whatever you think is hard enough, otherwise it just gets easy to farm out the computation for something that would 'normally' take 10 days to a botnet that brings that down to 1 hour. For this reason you'd really you'd want to set the 'normally' to the whole of the earth's computation capacity, which has really exploded recently due to bitcoin.
Also it's not so easy to tune. The whole reason why we use the encryption algorithms we use is that their difficulty goes up generally at 2^x, where x is the size of the key. If you get an extra 10 bits in the key (bits, not bytes) you end up with a 1,024x harder problem.
I'm a family doctor and have managed literally hundreds of people with obesity and type II diabetes.
I've seen diabetes reverse twice, once after gastric bypass surgery and 40kg of weight loss, and once in someone else who lost a lot of weight after being told he had about six months to live if he didn't. I've had one other patient who has lost a lot of weight without surgery.
Weight loss is hard. Very hard. Hunger is a survival response and is about as easy to ignore as the need to breathe. Of course if someone has a highly calorie controlled diet and sticks to it, that works, but IRL the odds are stacked against you.
I... think you're fundamentally missattributing the work of individuals with that of a country. There's plenty of stuff from most cultures everywhere, plus good ideas spread.
Mortality is not always a good endpoint. It's reasonable for something like heart disease modifiers, but if the study was done on say random hand amputation with immediate medical care then mortality would not be the right endpoint.
What about rates of depression / memory impairment / relationship breakdown / partner violence / educational outcomes / overall wellbeing? All of these are missed if you solely focus on mortality.
This idea of eternal exponential growth of things, it's just ridiculous. It's just not sustainable. It's literally impossible to sustain.
Some common arguments: "We will build space-ships and start colonizing space"
Nuh-uh, after approximately 1000 years the whole galaxy is colonized, even with a habitable star around every star in the galaxy. After 2000 years it's the entire observable universe.
"The growth will continue in intangible services"
So you're saying actual physical objects will comprise tiny fractions of a percent of the economy?
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Just fantastic stuff if they actually use them. Goodbye low earth orbit, hello Kessler syndrome.
No appreciable fraction of a percent of humanity living on the Earth now, nor of their decedents for several generations, has any genuine hope of making a home on Mars even if their is a concerted effort to get there.
Mars or no Mars, if an asteroid hits Earth, the vast, vast majority of humanity dies out. Don't even start with the outpost crap, spend the money on environmental care or even asteroid diversion missions for a much higher cost-payoff ratio. Heck, even if an asteroid did hit we'd have a vastly easier time "terraforming" the resulting Earth.
You could put 200 robots on Mars and still not add up to the cost of a single manned mission, and do far, far more science. Humans on Mars will struggle just to stay alive (and probably won't). Just send more robots.
Why? Because if it didn't we wouldn't be here to answer the question
Oh come now, surely you can tell from advertising that people place a far higher value on having a bigger penis, than they do on curing dementia!
It doesn't have to be. After all humans are totally crap at collective long range planning, and individuals make very poor choices for themselves all the time.
I'd actually rather have a benevolent machine in charge than a power hungry politician.
Uhh.. except cocain is much more habituating and people tend to keep amping up the dose to dangerous levels, while high dose caffeine isn't much fun.
Why am I even 'the same' person that I was as a five year old? I barely remember that 5yo self. Wouldn't there be some other 5yo around now that actually has more in common with my 5yo self that I do with that person?
Consciousness isn't continuous anyhow, a sharp blow to the head will soon sort that out. A harder blow that causes large scale permanent destruction of brain matter will sort that out even more so, is the person that wakes up from that really the same person?
The conception of a persisting personal identity is shaky at it's core.
I'm still not in on the gay conspiracy. I always thought I was pretty much as gay as a dyke on a bike, but clearly not gay enough.
Looks like they've put their work in really.
Lack of x64 is an issue, but I do wonder how you'd have any chance of running drivers for a whole different processor in any meaningful way. Even multiple quite old versions of DirectX.
This widget fell apart because there's not enough screws holding it together! I know, let's punish it by pulling out more screws! That'll teach it for falling apart.
They can want the human touch all they like, but as long as caring remains a poorly paid and unpleasant job they ain't gonna get it.
For sure they can import Phillipnio slave girls to do it, but that's just poor form IMHO.
Pay carers well and the problem fades.
It may trigger MD, but not cancer. The only disease that matters is cancer. Heart disease, although more common, more deadly, and more preventabe, requires lifestyle change to prevent plus it's boring, so we don't talk about it. If it's not cancer, who cares? /s
There's actually a few well validated questionnaires that can be used. They correlate with each other, and with objective outcomes like suicide risk.
So... yeh.
There's actually been quite a few studies now that show this is a thing. As much as anecdotes are not data, I've personally witnessed this enough times in my clients to feel it is accurate.
It's not an all or nothing proposition here. ADD and ASD very clearly exist in a big way in some individuals.
The issue is more where to draw the line between disordered behavior and just unusual. Even the name of autism has been changed to reflect this more nuanced approach.
I'm sorry if I'm going ad-hom, but it's quite clear you don't know how encryption works.
You'd want a good 1000-10,000x factor of hardness over whatever you think is hard enough, otherwise it just gets easy to farm out the computation for something that would 'normally' take 10 days to a botnet that brings that down to 1 hour. For this reason you'd really you'd want to set the 'normally' to the whole of the earth's computation capacity, which has really exploded recently due to bitcoin.
Also it's not so easy to tune. The whole reason why we use the encryption algorithms we use is that their difficulty goes up generally at 2^x, where x is the size of the key. If you get an extra 10 bits in the key (bits, not bytes) you end up with a 1,024x harder problem.
Repeat after me: Correlation does not imply causation. There could be many reasons for this correlation, the purported theory being only one of them.
IC design isn't something you can do in your spare time. You need a full-scale industrial process.
Banana, banana, banana.
Banana, banana, banana.
Banana, banana.
Banana, banana.
Banana, banana, apricot.
Beware the banana in disguise!
I'm a family doctor and have managed literally hundreds of people with obesity and type II diabetes.
I've seen diabetes reverse twice, once after gastric bypass surgery and 40kg of weight loss, and once in someone else who lost a lot of weight after being told he had about six months to live if he didn't. I've had one other patient who has lost a lot of weight without surgery.
Weight loss is hard. Very hard. Hunger is a survival response and is about as easy to ignore as the need to breathe. Of course if someone has a highly calorie controlled diet and sticks to it, that works, but IRL the odds are stacked against you.
I... think you're fundamentally missattributing the work of individuals with that of a country. There's plenty of stuff from most cultures everywhere, plus good ideas spread.
Me too. Part of me wonders / hopes that this job won't be replaced by robots...
Mortality is not always a good endpoint. It's reasonable for something like heart disease modifiers, but if the study was done on say random hand amputation with immediate medical care then mortality would not be the right endpoint.
What about rates of depression / memory impairment / relationship breakdown / partner violence / educational outcomes / overall wellbeing? All of these are missed if you solely focus on mortality.
This idea of eternal exponential growth of things, it's just ridiculous. It's just not sustainable. It's literally impossible to sustain.
Some common arguments:
"We will build space-ships and start colonizing space"
Nuh-uh, after approximately 1000 years the whole galaxy is colonized, even with a habitable star around every star in the galaxy. After 2000 years it's the entire observable universe.
"The growth will continue in intangible services"
So you're saying actual physical objects will comprise tiny fractions of a percent of the economy?
It's just silly.