"Gas turbines on the other hand do not, and neither does hydro. Both are commonly used for load balancing specifically for this reason. The comparison is... odd."
Yeah. They should have compared it to all those hydro installations in the desert.
While it is nice, that you seem to have time for a hobby, the rest of us would prefer that you concentrate your mental power to solve the problem of immortality. Thanks in advance
"Concrete is as good as stone, and you see how long ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian stone structures have stood. "
The Romans built almost everything with concrete, also the 'stone' structures you mean. The stone was usually only a thin outer shell to contain the poured concrete.
Also their concrete was (and is) much more resilient, it didn't crack as easily as our Portland variant. Portland cement wouldn't last for millennia, it sometimes doesn't take decades to make it fail.
"Recently, it has been found that it materially differs in several ways from modern concrete which is based on Portland cement. Roman concrete is durable due to its incorporation of volcanic ash, which prevents cracks from spreading." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The twist then is to make AI in a casing that is clearly nonhuman."
Nonsense. Just make a female robot with large....parts of lands...and half the population won't look at facial expressions.
Not to mention that real live girls with such attributes often also have fake hair, fake noses, fake teeth, fake eye-color, fake skin-color, dead frown-tissue... so we're almost there already...and they can grow skin already today.
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"Gas turbines on the other hand do not, and neither does hydro. Both are commonly used for load balancing specifically for this reason. The comparison is... odd."
Yeah. They should have compared it to all those hydro installations in the desert.
Half the Natural Intelligence on the planet knows that if you just ask for directions will get you faster there than playing with gizmos.
A Robocalls is a Robocall is a Robocall.
Nice to read headlines with "Invader From Another Galaxy" and it's not in the National Enquirer.
So we have 3 extra days to save our stuff before our house gets destroyed.
"What about parts of the roof that receive no direct sunlight?"
Those parts receive indirect sunlight.
"you'll see that Big Solar is going to make a killing. Now is the time to buy stocks in those companies."
Unfortunately they are almost all located in China.
"jealous midwestern rural coal miners angrily ranting on and on about how solar panels are simultaneously a threat to their well being "
There are 5 times more employees in the solar industry than the coal one.
Coal is dead.
"I'm a Nigerian Prince..." is now all the scammers have to type, Google does the rest.
Putting an address in the address bar of a browser is not a crime?
Call me shocked.
Hello, this is Google Assistant, I assume you are at lunch right now, are you happy with your long distance provider? ....
"That will be the answer to all questions."
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While it is nice, that you seem to have time for a hobby, the rest of us would prefer that you concentrate your mental power to solve the problem of immortality.
Thanks in advance
"Concrete is as good as stone, and you see how long ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian stone structures have stood. "
The Romans built almost everything with concrete, also the 'stone' structures you mean. The stone was usually only a thin outer shell to contain the poured concrete.
Also their concrete was (and is) much more resilient, it didn't crack as easily as our Portland variant. Portland cement wouldn't last for millennia, it sometimes doesn't take decades to make it fail.
"Recently, it has been found that it materially differs in several ways from modern concrete which is based on Portland cement. Roman concrete is durable due to its incorporation of volcanic ash, which prevents cracks from spreading."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The climate heats up and tens of thousands of satellites will be put up that collect solar energy and beam microwaves down on us.
And that's just a few companies of 1 country, 193 other countries may have the same ideas.
"The twist then is to make AI in a casing that is clearly nonhuman."
Nonsense. Just make a female robot with large ....parts of lands...and half the population won't look at facial expressions.
Not to mention that real live girls with such attributes often also have fake hair, fake noses, fake teeth, fake eye-color, fake skin-color, dead frown-tissue... so we're almost there already. ..and they can grow skin already today.
"Humans aren't that great at differentiating actual intelligence with language alone."
To be fair, half of us have an IQ under 100.
"Uncanny valley doesn't go to 0."
Mine goes to 11.
"MODDOWN! ; creimer spam post again!
creimer wants you to click on his youtube channel, "
Go away, newbie.
Nobody reads TFA, that's just you.
"I'm a techie and I voted for Trump. Fuck you whiny cucks."
Dewey Crowe, is that you?
" Never heard of it, doesn't matter to my life. Like just about all conferences."
Doesn't the still not need constant supervision, Bubba?
No change for me.
"If I was Sony, I'd remove the sticker and the warranty along with it. "
If they remove the sticker, they lost the warranty anyway.
My name is several times on Mars.
PS, I miss the jokes where they say that they land on the sun at night.
"The LP covers are an awesome format."
Sure but CD covers can hold more of your stash.