It's going to make it pretty difficult for us to justify an EV if we ever want to go there and still be able to drive around the area for a reasonable amount of time.
So rent a nice high-end SUV (e.g. Mercedes, BMW, Lexus) for those occasional trips to the cabin.
That's why a GSHP system is more practical for commercial buildings - it would add perhaps 1-2% to the cost of construction, and would pay for itself in 3-5 years in places with extreme climates.
And we never will, if we define "consciousness" as "that thing that we do and machines don't do", as Searle and other such half-witted philosophers do.
I suspect (perhaps optimistically) that as robots take over more and more of the "useful" aspects of life, the cost of everything will drop to the point of near-marginal (because robot labor is incredibly cheap compared to human labor, and that runs all the way up the supply chain)
You are forgetting:
1. robots work in factories owned by the rich
2. a robot factory is on land, owned by the rich
3. a robot factory requires materials and energy, which costs money that you don't have
And the rich (the only people who will have a source of money) will pay for these things only if it benefits them somehow. They have no interest in you living a joyful, creative life, so it won't happen no matter how much you want it to happen.
But in a way this article proves my point: to achieve human IQ, some people will be interested in copying/mimicking the brain functioning - which is considered impossible today - and say: can't do. Some other people will be interested in achieving a high IQ through completely new different/innovative/revolutionary methods.
None of which has anything to do with your 2020 projection, and that is the point. Sure it may happen in 2020, or 2120 or 2220. There is no reason whatsoever to pick one of those dates over any other.
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It's going to make it pretty difficult for us to justify an EV if we ever want to go there and still be able to drive around the area for a reasonable amount of time.
So rent a nice high-end SUV (e.g. Mercedes, BMW, Lexus) for those occasional trips to the cabin.
Accommodating 2000 cars/hour is hard enough on a 25km stretch of highway, you think it's going to be easy in a parking lot?
But you won't need 2000/hour if 90% of the cars do 90% of their charging at home overnight.
Only in Ontario.
That's why a GSHP system is more practical for commercial buildings - it would add perhaps 1-2% to the cost of construction,
and would pay for itself in 3-5 years in places with extreme climates.
This robot was supposedly inspired by a mass shooting but yet this robot is not armed, it can only alert the armed people to come to the aid of others
And guess what Adam Lanza's first bullet would have been directed at?
But scarcity will always exist as long as someone in power benefits from it.
Medieval serfs and hunter-gatherers both worked less hours on average than modern humans do.
And they starved.
It won't have that aim because it won't be given that aim by its creators.
It will if the creators believe that in doing so, the company's stock price will be higher next quarter. Nothing else matters.
In the old days, they used guns. These days, they use lawyers.
In the future, they will use terminators.
wn your own plot of land. Be prepared to defend it, grow your own food in grow boxes.
Clean water would be helpful,too, and there isn't going to be much of it in the future.
We don't know how to instantiate consciousness
And we never will, if we define "consciousness" as "that thing that we do and machines don't do",
as Searle and other such half-witted philosophers do.
As many pointed out already - useless to whom?
To the 1%ers who pull all the strings, of course.
Officer: Boys, you will shoot those protesters because one, they're terrorists and two, we know where your families live.
FTFY.
Do you even realize that to have a successful occupation, you need to outnumber your insurgent combatants?
Not if you have killer robots on your side.
They weren't fighting killer robots.
I suspect (perhaps optimistically) that as robots take over more and more of the "useful" aspects of life, the cost of everything will drop to the point of near-marginal (because robot labor is incredibly cheap compared to human labor, and that runs all the way up the supply chain)
You are forgetting:
1. robots work in factories owned by the rich
2. a robot factory is on land, owned by the rich
3. a robot factory requires materials and energy, which costs money that you don't have
And the rich (the only people who will have a source of money) will pay for these things only if it benefits them somehow.
They have no interest in you living a joyful, creative life, so it won't happen no matter how much you want it to happen.
to generate a new line in a ./ post
Ah, then you must check your privilege!
Whatever that means.
Like the one that bit my sister.
But in a way this article proves my point: to achieve human IQ, some people will be interested in copying/mimicking the brain functioning - which is considered impossible today - and say: can't do. Some other people will be interested in achieving a high IQ through completely new different/innovative/revolutionary methods.
None of which has anything to do with your 2020 projection, and that is the point.
Sure it may happen in 2020, or 2120 or 2220. There is no reason whatsoever to pick one of those dates over any other.
because ethanol provided a way to make those liquids safe to drink
Same for tea, being made with boiling water.
Evidence?
History disagrees, as does the existence and widespread use of private arbitration.
Private arbitration enforced with private security, or in other words, my gang of thugs vs your gang of thugs.
there will always be problems where it's cheaper just to hire a person to do it
Exactly.
A person, or perhaps a few dozen, not the tens of millions who will be displaced by robots over the next thirty years.
People never stop wanting more
Which is irrelevant if they can't pay for more.