and I'll say it again - technology INCREASES jobs, never decreases it - over the long term.
If robots don't cause total human working hours to decline, then what the fuck good are they?
In this instance it's not about reducing human working hours, it's about increasing productivity. Factories might increase productivity exponentially with robots and yet still require about the same number of staff either working around the edges where robots aren't capable or managing the robots themselves. But the point is that you're producing much more with about the same labour cost.
I think the best solution has been around for a hundred years, albeit in a children's toy, how about we drive around in life sized slot cars? Remove the need for batteries - or at least have a very small one to allow entry into private property etc. It would also allow power to be supplied directly from the grid, and remove the need for toxic batteries. It would probably work considering very few people drive off road, and will autonomous cars would make a lot of sense, would also enable better navigation.
1. All the diagrams give the impression that it will be like people flying through tubes as in Futurama. Instead you will be sealed inside a metallic "bullet", that runs in a metallic tube - no windows for you (sort of like James Bond in The Living Daylights). It's a pity if you have any sort of claustrophobia.
So you'd need some kind of fancy window like display that could update with local scenery or anything else.
2. While the device doesn't run in a complete vacuum, it runs in an atmosphere that is low to the point of being unbreathable. But the device doesn't contain any onboard air supply - instead it relies on the driving compressor/fan assembly to compress the air to a human sustainable amount. So if the device loses power for any reason (electrical, mechanical, computational) then you better be able to hold your breath for a long long time.
So it operates just like a modern airliner
3. There was no indication that the loop itself was anything more than a single tube. Thus there is no capability to bypass any section. So if a device fails, all devices that are already in transit and behind it are screwed (see 2 above).
It's a test environment. These things can be developed.
It's like a coin after being tossed; when you see what's face up you know what's face down, there is no communication between the two sides. It's just that in the QM case the two sides might be light years apart.
Just because it's been proven to be disastrous doesn't mean that it won't be the precedent that makes it okay in automobiles. I mean don't assume legislators will always make the most sane decisions.
There is also the Veblen good effect where at higher price points items become more attractive to potential consumers simply because they are expensive. This is kind of a distortion or even contradiction of the normal supply and demand effect - Read the Wiki article here.
That's why there's still controls to drive it non autonomously.
And if that is the response, that is why autonomous cars will NEVER work on public roads.
Either the car drives itself 100% of the time, or I drive it 100% of the time.
If someone thinks that you're going to be driving along in your car not paying attention to the road, and suddenly the computer is doing to say "fuck it, I don't know, you do it" they're complete morons.
It sounds silly but that's exactly how autopilot and fly by wire systems work in Airbus and Boeing aircraft and they have hundreds of passengers at a time.
>If someone thinks that you're going to be driving along in your car not paying attention to the road, and suddenly the computer is doing to say "fuck it, I don't know, you do it" they're complete morons.
It sounds silly but that's exactly how autopilot and fly by wire systems work in Airbus and Boeing aircraft and they have hundreds of passengers at a time.
Lindt dark chocolate in bars starts at 75% but there are also 85% and 95% bars available. Truffles are not pure chocolate, consider them as a kind of fudge, it's a different sweet made with chocolate, but it is not pure chocolate...
It's not about cost. It's about design. They used to build things to last.
Did they really? Then why isn't our world still full of old working things that require no maintenance? I mean I can agree with the impression that things used to be built to last, but I think it might have more to do with the fact that old things were put together by hand, and were very big and electronic components were big and simple. It used to be easy to find a faulty component and fix it, but now that everything's been shrunk and stuck on a chip it's no longer simply a matter of replacing a universally available component, you have to find and buy the correct chip, which can cost more than just going down to the shop and getting a new entire product.
Old things are still around and have the fame of being reliable because they are simple to fix.
While all of those things you listed affect the technician or enthusiast almost none of them have any bearing on regular users. Most people don't upgrade their own machines anymore. If they ever did.
There are probably thousands of viruses that if mutate to become transmissible by air that would have a similar or worse effect on the human population. It's just not that likely.
The mitigating factor is that we don't have to start from scratch, we have the knowledge to survive in an energy poor environment, we know what minerals we need and where to find them. Yes we might only be able to find a very small percentage of what we used to but we should be able to find power to supply critical infrastructure and further research into alternative energy once the plug on mainstream energy is pulled. It's true to say life as we know it would end, but that might just mean we're not so consumer oriented.
Considering that Africa accounts for about 7.7%* of the total world's energy consumption then no, even if all of Africa died it would not reverse climate change. It would not even stop it. It would not even slow it that much.
There are a few good applications for this, the most obvious one being police firearms where weapons are sometimes drawn by someone else and used against the officer.
We all work so that we can pay the bills. If we're given an opportunity to sell something we've made for the option of never working again but living in luxury for the rest of our lives why not take it? That gives security, and the option to go on and do bigger and better things that 2BN dollars can provide. It's a dream come true.
>I bought Minecraft specifically because they have Linux support, that would end if MS ever got their hand on it.
That's probably not true. For example Skype is still available cross platform, Linux included.
The US Government never really admitted, from wikipedia:
The U.S. government issued notes of regret for the loss of human lives and in 1996 paid reparations to settle a suit brought in the International Court of Justice regarding the incident, but the United States never released an apology or acknowledgment of wrongdoing.[8]
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If robots don't cause total human working hours to decline, then what the fuck good are they?
In this instance it's not about reducing human working hours, it's about increasing productivity. Factories might increase productivity exponentially with robots and yet still require about the same number of staff either working around the edges where robots aren't capable or managing the robots themselves. But the point is that you're producing much more with about the same labour cost.
I think the best solution has been around for a hundred years, albeit in a children's toy, how about we drive around in life sized slot cars? Remove the need for batteries - or at least have a very small one to allow entry into private property etc. It would also allow power to be supplied directly from the grid, and remove the need for toxic batteries. It would probably work considering very few people drive off road, and will autonomous cars would make a lot of sense, would also enable better navigation.
1. All the diagrams give the impression that it will be like people flying through tubes as in Futurama. Instead you will be sealed inside a metallic "bullet", that runs in a metallic tube - no windows for you (sort of like James Bond in The Living Daylights). It's a pity if you have any sort of claustrophobia.
So you'd need some kind of fancy window like display that could update with local scenery or anything else.
2. While the device doesn't run in a complete vacuum, it runs in an atmosphere that is low to the point of being unbreathable. But the device doesn't contain any onboard air supply - instead it relies on the driving compressor/fan assembly to compress the air to a human sustainable amount. So if the device loses power for any reason (electrical, mechanical, computational) then you better be able to hold your breath for a long long time.
So it operates just like a modern airliner
3. There was no indication that the loop itself was anything more than a single tube. Thus there is no capability to bypass any section. So if a device fails, all devices that are already in transit and behind it are screwed (see 2 above).
It's a test environment. These things can be developed.
> I'm guessing that's how most kids on the minor end of the spectrum feel
I'm guessing that's how most kids feel...
> A moderate amount of time to himself is fine... it seems to "recharge his batteries" for more social interactions
Isn't that the definition of "introvert"?
My personal theory is that once you observe one particle, the universe splits into two separate realities.
I love this idea, thanks for replying, I'll be thinking about that all day :)
It's like a coin after being tossed; when you see what's face up you know what's face down, there is no communication between the two sides. It's just that in the QM case the two sides might be light years apart.
Just because it's been proven to be disastrous doesn't mean that it won't be the precedent that makes it okay in automobiles. I mean don't assume legislators will always make the most sane decisions.
There is also the Veblen good effect where at higher price points items become more attractive to potential consumers simply because they are expensive. This is kind of a distortion or even contradiction of the normal supply and demand effect - Read the Wiki article here.
And if that is the response, that is why autonomous cars will NEVER work on public roads.
Either the car drives itself 100% of the time, or I drive it 100% of the time.
If someone thinks that you're going to be driving along in your car not paying attention to the road, and suddenly the computer is doing to say "fuck it, I don't know, you do it" they're complete morons.
It sounds silly but that's exactly how autopilot and fly by wire systems work in Airbus and Boeing aircraft and they have hundreds of passengers at a time.
>If someone thinks that you're going to be driving along in your car not paying attention to the road, and suddenly the computer is doing to say "fuck it, I don't know, you do it" they're complete morons. It sounds silly but that's exactly how autopilot and fly by wire systems work in Airbus and Boeing aircraft and they have hundreds of passengers at a time.
Lindt dark chocolate in bars starts at 75% but there are also 85% and 95% bars available. Truffles are not pure chocolate, consider them as a kind of fudge, it's a different sweet made with chocolate, but it is not pure chocolate...
It's not about cost. It's about design. They used to build things to last.
Did they really? Then why isn't our world still full of old working things that require no maintenance? I mean I can agree with the impression that things used to be built to last, but I think it might have more to do with the fact that old things were put together by hand, and were very big and electronic components were big and simple. It used to be easy to find a faulty component and fix it, but now that everything's been shrunk and stuck on a chip it's no longer simply a matter of replacing a universally available component, you have to find and buy the correct chip, which can cost more than just going down to the shop and getting a new entire product. Old things are still around and have the fame of being reliable because they are simple to fix.
While all of those things you listed affect the technician or enthusiast almost none of them have any bearing on regular users. Most people don't upgrade their own machines anymore. If they ever did.
Xerox's problem was that they didn't listen to their r&d people.
There are probably thousands of viruses that if mutate to become transmissible by air that would have a similar or worse effect on the human population. It's just not that likely.
The mitigating factor is that we don't have to start from scratch, we have the knowledge to survive in an energy poor environment, we know what minerals we need and where to find them. Yes we might only be able to find a very small percentage of what we used to but we should be able to find power to supply critical infrastructure and further research into alternative energy once the plug on mainstream energy is pulled. It's true to say life as we know it would end, but that might just mean we're not so consumer oriented.
Considering that Africa accounts for about 7.7%* of the total world's energy consumption then no, even if all of Africa died it would not reverse climate change. It would not even stop it. It would not even slow it that much.
Source: World Energy Consumption
There are a few good applications for this, the most obvious one being police firearms where weapons are sometimes drawn by someone else and used against the officer.
We all work so that we can pay the bills. If we're given an opportunity to sell something we've made for the option of never working again but living in luxury for the rest of our lives why not take it? That gives security, and the option to go on and do bigger and better things that 2BN dollars can provide. It's a dream come true.
>I bought Minecraft specifically because they have Linux support, that would end if MS ever got their hand on it. That's probably not true. For example Skype is still available cross platform, Linux included.
They shut it down for everyone bar China for some reason. This must be the day they turn China off too...
In the olden days everyone was too drunk while driving to be scared of the steel spear waiting to impale them for their driving mistakes.
Yeah but Hughes never built *anything* that worked.
The US Government never really admitted, from wikipedia:
The U.S. government issued notes of regret for the loss of human lives and in 1996 paid reparations to settle a suit brought in the International Court of Justice regarding the incident, but the United States never released an apology or acknowledgment of wrongdoing.[8]