Echo Dot

I can’t decide if you’re incredibly naive, or just being deliberately dense.

Put up a Ukraine flag next to the them, that really annoys them.

They’ve put them up in my hometown and I swear to god every single one of them is upside down. Some patriots.

They will never do it properly because somehow they have managed to make hanging flags on lamp posts their whole thing.

It will be illegal in a lot of places. But the US doesn’t really have traffic laws, they have guidelines, that nobody follows.

It’s expensive because some total pillock started a war for no reason at all, that disrupted supplies. It’s going to require a lot of people to buy EVs before dropping demand affects the price.

Well why don’t they make the technology and then talk about it rather than the other way around.

You know what the difference between a snakes oil salesman and a doctor with medication? Evidence.

Well at least the username checks out.

To the highest bidder goes the shill I suppose.

If you could get a judge of the right age you’d probably even be let off that. Vandalism is acceptable if the alternative is downloading a bloody app.

I was going to play it and then it had all of these performance issues and bugs so I never bought it, and then by the time they fixed it, I’d lost interest. I am in exactly the same position with No Man’s Sky, I know that it’s much better now but I’ve also kind of moved on from it.

Honestly they just say things. If you spend 30 seconds thinking about it it’s pretty obvious that no one’s going to get a brain implant. It’s a brain implant, it’s not something you casually decide on a whim.

Also who’s doing it, the world isn’t exactly a wash with neurosurgeons let alone who would just eager to risk a potential lawsuit carrying out unnecessary brain surgery. Unless the plan is to get robots to do that, but surely we would need the robots before we start talking about the brain chips.

It’s still just a report on things that Sam Altman and his ilk says, it has a much as much validity as Elon Musk claiming that we’re going to have cities on Mars by the end of next year. I’ve never been able to decide if these idiots actually believe the things they are spouting or if they’re just trying to get more investment but either way it’s not worth paying any actual attention to them.

Assuming we’re even on the right path towards superhuman AI (personally I can’t see large language models actually leading anywhere) we’re certainly only at the start of that journey, it’s pointless to muse about what the end would look like because we have no idea what kind of technology will have by the end, it could be a century or more from now.

Regardless the people deciding on that technology will be scientists not rich CEOs with over inflated salaries who can barely wire up a light switch, let alone design a brain implant.

A report in Politico details a TED talk in Vancouver last month

Oh so it’s just rambling musings of some self-important CEO rather than any actual declaration of intent.

There are some good TED talks but a lot of them are just hot air.

Trump is as leaky as a sieve actually telling him anything would constitute a national security violation so he probably doesn’t know anything.

Because batteries cannot store gigawatts of power.

Aren’t Google breaking that though?

Yeah that’s my point. It’s all very well Norway being able to produce vast amounts of electricity but how do you transfer that to Japan or Australia? You can’t, because there isn’t a global power distribution network. You can’t take electricity from any arbitrary point on the planet and deliver it to any other arbitrary point on the planet, and until we develop such an interconnected system, we’re going to have to need independent power generation systems, some of which won’t be renewable.

Nobody ever seems to mention where the waste will go

Because it’s a solved problem. Only conspiracy theories think it’s hard problem

Well we need both. We can’t power the world 100% off renewables because we don’t inave a global power distribution network.

But only the first time.

Well yeah. Nuclear power plant somehow manage to consume less water