"it'll be able to replace all physical labor with robotics fairly quickly, and we're left with no labor left for humans. We need to plan for that future or else billions will suffer from the results."

However, the only advantage listed in this announcement is "near-constant sunlight". It appears they are hoping for 8x solar efficiency for 1000x the cost of terrestrial construction.

If the actual motivation is that people don't want data centers on earth, that seems to be because the datacenters 1) drive up energy costs, 2) use a lot of water I guess, and 3) can make noise. If you're able to operate a datacenter satellite you apparently don't need local electricity, water, or human labor. As someone else said, set up on the desert or in the middle of Alaska somewhere 100s of miles from the nearest person. They can still use solar (just build like 8x the panels if you need to... still cheaper than space), they don't need water, don't need labor... I think most public opposition would disappear.

I've heard some say the real advantage is latency for spy satellites... This seems not a real use case. The kind of workloads that require this kind of datacenter usually can spare 1-2 seconds in round trip time. Millisecond-sensative reactions I would assume would want to be driven by onboard processing.

One true advantage that I haven't seen on any brochure is that the heat produced by the space datacenters could be released into space rather than raise the temperature of the earth. However, the satellite would have to be designed to radiate the heat away from earth. Hopefully they design the satellites to direct the radiated heat away from earth and don't just point the radiators straight back to earth...

> but you see the same basic patterns everywhere. Land in the city center is worth much, much more than outlying areas.

The calculation of the "unimproved value" always perplexed me.. it seems like you're not taxed for the things you build on your land, but instead for the things other people built around your land. After all, why would property in a city be valuable if not for all the high rises, subways, and office buildings?

another con: If only one of the exits gets backed up, it clogs the traffic circle and causes every connecting road to back up.

At this point I assume the author was making intentionally bad choices out of morbid curiosity. I can't imagine anyone technical thinking drivers should be required to connect to a TV via HDMI. (or maybe I'm not technical enough)

Since such a thing has never happened, I doubt anyone, even scholars of history and anthropology, know.

Capitalism probably won't work in a world of ultra abundance though.

I wanted a friends feed in eBird (its social model is inscrutable) and ask Claude to make a bookmarklet that showed the most recent lists of my friends sorted chronologically. One shot and done.

Our internal corporate CRM is siloed data queries spread across overlapping views. I have a bookmarklet overlay my own interface on top and fetch data using the existing session token. (which is transparent/automatic - your browser just hangs on to the session cookies for the fetch calls)

Wages, like all prices, are determined by supply and demand.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-97652-6

I think there's a bigger question that would be hard to answer: what does a consistent long term diet of videos and quick answers do to a person's mind/understanding of the world?

Also, a lot of the published research is a year delayed - most I've read recently are using ChatGPT 4 or 4o. When it comes to giving high quality feedback, I think there was an inflection point around Opus 4.6.

> p8: "A child watching television under normal conditions is subject to frequent interruptions and distractions. The TV must vie for his attention. In order to simulate this condition, we decided to program distractions into the laboratory situation... Slides could be used to fill the slide tray and they could be projected automatically, at regular intervals, onto a screen similar to that of the television set. The carousel projector allows the viewer to choose three exposure times. The 7.45 second interval proved most satisfactory with the preschool children.

THE FIRST YEAR OF SESAME STREET: THE FORMATIVE RESEARCH https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED047822.pdf

I don't have any faith that they have the wherewithal to make any common sense design choices about error states.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35712694

Things like lottery tickets are "strong link" problems (the system's value equals the strongest link's value); food safety is a "weak link" problem (the safety of a meal equals the least safe bite of food).

It appears that the author is advocating for "weak link" standards for CSS (it matters more what the vast majority see, knocking it out of the park once or twice won't make up for the failures)

Claude computer use takes control of your whole computer inputs (mouse and keyboard) plus screenshots. You just log in, tell Claude you're logged in, and let it get to work. It'll use the browser you're logged in with.

The chrome extension is a little better because it only takes control of its own chrome tabs (again: you just log in.)

If I read a post from a month ago, how will my client know how many likes it has or what the replies were? Without reverse links, someone has to look up in a database of all AT actions for likes/replies pointing to that post.

Contrast with the inbox/outbox forward/reverse linking model of activity pub.