Thank you China for forcing the world into the solar battery future.

are expensive ads higher quality? but are they therefore pushed more to justify the cost?

does the higher cost improve the information conveyed?

The sad fact that we lost all of these because of the entire electronics supply and design chain moving to Taiwan and China, is why we are where we are. These barriers might bring some back, who knows.

Ultimately global open borders, for goods and services, had their own issues. For example open competition between free market economies and centrally planned economies creates rather obvious advantages of scale that are skewed...

You could argue that the First useful thing electronic computers did was integration...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2021.1...

That said, your examples are promising, and thank you for posting a HF space to try it out!

This isn't the 80s when compute doubled every 9 months, mostly on clock scaling.

LFGSS is more culturally relevant than the BBC!

Of course governments and regulations will fail realize what they have till it's gone.

- Pave paradise, put up a parking lot.

In addition to the ark-ship colony, or the cryosleep slow ship:

1. Assuming it's a stream of robotic probes doing flybys, without decelerating, we have the Breakthrough Starshot approach. Maybe there's a way to use the target system's sun for solar sail braking? Send smart enough robots that have agency, that can do the exploring for us.

2. For human travel - it could just be a bunch of frozen embryos with a robotic nursemaid, accelerated via external propulsion and decelerated via nukes / high-g aerobraking... (Raised by Wolves had a cool introduction like this in the first episode - then went quickly downhill)

3. ...

hardly requires a bustling industry to solve this 'problem' or provide this 'value'.

starbucks is a monument to the lazyness and exploitation of this lazyness in homo sapiens.

The actual technology of Gattaca has already started 50 years ago with the first "test tube babies" and IVF treatments. You get a "optical selection" of the most well developed blastocysts, checking for symmetry, growth rates, and other biomarkers, without even resorting to DNA sequencing selection.

It will absolutely make the world a better place long term - all of our children can be genetically "the best of us", according to various criteria. I'm all for it.

1. Plausible to discuss, and find hints of what "AI" might mean - ("AGI" or "Strong AI").

2. Dig up all those crusty and dusty notions of philosophers long dead, and some nerding out reads from my teenage years. And try to apply them to an interesting system to study empirically, instead of just humanistic pondering.

3. Same with psychology! Now that our pattern matching systems are starting to pass various turing tests, what does that mean for "sentience" and "sapience" and should we all become armchair psychologists as we teach our systems to understand and act in the world? Recall the first part of Oddyssey 2010; where the AI researcher is more of a child psychologist...

Lastly - LLMs and "glimpses of AI" are something new! Not the same old same old recycled tech and popculture. Truly something new under the sun. Good times.

But it's a hilarious sign of worldwide government incompetence that social insurance or other citizen identification cards are not standard, free, and uniquely identifiable and usable for online ID purposes (presumably via some sort of verification service / PGP).

Government = people and laws. Government cannot even reliably ID people online. You had one job...