we need this for the gulf.

I like the robo simian where every limb can act as foot or hand. so move like a dog but stand and do things like a human but grab and hang and manipulate things near the ground and stabilize with three limb when needing high stability.

this is why I said it was huge that the one robot could change its own battery and once it could do maintenance and repair on one of its kind its going to be an even greater leap. I don’t think that is very far away. Honestly the thing likely to sink it is enshitification where all repair parts and such will only be through a contract and maybe only authorized units will have the repair code and they will send one to your place with your monthly subscription. Which im like 99% sure will happen.

As I responded to another that is exactly what makes general robots different. If it gets to the point that you can buy one and set it to do tasks its no longer a big investment but a purchase here and there. Its like the personal computer. Before that places had to invest big time into super computer datacenters to use computing. Suddenly small businesses and people at home could buy one and utilize it. If an office can skip replacing its chairs and copier to get one one year and its worth the purchase, then it will become standard purchases that offices do. not millions. thousands.

Thats the thing though. When engineering an assembly line or warehouse with rails its a big project. If a particular store can buy it and use it in short order it takes on a whole new dynamic. I kinda hope it brings back small stores and local offices.

This stuff accelerates fast. boston dynamics was around since the nineties but its not until google X bought it a bit over a decade ago that people started to see what it could do and spot came out 5 years ago. The robot that changes its own batteries is a big thing to me as it realistically allows for a unit that can go 24x7 without being attached to a cable. If a robot is made that can maintain and do basic fixes if given parts for its own design and that will be massive as well and I don’t think its far away.

This is part of what I mention with doomerism. Global warming put environmental concerns more in the public consciousness but it overshadowed everything else environment wise and many do not seem to get how messed up we have made the land and the oceans and the biosphere. Even if we magically got all excess co2 out of the atmosphere and ran on 100% clean energy we would still have a variety of environmental armmagedons coming down the pipe.

I sure as heck don’t need a job to entertain me and if I did not need it to live. ie food, housing, healthcare, etc. Now without a job I might still do things that are job like in that the actions are something someone would do in a job. I would just be doing it for myself or others because I feel like it at the time.

ugh. atmosphere hijinks. Im fine with space shades. Heck preferably collect the solar energy and beam it as energy. Easy enough to reverse but aerosols are just more hole digging.

meh. could have said the same thing before fracking.

I honestly don’t know why this is not more common. If particular countries are way off the mean, median, or mode then they are just acting as spoilers to progress.

I was going to say. Cimate, vaccines, thinking obvious assholes are in peoples best interest. Yeah I agree with yas.

I came to say I prefered redfin.

im not so sure. I don’t see anything indicating it breaks down into safe organic material.

yeah thats kinda the thing. its sorta a nothing burger till they have that stuff figured.

would be nice if it talked more about being safe, non toxic, biodegradeable, etc.

Oh yeah. Been going on for years. Its a real problem. When I apply for jobs I keep a record that the unemployment office required when I was receiving benefits. It includes address. I feel like I have to be a hacker to get the addresses. I avoid ones without one because quite frankly it makes you wonder if they are scams. I can’t phathom society working very well without in person options unless we have a system where social safety nets are given to any citizen and if for any reason its going to be denied or withheld that physical people come and verify. We need to flip the systems and make processing assume legitamacy and require massive checking before doing any blocking.

maybe ai can figure out the liability numbers /s

why would they need to send you an email if they are providing you with an email. That is where the communication should be. The problem here is it needs to have all the legal protections of regular mail. It should be illegal to monitor someones activity like that without a judicial warrant just like opening mail or putting a tracker on a car. We have historic examples of the way freedom and privacy should be implemented and it can be done the same electronically as it is physically. That is the problem. I should say that everything. Absolutely everything. Should be able to be done in person at an office without any need for any technology. Thats a big problem to. There should be a right to not use technology.

My first thought was when and is this something that is actually happening or just a poc and it appears to be far enough along to make rapid progress. Its a good read but here are the paragraphs that I think give some sense of timeline.

Earlier this month, the Canadian firm Elysis said it hit a major milestone when it deployed an industrial-size, carbon-free anode inside an existing smelter in Alma, Quebec. Elysis is a joint venture of the U.S. aluminum giant Alcoa and global mining company Rio Tinto, both of which produce aluminum in the Canadian province.

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Rio Tinto, meanwhile, has already licensed the inert-anode technology from Elysis. The manufacturer plans to build a demonstration plant with 10 of the 100 kA cells at its existing Arvida smelter in Quebec, possibly by 2027, through a joint venture with the provincial government.