He "road"?

The thing you invented was my preference. My original statement was agnostic in that regard; I merely stated an eventuality. Which is why you got downvoted; you inferred something that wasn't there.

Have you tried being a writer? You really like to make shit up out of nothing.

Yeah, the invention of AGI is often referred to in science fiction as the technical singularity, because the speed of AI makes the future beyond that point literally unknowable. If we can keep it from killing us, it should advance our technologies at a tremendous rate.

If an AGI were released to the general public, it would be devastating. Think of the worst thing you could do with a nimble AI that can learn and do anything, and it's only a matter of time before someone would use it for that purpose. The power of an AGI would be akin to a nuclear bomb, but for anything connected to the internet.

There are trolls and terrorists and mercenaries who would use it to pwn corporations and governments, disabling or even destroying public utilities, banks, hospitals, and rival entities. Not all of these entities are vulnerable, but enough would be that the attacks would completely disrupt trade and economies, and possibly the world economy. The US, Russia, China, and North Korea would not hesitate to obtain and weaponize AGI.

This is one way we could actually invent real AI, and not sophisticated Markov chains like we have now.

Just... don't connect it to the internet.

After a bit of digging, it looks like the 250% efficiency increase is just in relation to the existing performance of perovskite-based solar panels, not versus silicon solar panels. I was unable to find a straight comparison to silicon cell efficiency, merely that the new techniques make them an "equally efficient replacement for silicon."

Some schools have foreign language requirements. My college-prep high school required 2 years. It would be interesting to see number of schools that have a foreign language requirement vs. those that don't, because I'm guessing most students only take the minimum requirement.

Gonna take my horse to the old town road...

There are a number of songs I've disliked at first that I ended up liking after 4 or 5 listens. Some of them I listened to "ironically" and then ended up genuinely liking them.

Your sarcasm adds nothing. The fact that no one has acted on those concepts demonstrates that our politicians do not act in our best interest but for corporate interests. Until we get sincere representatives, nothing significantly good is going to happen.

The US is gerrymandered up to its eyeballs. Our politicians don't really represent us. If we can get rid of unlimited corporate political spending and make gerrymandering illegal, the US will swiftly and "magically" move left.

Out of the woodwork crawl the people whining about what it'll cost. These same assholes don't ask how we pay trillions of dollars for war, spending more than any other country by several multiples, more than the next 9 highest spending countries combined.

Easy, here we go:

• Health care: every other advanced nation does it and spends less than we do per person, and yet provide 100% health care for all citizens. Copy how they do it, and we'd save money. Hint: eliminate enormous profits.
• Eliminate tax loopholes for corporations and billionaires.
• Eliminate tax exempt status for churches.

Done, paid for. We probably wouldn't even have to cut defense.

Next problem.

There are a lot of times I can do better, but to do that consistently is exhausting. Sometimes I just need to do my "good enough" so I can recharge.

• Someone really really wanted to make a graph that looked like a McDonald's logo "M".

Have lost family and friends to cancer. Fuck cancer.

It's all about replication of results by a third party study. I'll believe it when that happens.

I thought smaller transistor sizes were supposed to require less power, not more?

I'm surprised I don't see Ezekiel 23:20 on there.

Same. It's like the dudes on the street corners with the placards that read: THE END IS NEAR.

Yeah, whatever. Like the BNL song says, "It's all been done before."

Chillax, brah.

Not until they get free power and ignore entropy. In a few hundred years we might have the tech to sustain something like that, but until then there's always going to be a need for food, water, reaction fuel, vitamins, etc.

Once this was proven safe (at least a few thousand visitors) I would save up and do this at least once in my life.

That's freakin adorable.

Of course we do; the gold all came from the collision of neutron stars. https://insider.si.edu/2013/07/earths-gold-came-from-colliding-dead-stars/

Asimov wrote about yeast tank farms to feed Earth's struggling population in Caves of Steel, published 1953. There may be other examples that predate it but that's the earliest I can recall offhand. There are still many good ideas in sci fi just waiting to be developed.