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I’d say the odds have significantly increased over the last week.

That is not arbitrary at all.

It doesn’t mean “8 billion robots”, it means a robot for each person.

This implies that every human has a physically capable ally.

Get outta here, you joker.

(Repeat)

“Hand on the lever”… I’m going to steal that phrase.

I often try to emphasize with people that the rate of progress in any particular direction is so fundamentally based on how much we care and try.

Yes. But, only for some kinds of calculations that are looking at combinations or choices between things.

For some kinds of problems, a classical computer considers combinations one at a time:

ABC

ACB

BAC

BCA

CAB

CBA

While a quantum computer does it all on one step:

ABC/ACB/BAC/BCA/CAB/CBA

This is because, in some ways, quantum particles can be in more than one state at the same time!

Now imagine I had used ABCDEFGH for the example. You would be scrolling all day to get to the end of the classic computer example.

I bet his truck uses more electricity per mile than your Tesla does (because refining his gas requires electricity).

The locality delusion is one of the reasons I advocate cutting fossil fuel use regardless of where you live.

If you don’t buy gas at your local pump, the effect ripples through the whole system and is felt by every supplier.

Nuclear (fission or fusion) will never scale much beyond what they currently supply. They as inefficient with regards to water usage and have strong water-requirements with regard to access and temperature. With increasing global temperature and water scarcity, these pressures against nuclear are going to keep it down.

Edit: I mean fractionally supply. They might increase moderately in absolute supply.

For years, when listing the reasons to switch off fossil fuels, I’d mention “bad actor suppliers like Russia and Saudi Arabia”.

But, I kinda gave up trying to convince people this was a serious point.

Then Russia sadly made that abstract argument blindingly obvious.

I fact that hyperbaric oxygen therapy is an approved treatment in some really interesting cases has me intrigued. I bet we keep getting studies from these groups on more and more conditions - including effects of otherwise completely nominal humans.

I bet he is quite abled, actually.

Solar is being installed at a rate faster than required to charge every new vehicle (car and truck) as an EV!

Road oil demand peaking in 2027 or earlier would be fantastic.