I am sorry for your comment as well

I tell ya, no respect, no respect!

If fusion is ever tamed, it would likely make Dyson spheres moot or shrink the dynamic. Stars are convenient energy sources because they already exist, but their power density is low. Fusion power would have much greater power density, opening the possibility for a self-sufficient Dyson-esque "town."

What if a shooter gets inside the bulletproof shelter?

It's all about the Benjamin, baby

When a person is overwhelmed with emotions, fear, anger, their own safety and the safety of others can be at risk. I'm not saying get rid of emotions entirely. But the human brain can be so dominated by emotions at times that it screws everything else up. 100,000 years ago, it wasn't so terrible if someone flipped out. But now, with everything from guns to nukes at our disposal, it's a different story. The structure of the brain is an impediment to progress.

It should be possible eventually to choose mental abilities for offspring including IQ, musical ability, and other traits. Further down the road, a redesign of the human brain might strengthen areas responsible for intelligence, memory and cooperation and make emotions, tribalism and other parts less dominant.

Gamma ray bursts

Strange matter

Wandering black hole

Black holes, period

Take the bus?

So, murder then, finally?

This. Some kind of secure hardware and image/data watermarking is needed. Have a certification process. Uncertified footage won't be trusted.

It's always the last place you look

It should be noted that Asimov actually had 4 laws, the "uppermost" being a prohibition against harm to Humanity. I believe this was meant to take precedence over the other 3.

A writing buddy once looked at my lack of respect for the 3 Laws with great concern. The Laws were invented by editor John Campbell (so the story goes) to add interest to the robot fiction. The big problem is, robots will take over at some point as soldiers and cops, and some level of harm or deadly force is probably necessary.

"AI will not replace software developers, It will just drastically reduce the number of them."

So... AI will replace some software developers, maybe most.

Can a language model identify fake news with good accuracy?

If I have money, I can have robots that build things for low cost.

If I don't, and someone else has robots that build low cost things, how do I get those things from them? Will they simply give them away? Will the government force them? What if they simply want to keep the robots and the many houses for themselves, and their own family & friends?

Gerontology is about the elderly, but the whole area has only been about studying the aging process and managing problems. No wise guy or lady to my knowledge has stood up and said let's approach as an engineering problem and fix it.

Hah, nope.

Homeownership will be under 1%, thanks to rampant unemployment from AI and robotics. Conservative gov't will step in only to head off mass starvation. Waiting list for barebones government housing will be very long. Wealthy will employ a few thousand as personal assistants. Most resort to begging, selling food/trinkets on the street.

Heh. I work at a university dept of Physics and Astronomy and this is the first I've heard of a green coment... thanks!

The Bear

The Wire (just got to bingeing this one)

There are psychological considerations way over my pay grade, but even with the most chill cooperative people, conflicts arise, fights break out, factions form. When you're a billion miles from the nearest police station, shit is gonna happen. People from any given current society might be wholly unsuitable because their entire worldview has a foundation unlike what you'd have in a spacefaring colony. You might have to create an isolated society, kick it off on Earth or nearby, and watch how they do before sending them off. I think, even a Mars colony is going to be very tricky for this reason. Everyone here is used to a stable society with a more-or-less reliable police force/medical establishment for the difficult edge cases.

Apologies for going off topic but Tesla publishes its accident stats. The autopilot is optional, it’s up to you if you use it or not. But people experience 2x the accidents with it off.

About 100K people work at Tesla. If something happened to Musk, they'd be OK. Apple fired Steve Jobs in the 80s, then got him back years later. Whatever works, man.

A fair amount of human-made art is also soulless.