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I give it three seconds before right wingers turn that into "the (((UN))) wants to murder all capitalists".
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Conspiratiorist posted:Not megacities. Megacities as they exist now are terrible because it's unmanaged urban sprawl turned upwards. All you actually need, in terms of physical space to comfortably house the entire human population, is a bunch of Parises. Paris is incredibly space and resource efficient for its population, and it's got nothing to do with skyscrapers or whatever. It's just that most of the city's housing is 6-story buildings and there's very few individual separated homes. That's it. There's still plenty of luxury and budget accommodations everywhere and literally over half the city's land is public parkland. Edit: 3,300 Parises would be enough for the entire planet's current population. Edit edit: That's 136,000 square miles, or about the size of Utah and Colorado put together. And that's including more than half of that area being open parkland. Roadie fucked around with this message at 08:47 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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Time to start buying future tropical beachfront property in Canada and Norway.
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Libluini posted:True that, hopefully we can invest enough in developing AI to make our Lord (or Lady, I'm not choosy) a reality. SkyNet mowing down dumbass humans everywhere couldn't make things worse, anyhow. What do you do when it turns out the AI overlord loves rolling coal, though?
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Grouchio posted:The AI Overlord would not roll coal because even now it's cost-efficiency is beginning to be overshadowed by renewable energy. Thus it would love to roll solar. You seem to have this weird assumption that AIs must be logical.
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Oct 10, 2018 21:42
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StabbinHobo posted:i'm kindof amazed we don't have more robotic solar farm stuff going yet "why has nobody implemented this thing I just thought of that I decided should obviously be easy after giving it ten seconds' thought" Literally nobody has mastered durable flexible electronics yet despite it being what literally every phone company in the world is working.
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Oct 10, 2018 23:30
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SlimGoodbody posted:Is anyone else wistfully hopeful that stellarators, AI, and quantum computing will actually drop by their proposed 2030 schedules and help usher in a sea change as radical as the Industrial Revolution? Unlimited free sustainable energy and the ability to do sickeningly complicated simulations could really make a difference. Real AI would be p. cool, but on the other hand, paperclips.
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Oct 24, 2018 01:49
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Lackmaster posted:Seriously, everyone should read this. It’s amazing. I'd still rather have nerds thinking about dumb pie-in-the-sky poo poo that could save the planet as opposed to dumb pie-in-the-sky poo poo like space elevators that exclusively fulfills nerd dreams.
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Some good news, I guess?quote:The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's request Friday to stop a lawsuit brought by youths who are seeking to hold the government accountable for failing to do enough to fight climate change.
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