Why laser light, Why not just sit in the sun without hat?

The Sachdev–Ye–Kitaev (SYK) model is an exactly solvable model of strongly coupled systems. This group (which has a reputation for hype and excitability) performed an SYK calculation n a conventional computer - why? 2+2 would have done the same thing - and then mirrored it on a noisy 9 bit quantum "computer". The results matched so there had to be a wormhole connection! However, a 9 bit QC can be exactly replicated on a classical computer so the "quantum" bit is irrelevant. Two computers are fed roughly the same inputs, and then come up with a similar output. Wow! A worm hole is born.

I encountered this in a general publication - The Times - and the messy opacity of the reporting clicked on my bullshit detector. It hasn't stopped clicking since.

Oh goodie, it's got scientists so it must be good to go. Albeit the lead fgure is "a chemical engineer and political scientist". And it's got a warp field so that's all right.

Don't give up the day job, and - unsolicited advice - do pin down the tentacle coming out of your poorly rendered head.

Whose sperm are they counting? Young men. What do young men do more than their predecessors? Wank.

What is the difference between agroforestry and plain old forestry? OPs statement is simply wrong: you can't eat trees - I assume that fruticulture is not agrowhatnet - aand forests do burn, and burn pretty frequently is extensive and allowed to mature.

> Now that is an AI being disingenuous

Or an illiterate OP. Always choose the simplest explanation. W Occam, prop.

Yes, if you had a magic wand you could do great things. But you don't.

Utter boondoggle. You have around quarter of a million plants in a hectare. At what rate is this consumer product going to sift through them for weeds? What does that do for pests? To suggest that shifting from agrochemicals to this sort of thing would "double yield" is at best misleading and at worst a lie.

Well, not with a silly little thing as in the illustration. You want a 20 km radius slowly rotating dick disk - Edit: Freud, you should be living at this hour - with components either space fabbed from Lunar raw materials or assembled as modules on the Moon. Gives a reason for Moon activities, as opposed to disk waving (got it right this time).

Not exactly new: here's one small UK based company but a Google search throws up thousand of them. I was involved in an early attempt at this in Australia. Unhappily, our rather large system proved too tempting a target for rifle users and they got shot up. Must have been an anemometer on the top, spinning away. This was pre-Internet, so we used meteor trails as "mirrors" to bounce signals: transmita constant signal, when the sensor picks it up its empties its bowels and that bounces off the ion trail.

Web site won't scroll. Useless. Somewhat misses the point that "the Internet" is in fact two Internets: the C2C/C2B one and the larger B2B affair. Much of the B2B has dedicated connections and is isolated from tiny fingers.

Can democracy survive a situation in which perhaps half the population are functionally useless and marginalised? Nope, So what's the alternative to populist instability?

A computer simulation would be unable to simulate the fundamentals of quantum physics: true randomness, Heisenberg and so on.

Lots of excited generalisations, but what is it actually good for? The headline is gibberish, particularly the second sentence.

Any such system has to be thought about in the context of an ageing population. Can it be left alone as sole carer to a demented octogenarian? If so, hype on. If not, who actually spends 20 hours a week on household maintenance?

I repeat: where do any of those fit into the domestic kitchen?

Why would "society" want accelerators in their kitchen?

What does "autonomy" mean? What, outside of a student bar, is "liquid democracy"? The 'moneyless' concept implies no trade, and thus no specialisation or efficiency. You make you own shoes and grow you own wheat in order to bake you own bread. That is worse than nonsense: it is barbarism. The whole essence, the core, of the human endeavour, is specialisation and exchange, collective institutions to manage security and keep shit out of the water supply.

Reduce population to around 2.5 bn, with a heaty dose of eugenics in how it is managed. OK: boo hiss, but that is the true problem, too many people.

An explosive, cryogenic liquid that embrittles most materials that it contacts. What could possibly go wrong? Given a supply of hydrogen, the best thing to do is to hang it onto recycled carbon: aka synthetics gasoline and diesel. Biomass easily transforms into syngas (CO + H2). Add some more H2 and Bob's your catalytic uncle, portable liquid fuels.

Likely to have very poor efficiency by reason of the thermodynamics of Carnot engines. Delta T is low, efficiency =1−T^C T^Hor 1 - Delta T. CO2 has latent heat of 353.4 kJ/kg, not as bad as water (2256 kJ/kg) but not as good as R22 refrigerant (232) or heptane o hexane (mid 300s). You aren't going to release the storage fluid, so its constituent doesn't much matter.

Utterly typical Guardian article. It posits what it thinks should be - that the larger nations should be a cooperative "family" - and then wails when this fantasy is not attained. Read some goddam history, Guardian.

Organisations work for their owners, which is to say, shareholders. Boards are elected with elaborate controls to ensure their responsibility to those owners. How is this supposed to work in this nonsense scheme? The closest to such a structure lies in cooperatives of artisans, who buy collectively an share work around, a bit. These are far from nicey-nicey structures, but hard edged, quarrelsome entities.