Countries with demographic implosions are trying to automate that with robots. Japan worship everything robot and has the highest fraction over age 60. They propose innovative ideas.

Do you want to work at age 200?

It depends on whether 200 feels like age 30 or 80 (currently).

On the other hand, I was impressed at the performance of the only two Artemis missions: an orbital run in 2014 and multi week lunar run in 2022. However, a huge cost and delays.

Its one of the oldest AI apps from the 1970. People became fascinated with ELIZA app.

Millennials are not reproducing. So there will be too few people to pay for their retirement in 2050s. Boomers did reproduce.

Some of these Large Language Models have the defect of more more and more of kilter the longer one interacts with them. One vendor is limiting the length of interaction.

A gallon of gasoline adds about 20 pounds of CO2. Twenty gallons, a ton. This vehicle compensates for 5 ounces of gasoline in 20,000 miles.

In our solar system Earth and Venus are similar size, but quite different surfaces and atmospheres.

Geophysicists measured a magnetic reversal happening 16.7 million years ago through centuries of lava flows. The field doesnt flip suddenly (like every 22 years on the Sun), but weakens and flickers over several centuries before reorganizing in the opposite direction. A magnetic compass would not be useful for navigation during this period.

Computer simulations of the geomagnetic dynamo also sees flickering, both with and without a reversal. Its possible we are merely in a minor flicker now or in the early stages of a full reversal. The intensity of the Earths field is down by 8% since first measurements about 200 years ago. There are claims of a stronger field millennia ago measured in pottery made from high iron clays. They would magnetize slightly after cooling off.

https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/186/2/580/587671

The official US position is there is a human in the decision loop for death decisions.

Now many other companies have developed drones, a human oversight is not always the case.

Special purpose CPUs that perform lower precision calculations that are fine for neural nets. You need 64 bit floating point for weather prediction, but 8 bit integer works OK for some neural calculations. The previous CPUs could downshift to smaller numbers, but were not proportionally faster. The new ones are. NVIDIA, Google, Apple have special neural chips.

For those who remember the 1950s, the launch of Sputnik was somewhat terrifying because there was this object from the Enemy going over our heads every 90 minutes and we couldnt do shit about it. After ten thousand satellites from everywhere people dont worry that much. Its puzzling to me why balloon-gate revives the same fears.

One sounded like an escaped "Happy Birthday" balloon. Wait until all those Valentines Day balloons escape. That will massively terrorize the US military.

Lithium batteries are good for a thousand charges. Thats when a mobile device starts to fade. I think in some models one can replace the battery. Even Apple has issued a repair manual, but its not easy.

The United States has been self-sufficient in crude oil and petroleum products since 2020. New Mexico contributed to this.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_sndw_dcus_nus_w.htm (see net imports near bottom)

Whats the scale factor to get dollars?

A smart detector would be to record ALL requests and output, then match against that.

I wish I could pay 3.9% tax on my income. ☹️

Actually, when the Big Bang became the predominant cosmological theory in the 1960s, some criticized it as being too much like Biblical Creation. Scientists follow the evidence and dont care if the evidence supports a religious idea or not.

Answer: Another technology of non-counterfeitable blockchain watermarks will identify authentic digital evidence. Inauthentic evidence will be inadmissible. People have been working on this for money and votes that cant be faked. This will extend to evidence.

Arabic speaking scientists carried the science torch from 700 C.E. To 1200 C.E. More classical works would have been lost if they didnt copy them.

We have Genghis Khan to thank for ending Arabic cultural hegemony. When hordes encountered resistant cities, they killed 99% and enslaved the useful remaining 10%.

Answer: They have been saying this for 60 years with every development if software engineering. Assemblers and compilers are an early form of A.I. called expert systems.

The number of programmers per CPU has been steadily declining over the decades. In mainframe days you had dozens of programers per mainframe. By the early PC days and the invention of retail software it declined to less than one programmer per computer. Now will trillions of CPUs in every king of appliance and huge server farms, there are many thousands ofCPUs per programmer.

You should check to see if you overpaid social security tax. Especially if neither job made $147,000, but the total of both jobs made more than that.

Employer payroll software have no knowledge of other jobs.

Proxima b

Only 4 light years and in the habitable zone.

Answer: Frankly the A.I.s are smarter than many in Congress.