I realize that rocket-engine advances are often made in small, single-digit increments, but I’m curious just how much more efficient these engines are compared to more traditional engines?

Even as a fan-service movie, it’s very meh. What little of it I could be bothered to watch had me asking myself why I started watching it in the first place. I mean, Spirits Within wasn’t all that good either, but at least it wasn’t retreading the same ground in a less interesting and even more contrived manner. So…

More or less the core problem: Snyder took an entire series of ‘major stories’ and then distilled them down to a bunch of cutscenes that he stitched together into a trite ‘feature-film length’ trailer of what could have been much better movies if they’d been given time to breathe. It’s like if someone read a quick…

Even if there are lots of additional satellites in the same orbital shell, they’re still only trash if they’re not interconnected. If Kuiper and Starlink satellites can connect and transmit data directly between their respective networks (see: peering agreements that terrestrial ISPs already do) without having…

That’s hardly unique, even for Snyder.

It won’t much matter — they’ve essentially taken months of community feedback about all the things that they did wrong with Starfield...and just completely ignored all the big ones, focusing instead of minor, irrelevant miscellaneous nonsense. Imagine, if you will, if Fortnite had constant connectivity issues and…

Ready Player Dumb....

Sure, if you ignore the fact that field experts for AI, robotics, and automation, who interact with billionaires frequently, are being asked what it would take to do essentially what I just said. They’re not ‘just asking’ because they’re ‘just curious...’

You ask, I’ll answer:

They are when they’re the only ones left....

Neighbors, yes. Friends and family, no.

Because people are ignorant, arrogant, stupid, shortsighted, lazy, etc, etc. It’s a failing that’s not reserved for the wealthy and powerful.

You just answered your own question: because they *won’t* be ‘above’ anyone. In the new world order to come, there will only be the wealthy and their ‘pets.’ And people also don’t reliably carry act outs of genocide on their friends and family. Machines...machines have no such failings.

You just answered your own question: because they *won’t* be ‘above’ anyone. In the new world order to come, there will only be the wealthy and their ‘pets.’ And people also don’t reliably carry act outs of genocide on their friends and family. Machines...machines have no such failings.

Sure, the ‘line goes up’ *IF* you ignore that it only goes up for a very tiny percentage of the population. And sure, the world ‘gets better’ *IF* you ignore that it only gets better for that same tiny percentage of the population. For everyone else, things are just as bad as they’ve ever been if not worse. Often a…

Yes, and an important part of the system to be replaced with ‘machines’ is ‘law enforcement.’ Because ‘human powered’ law enforcement might decide they’d rather be in charge instead. And that’s a problem, because ‘law enforcement’ is only effective if they’re armed. Can’t have armed people getting any ideas about…

Freeing humans from the drudgery of repetitive tasks has been the goal of every technological enhancement in human history.

That’s a big part of why the wealthy are so obsession with AI — so they can preemptively identify and eliminate all the people who might consider building a guillotine, along with anyone who might incite such actions. See: AI’s growing incorporation into ‘law’ enforcement.

Billionaires like Zuck are ‘reading’ the writing on the wall and are taking steps to ensure that ‘me and mine’ survives the coming catastrophes that *THEY* had a direct hand in creating, exacerbating, and/or perpetuating. It’s a *BIG* reason why they’re pushing so hard on AI. It isn’t about money or profit margins.…

Yup. The Hobbit’s focus shift to spectacle over content was, in no uncertain terms, a disaster. The whole reason it turned into a trilogy, complete with all the pointless, mindless bloat it came with, was driven by that choice.