It’s believable enough for 100-200 years from now. In reality, life on earth has been getting better (for humans at least).

It’s very unlikely that an optimally functioning society would be very equal. Full equality is more likely to be a side-effect of AI advancing to the point that humans can’t differentiate much in how much value they can offer others.

Full equality requires that nobody really be able to offer significantly more to other…

There’s no assumption that he’d be leading the building of these environments. He’s mainly focusing on core infrastructure that will let other people, and other entrepreneurs build the future.

Nobody knows about living in space. That will be discovered as time goes by and systems form organically based on the constraints they experience, and what works well in that environment.

It’s better in general for different people to take on different responsibilities that appeal to them. Bezos and Musk focusing on space, is not all that many visionaries focused on space.

The seas are a promising area, but a focus on space is probably better for humanity long term. As he says, this is a multi-generational project.

I think it’s assumed that a lot of resources will come from asteroids. Aside from that... There would be fewer people complaining about nuclear, if it was powering things in space.

The main employees of Amazon are the engineers and other business people. Who admittedly also have a demanding life - but that’s the price you pay to get to do great things... Nobody actually “has to” work at Amazon.

As usual, ownership depends on who is there, and has enough power to stop other people from taking what they have.

Most likely, different groups or countries will claim different parts of the moon and stop others from getting in without permission.

There’s no guarantee on how they’re managing power scaling across movies and whether it’s consistent.

We should go back to living in caves while we’re at it...

Obviously, the taxi companies are trying to degrade Uber / Lyft into basically taxis... It’s also just another added layer of difficulty to stop people from wanting to join Uber by forcing them to deface their car in some way.

Speaking for me personally, assuming I was willing to work for Uber and go through their background checks (seems plausible), going for fingerprinting ... feels like an offensive invasion of my privacy (I don’t like giving away biometric information as a general rule - and it stinks of being treated like a criminal)

I’d think of it like this: “For every 1/10s slow down in Amazon’s site, they expect to lose around a billion dollars a year”... Which is to say that small things affect people when you are dealing with large numbers.

I doubt it, although it wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Part of what’s interesting about this is that AlphaGo only plays to win (barely). It only makes sure that it’s ahead - and it lost because it was slightly wrong in assuming that it was already ahead.

These are mostly ‘learning’ systems. Like the AI that played old Atari games... It was learning to win the game, from a starting point where it had no concept of sight or what anything was...