humanspiral

The SpaceX/Anduril plan is $2.5T. This initial $25B is just to pay for weapon salesmen to sell the US/public on $2.5T. Like most modern US military spending, the goal is to spend rather than produce value.

With war on Canada, and rest of world, commercial truck and ship bombs are a good path to annonymous destruction of US, where political blame is independent of facts like 9/11. Submarines can attack with short range missiles. If you/enemy believes that golden dome is 99.9% effective, and you/enemy would like to collapse the US economically with a single nuke, as punishment for its hubris, then sending 1000 ICBMs will work. This means producing much more missiles and nuclear payloads, and the dome effectiveness will be overstated and undertested. Much more missiles are likely to get through.

could this boil one molecule of water?

1. No need to buy car companies to get a head start on manufacturing. Car automation is a bit specialized, but multi DOF robot arms, and 3d/cnc machines, are going to be more precise at manufacturing than humanoid robots.

2. Programming for humanoid robots is exponentially harder, and at best, can replicate some human labour tasks. 100% quality replication is very hard. Even if you can replicate $1/hour labour quality, there is still a limit to usefulness, as that labour capacity exists already. Military applications though can "tolerate" high mistake level.

3. There is no user software platform that exists. It is much simpler to get a LLM/AI interface to 3d printing/CAD/CNC model generation than humanoid steps, even if environmental implementation/obstacles are handled in software/AI, and its unclear that there is success in 3d manufacturing realm. The software almost needs to come first, even in a simulated environment, before humanoid robots are practical. Military applications somewhat excepted.

4. OpenAI is not particularly ahead at anything. Their military/Empire supremacism lobbying focus is not a manufacturing focus. Military vehicles that are wheeled or airborne are easier to program to shoot at all the things, and easier to get paid $Ms per unit, and remote control is both much easier and still worth $Ms, until exponential production capacity.

So, while adapting humanoid manufacturing/task robots to military is extremely attractive, the money is in military, and other vehicles are much easier, and OpenAI is not ahead on anything even if they have the most paper wealth. The paper wealth has many more immediate military opportunities to cash in on.

That is a better message, because it includes specific consequences of "why, do not open". OP leaves open the possibility of trying to peek at why. The plot of Alien(s) involves someone trying to militarize the Xenomorphs.

If we all woke up with $417,465 tomorrow, we would instantly be broke

That's not true, though, fully equal wealth redistribution does create an incentive problem, but tax based redistribution, such as UBI, allows for ROI and Return On Time/Work. It's fair that the slaver class must pay more for work if the structural desperation of accepting slave level wages is eliminated, but there is direct economic growth from UBI/tax redistribution, from higher money flow/velocity, and so Return on slave's work can be positive, and certainly, the slaver/capital class still has all income/wealth trickle up to them.

I wouldn’t mow your lawn for $20

You might like me, or like society enough, to help me/society for a fair price. You don't need to travel far if you're my neighbour. The $20 might be equivalent to a few beers. But even if you will only do it for $40, that is more beer sales, and more brewing workers/income, and more demand for lawn mowing.

Germany has a very binary view on class supremacism. It's not supremacism is good vs bad. It's a pendulum of who is above criticism. Russophobic nazi supremacism still kosher though.

Will this asteroid ever return to near earth collision?

On its current trajectory, will it ever reach anything "interesting" again?

What would be the benefit of going faster over being able to communicate with it?

To show alien invasion force where to come exterminate us???

I don't know. Is there an ultimate destination?

This is about roll thrusters that permit orientation that allows communications/operation from earth. How many years of fuel does it have for roll thrusters, and does it share fuel with propulsion thrusters, and is there any thought of making it go faster instead of staying operationally controllable?

Policy for abundance and competition matters a lot for China success. It starts with abundant raw material and processing. Steel and construction materials matters to factory building costs in addition to new energy production costs. It's unclear how much of abundance outcomes is the result of direct incentives to material producers/refiners vs "build it and they will come" attitudes that includes confidence in supporting clean energy/vehicles downstream.

In the west, oil oligarchy protectionism drives policy. History of oil companies patting themselves on the back with PR on clean energy while doing nothing. Funding massive disinformation and politicians for climate terrorism, and the solutions/progress that is made outside of oil companies is just extremely slow. Meant for PR and scarcity, and the hopes that high scarcity profits can be dressed up as rewarding national champions doing a little bit against global warming. Most of the IRA is not about creating US abundance, but rather setting up US monopolies in US supply chain, that have caused projects to stall because they are not competitive by US ROI standards, and the lack of confidence in usurping oil oligarchy for US only market.

Article starts off with "do we need domestic industry?" before not making any conclusions about it later. If Aliens came to earth to trade us cheap stuff, US oligarchy would insist on losing a war against the Aliens instead. Cheap energy and materials further makes jobs. Solar especially has up to 90% of its costs as local deployment spending. Cheap energy and materials is core to competitive manufacturing, and low consumer cost of living. The political reaction to go to war with competitive goods to protect domestic oligarchy profits, and pretend to support uncompetitive domestic upstarts with subsidies, is a net social loss. We end up with a high subsidy per job level, where UBI (full society redistribution) would enable more affordability of better products instead.

hmmm... the girls geeking out over tech and horsepower. Guys just like soft and pretty looking.