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Could I interest you in everything all of the time? Would you like to fight for civil rights or tweet a racial slur? It's the free bit that amazes me here.

I 98% agree. The 2% I disagree is "robots in Bangladesh" - for all most people in the west care, these already exist - they're called the Bangladeshi. It's a horrible thought when you realise that you're basically already an Eloi.

I have a huge amount of sympathy for this point of view, but go back a chunk of time and ask the same about tractors or many forms of machinery. If you believe a utopia of zero mandatory work is possible due to robots and AI (huge, colossal, massive if!) then that actually means not working...

These are fascinatingly different approaches to the scaling problem. One of my queries for all autonomous vehicles (although especially trucks) is if they can autonomously decide to use a Runaway truck ramp. You may make the case that this is the wrong answer with redundancies built in, but...

I'm going to place myself on the record as 100% certain of a safe landing. That said, I'm very glad there's no-one onboard. And, as I'm in an unfriendly timezone, I'm going to bed and will return to discover how correct I was.

From the cool: First Ever Tour Of Blue Origin's Massive New Glenn Launch Pad w/ Jeff Bezos! Everyday Astronaut View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu8SlfmpKM4 to the struggle-to-cool "uh huh" https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lumen-orbit

Fantastic update, but somewhat saddening. Curse you physics and economics for getting in the way of my scifi dreams.

I doubt it, but as this was a life leader that's earned it's keep, it's possible that SpaceX were performing an envelope push and very much found an edge.

I specifically remember bad faith morons telling me there were no such things as positive climate feedbacks only a couple of years ago. What stage of denial are we at now? Is it "but China!?" Or "there's nothing we can do"? The latter of course ignores that we caused this in the first place. I...

No, let's not make an effort to get past this. As you say, accomplished people were reduced to nothings by it. Perhaps it might have worked if there had been a preparatory paragraph describing their skills and accomplishments. Perhaps it might have worked verbally in a small group of known...

Public Service Broadcasting: Inform, Educate, Entertain. A certain segment of the population: "we must kill it at all costs"

I think there's an element of the American market in general being completely different to European expectations. I'm in the UK, in tech, decently paid (more would be nice) and lead a nice life. If you were to convert my salary £ to $ you'd think my life was much harder than it is. Edit...

It's worth having a read of this interview with Rivian CEO which is in part about some if this and their deal with VW https://www.theverge.com/24201749/rivian-ceo-rj-scaringe-ev-electric-truck-r1-tesla-model-y-competition-decoder-interview

To paraphrase something I read “you may have an AGI to write your reviews, but at some point someone has to lie on the mattress to see if it actually is comfy“

I was aware of the nanopore sequencing, I was not aware it was no longer state of the art. Can we have an article on long read sequencing?

Here's a "fun" tangent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyromitrin Bumped into via this video.

Governments are arbiters. Publish nuclear secrets and see what happens. The real conversation is an honest discussion about where the limits lie (hah!) in the full complexity of reality where there are honest people having honest discussions as well as badly informed actors, and badly...

Pay for good journalism. Accept reading things that make you uncomfortable. I subscribe to three locations. One of which is here. Edit: Fast has become vastly overrated - because it's what the platforms specialise in and that proper journalism can rarely compete with.

I say this is free speech. And so do the other 25,000 automated sock-puppet accounts I run. On the platform I own. /s

They'll definitely do inspection, that will feed back to manufacturing.