IrateAnteater

The people who complain about X-Men being "woke" are the same group of people who complained that Rage Against the Machine had "gotten too political".

They also needed to have some sort of coherent message. Most could barely articulate why they were there, and what they wanted.

I also wish that people would start actually presenting some actionable alternatives. And not high concept, "we should strive to do x" alternatives, but actual "we can start implementing this change tomorrow" type things. I'm getting tired of hearing from all sides that everything is fucked. I know everything is fucked. What is the plan to fix it? And no, "burn it all down and start over" isn't a plan. That's a tantrum.

I work in the auto industry, so programming the machines that make the car parts. Humans are still involved because getting machines to handle changing conditions is very slow, expensive, and still winds up unreliable in a lot of cases. The simple process of picking a randomly oriented part up out of a bin and placing it accurately on a fixture is actually very difficult for a machine to do, when compared to how easily a human can accomplish the exact same task.

Automation requires very high precision/consistency in the parts you want to work on. I seriously doubt that after many years of wear, tear, and impromptu repairs, those ships would be anywhere near consistent enough.

A lot of it has to do when the produce is picked. Things that fully ripen on the plant will be better than the store bought stuff that by necessity has to be picked under-ripe, so that it will be ripe by the time it makes it to store shelves.

Honestly, I don't see how you would do it without general AI, which is something that will be solved in the digital domain first anyway.

I do industrial automation for a living, and I just want to point out that automating things that exist purely in the digital domain is far easier than automating things like ship breaking.

To continue with the heavy industry examples, many run 24/7, not because of direct profit motives, but because of the massive cost associated with letting the process go cold. I've done work at a glass recycling plant where the said point blank: if the furnace ever goes cold, they will just close the plant entirely, since it would cost too much to clean it out and get it going again. Not all processed lend themselves to being turned on and off again constantly.

For home use, sure that distributed model may work. For industrial use, it won't. The power demands are too high. Especially if you want to cut out the emissions from things like steel production.

None of these options are "that hard", but until some storage is built on the multi-gigawatt scale, any conjecture on real build cost is a waste of time.

The people who make those kinds of comments are the ones that weren't paying attention in history class.

I'd reserve judgement on that until they start building grid level battery storage on a scale an order of magnitude bigger than current setups.