Not necessarily. Because these systems approach problems in a different way, their types of mistakes may be very different in nature than mistakes humans would make. The types of mistakes isn't really important. Its the rate of the mistakes, the severity, and the safety record over time.

If an AI can drive with a record that results in less traffic injuries and/or fatalities, and either fewer accidents or an accident total that is lower in monetary cost, then they're doing better than human drivers, even if they occasionally might make a mistake a human driver wouldn't. By the same token the AI will never fall asleep or crash into the back of another vehicle because a pretty girl came jogging by.

You ever saw a human driver do something stupid too?

Remember that the goal isn't perfection - its performance better than human drivers.

Personally I don't really care that much about what they're asking for the games new, because I almost never buy them right at release. Just about everything will be $15 or less (sometimes $5 or less) if you just wait on the price to drop that far. Might be a year or two out from release, but you can still play them.

VERY occasionally a game is worth the price at launch (eg, I bought Baldur's Gate 3 at launch and was happy with the purchase), but aside from those just wait some.

Which is admittedly a special situation. While housing isn't a fixed supply, housing is typically associated with real estate, which most certainly IS fixed supply.

As the population grows, there are more and more people wanting ownership of the same supply of parcels of land. It will go up, resulting in increased housing costs.

Eventually something will need to be done to mitigate this. What that is, I have no idea, but eventually its not going to be feasible for people to be spending 10 years worth of annual salary total on a house.

You may be putting words in his mouth by assuming "AI" when he said "software".

Open up Visual studio and start drawing out a GUI app and a ton of the background code is then generated by software. Its been that way for ~30 years. That is was written by software doesn't necessarily mean it was AI, unless we're jumping on the train of calling basically everything in the computer "AI" these days.

Depends - energy production can be localized with transmission proving problematic. It could be that some locations could have abundant renewables that aren't easily transmitted to where they're needed, but if you're sequestering carbon they could potentially do that on-site without having to transmit the power elsewhere.

EG you could put solar panels in deserts - plenty of sunshine is available with few cloudy days, but they're typically sparsely populated and you might not want to do the infrastructure to get that power to population centers. It could be fine to be powering sequestering equipment though.

Plus research here is needed is invariably all fossil fuels will eventually be dumped into the atmosphere either way. Whether you stretch it to 300 years or 5000 years they'll all get burned, and when the natural cleanup process of the planet to get it back out of the atmosphere is 100k to 150k years, both scenarios are a blip.

We either have to be prepared to eventually just deal with the warmer climate or develop technologies to artificially syphon that carbon back out faster than nature can.

Most people don't have the space to feasibly keep chickens. Even with a backyard most locales aren't going to allow livestock to be kept (either through local zoning ordinances or HOA rules). If you're in the city in an apartment then its a complete non-starter.

I think this is truly what is needed for a broad push to EV's rather than people wanting to switch for ideological reasons. People people don't want to wait 30+ minutes for a full recharge. If they can get a useable charge in 5 minutes though, then most people wouldn't mind that wait.

I think the event driven thing is a big thing.

My dad drank regularly. It was just a normal practice for my dad to drink a beer or two after work - every day. He generally wasn't getting shit-faced (that would be expensive), but just a couple of beer every day.

I don't have any issues with drinking myself, but I have no desire to do so daily. When I'm on vacation I'll drink a good bit, or when I'm at a party, but other than that I never do so. I think the last time I had a drink was probably 3 or 4 months ago. That's no some "x many days sober" type of thing where I'm trying to avoid it - I just haven't any the occasion to drink for that long.

I have a strong suspicion that life itself isn't that rare - but complex life may be (and intelligent life even more so).

For the majority of time that life has existed on Earth it was just single celled boring life. It was only about 600 million years ago when anything interesting started happening. Life itself seems to have emerged 3.5 to 4.1 billion years ago.

If it was simple life for that long before making the jump to complex life, to me that suggests that the jump was not guaranteed or inevitable - it happened by chance, but the planet only has about 800 million years of good habitability left. If the evolution to complex life had taken much longer it would have never even happened here.

Then again until we find other planets with a history of life its speculative. It could just be that complex life starts fast but Earth was a slow exception.

Indeed. I've had typos on my return and they get rejected shortly after being submitted. I still don't get - if they immediately know what I submitted is wrong, then why do I have to submit at all?

Every vendor for every piece of software we have is trying to push us to SaaS but we're mostly not doing it.

Yeah you save the cost of servers, but the increased scheduled costs usually erases any savings there, but also all the databases are not hosted off the LAN so any type of integrations or syncs have to at best be done using an API (which is inevitably more limited), or at worse just can't be done at all.

There really shouldn't be an "AC equivalent" - an air conditioner IS a heat pump. You run it in one direction and you get hot air inside - you reverse it and you get cool air inside.

Its not "skirting the law" if something is going into effect on X date so you scramble to do something before that date takes place. That's like saying people who drive 55 mph when the limit is 60 mph are "skirting the law" by just going a bit slower.

They probably will pay the extra, but they'll certainly not be happy about seeing the prices go up. And even if it did bring manufacturing "home" to the US, the prices would likely be even higher, so at the end of the day they're going to complain either way.

Now, to SOME degree in a military scenario where imports can be disrupted, I think its a good idea for the US to maintain good capability to manufacture guns, ammunition, vehicles, ships, etc domestically with as little foreign parts or resources as possible. That's just from the standpoint of national security. And we don't need to necessarily choose to do that with tariffs - we can use incentives to manufacture locally (or just require that all government purchases of such items be from domestic manufacturers). For everything else though, tariffs are dumb and do nothing but raise prices.