As far as I know, there has never been any proof that dark energy actually exists, only theories only conjectures.

Dark Energy , and Dark Matter, aren't really theories in the sense we usually use in science. They are placeholders to describe missing variables in the math used to describe gravitational behavior as it deviates from the otherwise highly reliable Einsteinian and Newtonian accounts for it.

Dark Matter, because the maths and observations seem to show a *lot* more mass in galaxies than we can account for.

And Dark Energy, because something appears to be accelerating expansion, and basic physics tells us that if something is accelerating, theres a force being applied *somehow*.

But we dont know what that missing mass in galaxies, or the missing energy in expansion, is, so its "Dark". Its not a conjecture, or a theory, its literally scientists saying "We dont know whats going on here".

And you cant disprove that, because your trying to disprove that scientists dont know whats happening. But most assuredly they dont know whats happening, and THAT is what Dark Energy literally is. The giant question mark surrounding a fudge factor in the maths.

After all, they have bills to pay, too.

When the problem is easy credit, adding more easy credit just makes things worse. The only fix is a massive destruction of credit and the malinvestments it created, but that's impossible in a democracy as you'll lose the next election.

Motorola/IBM too, same time period. I talked to the head of their chip division at the time. POWER (not PowerPC) was doing investigation into vertical chips.

Mind you, this guy also told me there would never be a chip faster than 2Ghz due to thermal limits so...yeah.

Ultimately responsibility will be some distribution between Perplexity itself and the 'owner' of the robot.

Think about those lunatics who keep running people over with Tesla autopilot. Who is responsble? Well its not the car, its just an object, not a subject. The driver has some responsibility because he authorized the car to do its autopiliot, and Tesla has some responsibility, because its autopilot is shit.

In this case the customer authorizes perplexity to do this, and perplexity is the one doing it, via a robot. If its a shit purchase, well some of that will be on perplexity, but some of it is also on the customer for being so stupid as to let a robot shop for it. How a court would divide up that responsibility is likely a matter for lawyers and juries.

When I was travelling in the third world about 25 years ago one of the locals was telling me how, unlike developed countries, everyone who could afford it had to buy a generator to produce power when the grid couldn't.

Yeah.

Reliable power is just so 20th century. Probably fascist too.

> They were workers from Hyundai which were setting up a battery plant and EV manufacturing plant in Georgia who were there to oversee the construction and the training of American workers

And presumably didn't bother to get visas?

They seem to have dropped a lot in the UK as well if the Youtube video I watched the other day was showing real numbers.

Though much of the problem may be that most working people there simply can't afford any kind of new car any more. They have to be on welfare to buy one.

"He who does not work shall not eat" - Lenin

I now pay for high-speed Internet so I can sit waiting for 20 seconds for Cloudflare to "check I'm human" when I click on a link.

Technology destroying their 'security system' sounds like a good thing to me.

The actual big cost in power for most places (Not just australia) ends up being infrastructure anyway.

Every now and then the local conservatives here have a sook about how green energy is making everyones bills go up. But when you actually look at where the hikes in bills came from, its almost always maintaince of ageing power grids, usually in areas serviced by the old coal and gas stations, because the infrastructure is just so old.

When you have a president that lies on average 21 times per DAY (source), what does it matter if an AI does it ? I mean, sure, it's whataboutism, but you can't claim the moral high ground when your high ground is at the bottom of the Mariana trench.

Ahhhh, tell me you're a midwit without telling me you're a midwit.

I got a STEM scholarship to one of the world's top five universities. It's now down to about twentieth because of DIE but at the time it was a pretty hot deal.

It was a waste of a few years of my life and if I'd had to pay for it myself I wouldn't have bothered. About all it does is help get my resume past HR drones.

> I do NOT want someone who has skipped college engineering my cars, my nuclear power plants, my wind farms....
> I do NOT want someone who skipped college treating my wounds, performing surgery, or teaching me advanced mathematics.

Good for you. Doctors and engineers would typically fit into the "subjects which require a lot of hands-on work with expensive equipment" category.

> The number of people who can learn fluid dynamics, system mechanics, aeronautical engineering, nursing, doctoring, or any other real technical subject by just going 'online' is vanishingly small. Like - near zero.

Tell me you don't know any smart people without telling me you don't know any smart people. Smart people learn things so quickly that it's astonishing that midwits think it should take years.

It's a midwit thing. They always want to pretend they're better than other people so they'll pick some group and claim that group are stoopid, stoopid, stoopid because the midwit has a piece of paper which says they're smart and the stoopid people don't.

Really it's just basic class warfare. A hundred years ago they would have been saying the same about blacks.

In reality, I know a lot of very smart people and none of them are liberals. None of them are conservatives either, but that's because it's obvious to smart people that conservatives are just liberals in drag and have never conserved anything of value.