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Video from a year ago, not sponsored by them, shows significant urban usage is planned.

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Redesigned blades basically eliminate the spikey annoying sounds for a low level continuous one that's barely audible.

It's fair to worry that the cheap hobby drones you hear most often represent the commercial tech, but it's also a solvable problem. We should push for regulations to *require* such things to minimize the effects.

Every change looks like corruption in the eyes of people who don't like it.

And corruption looks like evolution to some people.

Personally, I'm in favor of words meaning as much of the same thing over time as possible. It enhances communication and understanding. If you need a new meaning, you either need a new word or you need to explain yourself at a bit more length. Lest you "decimate" (cough) the listener's/reader's understanding... you get me?

Considering you just 180'd your own statement, I'll suggest your opinions on the matter aren't exactly worth considering.

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It was not 'considerably warmer' 10000 years ago. Almost constant +/- 1 C since then till industrialization.

Wet bulb temps are already killing people at little more than 100 degrees.

Yep did miss that. Though I do tend to not prefer additional natural environment contamination so I wouldn't call that exactly a good solution.

Because it costs trillions of dollars to retrofit a city? Vs planning ahead. Miami isn't even subsiding and it's in deep shi, I mean water.

Ounce of prevention vs pound of cure etal.

Desalination has serious drawbacks. If you chuck the resulting brine back into the ocean you create a massive dead zone. And rather than create yet more waste with nuclear, just use solar/wind since created fresh water can be easily stored - the intermittent nature of renewables isn't an issue.

Another factor is an after effect of the ice age ending. All the weight pushed down the northern parts of N American continent. It's still spring back, causing rise in the north...and lowering in the south as the plate tips back

And we should definitely cut canals into the mangroves to facilitate oil rigs ;-) That was a definite positive decision lol

Except that's not what that is - in fact it's basically the opposite.

Cities build layers as the constructions degrade/erode and new stuff is built on top of that. There may or may not be sinking going on, but cities are generally rising on top of previous settlements. linky

LLMs cannot do it. Hallucination is baked-in.

LLMs alone definitely can't do it. LLMs, however, seem (to me, speaking for myself as an ML developer) to be a very likely component in an actual AI. Which, to be clear, is why I use "ML" instead of "AI", as we don't have AI yet. It's going to take other brainlike mechanisms to supervise the hugely flawed knowledge assembly that LLMs generate before we even have a chance to get there. Again, IMO.

I'd love for someone to prove me wrong. No sign of that, though. :)

I'll be impressed when one of these ML engines is sophisticated enough to be able to say "I don't know" instead of just making up nonsense by stacking probabilistic sequences; also it needs to be able tell fake news from real news. Although there's an entire swath of humans who can't do that, so it'll be a while I guess. That whole "reality has a liberal bias" truism ought to be a prime training area.

While I certainly understand that the Internet and its various social media cesspools are the most readily available training ground(s), it sure leans into the "artificial stupid" thing.

It's also worth noting that even objectively terrible movie treatments (for example, Soylent Green's failure to represent the actual storyline of Harry Harrison's Make Room, Make Room, while also being cheesy and stupid, and Without Remorse's failure to even remotely resemble Tom Clancy's book, while also being... well, lame) didn't hurt those books.

Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space!

Newton submissively begs scraps from Einstein's table, suh.

No. Leave the fucking books alone.

Protip: Just don't buy into new motion pictures based on books. Your problem, solved! Because as you probably will understand if you give it some thought, the existence of a first-time movie treatment of a book doesn't hurt the related book. Quite the contrary, most often.

For those of us who don't want to see yet another Roadhouse or Bladerunner or Poseidon or Total Recall — and for the authors — new motion pictures based on previously untreated stories are a good thing. At least once they're out on physical media. Movie theaters... [shudders] :)