Come to think of it, it'd be one thing to avoid prey profiles for raptors, but corvids learning they carry interesting things would be a losing proposition over time. Maybe so long as they never get used for food they'll do ok.

True, economics of scale could probably get an automated setup into medical equipment realms of expense e.g. the sorts of 'cyberknife' equipment that only the best hospitals have anyhow. With this you could presumably ship the samples, as well.

Worst case once it is approved and being used in Europe the regulatory reciprocity will kick in and our own oligarchs will demand its availability here once they discover the peptides and dewormer did not prevent their own cancers.

One could hope that they'd have to build out the power plants first so we can have something useful whenever the rest goes belly up but I'm sure we won't be so lucky.

Also likely; having been to friends of the library sales I suppose not all of what has become rare is necessarily something to lose sleep over, but I appreciate that folks are keeping tabs.

I can't see past the paywall, but they didn't say they tracked a mass market paperback that was printed destined for a landfill, they tracked rare books. You can nondestructively scan the latter for preservation purposes, it just takes longer.

I dunno, I got effortless straight As in HS and then in college started hitting C+s off the bat and had to learn to study and so on, it could be demoralizing for some students in a way this ameliorates so long as they are still getting some good, hard feedback as to what they need to adjust to succeed.

I expect it'll be more like Palantir where some techbro who has the bright idea of hiring non college grads to save money will standup a company that wouldn't have gotten government grants in a normal administration but sure is winning a lot for lack of accountable output. If anything, hacking is a better grift than building drones since there is no product output.

I'm not an engineer, but driving motes with magnets in these things vs more traditional robots driving servos with electrons while the rest of the apparatus is a pretty normal computer seems like splitting hairs to call them meaningfully different.

I looked it up briefly, and it seems their use case does conform to definitions of "microbot" and "microrobot" as used elsewhere. External power and guidance of small constructed are apparently expected at this scale.

Yeah I remember an uncle's business had gotten broken in to a few times and he, being famously cheap, dissuaded it by putting up some generic alarm signs and a few boxes with blinking lights rather than actually pay for an alarm service. You'd hope an ED-209 stomping around wouldn't actually end up needing to intervene in crimes in progress.

I would bet it uses the same circuits, might be hard to study rigorously, though. Probably works better with noisy environments and ones where you are traversing memorized paths vs open world fast travel. Now I'm imagining sticking to non fast travel for brain exercise...

I too wonder if Steam will continue gracefully past GabeN or if it'll enshittify. There are plenty of family owned businesses I enjoy for hobbies but I doubt they are worth as much as Valve so it'll be up to his will and the desire to sell out what will be vultured to hell and back in months.

If you're right then the fix is just to pay people to sort it all, don't need an AI for that. The disappointed oligarchs will just switch it off when most of the solutions involve just paying folks enough to do whatever needs done.

You're right, instead of checking briefly if I could search up a source without doxing anyone, I should've just gone with the meme https://knowyourmeme.com/photo...