We spend vast amounts on air. Making it colder, hotter, cleaner, having different concentrations of gases, having it pressurized, making it move.

And while I am still working on OpenWater and Alignable, the only thing I've gotten from LinkedIn in the past year is rewrite-your-resume scams

Given the reference list, I suspect not ChatGPT, but rather https://magisterium.com/

I've been looking since March 2024. Having no reasonable options in sight, have reopened https://informationr.us/

In this job search, Linked In and Dice- but MOST of my LinkedIn devolves down into one of the above quickly. The number of scammers on Linked In is truly awesome.

I was actually in college in the 1990s, but yes, a middle schooler today with python on a raspberry pi and a pretty simple GPS module could do this.

I didn't say it wasn't abhorrent or alarming. I'm presenting the scenario that this task of "defend this three dimensional coordinate box" doesn't require AI.

Yes, it did. The beacon signals weren't that good back then, neither were the sensors. I had the same problem in the fake robot battles I was involved in.

The answer turned out to be a solution not from Defense industries, but from Genie Garage Door Openers.

The robot doesn't care. The robot's job isn't foreign policy. The robot's job is "here's a box defined by this coordinate cloud, defend it"

Like I said, I programmed it for a fighting robot back in the 1990s. It ain't that complex, and with today's drone factory ships, the Navy can now output this level of AI in killbots at a rate of 10,000 a day.

I'm not gonna try to defend any platforms, but at its best streaming is amazing. I have found so much music, old and new, that I absolutely love. It makes my spine tingle and makes me laugh with delight at how good it is. It reminds me of when I was young, discovering music for the first time. That sense of discovery and a whole huge world out there. Algorithms have their faults but they sure have figured out what kind of stuff will appeal to me.

I see upcoming concerts for artists I like, had no idea they were touring. I've gone to dozens of shows in the past few years I never would have known about if I was grimly playing the same old music manually. I love music more and more each year and keep going to the best concert of my life, blowing my old high water marks away over and over.

It's so easy. I don't have to decide what I'm in the mood for or pick through my unwieldy music collection.

I'm not really a great cheerleader for all this stuff. I am naturally very averse to corporate stuff, popular stuff, middleman leech stuff. I refuse on principle to pay for it, or endure ads, somehow thinking that makes it less greasy somehow. All that said, it has enriched my life quite spectacularly.

Kill decisions are simple in comparison: Stay within your predefined geofence, kill anything that moves that isn't transmitting Friend beacon. We don't need AI for that, I coded a form of it in both Basic and Forth back in the 1990s.

And if they don't, some other startup will.

They add hundreds if not thousands of dollars to the bill, they require a special physical trip to a facility, and they can be used to justify other tests, surgical interventions, and specialist visits. They are nearly entirely useless diagnostically, but they are wonderfully effective tools to extract money from society.