But allowing some AI assistance for certain tasks, the mechanical parts of the writing process, to allow people to translate their story ideas and characters into written words
Tell me you've never done any significant or serious writing without telling me you've never done any significant or serious writing.
Translating story ideas and characters into words isn't a "mechanical task" - it's the very heart of the creative process.
The article doesn't really point out the remarkable part about this, which is that it's a privately funded satellite. This really shows a change in the space economy.
Granted the barriers to entry have been lowered somewhat... But privately owned satellites have been around since the first commercial telecommunications birds back in the 1960's.
While true, it kind of misses my (perhaps poorly and incompletely expressed) point. Information (such as how to use the slide rule in your example) is nice - but you still need the technology to produce the slide rule (or flint knapped spearpoint). Information is great for winning trivia contests, but survival depends on technology.
Sorry for derailing this, but how many people still know the "ancient arts"? You know, the stuff that we used to need before technology took over?
The "ancient arts" are technology as well. It's all technology at least as far back as the first knapped flint spearpoint.
WHAT? Having to do all the heavy work themselves? Not getting free advertising from Google's algorithm? Actually having to pay to make make their content available?
Are you mad?
I'm not saying there's not problems with what support Youtube offers content creators... But the value of what they do offer is indisputable. And the grandparent illustrates that.
Progress is not Soyuz. It's two different space vehicles
Yes... and no. Progress is a highly modified Soyuz with a very different front end. Otherwise two share a large number of subsystems, and in particular the Orbital Module (where the cooling system is located) is virtually identical.
Promising costs nothing, it's the delivering that kills you.