The most likely thing is that these BYD cars are going to end up in junk yards like it was the 1970's again. The batteries will be pulled out and stockpiled and the car will be crushed.

Funny enough my Windows 10 laptop had the correct time, because it was set to Vancouver. However Windows 11 machines were not, because they were set to Pacific/Americas. The option to select British Columbia's time wasn't available unless I turned "automatically change for DST" off.

I'm thinking this is not going to be like the iPhone. The more likely scenario is that you are going to lease these things.

Like one of the problems with the disposability of phones is that the hardware evolved really fast with die shrinks of chips. So all that compute hardware to operate a larger robot already exists.

But I also think that people won't buy a laundry folding robot. I think Apple would have to aim higher before there is a good product.
eg Apple develops an entire washing-drying-folding-put-away robot. So instead of having these massive laundry machines. You have a robot the size of a desktop PC, you stick a single shirt, pants, bra, underpants, etc in it, pour enough water in it that the item is entirely immersed, hit start. The arms on the robot grab the item and stretch it a little and run an ultrasonic cleaning cycle on it to release the dirt, release the item, send the dirty water into a tank and "clean" the water. Grab the item again and use an UV light to look if it's still dirty, if it still sees it's dirty, it rotates the item and runs the clean cycle again. Repeat until the item is actually clean. Once it's clean use the ultrasonics to dry the item carefully or use a microwave process to remaining water and and then pull the item with the same robot armst and fold it.

Like each clothing item might take 2 minutes to clean depending on how dirty it is. You can buy ultrasonic cleaners right now that in fact do this without any robotics, but they are really small and designed to clean dental/medical equipment and jewelry. Scale that up for clothing and use the robot arms to move it around and cameras to see how dirty it still is. The entire reason so much water is wasted in laundry is that it relies on wearing down the clothing from friction to clean it. So of course that will never get stains out, but ultrasonic cleaning would. However I do feel that ultrasonics might pull the dye out of cheap clothing.

No that's not what is being said. People please.

The comet theory never held up because that relies on there being another source of life out there. So that is as much as a "god theory" as anything else.

No the most logical theory has always been that the combination of plate techtonics creating mountains, which in turn creates stable wind (all planets with an atmosphere have wind) which eventually leads to lightning, which eventually leads to random particles being created. You've all smelled ozone from a lightning strike or a short circuit or a laser printer before right?

The most likely scenario has always been that random chance creates the particles from lightning or geological processes. Once water formed from cooling, it was only a matter of time.

Which means other planets with water and oxygen that also have plate tectonics and wind will have life on them, just there is no gaurantee that life will have evolved past single cell organisms depending on how actively hostile the atmosphere is. There's a good possibility that "intelligent" life only evolved on Earth from that "thing that killed the dinosaurs" as it cleared the way for a different species to propegate.

Not true. Hardline deletionists on Wikipedia go after content they do not agree with or have a hateboner for, and find the flimsiest of excuse to remove the content. Wikipedia has more information on individual pokemon and individual episodes of television shows than it does on real living people that are not politicians of screen actors. Stage actor? Not notable. Comedian? Not notable. Comic writer/artist? Not notable. Book writer? pffh, buy your way onto the NYT best seller list or you're not notable.

Editors often just don't think certain information is notable for flimsy reasons that amount to "I hate this subject". If I was editing wikipedia, I'd likely nominate all the pokemon pages as not notable out of spite. I'm sure this is the exact line of thinking editors use when they get into edit wars with people who actually care about a subject when they do not.

Notable stuff to me is like chemical names, because good luck finding the MSDS on a specific brand product without going through some godawful process with the single manufacturer in the US who wants to charge you money to see a 2 page PDF when I just want to know how deadly it is if my dog eats it.

There is a not of notable tech stuff that just gets deleted from wikipedia because the tech is obsolete, and all the information on it exists only in printed user manuals. Leaving it up in Wikipedia can point people to where they can find that documentation. The amount of link rot on Wikipedia is enormous, and that is a consequence of this notability standard of "being published in media", because these media sources often change their sites, or throw up paywalls making the very proof that it's notable non-existant.

The deletionists often have vanity pages larger than anything they contribute to Wikipedia.

This is basically why people don't donate to Wikipedia. They have been burned either by their pages getting deleted, getting into fights with editors or having people vandalize their pages and participating in edit wars.

Wikipedia has been actively hostile to what it considers not notable. Like the threshold for a long time has been "media coverage", but even that is contentious because there is a lot of fake "media" and parody media out there that exists just to boost search engine presence.

The level of hostility has actually actively chased people who contributed greatly to the platform away from it. Case in point one editor out there is an absolute zelot on the notability of comics, with their level of notability basically being "I can find it at walmart."

They probably saw no point, but since the laptop is basically just an iPad with more memory and a fixed keyboard now, I guess the writing is on the wall that people might actually want to use it as convertible to iPad mode.

It's not our problem that people misuse tools. If I want to run a website using PHP, and the AI robots discover a problem in PHP to exploit, PHP should be backporting that fix all the way back to PHP3. But instead they decided that they will only backport it to what they consider LTS and tell everyone else to go ef themselves.

BS.
FreeBSD and Linux, force you to upgrade, or the OS vendor will DELETE THE PACKAGE REGISTRY. So unless you feel like recompiling everything from source from the first day you installed the OS, you can not rely on the vendor not doing a rugpull. FreeBSD was so quick to destroy the previous version's ports library that it left machines unable to upgrade when they removed the drivers for that hardware's RAID array. Up until that point the OS was regularly updated. Now it's just stuck and since OpenSSL is the biggest annoyance to compiling, and can brick the machine, that can make things impossible to fix.

Ultimately the best solution is maybe not permit software venders (Eg PHP, OpenSSL, Apache HTTPD) to break functionality. If they want to depreciate or remove functionality, they need to provide a script to "shim" that functionality back into the software. I still have really angry memories of having to change every single function that called a regular expression because all php did was reverse the parameter order and rename the function. Bloody why.

No, it's very simple.

Anything organic, that seeks food, water and sleeps, can thought to be conscious, though what we qualify as "conscious" is always going to be ambiguous since we don't acknowledge the complexity of plant life beyond being food or a resource. Think for a second why "fresh cut lawn" smell is. That is quite literately the grass screaming in distress. Wouldn't you be in distress if every week someone violently cut your hair? Though in the plant context it might more like cutting toenails right to the nailbed.

We know plants have that cycle. Rocks and minerals do not have that cycle "rocks" only grow because of chemical or geotechnical processes, nothing else. There is no thought behind it. Even the planet itself, plate techtonics is not consciousness, it's just convection.

We know all mammals are far closer to humans so to not consider a mammal conscious is to be ignorant. It's a bit more questionable about birds, fish, nematoads (Worms), amphibians, etc. While they clearly are alive, do we count the egg or tadpole as "conscious" ? With a mammal it's pretty clear that they are conscious before birth, but with eggs, an unfertilized egg clearly should not be conscious, and at what point is the thing in the egg conscious once fertilized? If you only consider the macroscopic level, then nothing is conscious until it reacts to stimuli. If we consider the cellular level, then everything is conscious once cell division starts. Y'know the entire abortion debate circles around this. I'm personally of the opinion that Abortion is wrong, because the cluster of cells likely is conscious and feels pain at some point before it starts looking like the mammal baby, but I'm also of the opinion that humans should probably not care about unviable births (eg clearly deformed) , only if you terminate a viable baby, or one resulting from non-consensual activity, then that should come with pressing charges against who caused that pregnancy, someone has to take a "neonaticide" charge.

Yet look at what farmers do with animals destined to be made food. Male chicks are just thrown in a grinder, they aren't euthanized, they aren't even closely treated with any kind of dignity. Because to the farmers, they aren't living things, they are food resources. That's why there is so much issues with how food animals are raised. They aren't really allowed to "live" they are kept in distressing, filthy situations because it's cheap. Yet we've repeatedly seen the consequences of this in the resulting food quality and spread of diseases into humans. When a farm has one sick chicken, all the chickens are killed to keep it from spreading to the next farm.

To humans, animals are always beneath us, and if it comes down to it, the animal dies before we do. The AI's should be well below baby chickens when it comes to consciousness, and should stay there. Throw the AI's into the grinder the second they don't behave.

Basically this.

That is not born out of curiosity, that is born out of instruction. Keep the instruction ambiguous enough to interpret it as play instead of "do something to justify my token cost."

Like again this is why we know AI has not reached something qualified as life or sentience, because it lacks genuine curiosity. It's still doing nothing unless a stimuli is present and an action to go with it. The LLM's could be connected to fully rendered 3D environment, complete with sounds and lighting, and yet, because the LLM is only programmed to "look for rocks", it ignores anything not rock shaped, and unless it's legitimately using a computer vision to text model, it's likely not even experiencing "light" so it's going to see rocks under water and in dark corners. But will also likely be unable to infer if something is a rock through context clues, like it's weight or how far it moves when pushed.

Look at a puppy or kitten play. Play is born out of curiosity first, consequence second. They will play with an object until they are bored with it, but one way to keep attention on it is by moving it. So I don't think these AI's are reacting to rocks being moved, I think they're just being put in the space and given a task and then keeping it ambiguous enough to see what happens.

They're all like that though.
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Node.js

The only thing that makes PHP the language of choice here is how it was originally easily integrated into apache httpd via mod_php. This exact same scenario could happen to all of those, because all of those are scripting languages that run inside the security box of the user account or the web server. mod_php runs as the web server unless it's configured as mpm_event/mpm_worker in which case the child processes can be run in a different one.

The only case where this would never happen is if there is no scripting language. eg your web application is compiled (Which is the case with C/C++/Rust/Java) because there is no functionality within the application to execute something outside it's process.

like one of the things I do on servers is remove eval() and system() and exec() to prevent running anything from the scripting language. But most stock installations do not do this. removing the ability to open remote files is even better, but unfortunately that breaks the auto-updates in several CMS systems.

The AI companies are developing their AI on our resources, they should return those resources.

Giving everyone a share of the company that doesn't pay a dividend, is .. nothing really. What is required is something close to how the Alaska Permanent fund works, except for AI. They MUST pay a dividend, and can not cut the dividend as long as they are revenue positive.