> All that stuff has to react rapidly

Just to add color ... equipment that has to do a lot of work quickly, even if intermittently, has a huge draw. Like your well pump or air conditioner when it starts up.

Now imagine you need to start a few dozen air conditioners simultaneously. The startup energy can be 10x the operating energy.

I've been doing the math on some of this for home solar. In my case I can ramp up the voltage over a few seconds but AIUI rockets still need instant action in many cases.

It's possible future reusable spacecraft could be more proactive, lowering costs and necessary chassis strength. Most of our technology starts off brute force and gets refined with more elegance but also more complexity over time. We're still early days in spaceflight.

How "bout those removable phone batteries?

Yeah, taxes are generally unavoidable for most people.

Hosting a blog on Substack is just a market choice among so many.

Apple and Google stores are a bit more grey; I'd allow it.

It's like those guys who find a Civil War chest with a hundred gold coins in it and call the FBI.

Clout is far too expensive.

This is the one where they investigate Office on Antitrust grounds and wind up settling for not bundling Edge.

I've seen it in reruns....

I said some kind words about Anthropic when they refused to do targeting foreign and domestic.

In retrospect that was myopic praise.

There are fundamental issues with the way AI is being promoted and used by companies that cause significant concerns. Using AI as a tool makes sense, but because AI does not have a fundamental ability to test itself and the results it generates, you should not automatically trust what comes from AI. Things like "AI hallucinations", where AI gives things like legal cases that do not exist as an argument for a legal brief are documented. The structure of software written by AI may also defy the ability to fix problems in the code generated. If the code generated by AI can't have bugs fixed because the code isn't well designed/structured, that's a BIG problem.

And then, there is the "over-promise" of AI...yea, AI can be used to eliminate human jobs, before the actual quality of what AI is doing has been verified. This would be like taking a group of high school graduates, giving them jobs, but then, not having experienced people monitoring what those recent high school graduates were doing, or correcting "bad behaviors".

Again, AI has potential, but is too new to be trusted at this point to be a full replacement for human employees. As a tool for employees, hey, it's all good, but those employees should also do a verification that what the AI came up with is accurate.

I resd a story about someone with Bitcoin keys on a laptop which they lost access to.

It was put on a shelf waiting for an exploit like this.

No, they are not "kept from art", but physical and mental exhaustion caused by a difficult life can cause people to lose their desire to just look at art. When life beats you down, some people who are naturally artistic will go to art as a refuge. For the rest of us, we look to activities we find entertaining, and that often involves either DOING things, or watching others do things.

Now, I'm not suggesting you are MAGA, you actually have a good argument. Culturally though, we are at a point where those going through difficult times will have the majority looking to activities. There's a reason the masses would go to watch people being thrown to the lions or in gladiator combat, or sports. Some are just "wired" to more physical activities. Now, make them climb a rock wall to see the art, and that might work to serve both sides.

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If you already did it for dirtyfrag you're good.

Be that as it may, it really does come down to the wealthy having advantages in the USA that would cause a longer lifespan, and that includes not having access to decent healthcare options(short of emergency services) for those who are at the lower end of the economic spectrum. For many, it ends up being an issue of the culture where many have been raised not to go to a doctor when they are not feeling well due to the economic situation their family was in, or even their parents who were raised not to seek medical care.

Those who "come from money" will often be raised to seek medical care sooner than those who come from the lower end of the economic sectrum due to how they were raised. Call it class warfare, but that's life in the USA.

The trouble with Transhumanists is that they all imagine there will eventually be only one human per company with an army of AI's to do the work.

But they all think they'll be that one person.

Also, they're insane.

Boogergooks.

They've never met 7th Grade boys, have they?

You obviously don't understand the actual post being made. The more difficult life is to do things like paying your bills, working multiple jobs, and things of that sort, the more stress people will have, which shortens their lives. On the flip side, those who have more leisure time and carry less stress will live longer.

It needs to go beyond just what they consume, but also, for ALL infrastructure upgrades associated with it. You open a new sports stadium, the stadium owners should be paying for highway and rail construction, plus maintenance for those things going forward. You open a data center, the data center owners will generally not be paying for upgraded transmission lines, transformers, and even the cost of all new generators required.