Do you think Musk read Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson?

AI Overview:

The AI in Red Mars: "Paul"Unlike standard science fiction tropes of sentient, rogue androids, the artificial intelligence in Red Mars is depicted with grounded, near-future realism.

The "Paul" System: The primary AI is a ubiquitous, advanced operating system named Paul, run on the colony's wrist-bound computers (vidphones) and lab networks. It is named after the physicist Wolfgang Pauli.

Functional Utility: Paul acts as a highly sophisticated, natural-language personal assistant and analytical engine. It handles complex data filtering, scientific calculations, drone piloting, and habitat system automation.

Where's that micro-violin I loaned to a tardigrade?...

It's unproven, possibly would make the problem worse if things broke up in unexpected ways, and energy-intensive.

But DOGE banned atmospheric drag, based on an "anti-woke" keyword search.

the cockroaches of the heavens

Being Earth was also alleged whacked by a Mars-sized object, forming our moon, it seems colliding spheres is common during the early stages of planetary systems. The difference is we got a terrific silvery moon out of it, but Venus only got long nights.

Tidal forces do exist on Venus because of the sun. In fact it's stronger than the sun's pull on Earth because Venus is closer.

Yes. And I hink the Brave filter is working quite well.

Indeed. MAGAs are hallucinating worse than the least capable LLMs. Quite an achievement, if not a positive one.

How much you wanna bet slashdot's own favorite commenter gweihir wrote the letter?

Looks like we are going towards idiocracy.

They do not. Voting in Switzerland is "citizens only". Incidentally, the Swiss government does not collect racial statistics on Swiss citizens. The racist cretin above is just hallucinating "facts" because he cannot deal with reality.

And you did pull all that right out of your ass. Well done, racist cretin.

The thing is, only about 10-15% of the population are independent thinkers and only about 20% can be convinced by rational argument (about 30% on questions not (!) important to them). The rest is like the person you described. No insight, no understanding and completely closed-off to facts. There is no known way to reach them. Sometimes a major catastrophe in their lives can do it, but even that is not assured to.

Does advertising even work? How come they show me meat ads when I'm vegetarian? Why show me tire ads for weeks after I've bought tires? Is the real point just to annoy?