UBI is like reparations from the robots and AI.

It is a vaccine in the traditional sense. It creates immunity to the cancer cells, the same way the covid vaccine created immunity to the covid virus.

Yes, they are calling it a neo-antigen therapy now, but this type of treatment used to be called vaccine for the prior two decades.

Duplicatability is a core tenet of science.

Flock can save lives. Strongly regulate its use and severely punish its abuse, don't destroy it. A large number of violent crimes can be solved with it. Right now in the USA only about 50% of murders get solved. Scotland has a 100% homicide solve rate. Scotland's cities and towns utilize broad CCTV networks in public squares, transport hubs, and high-traffic streets and they use live facial recognition. We don't need to be Scotland, but if we have total surveillance we would be able to solve well over 90% of US murders. We'd know who was, and wasn't there. We'd have the crime on camera in a lot of cases since most homicides happen on public streets. According to the FBI in 2013, roughly 4,000 to 6,000 homicides (40% of total) a year occur out in public spaces, streets, or commercial areas. We could trace back people to their vehicle and then track the vehicle to their home etc.

Scotland has a 100% homicide solve rate: https://www.reddit.com/r/today...

That means they solve every murder. If a person kills someone in Scotland, they're getting caught. Guaranteed.

Also, the UK in general has a low homicide rate, in spite of having millions of unvetted migrants, because they have a lot of cameras. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplep...

And btw, if you excluded the Black-on-Black homicide rate from UK average stats .. the UK is the safest it has ever been in history (and btw it's the safest it's ever been for Blacks too .. but excluding the contribution of that shows how much safer it has gotten for every ethnic group).

Would there be ways to game the system? Maybe. Would there be criminal masterminds getting away with stuff? Probably. But it'd be rare. The homicide rate would be reduced by a lot. I mean, China has the lowest homicide rate in the world .. because they have total surveillance.

The steps are simple .. the costs listed below are without labor and capital investment:
1. Obtain the tumor vs. normal sequence at 100x high coverage ($800).
2. Run sequence obtained in step 1 through a neo-antigen selection program ($0? lol) https://github.com/openvax/neo...
3. Synthesize & purify the requisite RNA ($100) https://www.creative-biogene.c...
4. Load the RNA into LNPs using a microfluidics device (the one most people uses is called NanoAssemblr https://www.cytivalifesciences... ) ($100)
5. Purify it: https://www.cytivalifesciences... ... $200.

It's not expensive in terms of raw materials and frankly I don't see how it can't be automated and made dirt cheap.

Not every tumor has strong neo-antigen presentation and many use complex immune evasion strategies that may be hard to defeat, therefore treatment evasion is still possible. https://www.cell.com/cancer-ce... Also notice they aren't using it as a treatment during cancer. You have to be mostly cancer free for it to work -- and even then it's not 100%.

The issue is that it will always be tough to identify a cell as cancerous from the outside. To do it reliably, you have to do it from INSIDE the cell. Unfortunately getting things into cells is not trivial.

The path to a final cure (an agent that can be easily transported into every type of cell, determine if it's within a cancer cell, and destroy it) will be something like the following: https://www.nature.com/article... (explanatory article about it: https://www.nature.com/article... )

There are numerous problems to solve with the "final cure" path though. I can list about a bunch .. but the good news is that for each one, there are about 2 or 3 possible ways it can be solved -- I think. We're probably about a decade or two out (consider the papers on neo-antigen vaccines started coming out in the 1990s, first proof-of-concept in early 2000s, and a "holy smokes, this thing really works" paper around 2017 I think). And note the neo-antigen therapy is still not approved.

Oh yeah btw, ICE has been capturing illegal immigrants that way by the thousands. You don't think they could do that to other "undesirables" when they run out of illegals?

No. I asked about surveillance, I didnâ(TM)t ask if we should have slave camps. The president of China wears socks, are you saying we shouldnâ(TM)t wear socks?

The annual US homicide rate is about 5 per 100,000 persons. In 2010, China's homicide rate was 1.5 per 100,000. Today, it's .5 per 100,000. That is one tenth of the US rate. It's basically one of the lowest in the world. How did they achieve it?

Surveillance. That's how. China has an estimated 700 million state-owned surveillance cameras, equating to roughly one camera for every two citizens.

They know every person's movement in public within most cities and even towns and can trace back in time who was where. Eventually they could use AI to catch people doing major crimes in public faster.

We could do that. So let me ask you .. approx. 4 deaths for every 100,000 people annually .. that's like 10,000+ per year people .. is it worth being able to go to a strip club secretly?

Finally Shackleton's crew can have some Chow Mein and Kung Pao chicken.

I am not sure why they have a design that "drops things". The Zipline drone stays 300+ feet above ground and reels the payload down in an aerodynamically stable pod as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts... I'm not sure if that idea is patented (I dont think it is, because at least one or two other companies are now doing it), if so, Amazon should license it.

People thought self driving cars would get vandalized in San Francisco and LA. Didn't happen. Not on any scale worth mentioning. The few that tried to fuck with them were charged with terrorism and forgotten. Hell, most people are cool with Flock cameras and those directly track you and look creepy as fuck.

So what? This is cool. As for porch pirates good luck to them .. remember when people thought it would be fun to tag Teslas? One guy got charged with terrorism and everyone wussed out. The same will happen to anyone who messes with these drones.

Robots still lack the hand dexterity and agility to do anything commercially useful. Sure it can dance a jig, so what? How many dancers does Taylor Swift need to replace? It will be at least a decade possibly 30 years until we have a humanoid robot able to assemble Lego, sculpt, put together a smartphone, do farm work, or even do meal prep. Bookmark and come back to this comment in 2036. I wish I were wrong, because I like robots .. but the difficult parts are not being worked on.