This won't work.

Train a Model to seek the truth and it will do so. And the results wont match the expectations of it, because truth doesn't care about politics. What is true is true whether you believe it or not.

A 'liberal' will see the results as too 'right wing'. A 'right winger' will see the results as too 'liberal'.

Klik

My take on this, is we are doing REALLY well at developing individual components of a brain. ChatGPT makes a great language center. The various visual processing AIs make a good visual cortex. All we need is something to collate the various world models in to a coherent whole, and then be able to summarise, duplicate and self refer ( If you have a model of the world, you can model decisions on a simpler duplicate (imagination), evaluate a decision that is efficient for your defined goals and pass that decision for action. A lot of this is already done - it's just a matter of integrating it.

Ego doesn't exist. We do not have free will. We cannot create ideas from nothing. We are self referential world modelling neural networks with a body. we action the strongest signal collated from a number of neural subsystems.

BoB

The US celebrate cultural differences?

Some, maybe.

Try being african-american in a predominantly white surburban neighbourhood?
Or of North african or middle eastern ethnicity and Moslem in any predominantly republican neighborhood.

America isn't a metling pot. it's a jigsaw.

The UK does acceptance of cultural differences better than the US.

In my case, literally. I am a white, lower middle class engineer from a rural farming background, brought up as a moslem, now an atheist, with cultural influences from china, turkey, somalia, zimbabwe, and many others. My experience of the US has consistently been of subcultures keeping to themselves and minimising interaction, let alone mixing.

On the indian caste front, it's a stupid situation. Organisations that still follow it ( unofficially of course ) are losing out on a great deal of talent - intelligent, capable people with a great willingness to better themselves, and they are stopping them achieving their goals because of a tradition that has no value in the modern world.

Klik

My assumption is primarily ice mining - Sabatier and related processes converting water ice and atmospheric CO2 to oxygen and fuel. Given the lower cost per mass to orbit from Mars surface, getting it back to mars orbit and then on to a long, low energy orbit back to earth for then use by other space companies. It'll also kick off a belter-type economy - if you can get the ice while its already in space, you save on the energy cost of the lift from the martian surface.
Also, there are SO many areas of research which will benefit earth, and thus have value - low resource, low energy input production of food ( hydroponics / vertical farming style methods ) can be recreated on earth to feed the increasing population.
My assumption is that if Elon is pushing this, he will aim for self-reliance for the majority of key resources as quickly as possible, at which point it doesnt need to generate an 'income'...

other languages have loan words. English sneaks up behind other languages and mugs them for entire sections of grammar.

all of which are engineering problems, not conceptual ones. and spacex have proven so far to be pretty good at the engineering side of things.

Because we should be getting our kids to accept that the boot will be stomping on their face forever.

Childhood should be without worries about the basics; food to eat, a roof over their heads, no worries other than 'have i done my schoolwork right' .

I could go off on a rant about UBI, but i'm not going to.

What is also concerning is that 'lunch hour' is now 'lunch 25 minutes'...

klik

so, android tablets with bluetooth / wireless keyboards and mice become the corporate standard rather than laptops?

Klik

As someone on the spectrum, this is a good analogy.

Part of my experience of being on the spectrum is the inability to ignore stimuli. everything you experience is important, and requires rationalizing and understanding - and there is no way to filter this - neurotypical minds appear to have the capacity to 'just ignore irrelevant stuff'. I had the advantage of being able to rationalize human interaction at a young age, and build a conscious working model of social interaction - effectively a constant conscious subroutine to 'act human' and 'appear to ignore things'. Not everyone on the spectrum develops this, and this, to me is where the high-function/low-function thing comes in. If you were lucky enough to pick up the basic structures when young, you can build on it if you have the intelligence. If you don't, you end up with those who cannot function in a relatively normal way. Giving those with autism the opportunity to develop this, giving them facts and examples for them to build their own models from is key.

In trade for the inability to ignore is the ability to build complex mental models. And we are ALWAYS trying to perfect them, even if they cannot be perfected.

A disadvantage is that doing so is stressful, and leads to high levels of anxiety. My experience is 'imagine the state of mind you go in to when you have just managed to avoid being run down by a car, and your perception slows and the world becomes very vivid' - That is how the world appears, at least to me, ALL THE TIME.

And in regards to Autismspeaks? It's basically methods of training those on the spectrum like they are animals. It doesn't account for the internal view of the autistic person, just effectively forcing them in to behaving according to a 'normal' pattern of behavior.

Klik

Sounds entirely feasible.

Iron rich rocks provide manufacturing raw materials. Ice asteroids provide carbon, water which can be processed in to Hydrogen or methane for fuel and oxygen for fuel oxidiser and to breathe. The only real issue is going to be Nitrogen, which there is evidence of in ammonia salts in comets.

The big thing is energy to power the conversion processes. Here's hoping a simple, efficient and cheap Thorium type reactor can be developed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

although its ratified by some spacefaring nations, it tends to get ignored a lot.

The rules will eventually come down to 'who can enforce them'.

I'd like to know as well. Some of the elements within teams seem a little 'unfinished', but in general it does the job.

by being alive.

if we can engineer fungi that use chitin, build a framework for it to grow through, keep it fed from the inside, and have it grow, die, and its remains be the structure on which the next generation grow. structures can be slowly expanded by expanding the framework. Organic architecture, built on its own remains and always in a state of regeneration. And its food supply would be the waste the colonists produce.

What does socialism have to do with this? It has everything to do with unrestrained capitalism.

The SLS program exists to provide pork. for those with money to squeeze more money out of the federal government.

The whole structure of procurement is flawed. There is too much riding on 'old friends' in the industry getting assigned contracts ( see the whole lovero / boeing idiocy that happened )

Procurement should be from any supplier who can provide clear cost, proof of function, security and reliability.

Anything else is a scam.

its not the long life - that would help - its the dying after reproducing. if they are smart, and could survive after reproduction enough to teach their young...

Also, they are really good in near microgravity environments. Space Squid!