It’s weird that solar has become so cheap, especially in certain countries. China is trying to trade and give loans to as many 3rd world countries as it can and simultaneously it is struggling to sell all it’s solar panels.
Why isn’t China giving loans to 3rd world countries to build solar power plants?
It seems like a win win for Chinese panels to go to places like Pakistan and Africa.
I mean grid as in utility built grid solar. Everyone uses the grid so everyone needs to pay for it. But mass development of solar in a field is always going to be cheaper way of building solar than niche solar panel installation on a roof.
I thought and still think this will absolutely revolutionise the world and cause repair of the environment. But it looks like the market doesn’t have faith in this.
first lab-grown beef burger debuted in 2013 at a staggering $330,000, they still need to fall to under $10 per kilo — roughly a tenth of current costs — to be competitive in the mass market
The amount that has fallen, in that time, compared to the amount remaining seems like it isn’t that much.
Hopefully we just a little jump in the industry enough to build some hype and get things rolling again.
If every single job you can imagine, even the future ones, can be done by machines that are vastly cheaper than humans on the minimum wage, you cannot possibly have an economy that is anything like today’s.
UBI would work in a situation where no one has a job and the economy would work almost exactly the same as it does now. Everyone would be university students basically.
I was pretty confident on self driving cars all the way back when it was just google.
But I think the robot/ AI stuff is coming a lot faster than expected. I worked in factories a few year ago and a lot of it is 90% there.
The real key issue is the drop in prices. Robot arms especially I seen dropping. It used to be that one robot would replace the work of 4 or 8 people. (24/7 running) so the machine needed to be a little less than that. But now its so cheap if it replaces 80% of 1 persons work it only need to be really 50% the cost for business to bother to get one. Also that cost is so low it can easily be taken as a trial that might fail but we want to see, if it works we will get 50.
AI is going to be the same, to replace someone it needs to do 100% of the work and be slightly less than a lot of people. To replace some of the work it needs to be priced less than maybe even 1 person, and we are there.
Think they would be able to make some sort of artificial FMT. Probiotics aren’t enough.
I know personally I have taken a boat load of antibiotics as a child and I took some for Cellulitis which because it was a skin infection required a high daily dose, never been the same since.
Remove low density housing downtown and built higher density. Have a land value tax. Prices will drop.
Actually educate and train the local workforce. Only allow immigration when it meets certain requirements or from very close countries. E.g. you have a business with 10 engineers with 5 years of experience. Prove you have tried to hire 10 engineers with 0 years of experience and none have been made redundant in the last 5 years. If there is a country wide shortage of those engineers with 5 years of experience then you can hire foreigners. Have lower business taxes in places with high unemployment. Public works for things like high speed rail and cycle paths.
Have free child care and free things for teenagers to do.
Taxes would go up but so would employment and discretionary income. Crime would drop.
Would be a win, win, win.
All it would require it telling members of the aristocracy, land owning MPs, and rich baby boomers all to fuck off.
Edit: also cheap renewable energy, robotics and precision fermentation is going to destroy the labour market anyway. So that’s going to be a whole thing we need to deal with.
Think we will find life elsewhere in the solar system first.
Think the big question is why life isn’t becoming intelligent (or why don’t we know). It just seems like life has to be everywhere. If it’s not then it’s going to be really fucking weird.
Obviously someone that hasn’t spent much time in a factory and don’t know what they are talking about.
Sure you got to go through all the safety requirements but that’s not a skill.
I’ve seen job were people load material into a machine and people box finished good, or people destroying WIP, or people moving material, or picking up WIP.
You are just confidently incorrect. A skilled job is something where you are trained and/or have experience in and it takes a long time to teach and learn. Unskilled is were you can grab people from the street and get them working within a day.
Surely you can see why based on supply and demand and cost of training both for the person and the business that unskilled pays less. Why should they be paid the sane as skilled work? It doesn’t make sense.
Well if you change the definitions of things then anything can mean anything.
I don’t know what you expect. The fundamental reason unskilled labour is paid less is because basically anyone can do it. You can call it whatever you want but it won’t pay the same amount as skilled labour, or whatever you want to call that.
Not everyone no, some people have severe mental and physical disabilities.
Everyone that showed up could do the job in that amount of time from what I understand. Some people left because they didn’t like it and some people had issues with authority or we lazy and wasn’t asked back. But there was a revolving door or temps coming through and no one seemed to struggle.
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China working on standard for brain-computer interfaces • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) agreement integrates Agility’s Humanoid robots with other cobots at SPANX facility (agilityrobotics.com)
Good news for summer solstice as solar makes 20% of global electricity (www.euronews.com)
Global funding in the cultured meat industry dropped by 75% in the last year. Singapore sees its chance to become a world leader, backing local and international firms. (restofworld.org)
The disruption of labor by humanoid robots (www.rethinkx.com)
Analysis of why and how humanoid robots will displace human physical labour.
Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year (electrek.co)
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AI used to predict potential new antibiotics in groundbreaking study: Algorithm to mine ‘the entirety of the microbial diversity’ on Earth, speeding up antibiotic resistance research. (www.theguardian.com)
How should countries deal with falling birth rates? (www.bbc.co.uk)
With a surface temperature of 42°C, Gliese 12 b, is the nearest, temperate, Earth-size world located to date. (scitechdaily.com)
Unitree's new G1 humanoid robot is priced at only $16,000, and looks like the type of humanoid robot that could sell in the tens of millions. (newatlas.com)
Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Now Being Tested By Marine Special Operators (Updated) (www.twz.com)
The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps (www.wired.com)
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The Google Pay app is shutting down in the US (www.androidpolice.com)
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