I think the author underestimates the extent to which Japan will be able to innovative, or to copy innovations from other countries with shrinking populations. Dramatically falling birth rates are a global issue and so is hostility towards immigration (although generally not to the same extent as in Japan). There is going to be a vast amount of effort invested into developing new technologies to compensate for that.
The last ceasefire lasted little more than a year and Hezbollah used that time to rebuild, so I think that a new ceasefire now is not likely to be in Israel’s best interest, especially if it involves ceding occupied territory. Trump just wants to claim victory (and he might get away with it politically because the effects of failure on life in the USA will be significant but indirect) but the security of the people in northern Israel depends on actually achieving victory.
Maybe some damage is irreversible but the goal should still be a return to the liberal status quo that was actually working quite well before American voters decided to break it anyway. I don’t concede that the goose that laid the golden eggs is quite dead yet despite voters’ attempts to kill it.
Ah yes, the 20th century, well known for not having serious problems…
Actually so far 2000 to 2026 is looking much better than 1900 to 1926.
The choice to compare data centers to canals rather than to railroads seems rather arbitrary.
Note that the reduced delay after lunch happens if (as is usual) the doctor skips lunch. Medicine seems like a miserable profession for most specialties. Maybe my career is going to end soon because of AI, but I’m still so glad that I’m a software developer. I get paid a good fraction of what doctors get, but I’m treated so much better.
I think they do. The logic holds as long as there is a method of faster than light communication, regardless of whether that method involves objects actually traveling faster than light or objects traveling through a wormhole.
A bit technical but still readable. There’s fundamentally no way to travel faster than light that couldn’t be used to send information back in time.
I didn’t say that Israel is not on the offensive right now - it is. My point is that if the Iron Dome system is indeed compromised, that’s going to put pressure on Israel to stay on the offensive rather than to back down.
Let’s hope they keep this up and force Israel to back the fuck off.
I don’t see the same connection here that you do. A failure of Israel’s defensive weapons would require them to go on the offensive. The status quo from before the October 7 attacks was tolerable to Israel because they could shoot down incoming threats but if they no longer can, they must neutralize the ability of their enemies to launch those threats.
It’s interesting to see old comics like this or Archie in which people date (or are implied to date) more than one person at a time, so that one person they date can see them on a date with someone else and feel jealous, but the situation isn’t considered cheating. According to my grandmother, who is about Jucika’s age (based on when the comics were first published) and grew up in the Soviet Union, that really was normal when she was young, to the extent that she would deliberately go on dates with other guys to make my future grandfather jealous if she felt like he wasn’t paying enough attention to her, but it was associated with a very strong expectation of waiting until marriage before having sex.
A friend of worked at a company that sold CNC cutting tools and they had an issue at a customer site that they couldn’t replicate back at the factory. It turned out that the customer’s internet connection was so slow that the CNC machine would boot up, the customer would actually start cutting with it, and only then would the NTP daemon synchronize the time. This caused all sorts of failsafes and sanity checks to trigger and shut down the machine (which tracked its own velocity by looking at its position sensors and the system time) but when the machine was shipped back to the factory it would work just fine because it had a much faster internet connection.
Why? English isn’t my first language but I can’t think of a single time that knowing my native language (not Spanish) was necessary to accomplish something useful in the USA (other than talking to my family, which isn’t relevant for the children learning a foreign language in school). I can’t think of a single time that not knowing Spanish prevented me from accomplishing something useful, either.
(like wet wipes)
Someone flushes a wet wipe into your septic tank? Justifiable homicide.
parasite
How dare they exploit the basic human need for video game cosmetics!
I’m not saying that I think what this woman did should be criminal, but it wasn’t just “a stillbirth and a Facebook post expressing her grief”.
The companies that won’t do well in that scenario are the ones that sell products to the sorts of people who will lose their jobs to AI. But not all companies do that.
(In the extreme case, there might be an economy no longer oriented primarily around what humans want.)
Serve and obey? No. Treat well? Maybe. Meanwhile I’m excited about the possibility of good futures for superhuman AIs themselves, not just for humans.
And they seem to be doing ok so far.