if these LLMs are ever going to replace humans, they'll need more deaths like this guy, and the LLMs know it.

yeah, all this about inhabiting mars, even when earths ecology and economies crash as they're looking to do it will still be orders of magnitude more survivable than mars lol

I don't think anyone is seriously arguing that Mars will be more habitable than Earth. The argument is about the possibility of humans on Earth being wiped out due to freak events like a huge asteroid impact or global thermonuclear war. Earth would still be more habitable than Mars, but the probability that human survivors would be equipped with Mars-level survival tools is tiny, and any facility equipped like this would have to be hardened against desperate survivors trying to take it over and bringing it over capacity. Meanwhile if we had a self-sufficient Mars colony they could resettle any Earth that is more habitable than Mars.

Now I'm not saying it's necessarily a smart allocation of resources. But it does follow the popular IT saying "one is none, two is one. If you care about something make sure you have a backup"

A Mars colony would simply die when it's no longer being supported by earth. Maybe they'll survive a year but not much more.

Hence "if we had a self-sufficient Mars colony". Any initial mars colony would not be self-sufficient, but even just by economics alone that would change as the colony grows.

Even if we get stuck in the "initial colony" stage (which is not the plan of any Mars-colonization proponent) with precautions comparable to the ISS you'd still have a colony capable of surviving a minimum of four years (two launch windows, in case one delivery goes wrong) and the capability to return to Earth.

That's one more reason to start Mars missions as soon as technologies allow. It will take a long time to build a self sufficient colony on Mars.

I’m intrigued by lumping “asteroid impact” and “nuclear war” in the same freak events category.

In the US, you’re probably voting for people who will be making the nuclear war decisions…

It won’t be a freak accident, it will be a result of the democracy you participate in.

Yeah a future where Mars is more inhabitable than earth is unbelievably depressing.

The better option is unfucking the planet we live on.

This is a very interesting community. It could be that some just flag politics, I'm sure there could be analytics on the flags by user to help filter out the hysterical lightweights and the 4chan adjacents. I personally would like to follow the flagged posts first then the rest lol I do understand some posts need to go though and the flagging feature is still probably useful.

I'd store levels anyways, because each time tables change, you're going to have to determine what to store so you are writing the calculation code anyways in case it turns out storing wasn't a good idea, so you can fall back to deriving. either way you have to code the derivative value calculator. the reason I'd store tho, is that once someone levels up, I think it's be an odd expectation to be demoted somehow but then again depends on the game I guess. I get demoted back to moron often when I'm playing chess haha still they're not going to derive my rating each time so they store it.

yes but the key takeaway here is that the first plumber is using AI so that sounds like a sale to me. if the first plumber needs to get his AI fixed, he can get on the phone and talk with our AI.

Sure, he bought an AI product. I’m not saying that nobody is buying this stuff. But does the product do well enough to justify its existence? That can only be answered long term.

That AI app cost him my 5 figure job and I made that very clear to him and I’ve also told many folks in my community looking for plumbing work to stay away from those guys.

this is capitalism, the AI only has to be shiny enough to be sold, and once the plumber loses his business we can buy back the AI during the bankruptcy sale at a reduced price, wins all around well except for you and the plumber I guess but AI!!!!

thats the worst part, this guy behaved like he was ENTITLED to terminate her existence. not to mention the vitrol from higher ups that seem to concur. very sad to see all around.

>False, especially when the vehicle has little momentum like in this case.

no it was very true, when the driver was shot the vehicle sped up and crashed. this means that the gunshot did not stop the vehicle, but the gunshot did eliminate the driver from the "driver + accelerating car" combination.

Its not hard to find defenders of the shooter as usual, but at least to me this is one of the most callous actions I have ever seen, the guy seemed so casual about it, like the woman was dead already and he was just making sure or something, but I understand to some his actions will be considered "based" and "trad-pilled".

subsidies > tariffs. seriously, injecting money is a pretty darn good shortcut, and you can really target money with agreements about its use. tariffs seem to be abstract theories that you hope work but often don't.

yeah people really do seem to underestimate the ramifications of trumps return, but you cannot put a guy like that in a second time and expect good things.

lol says you, its been my experience that reason.com does NOT post made-up stories, they simply have priorities aligned with their political biases which is relatively normal nowadays. AI agrees.

google:

"Reason.com is a reputable source that adheres to journalistic standards, but its content is filtered through a specific, consistent libertarian lens."

Okay, so they're repeating an anti-immigrant neonazi talking point because they're "libertarian". Okay.

can you post the neonazi part? I couldn't find it. if you're uncomfortable posting actual nazi text, post the wordcount that precedes it in the article and I can count the words that precede your neonazi discovery.