lol the AI toy teaching kids how to BDSM, and yet that’s one of the least dangerous things about letting AI raise our kids

I wonder if all recent outages aren’t just crappy AI coding

What’s redditism? - I really don’t know, I only ever participated in a few subs about specific software.

The map of space debris looks scary because each is displayed as the size of a country, while all together they would fit inside a single stadium.

Right now Japan is finding easier to have outsourced people operating robots in convenience stores than hiring some local… like, when you add the cost of the robot, its maintenance, and you still have to pay someone to operate it… I also don’t know why.

Well, in 2022 Qtar spent $220b to have some football matches in the desert… and didn’t the cost of launching stuff on orbit substantially decreased in the last decade? Again, give a few decades, technology makes everything easier. If you were making that same math just ten years ago, your 10x cheaper would be higher than your current estimate.

I don’t have the technical knowledge to join the discussion, but wasn’t every technology we have today considered sci-fi at some point?

Is a huge heat shield with some aerogel or something behind it to contain the heat that couldn’t be turned into energy, and then a cord to transport the energy to the aerogel-coated equipment hundreds of meters away, really so unfeasible, as better aerogel and heat-to-energy conversion technology seem to be here?

Your second link seems to be about space travel. I’m just talking about having data centers orbiting Earth, like the thousands of satellites already do.
I will bet money that at some point someone argued that communications going through satellites in space would be unpractical because of engineering and technological challenges, the stupendous cost of getting stuff up there, and monumental maintenance costs compared to just having some lines going through some street poles.

Every few decades technology severely affects the cost of everything.

edit: To people downvoting me, in the last decade the cost of sending stuff to space went from up to $20k/kg to $1.5k/kg. I don’t know how much photovoltaic technology developed in the meantime, I got my panels about ten years ago, and back then the cost and maintenance of batteries were absurdly high, but today we have better, more efficient, and way more affordable batteries.
Yes, every few decades technology severely affects the cost of everything. That’s a fact. Deal with it.

You make a sun shield to block the scorching temperature of direct sun exposure, which will generate energy and keep the equipment in the chilling cold shade… although a huge investment, in the long run, it’s more practical than keeping them on land.