How powerful a laser are we talking about? I could see that going badly very quickly.

I gave you an upvote for purposely missing the point

There's a lot of space junk just floating around.. dead satellite and such that are just waiting to collide with something.

Fairing pieces with no control for example.

So... Robots are capable of performing surgery then?

That link’s not working for me, but I assume you’re talking about the da Vinci… which is controlled by a surgeon

Could it be solved in the future? Perhaps. You never know what future technology can bring. If you talked about carrying a portable touchscreen, Internet enabled computer everywhere 40 years ago, you'd likely have been laughed at, but here we are today.

With today's technology, though, we just can't do it. From the video: "the basic crochet stitch involves 28 movements across 9 axes of motion." The most stitches one robot was able to do in row successfully was 4 and they only completed stitches successfully half the time. Obviously, there's a ton more work that would need to get done before you could have a crochet robot cranking out hats or amigurumi.

We have DNA printers, so producing blood or plasma on demand isn't exactly out of the realm of possibility.

Imagine being racist against a race we aren't technologically advanced enough to create yet.

you don't actually collect it, you use a laser to turn small deadly things into significantly less dense, less deadly clouds of plasma.

EDIT: the same people who launch their own commercial satellites have a financial incentive to pay for the solution to make their satellites safer.

Robots have been surgery workhorses since the early 2000's

https://youtu.be/YVWgRjWfD9k

A problem with this analysis is that the super-wealthy don't have to let the profit motive control things they don't want it to control.

Basic monopoly problem: a wealthy corporation can afford to sell its products at a loss in some markets for the purpose of driving the competition out of business. When you have enough money, you can afford to operate at a loss for a while, especially if doing so will guarantee higher or more stable returns later. That is exactly what is happening.

The billionaires who want to use AI to decapitate labor can easily afford to bypass profits from early AI products, because they also own other massively profitable business and happen to already possess 99.9% of all wealth that exists.

• For one thing, it's not a donation: they are crowd-sourcing the development and QA testing of the product, which is a real benefit that has huge economic value.
• Secondly: once the tech works, they can apply the lessons learned toward quickly ramping up a different AI that is more overtly hostile to the owners' enemies.

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Far too complicated sounds like it actually means 'research group hasn't decided to tackle it yet'

Like how hard could it be for a bunch of robotics students to get a couple 6axis arms to work together? Sure maybe you wouldn't have a massive industrialized process, but you could exchange human sweatshop workers with 2 robot arms.

When people are drowning because of sea levels rising, are you still going to claim it's "doomer crap" because you don't see any difference in your life?

Those people have been utterly failed at all levels by their government and society. That needing a car to drive twenty miles is a requirement in certain countries should be enough to hang everyone involved in making things that way.

"He got a electric car a few years early"

Do you mean he started an electric car company that everyone thought that would would have no chance of succeeding and turned it into the most valuable car company in the world?

You don't think him starting SpaceX was a great thing? Another feat no one believed would work?

Hard light maybe?

Fuck, the companies worth billions of dollars and they still have to outsource their shit to a bunch of kids

Selling blood or plasma.

Expanded: A human being could sell bodily fluids for medical use, which a machine would not be able to do.

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They're not trying to stop all greenhouse gas emissions. Just excess greenhouse gas emissions. The hope is that the temperature will gradually decrease back to near natural levels, thus averting further sea level rises and severe weather.

I know a few degrees C doesn't seem like much, but that's just because earth is so ridiculously huge. The epa has a good example of this here.

> For reference, an increase of 1 unit on this graph (1 × 10^22 joules) is equal to approximately 17 times the total amount of energy used by all the people on Earth in a year.

We'd have to build 17 duplicates of every power plant on earth to generate as much energy as the ocean absorbed. How can this be? Well, as it turns out there's a much bigger source of heat called The Sun.

Our little itty bit of extra carbon dioxide traps a little itty bit of extra energy from the sun. How much of a little itty bit? Well, from the data? 17x every power plant humanity has running right now. Relative to the giant ball of fusion we orbit? Tiny. Relative to us as a species? Pretty big.

edit: an exponent

How? Are you picking up that stuff and carrying it around while you collect the rest of the stuff? Added mass means more fuel you need to take up, to be able to move between orbits. Sending up the ability to deorbit itself removes the need for us to send up another thing. Along with actually getting that thing into orbit. Who's gonna pay for it? These are just honest questions. I'd love to be able to send up something that can maneuver around and collect debris, but it's an engineering feat to do that.

Source that it employed slavery? Everything I have read says that he once owned $80,000 worth of shares in a mine in Zambia.

He damn near broke a multi billion dollar company in half a year

He got a electric car a few years early that’s collecting good minds not doing anything impressive

Now he’s slowing down electric car technology doing the same things he once preached against

He hasn’t done great things he’s a the one in a million millionaires that becomes a billionaire

Are you a climate scientist?

edit: I'm asking because, ya know, he got his reports from climate scientists. Just wondering if you have any data other than "this guy seems really worried about the climate."