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Which one is 3.6 roentgen, which is not great, not terrible?

AI in an RTS, like Deepmind in Starcraft, can simply issue more commands and react faster than a human - since game information can be gleaned directly from the frame buffer, and instructions issued without going through the analogue of a mouse and keyboard.

Not all cultures and peoples are equal. The inherent and social capability to conduct cutting-edge science is not widespread. Historically it seems that only Europeans, Asians, and for a time Middle Easterners have been able to make significant and lasting contributions.

The notable missing piece here is Africa - which is where a significant part of population growth is occurring.

The rise of EVs also presents the opportunity for generally lighter, smaller, cheaper vehicles.

Already they are very popular in China: https://insideevs.com/news/340006/big-in-china-cheap-tiny-el...

What would a Tesla Model 3 look like if it had half the range, no frunk, and much lower performance? (ie. limited to 120km/h) How light, cheap, and small could we take it without utterly abandoning safety?

Basically, the kind of vehicle designed just for inner-city commutes and picking up goods.

If these vehicles became more common we would see a 'peace dividend' in the car safety wars - the other vehicles on the road would be lighter, so crashes would be less dangerous (maybe combined with automatic crash avoidance as well) and breaking times shorter, so crumple zones and other big heavy features could be reduced.

Pricing like this is not designed so that people actually pay for it.

Instead it creates 'value' which is given away with some other product. For example: Free 5G for all business customers, all customers on an $80 plan or above, etc.

It also helps smooth demand - I don't think Telstra have invested a lot in 5G.

I realise this is satire, but the quality of life of Africans living in the USA now is substantially higher than their ancestral cousins who remained in Africa.

Contrasting against Pigs and Cows:

1. Small animal which requires less bone structure to support (bone scales non-linearly with mass for land animals).

2. Shorter lifespan and use of eggs allows simpler and quicker sexual selection.

3. Less intelligent animal so less energy and nutrition spent on growing the brain and maintaining its function.

Its a smaller animal, basically. Fish and insects are more efficient than chickens.

https://ib.bioninja.com.au/_Media/feed-conversion_med.jpeg

Can be solved with genetic engineering:

https://www.accessscience.com/content/genetic-engineering-of...

Chinese is tonal and cannot be typed into a computer without going through the Pinyin intermediary stage. It is fundamentally ill-suited to being a modern global language.

The cultural, scientific, and commercial works that have been created in English in the past 100 years dwarf anything created in French or Latin by a gigantic order of magnitude.

Why would we possibly switch to anything else, and lose 'access' to all that? All of the greatest movies and TV shows, the millions of scientific articles, the music, the computer code... English will never lose its position because of the amount of value that has been created with it.

How could English ever possibly change (in the way that Latin morphed into the various European languages after the fall of the Roman Empire), when we have access to perfect digital copies of how it is spoken and written?

The point is that English is the de-facto single working language of the EU, and the de-facto business and scientific language of Europe, and so it might as well be made official.

If countries offered Government services including education in English, it would hugely assist the movement of people and capital throughout the continent.

Consider: you are from Spain, and have been offered a job at a great company in Germany. You will speak English at the office and probably get around the city speaking English. But: your children need to learn German, fluently and immediately, in order to continue their schooling?

An official EU English would help pave the way for National Governments to offer services in both the local language and English.

For adults it is easy to move across the EU: you can work and socialise using in English.

But for children, and families, it is impossible. How can a child move and be expected to learn a new language immediately?

This seems like a huge disconnect. National governments need to start to offer (for parents that opt-in) primary and secondary education in English, with the entire curriculum and exams in that language as well.

Universities degrees are already offered in English, and at the very least fluency in the language is required to study most courses, since all of the articles, case studies and reference materials are in that language. It is time that that same flexibility was extended to the earlier years of education.

I think the problem can be summarised: There are too many people.

We cannot seem to feed, medicate, or house ourselves sustainably. Maybe its time to look at a 'cost-benefit analysis' of humanity? If we wish to continue developing our civilization and technology, which humans are best to carry out that task? How many people can we reasonably accommodate on Earth?

Climate change will benefit some countries according to Stanford:

https://web.stanford.edu/~mburke/climate/map.php

Russia: +419% to GDP. Hmmm....

At what point do these 'influencers' become entirely computer generated, applicable to any business or situation in the world? Nvidia already has the tech.

At what point do you say: this child just isn't meant to be? Why would you subject someone to a life of annual spinal injections, and society to the huge financial cost?

Understanding the science behind cooking is also beneficial:

https://www.amazon.com/Food-Cooking-Science-Lore-Kitchen/dp/...

You can also use a microwave to do things like cooking potatoes.

1c/gram of added sugar as a tax would be much more effective.

The problem is that unnatural sweeteners produce a similar insulin response as sugar, and also disrupt gut biota. We need to restrict sweeteners overall.

As an addendum, if you're looking to lose fat, consume zero sugar: no sweets, no juice, no sweeteners, no added sugar in anything - is the most effective way to do it. You will have to inspect the labels of any processed food you buy though.

You need to read the details more carefully. Playsaurus messed up:

1. They launched in China without registering a trademark

2. A competitor registered the trademark after 3 months of their launch

3. They continued to sell for 4 years under a name trademarked by another company, making $73,000+ yearly from that one country

Now, they complain about it on Reddit, even though China is a 'First to File' company.

The fault lies entirely with Playsaurus, nothing illegal occurred here.

https://www.trademarknow.com/blog/first-to-file-versus-first...

This situation could have occurred in many other countries - the difference is probably that the competitor is content to just sell in China, under a Chinese name, whereas products sold anywhere else would need to use the English name.

Edit: Apple taking down the game worldwide is unusual though.

Some people take solace in the idea of childlessness.

I think that raising as many happy, healthy, intelligent and productive children as possible, with a suitable partner, is our very raison d'etre. Specifically for the high-IQ HN audience. Life and society becomes much simpler and more rewarding when you view things from this perspective.

I hire freelancers for $xxx-$xxxx contracts in the games industry, and I've set a blanket ignore to proposals from Indian contractors as well for the same reasons.

The other problem is that the person you speak to and agree to do the work with is often not the one who will actually be carrying it out. Generally speculative applications where the quality or focus area of the portfolio doesn't match the job is another problem.

I also think its a shame that the original post was flagged. I think we are intelligent enough on HN that we can read and interpret information ourselves, without needing to be shielded from controversial statements.

Ironically one of the contributors to IQ declining is that we are so afraid to talk about it, and thus poorly able to consider and implement solutions.

The good news is that molecular biology is rapidly advancing to the point where we can identify specific genes contributing towards certain traits eg:

Intelligence:

https://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com/more/articles/22-gene...

And aggression:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_A

As we continue to research, and hopefully one day allow embyro selection and gene insertion/deletion for genes linked these traits, we can resume the increase in IQ.

Epigenetics complicates things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics but it just means we have more research to conduct!

According to the SPLC, which is hardly an independent or reliable organisation.

These organisations like the SPLC don't fund scientific research to oppose or rebut the work done by others, they just censor the work and classify it as wrongthink instead.

Or at least without USB-C: at least then I can use the same headphones on my laptop, iPad Pro, and phone.

I think the fundamental component is house prices. Our ancestors had much cheaper housing as a multiple of the median wage, and could mostly afford to buy based on the paid labor of the father alone.

Those same ancestors are still sticking around, living in those houses, and demanding tribute in the form of medicare and welfare payments (2/3rds of the federal budget).

I'm only saying this to spark and extend discussion: but a society in which Euthanasia is mandatory at age 80, with housing and monetary resources freed up for younger generations, is likely to be a happier and better place to live.

Alternatively we greatly limit immigration (including cross-border) - to only the most skilled and intelligent immigrants - and we create some kind of huge carrot/stick to get older people out of big houses and into smaller, managed apartments. A comprehensive land value tax, with discounts for families with children under 16, could solve this.

Not having children - and not curating a presumably well-mannered and intelligent next-generation - leaves our civilization worse off and large problems that much harder to solve.

Human intellect is rare, and partly hereditary. Please pass your genes along - at least offer a sperm or egg donation.

EVs will crush revenues on maintenance, servicing, and spares, since there are fewer and simpler parts.

These revenue lines are very high-margin.

Its probable that one major global auto company will fail in the next decade.

I think the potential for 'bad actors' on the roads is significantly reduced just by eliminating the human driver!

We might have to contemplate that we need to change our roads if we want automomous cars.

We have lanes for carpooling - why not lanes for autonomous vehicles? The road surface could have special markers to centre the vehicle, and to position it in the correct lane for a certain destination. This could be a single lane in a highway, with shorter distances between cars (relying on the quicker reaction speeds of computers and the modern, well-maintained brakes of the cars themselves), allowing humans to overtake and recognise them easily.

Then we need a standard method of communication between vehicles - braking, movement etc. - rather than relying on cameras and radar.

Remove as many variables as possible and the task becomes much easier.

Heck, we'll need a new method of charging road users for road use, without gas taxes, so we might as well introduce a standardised road pricing scheme as well (that takes into account vehicle size, weight, time, and location to calculate the price/km - and can communicate that to the end-user to allow them to optimise their travel).