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All the other solutions currently are just kind of space buses (for equipment and people).
There are different estimates for the shuttle launch costs -- between $500m - $1.5b. However for LEO there couldn't be anything more useful. The SLS launch costs run between $2b - $4b. It hasn't done anything useful so far...
The technical aspects were always not that important.
"Please give me a business model like Uber, for bicycles, but better"
Let us know how it goes :)
Since we consume either articles (which are often rated as "This will take you 3 minutes to read") or video, the title is deceiving. Particularly as someone who finds consuming information infuriatingly slow in videos, and prefer to read or scan articles, I find it has a sense of irony to it.
No that's not it at all. Complaints about AI are actually complains about loss of control. In capitalism, communism or any other society you like to describe, if AI displaces people -- those people lose control over their lives and that gets very serious quickly.
A real test of it's abilities would be synthesizing a NEW type of nuclear reactor.
Full disclosure: one of my research areas in university was adolescents, and working exactly with these types of studies.
Anyways, the main theme which keeps coming back in this material is that the actual change begain in the EARLY 2010s, which is exactly what I'm saying. My assumption is that basically as social media started to focus more on visual content (photos and videos), people started getting weird feedback about how awesome everyone ELSE was, but you were not. Etc.
Keep in mind that teens are notoriously hard to study, and alot of this material is self reported. Many teens are basically always depressed and suicidal, and or become so for some small reasons such as the results of a report card or other such factor. This is why they are a higher risk group for this sort of stuff than say the average adult. At the same time you can't really shelter them too much, because it's the experiences they gain in adolescence that allow them to build their life toolkit.
Also keep in mind this is just US teens. The rest of the world is -- well -- the rest of the world, so the data cannot really be extrapolated to more than this country.
I feel like I am repeating myself.
Definition of irony...
No, lack of ads. Before content marketing, Google was pretty useful
A YouTube vblog calling itself two minute papers seems pretty ironic to me. The word "papers" is key here.
Also meeting people in person is often annoying and damaging. I jest but, also not. :p
Facebook started off GREAT! I singed up almost as soon as it was available to the general public (remember it was just open to university students at first).
At that time my timeline was basically text only and the content came from only my friends. It was like a fun online party -- not unlike online chat systems from the old days.
Then mysteriously all the people I enjoyed interacting with, disappeared from my timeline. Then I started getting content vaguely unrelated to my friends. Then meme photos I didn't want, ads and now basically just videos I hate and am bored of.
So the original concept is fine. It's just where we ended up that is mind numbing and alienating.