~ by creating an AGI that forces you to be happy… ~ Oh, wait, no — Effective Altruism DOESN’T want Artificial General Intelligence, because EA is terrified of some ‘amorphous entity with no accountability which decides the fate of humanity without listening to the rest of us’, in the form…

~ constant winds carry ships FAST on Arctic ice-highways, easily made! ~ TL;DR — Ice Ships are frickin’ insane. With a mast and sail, a wide flat body, and innumerable skates, these sailboats are able to haul tonnage across frozen lakes and glaciers at up to 85 miles per hour…

~ NOT crypto-dollars; actual computer chips = dollars ~ TL;DR — A currency is ‘backed’ by the thing you get for it when you hand-in your dollar to the bank. It used to be that you could go to the bank with your paper dollar, which was really just a…

~ Robotic warfare advancements knell a Dark Age ~ TL;DR — Robotic weapons systems are on a tear. Ukraine’s demand, and Russia’s stuttering response, are fueling a new era of warfare. In particular, Elbit System’s new “Lanius” is literally a tiny *racing* drone with a claymore mine attached to the…

~ easy points to ensure relationships as good as the best so far ~ Starting simply: Mending The most important commitment of the relationship is NOT “staying together” — instead, it’s “IF we break apart, we mend the hurt with each other before we go.” We don’t leave each other…

~ quadruple-dip utilities and value, even earn cash ~ You live on a farm? You pay for fertilizer, plus home heating half of the year, hot water heating, a humidifier in the winter, and you were thinking of saving-up for a hot tub? Get it all-in-one! You can even rig…

~ desalinate with <5% the energy & equipment ~ TL;DR — We need to stop droughts, especially as climate change makes them worse. Desalination is nice, capturing clean water from the sea, yet it requires expensive equipment and lots and lots of energy. We can, instead, accelerate evaporation OUT into…

~ Human-Brain SIZED artificial intelligence this Christmas! ~ TL;DR — Cerebras, the company which recently began selling their ultra-massive computer chips, specialized for training A.I., just put a stack of 13.5 million AI-core beasts together, for an EXA-scale supercomputer that costs $30 million bucks. While the human brain has only…

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