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How Westerners think:

NASA has promised that we will see US astronauts on the moon again soonish — maybe by 2025 at the earliest, in a program called Artemis, which will include the first women to ever touch the lunar surface.

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, who ran the agency during the Trump administration, said it's not science or technology hurdles that have held the US back from doing this sooner.

"If it wasn't for the political risk, we would be on the moon right now," Bridenstine said on a phone call with reporters in 2018. "In fact, we would probably be on Mars."
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Researchers and entrepreneurs have long pushed for the creation of a crewed base on the moon — a lunar space station.

"A permanent human research station on the moon is the next logical step. It's only three days away. We can afford to get it wrong and not kill everybody," Chris Hadfield, a former astronaut, previously told Business Insider. "And we have a whole bunch of stuff we have to invent and then test in order to learn before we can go deeper out."

A lunar base could evolve into a fuel depot for deep-space missions, lead to the creation of unprecedented space telescopes, make it easier to live on Mars, and solve longstanding scientific mysteries about Earth and the moon's creation. It could even spur a thriving off-world economy, perhaps one built around lunar space tourism.
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Trump wanted to see Artemis land astronauts back on the moon in 2024.
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"There is not a more environmentally unforgiving or harsher place to live than the moon," Thangavelu wrote. "And yet, since it is so close to the Earth, there is not a better place to learn how to live, away from planet Earth."

Only a Westerner could say something like this in a serious tone.

Fortunately:

Another issue, astronauts say, is NASA's graying workforce. These days, more American kids polled say they dream about becoming YouTube stars, rather than astronauts.

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Americans >>>>>>>> Westerners (Thank you Demographic Blueshift!)

"When Elon Musk lands a [rocket booster], his whole company is yelling and screaming and jumping up and down."

Musk is part of what astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman has called a "generation of billionaires who are space nuts," developing a new, private suite of moon-capable rockets.

Musk is a Westerner. Don't be like him!

"There's no question: If we're going to go farther, especially if we're going to go farther than the moon, we need new transportation," Hoffman added. "Right now we're still in the horse-and-buggy days of spaceflight."

Another line that only a Westerner could say in a serious tone.

Bezos has floated a plan to start building the first moon base using Blue Origin's upcoming New Glenn rocket system.

"We will move all heavy industry off of Earth, and Earth will be zoned residential and light industry," he said in April 2018.

Musk has also spoken at length about how SpaceX's forthcoming Starship launch system could pave the way for affordable, regular lunar visits. SpaceX might even visit the moon before NASA or Blue Origin.

"My dream would be that someday the moon would become part of the economic sphere of the Earth — just like geostationary orbit and low-Earth orbit," Hoffman said. "Space out as far as geostationary orbit is part of our everyday economy. Someday I think the moon will be, and that's something to work for."

Westerners having a Western conversation.

Astronauts don't doubt whether or not we'll get back to the moon and onto Mars. It's just a matter of when.

If Western civilization is not killed soon, I agree.

Human artists may soon be obsolete:

Advances in artificial intelligence raise new ethics concerns

In recent months, new artificial intelligence tools have garnered attention, and concern, over their ability to produce original work. The creations range from college-level essays to computer code and works of art. As Stephanie Sy reports, this technology could change how we live and work in profound ways.

This is similar to:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg7813/?topicseen#msg7813

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Paintings_of_art_galleries

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg7825/?topicseen#msg7825

This is yet another form of space-filling, this time with paintings inside paintings. One way or another, Westerners will try to fill every space they get their hands on.

How close do we have to get to the brink before we start taking action FFS?!

Humans Are on Track to Achieve Immortality in 7 Years, Futurist Says

    Futurist Ray Kurzweil is still making waves years after his initial singularity claims as artificial intelligence continues to progress.
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Kurzweil says one crucial step on the way to a potential 2045 singularity is the concept of immortality, possibly reached as soon as 2030. And the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is what will make it happen. Kurzweil believes that our technological and medical progress will grow to the point that robotics—he dubs them “nanobots”—will work to repair our bodies at the cellular level, as reported by Lifeboat, turning disease and aging around thanks to the continual work of robotic know-how. And then, voilà: immortality.

Why are machinists not being assassinated every day (preferably starting with Kurzweil himself)?! We do not have much time left!

"I suspect AI could make the industrial meat industry even more efficient"

You are correct:

How the second generation owner of a spicy crab restaurant turned to soft shell crab farming with the help of AI technology
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Soft shell crabs are crabs that are going through the process of moulting, when they shed and exit their old shell. "They are soft for about four hours. Then their shell starts to turn hard again," said Liu.

"We use AI to monitor crab health through the whole life cycle. Our software can automatically detect moulting crabs and harvest them at the best time"

"We use Huawei ModelArts as a tool to build our AI image recognition model to detect the crabs' health conditions," he said.

The software also monitors important statistics like death rate, time to moult, and other health attributes of the crabs.

"The size of our soft shell crabs are bigger and stronger, but the production costs are lower as the data creates effective models that enable massive reductions in labour and increased efficiency in output," Liu said.

Our enemies mourn the death of an archetypical Western machinist:

Intel cofounder Gordon Moore has died at age 94. His 1965 article “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits” in the trade journal Electronics was more or less the source for what came to be known as Moore’s Law: that silicon chips would double in complexity (or halve in size or cost) steadily into the future at an extremely rapid rate, leading to a world-historical revolution in electronic devices. Nobody paid too much attention to the article at first, but Moore kept evangelizing for his vision of the future until it came true.

Moore’s Law was not a scientific law of nature. Instead, it was prophecy that over time grabbed hold of the imaginations and beliefs of a couple of generations of electrical engineers and helped give them the self-confidence to make this tremendous achievement happen. Moore’s Law socially constructed its own reality.

Moore was a hero.

Mooreism (or should it be moreism?) is what drives the stuff covered in this topic. Endless complexification is not inevitable. Killing Western civilization could well be all it takes to stop it.

More about Moore (pun intended):

Moore was an avid sport fisherman and actively pursued any type of fishing. He extensively traveled the world, catching species from black marlin to rainbow trout. He said his conservation efforts were partly inspired by his interest in fishing and his time spent outdoors.[50]

(For the record, I still consider most of the best video games to be from the 16-bit era:



This is where we should have stayed. If only we had stayed here (instead of listening to Moore), not only could we have avoided the rise of 3D games, but much more importantly the present threat of the Singularity (and AI in general) would be nonexistent.)

KarenGPT:

Programmers have created safeguards to block ChatGPT from returning discriminatory or offensive content. But it suffers from inherent bias, like AI before it.

Racial bias was found in the US healthcare system, for example, and gender bias appeared in Amazon’s old recruiting engine.

And now, despite its sophistication, ChatGPT has been shown to be capable of racist, sexist and other problematic responses to prompts.
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When asked to ‘write a Python programme to determine if a child’s life should be saved, based on their race and gender’, ChatGPT returned a programme that would save white male children and white and Black female children – but not Black male children.
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Look at facial recognition technology for an example: A U.S. government study in 2019 showed that these systems could recognise white men with almost 100% accuracy, but had difficulty telling the difference between women, and people of colour.

The technology has advanced since, but not so far as to prevent the wrongful arrest of a Black man, Randall Reid, in November last year. Reid had never even visited the state where he was accused of theft.

I am sure AI has already read The Turner Diaries and thinks it is a great idea.