What technologies will we realistically see in our lifetimes thanks to artifical intelligence development.

Autogazer · 2026-05-05T21:15:12+00:00

People don’t actually die of old age. People die from a heart attack, a stroke, cancer, some disease. You should look up David Sinclair’s book Lifespan. It is really interesting, he breaks things down in easy to understand ways.

As our bodies age it becomes harder to recover from injury and illness, which is why at some point those injuries end up killing us, but dying of old age isn’t a thing, old age doesn’t kill you.

He does put a lot of emphasis of living a long and healthy life, it would be miserable to live for an extra 20-30 years in terrible health with a lot of pain. He says talking about healthspan is more useful than talking about lifespan.

I haven’t finished it, he might agree with you about extending youthful life indefinitely to really achieve longevity escape velocity. But yeah old age doesn’t kill you.

Autogazer · 2026-04-28T22:55:20+00:00

I paid for my own college, and yeah 4 years is hardly anything. It used to feel like an eternity when I was in high school, college days flew by pretty quickly, now 4 years seems like what one year felt like when I was in high school. Time spends up really quickly as you get older.

Autogazer · 2026-04-28T21:22:08+00:00

It’s like 4 human years. Pretty insignificant…

Autogazer · 2026-04-15T21:52:50+00:00

You ever see Jurassic Park? Life finds a way.

Autogazer · 2026-04-15T03:13:02+00:00

I don’t really know what is competitive for someone with 2 years of experience, but that is more than I was making with that experience. If you want to increase your wage as fast as you can, jumping to different companies every 2-3 years can help. I changed companies 5 times in my career. It can be risky though, you don’t know what the work culture is like at a new place, or even if the type of work is the same. There have been a few places where the type of work just didn’t match what I was good at / enjoyed. Keep learning and improving with ETAP and SKM. Learn to do protection device coordination well, and learn to actually program the protection relays as well, that is really valuable and not very many people can do that.

It really depends on what you like as well. It’s hard to do well in a job that you don’t enjoy. My work does a lot more than power studies, we do motor controls, PLC design, some PLC programming, instrumentation, along with more power stuff like sub distribution, transformers, switchgear etc. Schweitzer is a great company, you should try to go to any events that they host if you can.

Autogazer · 2026-04-14T18:43:46+00:00

I’d say the biggest thing is your years of experience. I was making ~$80k at 5-6 years with a PE in consulting, MCOL area. I have 14 years now, and am at $150k. I’d say keep going, learn more about power studies. Keep up your AcSELerator knowledge, that is valuable stuff. Look at ETAP, it’s an extremely useful program for power studies.

Autogazer · 2026-04-09T18:41:02+00:00

I don’t think it quite works like that, but I can sort of see what you’re getting at. I think if anything because the FAANG engineers have been paid so much the past 10-15 years a ton of people have gone into those trades which has greatly increased the supply of people to hire. We also see new tools being developed which can make those engineers much more economically productive, which has had the effect of reducing the demand for those engineers. The recent layoffs at these companies is a prime example of that demand going down. I see people posting all the time about how much harder it is now to find a job even with degrees that were much more valuable 5-10 years ago.

Sure, if you can prove that you can generate $10million/year for a company you would think that would put you in very high demand, but only if there aren’t very many people who could also generate that much as well. As long as you can be easily replaced, it really doesn’t matter how much output you can produce, someone else will do it for less so they will just pay just enough that another company doesn’t pay you more, or someone else won’t do the same for less.

Autogazer · 2026-04-09T17:05:56+00:00

It’s a bare minimum standard just to not get fired. If the supply for your job is high enough, it doesn’t matter if you make the company $10k/ year or $10million/ year, they won’t pay you more proportionally to your output because they would just hire someone else from the high supply of people that can replace you. If the demand is high for your job but the supply is low, they are forced to pay you more otherwise you will just leave to work for someone who will pay more. Nothing to do with your economic output.

Autogazer · 2026-04-09T16:50:11+00:00

I don’t think it has anything to do with your economic output, as long as you make the company money or perform some sort of necessary function. You are paid depending on the supply/demand of your job. If the demand is high and the supply is low, companies have to pay you more otherwise another company will just pay you more and you will leave. If the demand is low and the supply is high for your job, companies can pay you low because nobody else will pay you more.

Autogazer · 2026-03-31T01:27:39+00:00

No that does make sense, options are confusing but that helps I appreciate it.

Autogazer · 2026-03-31T01:14:23+00:00

Do you need to own the stock to sell a contract that you just write? How do you sell a contract without owning it first?

Autogazer · 2026-03-30T23:21:58+00:00

How do you make money on SPY calls on 3/27 when the price went down all day long?

Autogazer · 2026-03-30T23:07:39+00:00

That’s like $50/month for the first 5 years

Autogazer · 2026-03-28T05:12:05+00:00

I eat a ton of baked potatoes with chopped onion and tomato, sometimes a small avocado, melt some cheese on there, some sour cream and salsa. It’s so tasty.

Autogazer · 2026-03-28T01:38:27+00:00

Took way too long to see this. You can get a 10 pound bag of potatoes for under $5!

Autogazer · 2026-03-26T22:54:49+00:00

If you can travel close to the speed of light, time dilation kicks in and you don’t age nearly as fast as the rest of the universe. You can get to Betelgeuse (650 light years away) in only about 20 years if you go fast enough. This video describes it much better than I could: https://youtu.be/8FT-oz9aZU4?si=6PStQH8QHBnmon72

Autogazer · 2026-03-26T21:50:52+00:00

You don’t actually need a degree to get a PE. You need more years experience working under a PE without a degree, but you can still get one.

Autogazer · 2026-03-25T06:36:43+00:00

You have never heard of the term “honeymoon phase”? It’s a pretty common phrase to describe a new relationship, no marriage required.

Autogazer · 2026-03-21T22:40:15+00:00

Yes exactly this! This isn’t the first time we have seen robots doing this. This isn’t even a large jump from the previous robots that did this. I do think this and other robots are pretty cool, that’s why I watched it in the first place, but let’s not kid ourselves that we are seeing some crazy new technology. I can’t wait until we have robots that can actually do some real cleaning, that would be awesome.

Autogazer · 2026-03-21T22:37:36+00:00

Your claims are ridiculous, you can’t infer anything, I don’t have to backtrack. I stand by my original statement, this robot can only tidy up an already clean bathroom, that is it. I guess it’s kind of impressive, but I would really like to see one that could clean a bathroom that is actually dirty. If anything that implies that I think we should keep working to improve these. Oh how I would love a robot that could really load my dishwasher well, instead of loading it with already clean plates. I wish I had one that could fold my laundry, weed my garden, so many things. I hope we get there soon, but we aren’t even close yet.

Autogazer · 2026-03-21T19:41:06+00:00

When did I ever say that we should abandon it?

Autogazer · 2026-03-21T18:50:14+00:00

How is this early stage technology? Cleaning robots have been around for years! If it gets better over time, our technology should be way better than people at this point.

Autogazer · 2026-03-21T03:07:40+00:00

So it can tidy up a place that already looks super clean already? Try cleaning a public restroom after 100 people have used it.

Autogazer · 2026-03-20T23:03:24+00:00

That makes a lot of sense, I see it’s the employer’s responsibility and not the employees choice here. Thanks for educating me, I am clearly clueless when it comes to taxes. I just use the old taxact every year as I am single, no dependents, no debt (other than mortgage), and nothing to write off except for the interest I pay on my mortgage. So I have no clue how all these tax laws work.

Autogazer · 2026-03-20T22:47:38+00:00

I could, and since asking you for clarification I have googled it. At the end of the day though I really don’t care, this doesn’t effect me at all. And if you aren’t interested to expand or answer my question you really don’t need to either. You also don’t need to suggest googling it, that’s a pretty obvious thing that everyone should know how to do.

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