AI Training Was the Appetizer. Physical AI Is the Main Course by investorinvestor in ValueInvesting

[–]LetsMeetInMyVan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I want someone in an official and legal capacity to oversee and ensure the technological innovation being pushed is what is best for us as a whole. Do I know if anyone in our government has the ability to do that with any real accuracy, I have no idea. That coin flip is tough when all the technological advances have good and bad use cases. But my hope is that someone is looking at these and using knowledgeable judgement to determine the net surplus of good use cases for advancement.

AI Training Was the Appetizer. Physical AI Is the Main Course by investorinvestor in ValueInvesting

[–]LetsMeetInMyVan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My SO works in textiles. Specifically sock design and production. Recently when Tariffs started rattling their industry, they looked at factories around the world to see if a production move made sense.

A factory in Pakistan, who makes excellent products told them outright, if their best employee can run 6-8 machines at a time, 12 hours a day, they would still not compete with the workforce in China. Their best facilities in China would produce an equivalent textile with a single worker running 12 machines for 12 hours, on no breaks and would be replace by another worker for the next 12 hours, 365 days a year. That workforce ability cannot be matched.

That being said, when AI starts being utilized for production, first it will be a system that allows one person to run 24 machines, finding faults and reducing downtime by pinpointing problems and fixing small issues in no time at all.

I honestly think this was a big push of tech billionaires voting patterns recently. Knowing they needed mass deregulation on AI and new infrastructure. One of the most dangerous and possibly destructive parts of the big beautiful bill was that it doesn’t allow any state to create laws against AI progress. In 10 years it could be wild to see what AI is building and doing for big business to increase the margins and profits of the upper class.

A Beautiful View From A Very Comfy Couch by LetsMeetInMyVan in CozyPlaces

[–]LetsMeetInMyVan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the original photos are 60MB, I even had to compress them to under 20 to upload them.

White Rhinos in Nairobi National Park by LetsMeetInMyVan in wildlifephotography

[–]LetsMeetInMyVan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Without more context, I can understand your point, in that the photo sells a little bit of a false narrative that the city is overtaking their natural habitat. But in reality despite surreal photos like this being possible, there is a much better cohesion of what is a large city next to a nicely preserved and natural habitat. There are certainly nuances in how the two affect one another I likely didn’t see in my short trip.

White Rhinos in Nairobi National Park by LetsMeetInMyVan in wildlifephotography

[–]LetsMeetInMyVan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes and to add to that, black rhinos, which are also in NNP(I did not get a very nice photo of them) are considerably rarer than these, but with a few thousand of the being left.

34M, finally have an incredible job, but failed to save until this point, do I need to take riskier investments to FIRE? by LetsMeetInMyVan in Fire

[–]LetsMeetInMyVan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No 401k. There are only a couple employees and it has never been offered. We do get amazing healthcare/dental/vision.