says the living embodiment of a shitpost 😂

Right, this level of automation would be apocalyptic in the west cause companies would just layoff most workers and pay peanuts to the rest.

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It’s really amazing to watch how China keeps running circles around US.

On a serious note, humanoid robots have potential to be very versatile in the range of tasks they can accomplish. With the rate of advancements we’re seeing in AI tech, it’s entirely plausible that such robots could replace vast majority of factory work for example.

the way machine learning is progressing we might see Asimov style robots within our lifetime :)

how to say you didn’t read the article without saying you didn’t read the article 😂

It’s an exhilarating sight to behold, this revival of grand engineering feats. It appears as though the West has relinquished its pursuit of substantial infrastructure projects once the internet emerged on the scene. The lion’s share of talent is now diverted towards software development companies that contribute little in terms of tangible socially useful creations. In my view, constructing physical entities remains paramount for achieving meaningful advancements.

China is planning a moon base, so potentially using hyperloop on the moon to connect different bases could make a lot of sense.

I can’t imagine this stuff will see operation in the near future, but there’s so much that you learn from even just trying to build something like this that will be applicable in a lot of other areas. Big ambitious projects are traditionally really good for pushing the technological envelope.

I think these kinds of projects are really important to have because they’re motivating. They show that real technological progress is being made and create optimism for the future. On a practical level, there’s always a lot of new tech that falls out of this sort of stuff that’s generally useful. For example, a lot of tech that was developed during the Apollo program ended up being used lots of different ways to improve lives of the people.

It mostly seems like a flex to me, if they can build this then it shows how advanced technologically China has become. This is the tech that US hyped up, but was never actually able to make it work. China putting this into practice would be a clear sign that China outpaced US technologically.

China already has high saturation of regular high speed rail, and I’m guessing this would supplement that potential for long distance travel. It mostly seems like flex to me, if they can build this then it shows how advanced technologically China has become. This is the tech that US hyped up, but was never actually able to make it work. China putting this into practice would be a clear sign that China outpaced US technologically.

reject modernity, embrace tradition :)

likely

lol basically

That’s a pretty unfortunate character arc.

A bit yeah, I still find it kind of mind blowing.

I’ve been keeping an eye on peertube, and it does seem to be progressing nicely. Torrenting is probably the only practical approach to the problem.

For sure, this whole boycotting idea doesn’t really achieve much of anything in practice. I’d say when it comes to the internet the solution is to build our own open source tools and platforms. Lemmy is a perfect example of that in action.