Lugh

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[–] Lugh 3 points 1 day ago

The EU has set itself ambitious decarbonization targets. It aims for Europe to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, and has enshrined those targets in law in the territory's 27 countries.

The bloc has used its European Green Deal to speed up decarbonization, and while these results are impressive, this report points out they will need to accelerate further to meet the 2050 targets.

[–] Lugh 13 points 1 day ago

This was done under the auspices of the ITER international consortium funded by China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States.

[–] Lugh 2 points 1 day ago

This was done under the auspices of the ITER international consortium funded by China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States.

[–] Lugh 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The report highlighted a continued decline in fossil fuel dependency, with gas generation falling for the fifth consecutive year and overall fossil-fueled power dropping to a historic low of 29%.

Even when Russia makes it back to international markets with their natural gas, no one in Europe is going to want it.

[–] Lugh 5 points 2 days ago

I don’t expect the EU or India, or other countries to catch up soon on the level and price of green tech that China now has.

Europe would be smart to mandate some of the billions they are going to spend on this, come from Euro-sources. It makes it much easier to match Chinese manufacturing economies for Euro-exports elsewhere.

[–] Lugh 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes, the US political system is now even more corrupt than before. At least the Democrats were making some effort, and I'm sure blue states like California still will.

[–] Lugh 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

The US is just 16% of Chinese exports. Any tariff disruption will be made up for many, many times over by being OPEC of 21st century renewable energy to the rest of the world.

https://wits.worldbank.org/countrysnapshot/en/chn

[–] Lugh 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

True. Like Bitcoin, when something is hyped to the moon this much, its to feed the casino and get the price higher to take profits before it all crashes.

[–] Lugh 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Will OpenAI ever make a dime in profit? At every turn, open-source matches it, but for free. It's competitors aren't fools, part of the push to open-source is to bleed out competitors. I'll be surprised if their isn't a major stock market correction during Trump's term. A lot of this AI investor money could go up in smoke.

[–] Lugh 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Banning gasoline cars isn't that radical a step for Norway - 90% of new cars sold there are already EVs. This also doesn't mean the disappearance of ICE cars from Norwegian roads, the old stock will have to gradually disappear as it ages out.

The EU (which Norway isn't in) has set 2035 as the date for banning the sale of new gasoline cars there. However, many think most car makers will have stopped selling them in Europe before that date. As their market share shrinks, it will become unprofitable to make them anymore.

[–] Lugh 4 points 4 days ago

It's interesting to wonder how many hitherto unseen patterns in science and nature AI will find.

 

It's a compliment to Unitree that when I first looked at this video with the latest updates to the G1 Bionic humanoid robot, I wondered if it was rendered and not real life. But it is real, this is what they are capable of, and the base model is only $16,000.

There are many humanoid robots in development, but the Unitree G1 Bionic is interesting because of its very cheap price point. Open source robotic development AI is rapidly advancing the capability of robots. Meanwhile, with chat GPT type AI on board we will easily be able to talk to them.

How far away are we from a world where you can purchase a humanoid robot that will be capable of doing most types of unskilled work with little training? It can't be very many years away now when you look at this.

 

This data is courtesy of Dan Shapiro.

As there are only so many people and hours in the day, the market for human attention is finite. Hollywood is spending more money to make TV and movies, but its market share is declining. People, especially younger people, are far more likely to watch videos on the internet made by small creators. Needless to say, the small content creators' costs are vastly cheaper. AI is rapidly making them cheaper still.

And it's not just that small creators using AI-generation will displace Hollywood's existing efforts; they are likely to create new artforms that will displace the old screen/broadcast formats of TV shows & movies too. AI-gen artforms, as yet uninvented, may be real-time rendered, personalized for individuals, hyper-niche, etc, etc

This is all part of a surprising trend with AI, its tendency towards decentralization. Some dommerist nightmares see all powerful corporations in the future, but as with open-source AI & robotics equalling the Big Tech efforts, the trend seems more for AI's power to be dispersed.

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