Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Tesla AI Day 2!!!! ITS HERE!!!!" video.

  1. As an engineer with over 30+ years in automation that definition (if it even exists) has nothing to do with what what industry does. I have worked with Kuka, Fanuc and Adept robotics and I have NEVER SEEN or HEARD ANYONE in general industry talk about a definition of "intelligent robots requiring at least 5-axis." But then this is one of the things people who ACTUALLY DO OR who HAVE worked in INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS hate about all the bullshite artists who make claims about various technologies like "humanoid robots" and "automation" and what it will do in future. Most of its not even remotely close to wild speculation and is closer to flat earth claims than science. A lot of technology stories we see or hear in the media are PR exercises trying to raise money. I can tell you its very frustrating to be an engineer these days. There are some way more important things than Elon's robot and driverless car fantasies. First of the rank is new power stations closely followed by clean water and waster water systems. Its not simply a matter of an energy transition its mostly NOBODY has kept upgrading their energy and water systems to match population growth these past 30-40 years. The expenditures in those areas are in the TRILLIONS. That's TRILLIONS with a 'T' and an 'S' on the end because its more than 1, in fact its in the double digit and maybe triple digit range. It all depends in how the next version of modern capitalist economics handles the task.
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  2. Good to see you've taken time out from watching Britain self destruct. We've all been wondering who'd push the U.K. over the Brexit Cliff and some of us are surprised we thought it would be the buffoons buffoon Boris. Instead we got Dolly the Sheep's cousin the clone of Margaret Thatcher.
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  3.  @Deebz270  There's a slight understatement "the Earth's biosphere is in early stages of shifting its state of thermoequlibrium" Before I explain why I agree and give you something to think about. There will be a next version of economics. The true effects of Climate Change wont change that, in fact it will drive it. I suggest you listen to Mark Blyth he's better at explaining the economic phases than I am. On the planet. I did my degree in aerospace (late 80s) and we once had a guest lecture from an Alum who had just finished a NASA project on the basics of terraforming Mars. He introduced us to what I now call Planetary Mechanics which is just the basic calculations on how much needs to be done. The other subject is Planetary Dynamics which is the whole how do you make the gas cycles and water cycle work. Its like comparing how many nuts and bolts you need versus how do you make a car actually work properly and not fall apart. The simplest thing I do with people is ask them to look at the surface area of the planet in question in square kilometers and then add 9 (000,000,000) zeros. You now have a very reasonable (within 1%) of the volume of air that's 1km thick covering the surface of you planet. Now that you have that number is pretty easy using a very basic formula to work out how much energy is required to raise the temperature of that volume of air from say 20℃ to 21℃ AND YES its a seriously huge number and if you consider the energy of something like the Hiroshima bomb you can easily work out how many Hiroshima's it takes to raise that much air from 20℃ to 21℃. I wont tell you that number and if you do calculate it I suggest not trying to tell too many people it either freaks them out or they think you're nuts. I use the same method to show how Elon is FOS on terraforming Mars. You do the same thing but instead calculate the MASS of earth standard air which is 1.2kg per m3. You then ask the Muskbots where Elon is going to get 173 Trillion tons of air. I actually had one of them recently say that we only need the oxygen??? So then I asked where they thought Elon would get his hands on roughly 36 Trillion tons of Oxygen. So yes you are dead right the Earth is transitioning, but what its transitioning into is a bugger of a question because there will be things in play that we don't talk about much. Water Vapor is top of that tree. Warmer planet means more water vapor in the sky. Water vapor does a couple of things. It reflects light off the planet so tends to stop it getting hotter but it also acts like a thermal blanket so once its hotter it tends to keep it hotter for a while. Then when it finally does cool it comes down as rain and snow in seriously large amounts. So we can expect these events where lots of moisture gets sucked into the sky and then eventually comes back down with a bit of a deluge effect. I'm Australian we are currently having our 9th major flood this year. We even had snow in a few places. Yeah driest country on the planet and we've been flooded 9 times in one year and been snowed on right before summer starts. Nothing to see here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKnX5wci404 Sorry for the longish reply but you're smart enough to get it.
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