This is brilliant, exactly what I was thinking. Knowing russians and Russia very closely, this is a very likely scenario if Russia prevails in the next few months.

Rewarding Russia now is bringing much more war very soon. Unfortunately there is a disagreement on this fact even between well-intended people who genuinely want peace.

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I think we did not really estimate here, there is just intuition. I made these estimates before for electric bikes vs human powered, and found that, somewhat counterintuitively, electric bikes may quickly become less carbon-consuming.

I do not accept the idea that brooming comes for free. If you add 15 min moderate activity of brooming per day, you may spend, say, 100kcal. If you add it to your daily routine, you need to compensate with food or loose weight. Energy balance in humans is tricky, which is one of the reasons people find it hard to control their weight. But things like replacing a 15min couch sitting with brooming make a difference for weight. Because they consume energy. Or do you continue to propose that replacing the couch sitting with brooming has zero energy and diet difference activity, is “basically free”? To be clear.

Vacuums help to save time. Carbon impact of vacuums and replacing human-powered activities with solar-electricity-powered ones is not especially studied. Which is why I think intuitive understanding here is lacking. Someone should develop it, maybe write a blog post or a paper.

This is not imaginary, growing replacement of human work at scale has a real impact on carbon consumption. My point is that in some cases, e.g. with electric bikes or vacuum cleaners, human power, even plant-supported, can be more vastful.

It is not at all obvious to me why it is a win for the broom. Humans are a lot larger than a robot and there is a lot of wasteful body movement. Production costs are a factor, but why 50 years and 5? Or 1? We agree at least that production costs excluded, solar powered robot is more green than a human broom? If so, what remains is this time to offset production.

If you stop brooming you will either gain weight or reduce carrot consumption, no need for custom control. Or you can do something else with time and energy previously reserved for brooming, maybe even something that results in an overall more green world?

You collect them stirckly yourself? No carbon-consuming tech involved?

I do not want to descend into some kind of “but there is always some carbon” point, I just want to point out that a robot powered by, say, solar electricity can be more green than a human-powered broom, production costs included.

Neither of the two is perfectly green, but a solar-powered robot is more efficient in leveraging solar power than human growing and eating plants.

Or do you think this is necessarily not so?

Green? Like solar? Are you photosynthesising?

How are many other similar bans enforceable? Like CSM itself. With a lot of difficulties.

Software which may be made illegal.

Very interesting. How likely is it to be approved though, given the opposition? Alao, what about the rest of the EU countries?

Interesting, maybe it shows that welbeing is not sufficient for a good life. People strive for struggle and progress. Even in hardship, in war, they may feel uninited, fulfilled, and motivated. It just would be better if this drive was not expressed in physical violence.

Also, good to read a well-thought comment! It is an interesting question when a radical position is justified. Normally, I would radically appeal for nuanced and balanced discussion and progress within liberal institutions. But sometimes this progress is slow or near impossible.

I find that anti-comunist sentiments in Poland, Ukraine, and some other formerly soviet countries usually refer to the soviet state, not communism as such. It is actually anti-soviet and anti-tankie.

Soviet occupation left very bitter memories, and poisoned any potential for communist progressivism in this part of the world.

This should be considered while criticising anti-communism.

It does make you wonder what caused spinal injury in these mice. I do not suppose there is a sufficient natural supply of these kinds of injured mice.

But, if not animal testing, how do you propose to develop the treatment?

You can buy quantum computer hours right now from amazon, check it out :) It is used for research.

And it is not so crazy complex to get liquid helium and some below cooling. Even small labs have it, I worked with one like that.

Quantum computers are real. You can get some on Amazon, no joke. People think it is only a matter of time before they are big enough to tackle the real world encryption.

It is extra worrying that once they are ready, they break encryption used today if someone happens to have stored some encrypted, assumed to be safe, traffic.

So better encryption now should resist breaking for years, as long as the information is relevant. And better protocols are needed now.

Cats are already smart enough, they just find it easier to access the technology using their chips.

Please don’t insult cats, it’s cats who are smart enough to know how to use their chips! Robots and chips just react as they are programmed.

So I have a cat chipped 15 years ago, and she can still operate modern devices with it - open doors, get food from a robot.

Not all tech goes obsolete fast, there are legacy compatibility layers!

Actually I like the very fact that it is paid. Supporting the developer, and some sort of accountability.

Also, after trying connect, liftoff, jerboa (all perfectly good apps), etc I find that sync is most smooth and customizable.

there is not almost any attempt to organize public participation. Except maybe admin posts with discussions in comments. Also users can vote with their feet.

I agree that the admin instinct is mostly honest and democratic and they should be regarded for their work. But the instance governance is mostly autocratic. And this kind of structure usually devolves in despotism, since power corrupts.

Would be nice to see an institution-based instance, with a constitution, elections, balance of power. Would be a great social experiment!