Bill Gates being the undisputed richest guy in the world and spending all his money on mosquito nets, versus Musk building starships and doing stuff like this pretty well sums up where we were in the first part of the century v. now.
Whitepill.
@GrapeApe9k It REDUCED overall need for labour. Outside of core places it caused DE-industrialization (e.g. the damage to India's textile industry forms the basis of "the Brits genocided India for a gazillion dollars" even today). Yet resourceless have-not places keep getting more populous
@jonbriggamsback@_jokeocracy will be interesting to see what it does practically for everyday driving. Eliminate slippage in rain, snow and ice? That would be cool.
@ctjlewis@thoth_iv stuff in this genre pops up on HN from time to time https://t.co/cD2r5ZVm7y
As for “differential computing” it sounds a lot like genetic algorithms from the 80s