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But gravity may be useful in many applications. We don't really know how to effectively manufacture many things in microgravity at the moment. The moon would still be important for early space infrastructure.

Edit: In addition, the moon will be useful for mining and resource extraction for a long time, most likely, due to its proximity to earth and size.

Slightly overrated is where I would put it, absolutely. It's overhyped, but god if the recent advancements aren't impressive.

You are correct, and this is a big reason for why "explainable AI" is becoming a bigger thing now.

That's what they said.

The internet was revolutionary, but dotcom was overhyped at the time.

The argument isn't to not develop these things, the argument is to not let rich people become immortal while everyone else stays mortal, but spread the good among everyone.

And Google doesn't exactly say their maps are incomplete or are wrong, and if you are going someplace you absolutely need accurate maps, you should use something else. They just say they are best in class map service, and there is little to disprove that.. until the worst happens.

"what's so hard about Facebook, anyway"

Yeah, the older I get the more true this seems.

Which honestly is fucking bonkers to me. This is seriously who we're letting run the world?

Shirking safety isn't conductive to profit though. If am employee dies it doesn't benefit you. Even if you literally have zero empathy and only care about the bottom line.

Really went from me being like "haha, funny evil capitalist caricature for comedy sake, but this is obviously exaggerated" as a teen to... Well.. this. Not to mention oil barons literally putting our future at risk.

I seriously don't get how some people can be such caricatures. It's like they're almost intentionally being evil, even when it's counter to logic or profit.

It's actually much much less dead-end than chemical rockets are. There's a lot of technological possibility for nuclear rockets, thanks to the energy density of nuclear power.

In theory you could even do fusion rockets in the far future, but we'd need to figure out fusion for that first.

But like, fusion rockets might be the holy grail for space travel, short of maybe antimatter rockets (but you can imagine the complications in that). This chain of technologies is absolutely something worth exploring.

It sounds like it. But in practice? Not really?

As that's assuming every partner gets the same amount of attention as in a mono relationship, but your partner(s) has other partners, they can hang out with someone else when you are busy or need some time for yourself. How much time you spend with your partner(s) is very flexible.

In fact, in my polycule, people tend to actually get more alone time, because you are not the sole person fulfilling your partner's romantic needs. It's remarkably flexible, and, while it may need some planning and/or making sure you tend to your relationships, in my case it feels remarkably straightforward and freeing.

It's a thing I like a lot, actually. Not feeling like I am the sole person responsible for someone's romantic needs. It lifts a fair amount of stress off of me.

This flexibility means you can tune a lot of things, into what works for everyone.