I read this article but by the time I got back to it to quote, it had slipped behind a paywall.
Anyway, Altman’s thesis is that in 10 years no one will go to college because: AI. But aerospace engineers, who make 6 figures now (says Fortune) will be working in space, exploring and making MORE MONEY!!💰
First, I have engineers in the family. The degree usually takes 5 years, then several years of practice and an exam before you can be a PE and actually sign off on projects (rather like Drs. writing prescriptions, or lawyers signing pleadings). How AI is going to replace that is a mystery, since, according to Altman, AI is going to replace everyone, and no one will need college.
Grok and ChatGPT better get a move on.
The utter absurdity here is that we know what a year in microgravity does to a body designed for gravity, and it’s not good. One year is too long, but a round trip to Mars would be two years or better, if you don’t linger. The outer gas giants? Fuggedaboutit! We don’t have magic gravity generating machines that apparently work on every spaceship Hollywood ever filmed. Living in space is just not humanly possible. Or it’s the ultimate inhuman condemnation, take your pick.
And just like petroleum engineers don’t conduct oil exploration efforts, or work day by day alongside the rough necks on oil rigs, aerospace engineers don’t climb into every capsule and shuttle sent into space. They work in offices with the data astronauts bring back. There’s no job in space for them.
These clown took 50’s sci fi as science, and dropped the “fiction.” They aren’t “Masters of the Universe,” they’re morons. Every time they predict the future, I think: who predicted I’d be sitting in my chair, typing this on a virtual screen on cellphone? I remember the predictions about how we’d all have record collections on mini-CD’s, and how we’d all be wearing goggles by now and losing ourselves in “VR.” Or we’d all throw away our cellphones and engage the world, via the internet, through our glasses. 🤓
O brave new world, that has such nimrods in it!
I don't consider it an exclusively American problem, but somehow we are the numerically dominant contributors. Strange.
ReplyDeletewhat we are, is believers. Snake oil, multilevel marketing, the Easter Bunny, the green light at the end of the dock, our own exceptionalism. A lot of the time it works for us- how else could we have put human beings on the moon?
ReplyDeleteBut when it doesn't, we get President Trump
Check out Murderbot with Alex Skarsgard from True Blood. Robots operated from Earth by virtual reality are the future of outer space exploration and asteroid mining. Spinning orbital space hotels could become a reality as a novelty for organic denizens of meat space, but mostly as a means to enhance the capacity of the robots designed to build and maintain extraterrestrial habitats for humans. Perhaps some robots could benefit from biological tissue through hybridization .... ?
ReplyDeleteIf it would lead to the production of “The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon”… it might be worth a try.
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