The deserts have been expanding for a long time and absorbing arable land. They’re not greening the entire desert obviously. They’re reclaiming the land and creating a green wall so the desert doesn’t spread.

The big concern is that once these apps are blocked from the official store then they lose a lot of the audience. And then there might be less interest in developing for a very niche community of people who jailbreak their phones.

Tons of great things happening in China. They’re greening deserts at mind boggling scale, building out more clean energy infrastructure than the rest of the world combined, and building public infrastructure like it’s going out of style.

great attention to detail

The fact that this genocidal sack of shit was you lr ‘best’ president is the point https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush

no prob

Yes, the bed and the environment in general is part of the world model. What I mean is that’s part of object identification and recognition of what objects to use for what task, etc. It’s a separate concern from dexterity. Think of it this way. If you’re thirsty, and you pick up a cup. You’re consciously thinking about moving your hand to grab the cup and bring it to your mouth. That’s what the world model is concerned with. You’re not aware of every individual muscle movement and all the micro adjustments that need to happen in order for the task to be completed. And that’s what the running illustrates. It’s the dexterity of the system in dealing with feedback from the world and making these adjustments in response.

You absolutely do have the impact of random events when you’re doing anything in the physical world. You have wind, uneven ground, variations in weight distribution, and so on. That’s what makes this sort of stuff so difficult in practice. All the tiny little errors quickly add up, so you can’t just match expected input. You have to have a dynamic system that can adjust on the fly to the sensory data. Dealing with stuff like an uneven bed or a tilted surface is a completely separate problem of having a good enough world model internally.

And what specifically is it that you disagree with, but I’m just a software engineer.

Running merely illustrates that the system can react with very little latency, it’s obvious that this will be applicable in any applications where the robot needs to quickly adapt to the environment, such as say factory work.

And that means we have robots that can exercise unprecedented body control in dynamic situations. If you don’t understand the general applications of this, really don’t know what else to say to you.

I mean they do reference the actual study right at the start https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03338-w#Sec2

Personally, I think a major war is not a likely scenario. I’m expecting something more akin to the Soviet collapse in the 90s.

Again, I see no material basis for 28 administration caring about Europe. Things are only going to get worse economically in the next couple years, and the US is going to have to husband their resources that much more as a result. The rise of nationalism in Europe is also inevitable for the same reason. As the economic situation continues to deteriorate, the countries that are better off will start pulling up the ladders.

Yes, we need to do things like space exploration because these are the endeavours that advance humanity. Even in practical terms, plenty of discoveries that are useful here come from technologies developed for space exploration. If you’re really worried about unproductive use of resouces, maybe worry about how we deal with the pedo elites that rule over us and hoard resources on unimaginable scale.

That’s precisely why I pointed out that the role of Europe has changed from the American perspective in my original reply. It’s not a question of a specific leader, but the structural change in the material realities of the empire. A future president in the US may be less crass than Trump, but the policy itself isn’t going to change. The US is no longer going to see Europe as being worth the investment. The empire is contracting, and Americans will husband their resources either to dominate their own hemisphere or to try and contain China.

I’d argue SteamOS has done a lot for Wine. Nowadays, a huge chunk of Windows games works on Linux seamlessly. If governments start mandating Linux, then every company working with the government will be forced to be Linux compatible as well. That means having file formats that work natively on Linux, drivers, and all the other things that come with mainstream use.

The handful examples are incredibly consequential. Europe is basically entirely dependent on the US for energy. And with energy prices in the US being around three times lower, the US is using that as leverage to lure industry away from Europe. The US is also actively meddling in European politics and uses their social media platforms to shape public opinion in Europe.

It’s kind of hard to see what positive actions the US has taken towards Europe over the past few years. It’s an abusive relationship where Europe continues to accept one humiliation after another.

Now that the Iran fiasco looks to have failed, it’s entirely possible that Trump will remember about Greenland again. Meanwhile, there’s very little indication that EU actually does much of anything to protect any common interests. The EU immediately folded in the trade war with the US, while China and many other countries held firm.

I disagree, Europe simply doesn’t hold the same strategic relevance for the US as it did in the days of the Cold War. The tariffs under Trump and the Inflation Reduction Act under Biden were both direct economic attacks on Europe. Blowing up Nord Stream was also an attack on European economy. Europe is also one of the main victims in the current war on Iran being further cut off from energy. If Europeans still don’t understand that the US is going to cannibalize whatever industry from Europe that it can and turn it into a cheap labor market, then they deserve everything that’s coming to them.

Right, but I would imagine now there’s going to be more pressure to become less dependent on US tech with the US becoming openly hostile to Europe.