/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11209888

>robots can or should be "conscious"

Why not toasters? Why not microwave ovens? kek

>>10138847

>he doesn't understand that we exist in a MWI scenario
>he doesn't understand that the longest-lived version of "you" is always "you"

>>10063065

>none of this shit has happened yet
>not even in Venice or Amsterdam
>or even some streetshitter 3rd world nation with no megaproject budget whatsoever
>but trust us, it's coming! And it'll be THE END!

>>9476990
>Why should anything "happen" ever?

Because if nothing ever happened, something would have never happened, and that's clearly not the case.

>>9302250

The batteries need to be replaced after a max of 150,000 miles, and they run $45,000 apiece just on their sedans...so, (conservative estimate) figure $100,000 replaced six times over the typical million mile lifespan of a typical long haul semi...compare this to $150,000 for a Cascadia, with maybe $100,000 in maintenance costs over that time...

We saving money yet? kek

>>9218302
>maybe if I pretend that "niche" doesn't actually have a specific meaning nobody will notice

>In ecology, a niche is the fit of a species living under specific environmental conditions. The ecological niche describes how an organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and competitors (for example, by growing when resources are abundant, and when predators, parasites and pathogens are scarce) and how it in turn alters those same factors (for example, limiting access to resources by other organisms, acting as a food source for predators and a consumer of prey). "The type and number of variables comprising the dimensions of an environmental niche vary from one species to another [and] the relative importance of particular environmental variables for a species may vary according to the geographic and biotic contexts".
>REPEAT: "The type and number of variables comprising the dimensions of an environmental niche vary from one species to another"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_niche

>contradicts nothing I wrote
>so, go correct the Wikipedia article, Einstein
>I double dare you, kek