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Tim Harford's Undercover Economist has examples of how to get people to self select: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70420.The_Undercover_Eco...

You're right, Land Value Tax (LVT) would be much better, as other European cities use. It's hard to off-shore property in a tax haven too. It's one of those policies that is popula…

Most parts of the world look at McMansions and feel unsettled, particularly when they are marketed as "aspirational": sell your soul in order to get the biggest place you can get a…

The other benefit with having multiple projectors/lasers at different angles are that you can use different wavelengths: one that causes polymerisation, one that inhibits it.

> Suddenly, no one wants to invest in a company that requires significant capital But this is the point: the reason Uber is successful isn't particularly because of their technical…

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> World's Largest Microgrid Got to be up there (down there?) with World's Smallest Mountain

Fundamentally, if a human can drive a car with nothing but two relatively poor eyes with a pretty small field of vision set in a single location inside the vehicle, an AI can be tr…

Would these layers be thin enough to be translucent?

As someone with a BSc. in AI from a university that's been handing them out since the 50s, I, er, disagree.

The most extreme example of this I've seen is someone who constructed an entire town map in Excel. It was literally incredible. And I'm not talking about a modern American city tha…

Just remember that the extra sensors are a "bonus": if a human being can successfully drive by just using their two eyes in the driving seat, with perhaps 200° range and a couple o…

Human consciousness for one, I'd wager.

Nice blog post, but just as a heads-up, he never actually defined what "JIT" stands for in the post...