New research reveals the strongest solar event ever detected, in 12350 BC

Post by fallingknife » Mon, May 19, 2025, 11:03 AM UTC

make3 wrote: post #92

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You think that the farther in the future you go, the less likely it is that any existing population will know how to fix what breaks? That strikes me as oddly pessimistic, and frankly unlikely.

With the state of how the ai agents stuff already is, if you don't think that most tech jobs will be automated away in our lifetime, I don't what to tell you. Within 10-15 years, AI research automates itself and no one ever has a software engineering job ever again. I think sometimes of how crazy it would be if we could send GPT 4.5 in the past somehow, what effect that could have, just a magical almost all knowing b…

Post by tough » Mon, May 19, 2025, 11:34 AM UTC

fallingknife wrote: post #99

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Im more convinced we are heading that way every year. Certainly not anytime soon, but 100, 200, 1000 years from now? Seems plausible to me. Most people don't even know how their house electricity system is setup or works, or how their plumbing system works despite being incredibly simple, not to mention more advanced technologies. We are surrounded by internal combustion engines and yet less and less people actually…

Who cares what most people know about plumbing and electrical wiring? It's not most people's job to fix it when it breaks.

Post by rapestinians » Mon, May 19, 2025, 11:40 AM UTC

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Flonase (fluticasone) has been a life changer. I have taken for granted how valuable breathing is in terms of speech, let alone sleep and general fatigue.

Same for me. I spent the first 45 years of my life breathing almost entirely though my mouth. Then I tried some nasal spray that was great, but made the situation worse when I inevitably overused it, so I went to a doctor. I had been told when I was a kid that I had polyps, so I went to see about getting them removed. She put me on Flonase, which at the time was prescription, and since then I've been able to breathe…

Post by jvanderbot » Mon, May 19, 2025, 11:45 AM UTC

Post by iSnow » Mon, May 19, 2025, 12:29 PM UTC

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More fuel for the Fermi paradox. Our sun is a fairly calm well behaved star. Many stars, even if they allow life, might make anything using electricity very problematic. Of course ours will eventually if we don’t prepare. Seems like this type of event would also doom any space settlements if it hit one. Makes me wonder if going to the outer solar system further from the sun would be better than Mars.