[Carlhole]

Peak Moment 155: Peak Oil: Adapting for Big Changes Ahead

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ith a long-time eye to declining energy resources, Bart Anderson envisions a very different society in five years. The former editor of www.EnergyBulletin.net offers advice for post-oil living: Understand the problem. Prepare psychologically for big shifts and the unexpected. Find your niche and get good at it. See what your great grandparents did as a model for living well within limits. "Live poor and learn to do it well" as Bart did as a graduate student. Things will be very different, he said, but we'll make it through.

[Dreamtwister]

Have no fear. We shall crush the coruncopians. We shall drive them before us, and hear the lamentation of their women.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')PO doomerism is just a juvenile fantasy!

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')PO doomerism is just a juvenile fantasy!

[yesplease]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'S')ays a guy who believes in The Singularity.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yesplease', '
')(At least the ones I've asked about.)

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut I definitely believe that machine intelligence is on the way.

The military is all over it. They have no doubts.

[yesplease]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'A')ll my statements are juvenile fantasies.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yesplease', 'T')hat doesn't mean that quantifying them still isn't a good idea.

[yesplease]

Don't just say something is nonsense, show it is. Besides, if you think your position is nonsense or juvenile, why would you even bother presenting it?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yesplease', 'D')on't just say something is nonsense, show it is. Besides, if you think your position is nonsense or juvenile, why would you even bother presenting it?

[Quinny]

Interesting, I've never thought that you need to grow up Ludi!

[sparky]

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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA)had a brainstorm

Why spend sqillions of taxpayers money for decades getting nothing
if one can make an open to all competition game with a milion buck prize
The project was to develop an "intelligent" driverless vehicle

no human control or instructions ,
the car had to work it out alone over real ground

competitors came from everywhere , from big unis to a dad and son team




The first competition of the DARPA Grand Challenge was held on March 13, 2004 in the Mojave Desert region of the United States,
a 150-mile (240 km) route with a variety of slopes and terrain
None finished the route. the best did barely a tenth of the distance


The second competition of the Grand Challenge was on October 8, 2005.
Five vehicles successfully completed the race ,

http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge05/gcorg/

The third competition of the Grand Challenge2, the "Urban Challenge", was on November 3, 2007
The course was a 96 km (60-mile) urban area course, to be completed in less than 6 hours.
Rules included obeying all traffic regulations while negotiating with other traffic and obstacles and merging into traffic.

the judges had really made it hard , pedestrians crossing anywhere , boom gate closing and other vehicle rear parking suddenly


six cars made it

http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp


Intelligence is not about thoughts it's about functions ,

.

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[yesplease]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'E')ntertainment purposes, apparently.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yesplease', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'E')ntertainment purposes, apparently.

[yesplease]

I can't say I disagree, even if it is for different reasons.