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If you want to be more specific, you can google for "carrier haulage tax evasion" - this will be just the tip of the iceberg.
Supply chain is mixed with shady practices for tax evasion, bribery, laundering and all sorts of shady things at all levels that "compete" with actual process optimization. Combined with overall opposition to automation this incapacitates any effort to make the process efficient cuz it's hard, it "steals jobs" and not easy money.
For the first query I only found this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/logistics/comments/6mvptr/why_are_s...
For the second query I only found this, which discusses something that to my understanding isn't happening yet?
https://fiata.org/news/press-releases/2021/8-july-2021-2.htm...
Gotta say, I expected to find a lot more, compared to industries I know are shady (compare to googling "vpn shady"). I don't think I have a specific model of what shady practice are common in the logistics industry.
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It’s not really obvious that this is at all necessary or the bottleneck. Or that running a planned economy ruled by AI is a goal to celebrate.
Btw, I advise you to take a look at the metaplanner's code. It's the definition of the planning task for the planner. So that the planner can learn to solve the planner's (it's own) task. It is leveraging the HyperC core that sits in a separate repository in the same github org.
I heard the approach was circulating in the AI planning academic circles but no one had put it together as many academically-uninteresting details needed to be cared for first. That's exactly what we did.
Maybe we can find a way to regenerate the soil while we’re at it.
That’s a hard supply chain issue and would have a much greater impact on our survivability.
Or good luck with building a self aware AI that can solve all of our problems or whatever.
[0] https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/phosphorus-is-...
How bout smaller still… like maybe author starts with using ai to organizing their monthly budget, or whatever.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A
By Kurzgesagt, all their videos are excellent and informed by the literature.
Instead, long before anything of such a scale would be conceivable, we will have hydrogen-boron fusion for unlimited energy, and moved industrial operations out to the Kuiper Belt, where the truly valuable commodity -- cold -- is abundant.
Suns and planets are for extreme rock-banging primitives.
This is, presumably, after you have fused all of Neptune and Uranus. I guess you could start in on Saturn, or Planet X.
1. Just beam it with a huge laser to the spacecraft (google for several proposed projects already in development and plans for launch) 2. Store it onboard the spacecraft and then use, with multiple options and different levels of today's technology feasibility like creating a small spinning black hole or creation of exotic matter for warp drive
But I don't want to rain on the parade of long-term, crazy-ambition in space, so I think this is pretty awesome overall. But planning unilaterally to build a dyson sphere will definitely make you a lot of enemies on Earth.
Otherwise, godspeed.
All that means you input the rules for the "game", and it finds the way to reach the goal, no matter how complex the interactions or data are inside.
Our current and today's focus is, of course, not to send the sattelites to the sun to build the Dyson sphere but rather to automate sending average commodities from China to Amazon FBA. Everything else comes after.
And you're right, the supply chain mess isn't caused by the absense of tech (although this does contribute) but rather by the "dark" forces in the logistics world that would prefer to keep things messy and hard to trace. The entire logistics thing has historically always been a shady business. But big data is coming for the dark guys.
So the immediate plan is to build the model of the "black box" of logistics by analyzing the data we can actually collect, then use the combination of technology and HyperC's reputation-leveraged optimal financing offers to beat the shady schemes out of the market. That itself could be overly ambitious, but this is what I believe is right.
These are not mutually exclusive. Moving heavy industry to automated facilities in orbit is not unrealistic in the coming decades. It does require massive investment in space tech.
So, PROLOG from 30 years ago then.
This is sometimes referred to as "Automated planning and scheduling" or simply "AI Planning" in academia.
Edit: added middle sentence
"My new database will make building a Dyson sphere easy" is a slightly... loftier claim than "we can probably land rockets and reuse them".
The "we can probably land rockets and reuse them" is what it delivered so far, the claimed ambitions (laughable or not) are about making humanity interplanetary.
Were they laughed at? After all, the Space Shuttle was around for decades. It turned out that reusable rockets were not cost effective nor particularly safe. Space X has yet to show reusability is viable.
This is a bizarre assertion. It's clearly viable; no other American launcher can currently carry crew, they gobbled up 60% of the global commercial launch market by 2017, and they're undercutting everyone on price very successfully.
It pays for itself by manufacturing space sunshades to the Earth-Sun L1 point that get their own their own power.
The "something" is probably a factory that builds a factory that builds the factory, at least twice you face a situation like building a ship in a bottle except you are in the bottle. It probably imports microcontrollers by the ton from the Earth. It's an interesting question: do you send people who can interact with the system but need a place to live or do you run it all by remote control and face 60 minute or more round trip delay requiring that the thing make mistakes and recover autonomously.
L1 sunshades would cement global catastrophe, as unrestricted accumulation of CO2 would further acidify ocean shallows eliminate the base of the ocean food chain.
I think some asteroids might be rather gassy and might require devolatilization before doing anything else and that is awkward because you are going to be at your bottom in terms of equipment inventory, particularly storage tanks.
As for ocean acidification it is a real problem but the severity of what we’re up against means we shouldn’t leave solar geoengineering off the table. The fact that one party could do something very dangerous in fact might break the ‘collective action’ problem.
I presented on this idea at a seminar on geoengineering and I was accused of trying to build a Dyson sphere, I said "no, there is not enough mass in the asteroid belt to cover the Sun but you can build something pretty big, possibly a human habitat much "bigger" than the Earth in land area."
Heat is easy to get, fundamentally hard to shed.
My guess is that anybody who gets out that far loses interest in dry inner solar system planets completely and isn't going to be interested in exporting products back.
Although other people might be the most immediate threat right up until the moment a magnetar sterilizes the vicinity.
I don't know whether we are certain where the nearest one is.