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Everyone in America is going to be a farmer. There will be a scramble for establishing homestead properties.

Using 3-5 robots to managed whatever small acreage they amassed. From harvesting,canning and storing into a food pantry. Nearly every household has this automated and 100% owned. Robots get repaired by hand or by another robot. Robots or human operation manage Aeroponics/Aquaponics systems for growing more 'exotic' food items

The neighborhood becomes and micro economy where we barter with each other casually for swapping ingredient inventory.

Probably pretty enjoyable for the first generation or two that previously had corporate 9-5s. Maybe the kids growing up in that environment get bored and crave some other type of lifestyle. I would probably be pretty satisfied to spend my day cooking things I grew myself or shared with neighbors.

I mean think about implementing a proper permaculture food system on your property, like Mark Shepard, but automated...

A solar punk-ish future awaits.

people will definitely still fight over water resources. if not more than ever.

idk, just the scenario I fantasize about when owning a few bots. maybe I would take up some craftsmanship of some kind when I'm not debugging some robot that stalled out in the fields.


Hmmm, I think of prompts more like recipes than an algorithm. Similar in both regards, but to the layman, I think prompts are becoming as common practice in daily lives as recipes.

Recipes can be trade secrets but not IP.(Unless it's a super rare circumstance that proves uniqueness in a 'Food Science' way).

I surely hope no one can patent a prompt. That would be an annoying world to live in.


Recipes can be somehow a brand: the name "Original Sacher Torte" is protected and can only be used by Hotel Sacher, but the recipe itself isn't


But that's trademark rather than patent, isn't it? The rules are quite different for trademark.


its just an brand like you can register yourself one.


AFAIK and IANAL.

Algorithms are considered mathematics and not patentable in themselves. So even if prompts are seen as algorithms, they would not be patentable. Prompts would have the usual copyright protections.

I presume though that some specific prompts may satisfy the criteria for patentability.


sample anything model?


Would love to finally see PWA's increase their usability.

One of the main features holding them back is that Apple is stifling support for Web Share Target API:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194593&utm_source=ch...


I hope the translation for this is actually "Agree" Deep research. Just a dig at "You are absolutely right!" sycophancy.


TIL the "full" name of Alibaba Qwen is 通義千問(romanized as "Tongyi Qianwen", something along "knows all thousand questions"), of which the first half without the Chinese accent flags is romanized identically to "同意", meaning "same intents" or "agreed".

The Chinese version of the link says "通义 DeepResearch" in the title, so doesn't look like the "agree" to be the case. Completely agreed that it would be hilarious.

1: https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/solutions/generative-ai/qwen...


For people who don't read Chinese: the two 'yi' characters numpad0 mentioned (义 and 義) are the same, but written in different variants of Chinese script (Simplified/Traditional).


Wonder if it would make gps possible/useful on a Watchy


this is brilliant. nice write up


This combo reminds me of a character in a recent anime called Scavengers Reign.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Scavengers_Reign

This limited series blew my mind. Total master piece.

In favor of integrating fungus with robotics(i think).


erm acktually not an anime


this is rad


heck yah, lfg.

right to repair ftw


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