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  • Depends.

    My main job it would be interesting. I mainly plan for organisations how to handle disasters. Not necessarily IT disasters but actual one - what happens if your hospital is on fire, your airline has hundreds of people stranded somewhere (yeah, we had a bad time recently), your muncipial water supply goes bad, the Russians actually come,etc.

    If AI can do that on a level it replaces my staff and me…well…good for everyone else,because right now it’s a underdeveloped and rarely looked upon issue.

    In my side job I am still working in my original trade as a critical care paramedic. Until AI can fully replace one there it will take a long time (but we see a lof of actually beneficial developments that makes the job insanely more easy and capable) and I am very likely retired by then. What is far more likely is that societies won’t be able to pay for proper healthcare anymore…and that would be “not replaced” technically, I guess.








  • … European train tracks are usually dual use and highly frequented. Freight trains have to guarantee a certain minimum velocity (80km/h in a lot of areas by now, rarely below 60km/h)

    And trains are not simply stopped somewhere usually, but run from freight yard to freight yard. These are camera controlled, including ingress and egress routes. Additionally on some routes there are camera controls and neuralgic points and train tracks these days are often monitored by IR capable helicopters/drones these days. And of course due to higher population density the general chance of someone seeing the “passenger” on the train is much much higher.

    So the chance that someone sees the unwanted passenger is much higher. In the very best scenario the person gets caught before the train leaves the yard. This will still be a felony in almost all jurisdictions and a civil lawsuit for the damages the delay caused. (Around 20k € at least). At least it’s “only” the freight customers and the train crews who suffer.

    In a less optimal scenario the person is seen on the train. This means the train will be stopped at a station where police waits (often with a helicopter or drone ready these days…hybrid warfare has made people uneasy) and tracks will be shut down. This time not only the people mentioned before suffer but often also hundreds of train passengers. Because this will cause delays,even when it happens at night.

    In the worst scenario the whole thing goes wrong. I personally had the displeasure of working with the aftermath of two poor people for whom it did not work out. One seemed to have fallen between the freight cars - very likely due to hypothermia. European freight cars are usually locked so people can only find a “plattforn” to sit on the outside of certain tanker cars or rarely on older container cars or truck carrying cars - but the later are closely guarded. And 80km/h wind shear for hours does a lot to a body. The other one was electrocuted. Both were refugees trying to make it further north. A colleague had a case of someone who very likely was blown off a freight car by a high speed train passing by the opposite direction.

    This will not only cause delays but also ruin or change a few peoples lives.

    In other words: it’s a very very very bad idea.

    And btw: The page you linked is full of incorrect information…







  • No.

    Just as the famed US DoD budget contains enormous amounts of social welfare (Veteran healthcare, GI bill, dependant care,etc.) that is covered in EU nations by the standard social welfare systems the NASA budget is extremly focused on hidden economical subsidies,especially for some obscure senators. This is already a major ESA problem and just as defence spending shouldn’t be increased just for the sake of it to reach a quota it is even less worth doing so in terms of space egos. We need to reducue this kind of behaviour massively all over EU spending.

    Do we need to put someone on the moon just for the sake of it?Hell no. Should we do so when we have a good reason for it? Yeah. Absolutely.

    So basically should we invest in reaching feature parity? Yeah. But not for the sake of spending.