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The program is called "𝐓𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐚𝐢𝐰𝐮" (天工开物) after one of the world's first science encyclopedias, Tiangong Kaiwu, a Chinese masterpiece assembled by Song Yingxing and published in May 1637. The book delves deeply into numerous technical topics, including employing various gunpowder weapons.

Wang Wei, a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician and the Research and Development Department director at China Aerospace Science and Technology, laid out the Tiangong Kaiwu space program details on August 31:

Establishing water and ice resource exploitation facilities on the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, Mars, main-belt asteroids, and Jupiter satellites; constructing a supply station network spanning Earth to Earth-Moon L1, Sun-Earth L1/L2, Sun-Mars L1/L2, Ceres, Sun Jupiter L1. The system will be used to explore and develop space resources throughout the solar system.

Space resources exploitation infrastructure like supply stations, transit channels, outer space mining stations, processing facilities, and low-cost return channels are all on the drawing board. China's commercial space resource exploration and development network will take shape due to the construction of such facilities, with planned missions including mining asteroids in the central belt and exploring new planets.

The plan's ultimate goal is to advance China's technology in the areas of access to space, transportation, supply, mining, and processing of resources.

Chinese researchers offer a four-stage goal for achieving leapfrog development: "exploration," "mining," and "utilization," with target years of 2035, 2050, 2075, and 2100, respectively.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3233067/china-launches-road-map-explore-solar-system-including-steps-towards-creating-space-age-tech-mine

Thoughts on this video?

I thought it was an interesting read. It's a very Pollyannish piece about the future where AI is somehow able to enable a workforce productivity revolution to save the American economy from its declining labor force.

But in the meantime they make the argument based on some quantitative economic work that in the last few years, growth in employment has slowed because automation is displacing many more workers than new jobs are being created from the automation. They even admit that this is mostly achieved by shoveling costs onto the consumer. The self-awareness is wild.

Happened a while ago but I didn't see people talking about it.

It'll even feature VS Code extensions so you can debug your copilot bugs you don't understand by posting generated prompts on Stack Overflow.

The video demonstration is also pretty funny, apparently CEOs think programmers don't know how to use search engines.

I've been looking into getting some freelance gig to help paying rent, but a lot of the websites look like those YouTube ad scams, promising "elite jobs" or other nonsense, and rely too much on building fake résumés. Stuff like Turing or even LinkedIn now. Anybody know any less terrible ones on an international level?

Due to personal reasons I can't really get a full-time job right now and don't even need that much money so low pay is alright for the time being so long as the workload is also low. I also don't have much "official" job experience, so "AI" CV readers will probably discard me really quickly despite me being in the field for a long time now.