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Why the Future of AI is Scary AND Exciting

Posted on by Jackie Rose

Welcome back to ca1dmat.org, electronic lovers. It’s Jackie Rose here with another new exciting post from a fellow electronic lover. Today, I’ve had a lot on my mind so I wanted to write out my musings in a way that will allow me to examine them afterwards so apologies if this blog post seems more chaotic compared to previous ones.

I love electronics so much but at the same time I’ve been worried about where technology is heading. From the AI stock bubble to asteroid defense systems, the human race is facing a lot of techy stuff and while it’s easy for someone like me to appreciate it I can also sympathize with the anti-future crowd who sees doom on the horizon. I’m not saying I see doom coming but I do sympathize because it can seem that way when we see robots attacking humans on TikTok and hear of self-driving cars driving into people on the news.

Imagine how scared people would get if 2026 was the year we gave AI autonomy to powerful technology like 35-ton tow trucks! If you don’t think a robot controlling a massive trucks is scary then you need to reconsider this. Are you kidding me? Have you seen a 35-ton tow truck before? They’re massive, and can tow anything from busses to 18-wheelers. I know because I had to order service in Hamilton, Ontario recently and the thing literally dragged my friend’s RV out of a ditch like it was a toy. Once AI can control things like this then they better have serious safety protocols in place. I’ll show you a photo of the 35-ton tow truck I’m talking about so you can see what I mean. Imagine AI controlling this!

tow truck Hamilton Ontario
Photo from Hamilton Tow Truck Service – I highly recommend them for heavy towing by the way!

At the same time, bear with me here because if we can’t trust AI to drive and operate a simple tow truck on our behalf then how can we trust them to mine minerals on asteroids or operate deep undersea submarines for scientific sampling? Can you sea my dilemma here (pun intended)? On one side I’m scared to see AI driving huge trucks past my car on the highway but the other part of me is excited about the benefits that AI will have in space and undersea exploration.

It’s crazy that just in 2021 I was excited about something as small as paying for appliance repair with cryptocurrency. Now that isn’t even likely to happen because no one trusts crypto thanks to all the scams and rug pulls. Will the same thing happen with AI? I don’t think so because AI is a whole different type of beast, and when powered by quantum computing it will likely be able to hack through any crypto’s blockchain security, making AI relevant while crypto becomes increasingly insecure. That’s why I think the crypto market didn’t recently mimic the giant silver and gold price explosion we’ve seen in the past few months.

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Photo of Optimus robot from Wikipedia. Doesn’t it look like it was made for space exploration?

With AI, we’ll be able to send highly intelligent ships to distant planets and have humanoid workers to safely do tasks for us. According to the Wikipedia article on Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, Elon Musk already announced that he plans to put his robots on a mission to Mars. This isn’t science fiction, this is reality and it’s awesome.

So while it’s awesome, it’s scary, and while it’s scary, it’s awesome. So I can only pray that it the awesomeness will outweigh the scary stuff as this AI tech advances into the future alongside us curious humans. I hope you enjoyed my musings. Check out the rest of my blog for more interesting musings on appliances.

Pressure Washing Tips Explained By Professional

Posted on by Jackie Rose

Winter is rolling through Canada but the warm weather and sunshine will soon be back. Us here at ca1dmat.org hope you’re already done your 2022 winter preparation. In the meantime, lets get prepared for the end of winter too. Because there isn’t a better time to clean up your residence and pressure wash the deck and driveway than when winter comes to a close and the fine weather rolls back in.

We have a special treat for you today, none other than a list of pressure washing tips so you can clean the exterior of your house like a professional.

Tips for Quality Pressure Washing

  1. Wear rubber boots and rain gear, including latex or rubber gloves. Being in rain gear while pressure washing will make you less hesitant to get wet, and will allow you to not have to worry about back spray, resulting in more confident work. This also results in finishing jobs faster if you don’t fear getting wet, as the rain gear will keep you dry.
  2. Spend money on a good pressure washer. If you get the cheapest pressure washer in the store, hoping to save money, you might end up losing in the long run because you’ll be spending much more time pressure washing than you have to. This is because cheap pressure washing machines typically have lower or limited Psi than quality machines. They also tend to break easily after use. It doesn’t hurt to get a warranty when you spend more on a quality pressure washer, so you can make full use of it without worrying about what happens if it breaks.
  3. Don’t pressure wash your roof shingles. Moss doesn’t grow everywhere in Canada, but on Vancouver Island it grows all over the place, even on roofs. This leaves homeowners inclined to pressure wash their roofs, thinking it’ll be fine. But what actually happens, because roof shingles aren’t designed to be pressure washed, that you can easily cause damage to your roof, by cleaning off the surface layer of your shingles and lifting them up, making leaks in your attic. If you’re going to clean your roof yourself rather than hire roof cleaners, you should scrub the moss off by hand, using bristles and gloves.
  4. Take your time to get all the hidden spots. When pressure washing your own home, you may be inclined to take short cuts and only power clean the spots visible to the eye from the road. This means you’ll miss behind the garbage bins, you’ll miss spots under the deck, on the sides of the patio, the backside of fences, under planters, etc. If you’re going to do this, you might as well do it right. That’s how pressure washing pros get repeat customers, by leaving no spots overlooked. It might only take you 20 extra minutes to pressure wash those hidden spots, and when you walk passed them in the summer you’ll be glad you worked the extra mile to do it right, like a professional.

We hope you enjoyed and learned from this list of pressure washing advice. To get these tips, we’ve interviewed someone that’s been providing pressure washing Victoria BC services for many years, and he gave us these insider secrets. Now, you should feel confident knowing you can pressure wash like a real pro.

Too Many Electronics?

Posted on by Jackie Rose

Are there too many electronics in modern society? That’s the question we’ll be exploring today. Thanks for tuning in.

First of all, before I say everything cliché and progressive that you might expect, let me play devil’s advocate and defend electronics in modern society for a moment.

To capture the theme, answer this question for yourself: How different would coping with the COVID pandemic of 2020/21 would have been if we didn’t have electronics to work from home or keep us busy indoors?

Certainly, nearly a hundred years ago we could have used pen and paper combined with the mail and transport systems to work many intellectual jobs from home but without electronics many of us would be forced to leave the house and risk our health during a pandemic in order to work our jobs.

Now we also can’t deny the unfortunate aspects of tech-dependent generations taking over all of society’s responsibilities as Baby Boomers retire more and more each year. Indeed, I really mean “tech-dependent”. I know many young people who haven’t sent a physical letter in the mail their whole lives. In a case of having no electricity, these types of people would enter a chaotic state and might starve to death fairly quickly, as thanks to technology they have no hunting skills, no gardening skills and truly rely on electronics to survive. A hundred years ago, if you needed electronics to survive at a young age, you would be considered a fool and a coward of the highest degree.

Therefore, an easy solution to this problem would be to simply have summer camps for kids that focus on teaching them of the pioneer way of life. No electronics all summer! Kids who learn how to cook with a fire and live without electricity will have an upper-hand when they’re adults, so consider this if you’re a parent.

Last but most importantly for your own sake, answer this: “Do you rely on electronics to survive?”