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> ...the original model of the internet that senses damage and routes around it is still a strong model... I wonder if "packetizing" food production in a verti

• AlotOfReading 6y ago
  Agriculture already has widely deployed vision-based machines with human-level intelligence. They're called farm laborers. The way the market currently exists in much of the world, they're barely paid peanuts, let alone minimum wage. If it's a practical business model, it should be practical somewhere in the world simply using existing human workers.
  • jkinudsjknds 6y ago
    human intelligence might not meet the bar here. General intelligence isn't better than dumb neural nets for doing a task well and at a big scale.
• pm90 6y ago
  Look up crop rotation. Before we had modern mass produced synthetic fertilizers, crop rotation was essential in restoring nutrients in soil that would be depleted by monocultural farms. I believe the reason it’s not practiced today (at least on industrial farms) is simply because it’s much cheaper simply to use fertilizers and grow more of the same kind of crops.
  • pbhjpbhj 6y ago
    Co-planting too (just like in Minecraft!) - some crops give mutual 'support' to one-another (sometimes literally).