Bob Moler's Ephemeris Blog

This is Ephemeris for Native American Heritage Day, Friday, November 28th. Today the Sun will be up for 9 hours and 8 minutes, setting at 5:04, and it will rise tomorrow at 7:57. The Moon, at first quarter today, will set at 1:12 tomorrow morning.

Let’s take one more look at AI this week. There is a real fear that artificial intelligence, AI, is displacing certain clerical jobs, and computer coding jobs. The latter is something I used to do. But I’m safe now, having retired 12 years ago. I have coded just about all the code I’ve ever needed to code. As AI takes more and more jobs, who’s gonna be able to afford to buy all the stuff the AI bots make? I’ve heard of some thoughts of a universal guaranteed income. How is that going to be funded? The rich, lower my taxes crowd, won’t go for that. Most people’s identity is defined by their job, what they do in their career. What could possibly replace that for most people?

The astronomical event times given in this blog are for the Traverse City/Interlochen area of Michigan (Lat 44.7° N, Long 85.7° W; EDT, UT – 4 hours) unless stated otherwise. Times will be different for other locations.