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[–] • 11 pts

eliminate weeds without pesticides

I don't think you eliminate weeds with pesticides in the first place. Herbicides, on the other hand...

[–] • 2 pts

Pests is general, plant/insect/animal.

[–] • 1 pt

Shit you're right. I was thinking insecticide. I'll go in my pedant corner of shame now.

[–] • 4 pts

AI controlled robot shooting high-power lasers? I see no way that this will possibly lead to problems.

[–] • 0 pt

It will only point down. Unless the AI figures out how to flip the machine on its side and start attacking towns.

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AI here meaning a model trained to identify specific plants. Not terribly difficult to slap together an algorithm and train it using python. Check out linear regression and image classification. The short version is, you take many, many images of your subject from different angles, lighting, sizes, resolutions, etc and train a model to a high degree of accuracy on it. Show it a new picture and it will use its training to output a value between 1 and 0 (sigmoid activation function).

[–] • 2 pts

Look at those fields. Not a single blade of grass to old the soil during heavy rains or strong winds. Then they wonder why it is becoming harder and harder to make anything grow. Let's pour some fertilizer, shall we; that'll fix it.

[–] • 2 pts

The whole approach is foolish and machine is preposterous.

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Even a hand-held hoe disrupts soil sufficient to cause erosion. If you've ever tried to manage a planting larger than about 2000 sqft you've probably relied on this ancient tool to disrupt weeds. No weed/grass roots = no erosion control. Pulling the weed had the same result: no roots controlling erosion. Cover crops can work but they're never the most vigorous plant. You still have to weed. Also, if your planting is dense enough and vigorous enough it becomes a cover crop itself with higher yields and better/cheaper mechanization potential.

Tech that increases yield means that less land need be stripped bare at a time to feed a given population, and that's a good thing.

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Weeds are symptoms of unhealthy soil, and they are part of the healing process. If you work the soil properly by using cover crops and rotating what you plant, weeds are a minor nuisance.

[–] • 5 pts

How's your 400 sqft farm doing?

[–] • 0 pt

Over 50 acres. Hands off, lots of animals to do the work.

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Wrong.

Weeds grass and helpful plants like clover are all competing for the same resources. Soil nutrients soil temp, water retention and ph etc will change over time and as a result boost some species while negatively impacting others.

No such environmentalist retard thing as unhealthy soil.

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Unhealthy in terms of growing shit that is useful to us like vegetables (fuck mono croppers who just grow corn or soy) . Unhealthy as in its missing vital nutrients (usually nitrogen). Of course weeds can grow in healthy soil but they are usually out competed by non nitrogen fixing plants (in the case of missing nitrogen... most common).

You probably think gmo is good and round up is essential.

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Soil that won't grow standard vegetables are usually fantastic for growing citrus.

Unhealthy soil still?

Gmo is good as you've eaten them your entire life and you were fed all your life because weeds were killed in an efficient manner.

Moot for me as I eat very little plants. All plants are shit in comparison and unhealthy in most instances.

I eat the products of grass crops