The future, what will it hold for us?

Solution to Clinical Immortality:

Step 1) Create an AI
Step 2) Tell the AI to make us Immortal
Step 3) ???
Step 4) Profit

I don't think we're ever going to get to that point, we'll reach rare earth metal wars first.

Mist_sl said:

Asteroid mining is already technically possible.

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Yea but that's a whole lot of effort and doing stuff when instead you could just take it.

I just watched brainstorm last night. Good movie.

In the near future (as has been the case for the last 20 years), the areas we will see the biggest gains from automation involve taking manual information inputs and running them through a process to achieve desired outputs. While the gains we've made thus far have been on relatively simple processes (think Amazon automating the merchandise sales process), we will increasingly look to automate more complex processes as we run out of low hanging fruit. Professional jobs (accountants, doctors, engineers, analysts, etc.) will slowly transform into reviewing machine outputs for accuracy and working with programmers to design the systems/processes that serve the masses.

I think we will continue to see a reduction in workforce participation, as total work needed to be performed decreases and population rises. What this will mean for society and life as we know it, I have no idea, but I imagine it involves plenty of space drug binges and VR sex parties.

But now where will pre-teens rent 80s softcore horror porn.

The human experience is now the poorer!

Kuro_sl said:

But now where will pre-teens rent 80s softcore horror porn.

The human experience is now the poorer!

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Literally anywhere on the internet.

I feel like this is a debate in which Tad could contribute.

I think the two most revolutionary things that are going to happen in the next 20 years will be in the form of carbon manipulation. Breakthroughs in being able to mass produce, cheaply and easily, various allotropes of carbon could revolutionize everything from electronics to structural materials. The second will come from 3d printing; especially if somehow Carbon materials become more readily usable by 3rd printers. The possibilities would be fairly immense. I mean, from everything I've heard producing various kind of carbon structures is very difficult so who knows if there will be some secret technique...but if there is. If people could print structures harder than steel, and with better thermal and electrical properties than copper? Imagine how that would affect global manufacturing.

Just imagining a world where you could prototype and print machines in your own home...it would, I think, easily be as revolutionary as the computer itself. Small time inventors that would have such a low barrier to entry for prototyping and early manufacturing? Would be crazy. (Again though, I'm not chemist and that producing this shit seems to frustrate super geniuses. lol, but 3d printing and carbon I think are the big things to watch for in the next century.)

Finally, I could build my Doomsday Device without having to purchase any suspicious materials on the grid!

The better funded F1 teams have big carbon printers they carry with them to tracks. They can print parts downloaded from the factory back at their home HQ during a race weekend that are fresh out of the wind tunnel or CFD.

I suspect some of the teams are already heavily invested in nanomaterials. If you can have stuff lighter and stronger than carbon fiber, AND have it act as a battery as well, going to be some amazing cars in future years.

In response to digital recreation of my personality:

Is my brain going to be as efficient as it was when I was a younger man? Or will it faithfully digitize my faults and lapses as it is now?


Also can I get a robot body? With the power of 5 Gorillas? Shaped like an Adrian Barbeau-bot? With chainsaw hands? BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT TTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

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mkopec_sl said:

So while wading through /reddit today I stumbled on the below video. It deals with the future of automation and how basically all of us will at some point be obsoleted. Now I used to be a staunch believer in the Luddite Fallacy, but the more and more I look into this and think about it more, there seems to be a point where the Luddite Fallacy ceases to work.

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In answer to your thread title: Singularity in 2200ish or Butlerian Jihad in 2100 or Sweet Meteor of Death in 2028. Basically you're all engaging in a Black Swan fallacy thinking that what's happening now must continue to happen in the future and that something isn't going to come along that will smash your straightline Luddite predictions to bits.

We're gonna have 3d dick picks before I'm able to surf the Cali coast without a wetsuit.