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If plants get too hot they stop doing photosynthesis. We are pushing boundary conditions on the planet. What will be the first signs that this base of the food web has stopped?
I’ve been reading about peer-to-peer AI protocols that work like Bitcoin, but for AI services. Instead of big companies running everything, you’d have smaller agents with unique skills collaborating. Has anyone explored these kinds of decentralized AI models? Curious if they might have an edge over traditional setups in terms of efficiency or resilience. Would love to hear opinions!
I'm curious about the implications of AI on our economy and society during our generation (max next 50 years). As advancements in AI continue, it seems plausible that within a few years, AI could perform 20-30% of human jobs at a fraction of the cost. This brings me to a simple equation: If AI leads to a significant loss of jobs, could we see mass poverty and a decline in consumerism as a result?
How do you see thousands of companies coping if they lose customers due to a decrease in purchasing power? Could Universal Basic Income be a potential solution to keep the financial and economic system functioning in the face of widespread unemployment? I’d love to hear your thoughts
OpenAI's researcher in charge of making sure the company (and the world) is prepared for the advent of artificial general intelligence (AGI) has resigned — and is warning that nobody is ready for what's coming next.
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Brundage insists that both OpenAI and the world at large remain unprepared for the next-generation AI systems being built.
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-agi-readiness-head-resigns
So everybody has probably heard that one of the ways entrepreneurs plan to profit from space tourism is to set up orbital and space hotels in Earth's orbit, with a variety of luxuries.
But after watching this video by Spacedock, its seems that building space hotels won't be that likely. And if you think about it, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Running a space station takes billions of dollars to build and maintain, and if you combine that with luxury amenities like spas and world-class dining, it will be hard to see hotels get a return on their investment.
So, with that in mind, will orbital/space hotels be profitable in the future?
I am aware we already have technology, techniques and medicine to influence memory, but how far can it be taken do you think?
Let's take, say, Total Recall, the film, as an example, where an entire life's experience and personality is put into someone's body and the original owner can be "brought back", as it were. That's the extreme end of the spectrum.
At the lower end is stuff that's already being done, like making people remember a car collision as being more or less dramatic by using words like "Smash" or "Bump" or "Touch".
And then there's the therapeutic uses for this, such as suppressing traumatic memories, or the recreational, such as reliving your first kiss or your wedding day - if that's even possible.
And naturally, the ethics of it all are very challenging.
This is very interesting to me and I look forward to people's responses.
One person one vote no fraud possible. Is this the way of the future, why not?
This is more of a general philosophical question about how the turnover of collective memory will affect consumption of media recorded before anyone living person.
In the song “Boom Boom Pow” by the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie sings the lyric
I’m so three thousand and eight. You’re so two thousand and late.
While sound recording can be traced as far back as 1857, Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso was the first “commercially successfully” recording artist, starting his career in 1902. This is just beyond living human collective memory in 2024. Of course, a lot changed about music recording and distribution over the following century. With the opening of the iTunes Store in 2003, we officially entered an age of comprehensive, worldwide music storage and distribution. Today, a hundred million songs each have thousands or millions of copies stored in various formats across the globe. It’s safe to say that even some crazy legal shenanigans that wipeout the catalogues of Spotify, Apple Music, and others would not be sufficient to truly erase almost any of those songs; that is, we can confidently expect all of the studio-published music we have today to be with us and reasonably accessible forever.
This is new. While collective tastes in music change rapidly (remember when dubstep was in everything?), popular music from basically every era is currently being enjoyed by countless millions. However, the question at hand is how much of that is a function of the fact that there are still people alive from basically every era of “popular” music? 60 years from now, will most tracks from the 50’s be listened to at all, despite every human having instant access to all of them? Surely the law of large numbers tells us that someone will put old albums on repeat. Of course, everything I’ve written so far has been America-centric. This question gets more complex when we consider the whole diverse world of music, but the US has always been at the center of global entertainment.
There’s a lot of very obscure modern music permanently etched into the global catalogue that probably gets zero minutes of listening on some days right now. But what about pop music? Not classics like “Thriller”, but songs that were very popular for a while that you already haven’t heard for a decade, like “Boom Boom Pow”?
Will a couple million people pass around a meme in the first nine years of the fourth millennium telling people to keep an eye out for Fergie?