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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: What's the Importance of Sweden in the World?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 28
Re: What's the Importance of Sweden in the World?
I've heard they have the world's hottest women.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:03 am
- Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
- Topic: Will technology ever revert to incremental progress?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 670
Re: Will technology ever revert to incremental progress?
I think it will slow down at some point. We'll hit constraints due to limited resources, waste heat, and possibly limits on what is scientifically and technologically possible.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Biology & Medicine
- Topic: Possible breakthrough in organ xenotransplantation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17196
Re: Possible breakthrough in organ xenotransplantation
A genetically engineered pig kidney has been implanted in a living person through a traditional procedure for the first time. Richard Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Mass., who is suffering from end-stage kidney disease, received the organ Saturday in a four-hour procedure, Massachusetts General Hospital ...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Society & Demographics
- Topic: Society & Demographics News and Discussions
- Replies: 177
- Views: 142336
Re: Society & Demographics News and Discussions
This is a very deceptive graphic. Many of the areas with low life expectancies are predominantly black, Hispanic, or Native American, and vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Energy & the Environment
- Topic: Electricity consumption is climbing again
- Replies: 3
- Views: 304
Re: Electricity consumption is climbing again
It's fascinating and a bit scary to see how long-running trends like this that shape our expectations about the future can stop or reverse so quickly. Additionally, in just the last four years, the assumption that there would never be another major war in Europe and that inflation had been forever ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Energy & the Environment
- Topic: Electricity consumption is climbing again
- Replies: 3
- Views: 304
Electricity consumption is climbing again
From 2001 - 2021, energy consumption in the U.S. was flat overall, leading to predictions that energy consumption would start a long decline thanks to further efficiency improvements. This, in turn, was good news for environmentalists, since it made carbon emission reduction goals feasible. However,...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: Energy & the Environment
- Topic: AGI's uncertain effects on human wages and employment
- Replies: 0
- Views: 222
AGI's uncertain effects on human wages and employment
This NBER paper, "Scenarios for the transition to AGI", was just published and contains very fascinating conclusions: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32255/w32255.pdf Using different sets of equally plausible assumptions about the capabilities of AGIs and constraints on e...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Energy & the Environment
- Topic: Energy & the Environment News and Discussions
- Replies: 630
- Views: 867698
Re: Energy & the Environment News and Discussions
Here's a failed energy prediction from 18 months ago. Of course, it’s not the rich countries of North America and northern Europe that will suffer the most through the energy crisis, whether this year or next. This energy crisis is global. Already poorer countries are facing blackouts, protests, and...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Culture, Economics & Politics of the Future
- Topic: 2050 predictions
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8103
Re: 2050 predictions
-I think some kind of American secession crisis before this date is entirely possible. I can't really see how a civil war would work, though I confess I'm no expert on the subject. As an American, I think the likeliest cause would be a disputed election result. Imagine a replay of the 2020 election...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: Culture, Economics & Politics of the Future
- Topic: 2050 predictions
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8103
Re: 2050 predictions
How 2050 will be different from today: -Plausible (40%+ chance) that true AGI will exist. -Even if AGI has not yet been invented, narrow AIs will be vastly better than they are today and will perform countless niche tasks better and cheaper than humans. Many of them will be paired with robot bodies....