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In a future where everyone's subsisting off of UBI and there is mass surveillance, some key aspects of life would be improve and become more efficient. Welfare fraud would go way down since an AGI would manage your UBI transfers and directly pay for your food, rent, utility bills, and other essentia...

An advanced android could be like Jesus. 1) It could have tiny needles in its fingertips that it would use to painlessly inject people with medical nanobots that would heal their health problems, and mind-altering chemicals to make them appear to fall into trances in front of everyone. 2) The miracl...

wjfox wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:30 am

Generations are only 15 years long?

The automation of chemistry lab work is continuing. This will let human chemists focus on harder problems and accelerate the pace of innovation.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-po ... mation-rip

Boston Dynamics just released a video of its "Atlas" humanoid robot doing physical work. It looks like it was moving car shocks from a bin to a rack. https://youtube.com/shorts/SFKM-Rxiqzg?si=H8jqMYvsT9VtoJW1 The task reminded me of loading a tank cannon. https://youtu.be/un__9ZMYgR8?si=JH...

I've written before that robots could someday let us eradicate invasive species and restore ecosystems to earlier states. Basically, there would be so many robots spread out across the face of the Earth that they could find and destroy every invasive animal or plant. Well, this would be especially h...

Nobel prizewinning economist Christopher Pissarides predicts narrow AI will destroy countless STEM-dependent jobs. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nobel-prize-winner-cautions-rush-103617209.html And respected economist Tyler Cowen predicts narrow AI will destroy countless “wordcel” jobs. https://marg...

Imagine all the interesting things we'll learn once we have supercomputers that can rerun human history under different conditions. How many alternative empires, races, languages, and religions could there have been? What if there had been an eighth continent in the middle of the Pacific?

The Aerostat flying drones from Terminator Salvation (made in 2009, set in 2018):


Flying suicide drones in Ukraine hunting down vans (2023):

wjfox wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:51 pm It might be time for a dedicated thread on this, if things escalate further.

They've been asking for it.