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- Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: My random thoughts
- Replies: 416
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Re: My random thoughts
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...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: My random thoughts
- Replies: 416
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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...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: Society & Demographics
- Topic: Society & Demographics News and Discussions
- Replies: 183
- Views: 161983
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Physics
- Topic: Chemistry news and discussions
- Replies: 98
- Views: 97118
Re: Chemistry news and discussions
The automation of chemistry lab work is continuing. This will let human chemists focus on harder problems and accelerate the pace of innovation.
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- Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:48 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: My random thoughts
- Replies: 416
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Re: My random thoughts
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...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: My random thoughts
- Replies: 416
- Views: 364834
Re: My random thoughts
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...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: Society & Demographics
- Topic: Technological Unemployment News & Discussions
- Replies: 222
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Re: Technological Unemployment News & Discussions
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...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:57 am
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: My random thoughts
- Replies: 416
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Re: My random thoughts
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?
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: My random thoughts
- Replies: 416
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The Aerostat flying drones from Terminator Salvation (made in 2009, set in 2018):
Flying suicide drones in Ukraine hunting down vans (2023):
Flying suicide drones in Ukraine hunting down vans (2023):
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Military & War
- Topic: Military & War News and Discussions
- Replies: 220
- Views: 436342