>Hopefully future societies will have
cultural institutions that help prevent or at least discourage dead end
and degenerate uses of technology.

This is where dystopian future starts.

There is no meaning in life, except the meaning we make.

Whether hedonism or a life of discipline, there is no objective difference when we all turn into dirt, but at least the hedonist can say they experienced everything life had to offer.

It doesn't matter, and focusing on it is a waste of time and energy.

I suppose that is a good argument against trancendant hedonism, but it doesn't seem entirely aligned with the rest of your post.

The question is to what degree do you do these things? There is such a thing as going too far even if too far may be different for different people.

Why must you feel the need to be the arbiter of what is "degenerate" or "honorable" in society.

Let people do what they want if it's not hurting anyone, and don't encourage this pointless mindset that is a precursor to endless outrage.

Search for Adam Something on YouTube. He basically debunks the whole idea of hyperloops.

Focus on hedonism above all else is not a logically balanced goal. Pleasure can only be experienced when it is compared to a less pleasurable state of being so thus a society focused entirely on hedonism will endlessly seek more and more extreme forms of pleasure. It's a road straight to insanity.

Again this isn't to say that everyone needs to be some austere monk, it's just that I think that a post-scarcity ultra-tech society should teach its citizens how to balance their hedonistic desires in a way that is balanced and doesn't lead to ruin. It's the same principle as how we allow alcohol but discourage people from being alcoholics.

You wouldn't use domes. Either many underground bunkers connected by tunnels with logistics transport, or many sealed surface buildings. Depending how hostile the surface is. Domes don't provide radiation or blast protection.

You would use brighter than the sun grow lamps and genetically modify it to store calories and make b6 etc.

Telemetry's a to-be-expected given. This is basically an Alpha/Beta-test. Including testing the user.

Wondering how anyone would expect any differently given today's data-hunger...

>It struck me that there could be a dark side to the advancement of AI.

No shit?

Its probably this deleted post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/10bhar2/will_we_all_be_famous_in_the_future/

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Ah shit not again, the energy amount is huge, just to move 1 train in one direction 😰

You guys realise we could still invest in building actual train infrastructure and still research and develop hyperloop technology right? Theoretically it would be by far the fastest transport technology, and an airline killer.

Even if it's still decades away, dismissing it completely is like saying 'why are we researching fusion, we should be building renewables which actually work' when we can in fact do both.

And I never claimed that.

You are not crazy, been writing a short story about exactly this. Unfortunately, I'm not the best at writing the story is in my head but I have a hard time writing. Honestly, society is in no way prepared for what's coming. The writings on the wall, but we are in denial.

This isn’t even a bad thing on its own, the real problem is always the authority of those in control.

The world is getting too complex to be managed by humans anyway, the sooner we get an all knowing super AI government that machine learns through a weekly census, the better

the ones talking about limits are the one's who are creating the processors, they are not pessimists, just realists. silicon has quite a bit of runway left, however other materials will be able to help in the future.

Frankly there may come a time where we use hybridization of classical, quantum, and biological computation since the all have their own strengths and weakness. At least classical and quantum hybridization is considered an obvious future.

UltraCruise is the GM tech that is really impressive. It comes out in about 18 months, it is seriously impressive stuff

Have you seen what engineers can overcome? Reducing maintenance on a magnetic device “can” be simple. It’s just hard.

That one flaw in some videos you watched doesn't render the entire criticism invalid.

General self-driving is an incredibly hard problem.

Even humans make a lot of mistakes and kill people at a significant rate, to the extent that if the concept were introduced today, there is no way that the general public would be allowed to drive as they do; at a minimum, driving tests would be WAY more stringent and applied every 5 years or so.

Driving on a well-maintained motorway/highway (so all the road markings are present!) is the easiest problem to solve. Even so, the self driving system has to keep track of all other cars in all sorts of light conditions, and react appropriately to unexpected queues, or just bad driving by other users. But I think that full-autonomous-motorway driving is at least possible with current technology. And that would be useful; drive to the motorway, press the 'self drive' button, snooze for a few hours and get a wake up alarm 10 minutes before your turn off.

Now, once you get off of the highway, onto poorly maintained rural routes, or even worse towns and cities with all of their bad roads, missing markings, visual distractions, cycles, people, and all the rest, that's a whole new level of complexity. As a human, you can easily work out that a child is about to step off of the pavement in front of you, because evolution has hard wired us to judge the intentions of others. For a computer that's an incredibly hard task. Just working out what is road or pavement in an old town centre can be tough. That's a real general-intelligence problem, and it's why full all-roads self-driving is still a way off.

First - forget Tesla, their self driving is overpromised, underdelivered, it was never built to be self driving, it was built to sell hype.

All the other self driving companies are a different matter, they have started real world deployments already and are in early stages of scaling up. That scaling up is going to take years and years, but it's happening now and it's not beta, but real world L4 driving.

L5 is unnecessary complication and meaningless goalpost, all driving human or otherwise has limitations.

They have been doing this for many years now. You have an "avatar" at google, facebook, etc.. There is a computer model of your identity and behavior at these companies already. We know that those avatars have been purchased by the government already.