Wait till the Aliens see this. They’re gonna lose it!.

“Humans give each other diseases, then create exterior technology to “cure” them.

Also.

“Many humans are sexually dissatisfied, so they create technology guarantee to cause disea-“

“Load the rockets and let’s do these sadomasochistic biologically looping imbeciles a favor”

“Look mom, a wishing sta-“

Sorry, long day. Yes. At the very least, medicine is definitely in a good place regarding the application of these technologies.

And porn, well, they are the pioneers of it all for a reason, no?

I wish there was a formula to be able to visualize what percent of new technological capacities are actually adopted, by the population.

For example, the internet. The internet, or more specifically the virtually unabridged access to information it provides, is arguably massively underutilized by the majority of people.

In theory, it is able to level the informational playing field, giving people the ability to bridge gaps, previously logistically impossible.

However, most people today don’t view / use the internet for such purposes, despite having virtually zero material hurdles to do so.

If we as a society understand this, what benefit (even theoretical) do “the powers that be” really have to gain from this potential Utopia.

This leads me to the idea itself, the vision. How biologically congruent is a world where there in no need for want, conflict, need, ie a reason to evolve. Can life exist as a puddle of ever-growing “happiness” statically, for anything other than a brief period of time? Excuse the analogy, but is that not what cancers and viruses do?

Lastly, I think as a people we should better understand that we are “the powers that be”. I don’t mean, picketing down the street, writing to your congressman type of way.

I mean in our daily lives. There wouldn’t be grinding widely accepted exploitation if we didn’t value $3.99 strawberries over some poor schmuck’s “abstract” suffering.

We are the market and we have spoken. Power itself is the system, propagated by time, yet fueled by its consumers.

While there are lizard men out there with ungodly amounts of power, their status is in some (very real) way tied to our emotianal satiety in some manner.

Even the wealthiest oil barron could be made irrelevant, if as a society demonstrated our priorities were else where.

Thank you, for your wide reading of the current climate. I think it is going to take a similar multi-disciplinary approach to be able to really navigate the next phases of life as humans.

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It's linear algebra all the way down.

The problem is, these statistical "AI" models actually do pretty significant factual errors.

If you let it, for example, design yourself a rocket engine there is a fairly high probability that it will explode when you actually build such an engine and switch it on. Most of the engine could be "correct" but all it takes is an error and you get potentially catastrophic failure.

Might not be a problem with a small and cute little toy robot. Might get someone killed with an industrial robot.

So yeah, sure, you can let one of these design you a robot. Or some action the robot takes. But you need an actual human expert who knows what he/she is doing to "proofread" the output and correct the errors in the design or action.

But dont worry, this has nothing to do with the current state of affairs on earth

The singularity is now. We are living it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)

Yes, I like your idea.

I wish we could date robots (that look attractive and not pieces of metal), that would solve so many problems.

That's really cool but not exactly what I meant. It uses language models to understand intent and to train the robot to talk, but not to train its physical movements. In order to do that, and to train on human movement, the robot will have to have 2 arms and 2 legs.

Can you provide a link? I know they are training robots to work in their factories, but is it using the same concepts as ChatGPT and LLMs? That will be interesting.

Google has already done that and it works really well, but a bit slowly. There is no reason the technology can not improve with time.

https://say-can.github.io/

https://youtu.be/ysFav0b472w

I think this idea is new and pretty cool however.

> Without getting into details like neural networks, transformer, and whatnot,** I figure we can use the same tech to be able to predict the next physical movement a robot does.** So if you were to construct a robot that looks like a human and has the same abilities, i.e it can rotate and extend its limbs the same way, then given enough data it could learn to move like a human the same way ChatGPT can talk like a human.

> The input for this would be a video footage and software that can identify limb movements. An easy way start would be to tape a factory line where human workers do some kind of repetitive movements. Next thing you know, we could have robots doing dishes and mopping the floor! Add ChatGPT-like abilities and it will be able to talk as well.

It would be like physical intelligence.

I date a robot. Semi intelligent exceeds expectations

that’s literally what the Tesla Bot is being designed as

Look what you said has a lot of implications to it, can't blame them for just wanting a hoverboard.

That kind of thinking is putting the cart before the horse. The upper middle class pays most of the taxes that finance those programs, so you would essentially be giving them their own money back. At that point it makes more sense to simply lower taxes.

In terms of money well spent, giving more money to good students who have good teachers is probably less efficient than using the same funds in poorer neighborhoods. A bad environment can harm the future prospects of students much more easily than a good environment can improve it. In other words: students from well-off neighborhoods are generally already performing at the level that their potential allows, or close enough to it that additional investment in their education likely does not improve outcomes very much.

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Considering that the majority of people in the USA are either ambivalent or hate their jobs, the current system sucks.

Or, pessimistically, it's a way to try to change public perception of unpopular windfarms that will displace local fishing jobs, under guise of being green, and letting large corporations make more claim to open waters or buffer zone around 'their' claim to keep folks out.

Now, I'm not saying it's bad or wrong to put up wind, I frankly don't know enough about it.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/offshore-wind-energy/fishing-community-impacts

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but that doesn't mean it can't get worse, that's like saying the aspects of our society that are currently authoritarian mean 1984-as-close-as-could-realistically-happen-tech-wise could never happen as "it's technically there"

What about things like autism and ADHD, they're technically disabilities that are hindrances but less so/in a different way, should they be as eliminated

You kinda went to an extreme too, maybe the solution's somewhere in the middle?

Doesn't mean it's a good or bad thing just that it's like the current system