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Enzo-chan t1_jaa8wjw wrote

Reply to Will the rampant evolution of AI be the next Industrial Revolution? by Niobium_Sage

Only the future will tell, we can't guess what the implications AI will have within society.

Albeit I think AI will do a lot of amazing things for us, I can't predict how deeply it will connect within our society, will it begin another industrial revolution?

At this height everything is possible, a few months, Boston Dynamics demonstrated a robot that can unload boxes. Maybe within the next couple of decades all the heavy works will be done by machines, and only intellectual ones will be left.

We can't know.

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acutelychronicpanic t1_jaa88mc wrote

Reply to The world should be governed by people with intellectual thought and people should listen by New-Shop-7539

The problem with this is that most people think they are wise. I doubt you will find many historical examples of governance where the leaders didn't claim to have the most wisdom and insight.

The fault in this idea is in the actual implementation. How do you find the most competent? How do you ensure that those chosen aren't corrupted by power? What does this system look like in 50 years?

Its equivalent to saying "let's all agree to only do good things for good reasons."

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ArbitraryMeritocracy t1_jaa87sy wrote

Reply to comment by Ok_Skill_1195 in This “Climate-Friendly” Fuel Comes With an Astronomical Cancer Risk: Almost half of products cleared so far under the new federal biofuels program are not in fact biofuels — and the EPA acknowledges that the plastic-based ones may present an “unreasonable risk” to human health or the environment. by nastratin

u/ Ffffqqq details how Republicans are the party of anti-policing, laying bare how the GOP is aggressively defunding and/or eliminating the agencies who are responsible for policing the worst and most harmful actors in society.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/11bmnh8/uffffqqq_details_how_republicans_are_the_party_of/

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NerdforceHeroes t1_jaa87oe wrote

Reply to comment by New-Shop-7539 in The world should be governed by people with intellectual thought and people should listen by New-Shop-7539

People have. This has all been tried before.

Vanguard socialism was the idea that a group of enlightened revolutionaries needed to lead the people towards the coming socialist utopia. The Vanguard became concerned only with maintaining its own power and the totalitarian Soviet Union was born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguardism

I believe humans are inherently good but we are also inherently corruptible. Thats why the most successful modern societies contain transparent institutions and frequent elections, so that the people can hold their leaders to account and ensure they work to make the nation as a whole richer, rather than just their own chequebooks.

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Cindexxx t1_jaa80or wrote

Reply to comment by WillBottomForBanana in Robots could do 39% of domestic chores within 10 years, experts say by euronews-english

But it is noticeably less work. Empty it every single time or empty it every 50 times? It's basically maintenance now. Same for a robot that could do laundry. Eventually you have to refill the soap. You don't have to do it every time though, just like once every 100 or however many loads worth of soap you can add at a time.

Robot doesn't mean it needs to be fully automated.

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MrZwink t1_jaa80f2 wrote

Reply to Are we getting closer from "singularity" now ? by Sheos22

The singularityi isn't real. Why? Because it's a bad description of the concept.

Knowledge expands at an exponential rate. This means that knowledge begets knowledge and discoveries follow eachother at increasingly shorter time frames. The speed of discovery is accelerating.

It is however not instant.

But! There will be a time somewhere in the future. Where knowledge moves at such a pace that humans will no longer be able to keep up with all the new discoveries being made in their fields. Simply because there are to many and there's not enough time.

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Consensuseur t1_jaa7pys wrote

Reply to comment by Blu_Cloude in Magnetic pole reversal by Gopokes91

I don't mean this rudely...but do you even science much? Do you know any real scientists? Do you understand what motivates them? I don't understand how you can dismiss something so without more understanding of it. Scientists tend to be smart...like could've gone into finance or invented something profitable. But no, they gather and interpret data ... To find and explain correlations. Like if you had programming chops but taught coding at a high school instead of banking on your tech skills. It's more like that. Wind ,weather and tides are not magnetically driven. That's down to earths interaction with lunar gravity and incoming solar radiation, but not magnetism. IMO you might do well to reorient your axis of trust/suspicion so you don't get misinformed. Imagine how great it would be if the experts actually knew their stuff and you could believe them because they're obsessed with, above all, accuracy of information! Yes, tobacco and oil paid for bunk science and lied/ lie about their products harm but they're the exceptions. Astrophysicists aren't trying to fool you bro. The world is a better place than that. You can just Google:. "free access to scholarly journals/ articles"...many sources will be revealed.

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strvgglecity t1_jaa7pmz wrote

Reply to comment by New-Shop-7539 in The world should be governed by people with intellectual thought and people should listen by New-Shop-7539

And how does that person who cares take power? How does that occur?

And how is this description right here any different from current governance? All governments for that description: orgs of people who "care" guiding lots of other people who generally care less. It's just that what they actually care about is retaining power and influence.

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