So sad.

Everything is an economic war.

Change the system.

Instead of discounting it for what barriers may exist, what incentives is there to do so?

The richest percent is a phrase used all the time to refer to those with the majority of the world’s money, yet they have no desire to create their own country, and I doubt they or anyone able to form a country are impeded by what borders exist for regular people.

It sounds like cryptocurrency grifters dusted off the old Libertarian wet dream of seasteading so they could repackage it into a new scam. This time aimed at left-leaning marks, rather than the right-leaning ones last time.

Well that’s the issue with the climate crisis, by the time we hit the panic button the lion’s share of pain will be irreversible. Large scale population displacement is gonna be a disaster

Too many people don't take nuanced approaches. It's not perfect but it is indeed improving

Like it or not the West has been exporting these problems to China for decades and China gladly accepted that in return for dollars. We are offshoring our pollution at a scale that nobody likes to talk about. Hence why it's so important when we talk about environmental sustainability that we include the global cost of pollution into products. That way it might be interesting to onshore rare elements mining or vice versa China gets forced to work more sustainable. It's a win-win eitherway, though what we do now both the West and China is literally raping our planet.

This thread had a lot of respectful clarification lol

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At some point, they can't take you out or it creates a power vacuum they'll kill themselves fighting over anyway.

Don't @ me this is mostly my headcanon if the USA was a mob boss

One barrier is the idea of one founder a network state is a community a single person could lead to ego based issues.

> no one has them, no one gives a shit.

Objectively untrue.

Ford's F-150 Lightning has received rave reviews, and Ford has been ramping up their production efforts in recent months.

Tesla's ridiculous Cybertruck is DOA at this point, and while their other models are still mostly ahead of the competition, only a lunatic would assume that's going to last for too much longer.

LEV probably within 20 years in the lab plus another 5 years or so for widespread deployment.

Actual biological immortality, maybe add another 10 - 15 years, although it's an open question whether mind uploading will arrive first and make the biotech approach obsolete.

These are cults. Plain and simple.

At the end of the day, someone needs to haul your trash someplace i.e. you don't exist in a vacuum. You are embedded in a society that doesn't care about your smart contracts.

I hope you can get out before the indoctrination has absorbed you completely.

Ai can't think outside the box, it can take existing information and extrapolate it according to a logarithm. It's strength is the ability to do this quickly using lots of data, but ultimately the innovation will be the product of the ai's programmers and its users ability to intuit the right questions.

I'm just gonna drop this from another post I've commented on, because I feel like very few people understand that the current large language model AI we have today is not AGI nor is it necessarily on the path to it either. It MIGHT be a step towards AGI but anyone saying it IS the path to it is saying so with false confidence.

So, no one has mentioned yet that the AI you and Sam Altman are talking about isn't the AI we have today. You are talking about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). And sure, it could absolutely revolutionize how the entire world works. Maybe it could solve all of our problems, end disease, no one lives in poverty or hunger anymore and we don't have to work.

But that is Artificial General intelligence, not the predictive text based AI everyone's losing their minds about today. Don't get me wrong, I think current stuff like GPT, replikAI, all of these current firms might really change some INDUSTRIES but it's not AGI. It doesn't think for itself, hell it doesn't even understand what it's saying. It predicts what it should say based on the data it was trained on, which is terabytes of information from the web, so yes it can give a pretty reasonable response to almost all things, but it doesn't understand what it's saying. It's just a really really really strong autocomplete mixed with some chatbot capabilities so that it can answer and respond in a conversational manner.

If the data we trained it on said the sun wasn't real, it would in full confidence tell you that. What it says has no truth value, it's just the extremely complex algorithm spitting out what the most probable "answer" is based on what it was trained on. It probably won't replace any creative work in the sense of innovative new machines, products, designs, inventions, engineering. Art it might, but thats more cultural than work revolutionizing.

There's also no reason to believe these models will ever evolve into AGI without some other currently undiscovered breakthrough as currently, the main way we improve these models is just training them on a larger set of information.

Ezra Klein has a really good hour long podcast on this topic called "The Skeptical Take on the AI Revolution"

As a Taiwanese person that would be in a mass grave or a concentration camp next to some Uyhurs right now if it wasn't for the US, I'll take an American world order over a Chinese one, thanks.

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It's already happening. Study of epigenetic reset has made huge strides over the last few years and investment is growing rapidly, including Jeff Bezos investment in Altos Labs. Lots of remarkable progress on rolling back the age in mice released by Harvard recently as well.

In the next ten to fifteen years, probably. But don't worry, you'll never be able to afford it.

I agree with diet and exercise being the current best bet.

With that said, I think a brain-computer interface that allows read/write will come along before we reverse biological aging.

When you can read/write thoughts or memories to a drive, whether in real time or during an induced dreamlike state, I think we'll have to seriously consider whether we want to keep living primarily within our bodies.

I didn’t realize Livermore was also doing this research, but it makes sense. The poster I saw was from an intern at SRNL.

Nobody knows. Lots of progress has been made with funding but so far we have nothing that meaningfully improves lifespan in a general sense. Diet and exercise is still your best bet.

Indeed, that’s why the United States funded Ukraine’s invasion into Russia.

Oh no wait, it was Russia that invaded Ukraine, my bad.

It is extremely obvious who are the aggressors and who are the defenders here. If there is any breaking up of Russia, it’s entirely self-inflicted.

Yeah let’s just contaminate the soil with heavy metal accumulating bacteria… that’s never going to leech into our water table..