No need for FDVR when everything around you is made of programmable nanoswarms

"Intellectual Property" is the thing that has locked scientific knowledge and data behind expensive middle-man paywalls in the west, so I don't really blame them for taking strong actions to promote open science.

That’s because you are young, prob’ly have a US-centric viewpoint, & perhaps ignored history class. This transition is tiny compared to growing up in the Great Depression, or in France before the French Revolution, or in Russia (at any time), or in many African countries, or in …

Don’t despair so much. Change is normal, so find a way to go with the flow, untethered from thinking that the past is how it should always be. And stop paying so much attention to social media & AGI guesswork; that’s not the world, for 90% of people on Earth.

I totally understand you. I have OCD and everyday something new pops up in my brain/mind and its really annoying. Have faith though. Things will get better in the next 2 to 3 years. For me I overthink everything. I truly dislike it and its so annoying. Sometimes I find it hard to just enjoy life. On the other hand I hope AI doesn't replace all jobs and I hope AI can help people get more jobs. I hope everything gets better for you as well OP!

oh i agree whole heartedly. objectively, life isn't fair and identical for most humans. subjectively, you can be happy in a studio apartment and sad on a bungalow. i personally prefer the bungalow lol but i can't afford one lol.

The singularity isn't something that can be hidden.

If there's an AI that's capable of starting the singularity but is being contained in a secret lab then the singularity still hasn't happened.

1. Dyson swarm

2. Quantum computers

3. Cyberpunk implants

4. Nuclear fusion

5. Flying cars

6. Hypersonic scramjets

7. Asteroid mining

8. Hive mind

9. Neuromorphic hardware and spiking neural networks

10. DNA data storage

11. Exercise pills

12. FDVR

There are many different Chinese businesses and research centers working on the development of machine learning applications, GPT style LLM's, etc. Why would one more company or research center jumping in the game all that surprising?

Not serfs, just jobless consumers consuming endless amounts of entertainment with the little UBI they receive from the kings.

People of your age showing this angst too. It's just your personal feeling.

yeah, no shit. and how many other companies?

Fully autonomous and self thinking humanoid robots.

70%+ of people won’t be aristocrats though. They’ll be poor people that rely on UBI because their job got replaced by AI.

They will 100% masturbate, do drugs, use social media, play video games, etc. Most people already do this in their free time.

And then eventually when full dive is cheap enough, they’ll just be in full dive all day.

Of course ideally people will spend a lot of time outdoors, exercising and playing team sports… but I don’t think that’ll be the case for the lower class.

All the above in regards to within the next 20 years.

Maybe once everyone can build a space craft with nanobots or whatever the fuck it may be different but probably not.

The rich will continue to build wealth while the lowly rats like you and me get scraps if we’re lucky.

Many people that talk about a utopia completely disregard human nature, especially of billionaires, aka greedy and self centered.

Eventually? Perhaps. But at that point, do you think they AI will even care about making creative content for humans?

It’d be like Scorsese deciding to make a movie exclusively for dogs. Why would he?

Reminds me of Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay: Unlimited Budget Works

OP I bet you’ve made some very life altering assumptions. Go back over the things you are worried about and instead of just buying into the fear, examine your beliefs and make an effort to build knowledge in areas where those assumptions are made. For example, there’s no logical reason to believe that an AGI will go rogue and want to destroy humans; a commonly held belief on here. Just because a bunch of people are worried about it, doesn’t mean they know jack shit.

This is really incredible. I want to work in the AI industry so bad.

I have a degree in journalism, maybe I should start by writing opinion pieces on Medium…

the anime industry has always kept up with the times, implementing new methods and such to produce their animations, this isn't any different, they may use these methods or they may not, it doesn't mean anime is over by any means.

And as a huge anime fan I can tell the difference, it would annoy me to watch an anime like that, animes fans get pretty anal about the visuals myself included.

not to say that this won't happen though! I'm looking forward to asking a.i. to give me new episodes of my favorite anime

respecting boundaries and copyright has never been a human thing. and china is worst at that anyway.

• When we invented machines to do our transport — transitioning from walking and horses and sailboats to engine-driven cars, boats, trains and planes — we extended our reach for delivering products, service and tourism to more distant locales

• When we invented machines to do simple calculations — transitioning from abacuses, finger counting, phone-based approvals, hand tools, pencil and paper, mechanical thermostats to calculators, money-counting machines, network-based transactions, CNC tools, smart thermostats — we extended our reach for automation at a distance.

• When we invented machines to do our creative processes — transitioning from writing essays and poems, painting, coding, designing on CAD to specifying production, code completion, generative designs — we leveraged our big data learning & extended logic chains.

If you look at the machines themselves, you see a pattern of replacement, but at the high level, it’s just extend (improve performance) and leverage (new applications). To extrapolate, look at the high level.

The next categories, I predict, are motion & sensing, which includes machines for: VR/AR, transport, communication, accessibility. (There’s more; let’s start with these)

seriously this. our brain is capable of much higher thoughts of intelligent nature, but our civilization is not there yet to install such training on our brain.

with digital help for immortality and intelligence, we, the only sentient beings that we know of, will reach new heights of explorations. this is all assuming that sentience is reserved for self-aware biological systems and not for digital counterparts we engineer eventually.

but if ASI becomes a thing, it's even more exciting. since i was growing up, i never had any attachment for this monkey suit we wear. i was only fascinated by human ideologies, i mean i'm fascinated by the hardware we run in, but i do recognize that "we" are just the unintended side effect of the regulatory needs of this monkey body we're in. why would i not welcome this new age of unbounded sentience that can improve it's own hardware without relying on the universe alone to do so.

who said building and training sentient beings is only reserved for the universe to do so? and if we build/engineer sentience, wouldn't it be just the universe doing it one way or the other? lol.

TenCent’s WeChat platform is huge in China. It is a combination of TikTok, Facebook, WhatsApp, with games, banking, and shopping rolled into one. It has a huge user base without many of the data collection restrictions of US and European companies. They could definitely be a competitor

I'd put that choice after cryonics and other amazing techniques I don't know about. At least, this kid will definitely make me love more than the offspring who will definitely do things I hate in the future, and I will regard him as my "son plus"

idk because we could either be unrecognisable or extinct, it's hard to speculate. so many of the predictions made 100 or even 50 years about today were complete bunk, I'd rather not add to that in case any digital shitpost archivist (who says there won't be jobs in the future) from that time finds this and laughs at me.

But hopefully If we can miraculously keep a handle on AGI/it's untethered but benevolent that humanity and it's descendants live in different speeds. Like there being protected land/autonomous regions for native populations of colonised places, but better implemented obviously

People who want to be transhumans can do so, people who want to be "traditionally" human can lives those lives out in peace, cyborgs and robots can do their own thing, etc. And for there to be a healthy discourse whenever these separate entities meet. Kinda like everyone in their own online echo chambers but with actual respect and not hating/pitying the different being when you encounter them.

True, but also (when i put my doomer hat on) totally in line with the agument that this tech will be shitting gold until the first super intelligence goes beyond escape velocity and we can only hope it alligns with our values...