Recent comments in /f/singularity

ShoonSean t1_jdfhgmq wrote

I love bushcrafting, so having more time to disappear into the woods for a few days at a time would be awesome. Oh, and if AI helps create the hyper-realistic VR realities I've dreamed about, then I'll be disappearing into a few fictional Universes I've always wanted to explore.

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Surur t1_jdf6vsn wrote

Please turn your eyes to the heavens and look up. We have infinite resources.

To add, we never run out of resources, just easily accessible resources, and with near infinite energy, we can even filter our minerals from seawater.

You need to let go of your scarcity mindset.

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Jawwwed t1_jdf61uy wrote

Well I think one of the most motivating things about life today is the struggle towards the goal; the light at the end of the tunnel, if you will. I wish to play my part in that.

But when all is said and done and utopia comes into fruition, while I do think many will rejoice, I have a feeling that there will also be many who will fall into a depressed, nihilistic state of mind. I don’t agree nor intend to follow either.

At the point in which humanity not only realizes our own creation in its maturity, but pass the torch to it; when we rid ourselves of inequality, oppression, hunger, suffering; that is when I’ll either do one of four things, or all of them: let out the biggest sigh of relief and resign myself to simply watch from the distance from here on out in content, pursuing whatever endeavor meets my fancy; get a ship and explore the universe on my own or with others; integrate into the AI hivemind; or kill myself, as I’d be able to rest knowing that humanity—or whatever may be by then—will be A-Ok 👌

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Gratitude15 t1_jdf2fu1 wrote

If you design a society, and people have no cost of living and engage with life life a free transaction, they will have more kids. They will create more waste streams in a variety of ways. The system will inevitably degenerate.

As a social designer, you've got to be able to inventivize pro social behavior that regenerates community and ecology, hopefully along with wellbeing. That means connecting upside with actions like volunteering, building networks, living healthy, etc.

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Frumpagumpus t1_jdf25ka wrote

if we get to this point hopefully i'll be dead (from slicing my brain up to scan it into the computer) and (one of?) my software copy(ies) will be floating in a solar array near to the sun working on some infinite dimensional geometry problem (while simultaneously exploring a virtual multiverse with several permutations of "himself")

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