ginger_gcups t1_it0ew70 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 12:49 AM

Reply to comment by TheSingulatarian in Talked to people minimizing/negating potential AI impact in their field? eg: artists, coders... by kmtrp

Especially how the entire model will eventually be upheaved by fabricating replicators as a community or personal service, and once one of them get out, well, given a supply of matter and energy, everyone gets one and is their own steady state producer. Genie would be out of the bottle then, and God knows what beyond that.

visarga t1_it15bg3 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 4:23 AM

> A supply of matter and energy

I think some raw materials are going to be inevitably contested unless we find abundant replacements or reach 100% recycling rate. A replicator won't save us if it needs rare material X.

FiFoFree t1_it2w094 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 3:21 PM

In theory all you need for an abundance of any element is other elements as stock, a particle accelerator, energy, and time.

In practice, we'd need the price and size of particle accelerators to go way down, the price of energy to go way down, and the time required to go way down before it would make a difference.

Then again... "Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough." -- Arthur C. Clarke.