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Sashinii t1_itnu2rt wrote

Neocortex enhancement is by far the most exciting future development that people can think of right now because anything beyond qualitative differences is currently completely unknown.

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Primus_Pilus1 t1_itolkr1 wrote

Imagining the modes of thought once recursively improving qualitative intelligence enhancements are in play is like a frog trying to do applied differential equations.

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sheerun t1_itny51o wrote

It can be also the darkest enhancement, increasing inequality and putting wealthy even higher on their pedestal

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Sashinii t1_itnzx95 wrote

Technology will enable everyone to be self-sustaining, so I don't buy a dystopian future.

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sheerun t1_ito44ft wrote

Yet we live in one

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Sashinii t1_ito4qfk wrote

The world sucks in a lot of ways, but it's still statistically better than ever before, and we're on a positive trajectory thanks to accelerating technological progress.

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sheerun t1_ito5n5o wrote

We live in society of multiple facades, brain-computer interface won't change it. It will serve every facade. Top ones to gain power, middle for money and surveillance, then lower layers of society indeed will use it in positive ways. All I'm saying it can unleash as many good things as bad things, and wealthy will get this technology first. Software, especially Open Source is more forgiving than hardware.

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Sashinii t1_ito6uod wrote

There won't be money in the future that has nanofactories.

Corporations are already shitting themselves at the prospect of AI music synthesis and the same most definitely applies to AI in general; they know that their control over damn near everything will soon be over and they hate it, but I'm happy that corporations will become completey worthless in the near future as a result of the democratization of technologies that far surpass the bullshit sold by the rich.

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sheerun t1_ito7s43 wrote

I cheer for it as well, but I'm not so sure it's going to happen

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