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Artanthos t1_iscuc96 wrote
Reply to comment by ihateshadylandlords in I wonder how the would will interact with those of us who get eye implants/AR contacts by crua9
quite 20 years. https://bigthink.com/the-future/augmented-reality-ar-milestone-wearable-contacts/
A_throwaway__acc t1_itm3nk3 wrote
Reply to comment by paramach in A.I.-Generated Art Is Already Transforming Creative Work by Gari_305
surpass humans. ######**Literature:** **[An AI wrote a japanese novel and won Japan's national literary prize.](https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/a-japanese-ai-wrote-a-novel-almost-wins-literary-award/)** This is a much bigger deal than you think it is, japanese is an extremely complex
Sunmoonearth87 t1_itvc2xv wrote
Reply to comment by sassbayc in Eric Adams Is Eroding New York’s Early Childhood Education Programs by Lilyo
doesn’t care about money you say? https://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/children-families https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5967727/ https://capmh.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13034-017-0206-z https://bigthink.com/the-present/socioeconomic-status-mental-health/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39255-6
Delvin4519 t1_iubbp9u wrote
inner lane car. Traffic fatalities in the Boston area is [at least double, if not more](https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/road-deaths-us-eu/), than the Netherlands. While most of the inner core Boston area has sidewalks, once
MrAnonAMoose t1_iudux2q wrote
Reply to comment by ReincarnatedInc in The scariest picture of space... by EDFLsnape
founder of string field theory (aka superstring theory), [would suggest there's an intelligence behind it](https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/michio-kaku-believes-in-god-if-not-that-god/), that's it's not by chance. In his opinion of course, since
tonymmorley OP t1_iuhiiin wrote
Literacy, here are "[9 astonishing ways that living standards have improved around the world](https://bigthink.com/the-present/9-ways-living-standards-improved-world/)
FuturologyBot t1_iuhlakn wrote
Literacy, here are "[9 astonishing ways that living standards have improved around the world](https://bigthink.com/the-present/9-ways-living-standards-improved-world/)" --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/yi93km/9_astonishing_ways_global_living_standards/iuhiiin/
tonymmorley OP t1_iwfxkmu wrote
last 200 years](https://start.me/p/onyMj0/the-progress-dashboard). [Child mortality fell from 40% to 3.7% in 200 years](https://bigthink.com/health/child-mortality-progress/), and [life expectancy and average global wealth have grown enormously](https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$chart-type=bubbles&url=v1).
FuturologyBot t1_iwfztxz wrote
last 200 years](https://start.me/p/onyMj0/the-progress-dashboard). [Child mortality fell from 40% to 3.7% in 200 years](https://bigthink.com/health/child-mortality-progress/), and [life expectancy and average global wealth have grown enormously](https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$chart-type=bubbles&url=v1).
8amflex t1_ix7i52m wrote
Reply to Someone tell me how the Big Bang began 13 billion years ago, yet the *observable* universe is 83 billion light years apart? by novacks0001
This article: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/see-back-space-time/ Does a really good job at explaining this phenomenon in layman's terms so even people like me can get a vague understanding
quasi_aesthetic t1_izbydyn wrote
Reply to What do you think of all the recent very vocal detractors of AI generated art? by razorbeamz
very similar to what happened when photography was invented. [Here is a great article.](https://bigthink.com/articles/how-photography-changed-painting-and-vice-versa/) Ultimately art will survive, but it will definitely change and adapt
ILoveEmeralds t1_j0gowxs wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Why FTL travel seems impossible to me from a practical standpoint. Insight requested. by JerryWasARaceCarDrvr
bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-impossible/ You literally just keep quoting old anti-flight stuff from the 1900’s. And again, we’re humans. We have proven time and time again that we can do whatever the hell
enutz777 t1_j1gixfs wrote
Reply to comment by Miloshy in Did you know it will still take 46 billion years to cross the universe at the speed of light? 65 mph = 4.8 * 10^17 years! by NotAndroid545
actually expanding faster than the speed of light. https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-speed-of-light/
enutz777 t1_j1gj39p wrote
Reply to Did you know it will still take 46 billion years to cross the universe at the speed of light? 65 mph = 4.8 * 10^17 years! by NotAndroid545
than the speed of light, galaxies we can observe today will be beyond our perception tomorrow. https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-speed-of-light/
efh1 OP t1_j1tb6qn wrote
Reply to comment by ubermeisters in Second law of information dynamics by efh1
that my estimates of information bit content of the universe are very close to his estimates.” https://bigthink.com/hard-science/dark-matter-theory/
StreetBookRandoNumbr t1_j1tnpsm wrote
Reply to comment by MayorOfSmurftown in Is there any real upper limit of technology? by basafish
bigthink.com/the-future/turing-test-imitation-game/
StreetBookRandoNumbr t1_j1tnrdg wrote
Reply to comment by basafish in Is there any real upper limit of technology? by basafish
Exactly! https://bigthink.com/the-future/turing-test-imitation-game/
StreetBookRandoNumbr t1_j1to5am wrote
Reply to AI and education by lenhoi
doesn’t exist https://bigthink.com/the-future/turing-test-imitation-game/
StreetBookRandoNumbr t1_j1tvx1l wrote
Reply to comment by Surur in Is there any real upper limit of technology? by basafish
called the Turing Test. https://bigthink.com/the-future/turing-test-imitation-game/
[deleted] t1_j4rduv0 wrote
Reply to comment by hurdurnotavailable in Physicist Max Planck on Idealism and the Role of Faith in Science by owlthatissuperb
live in a Matrix-style construct or not would be another such ‘non-falsifiable’ problem.](https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/michio-kaku-believes-in-god-if-not-that-god/)
civilrunner t1_j5oicxa wrote
Reply to comment by GayHitIer in AGI will not happen in your lifetime. Or will it? by NotInte
these geniuses also predicted Airplanes will take millions of years to develop back in 1903... https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-impossible/ These people are always vastly overconfident for no reason. Maybe if we had to design a computer
empleat t1_j89xqtu wrote
Reply to [Discussion] Procrastination is a matter of emotions. Not discipline or time management or laziness. Let's talk about that. by [deleted]
Amen to that! [https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/decisions-are-emotional-not-logical-the-neuroscience-behind-decision-making/](https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/decisions-are-emotional-not-logical-the-neuroscience-behind-decision-making/) I Am helplessly enslaved, but there is maybe hope for you, this site is great in case it will help anyone: [https://www.structuredprocrastination.com/](https://www.structuredprocrastination.com/) also [lesswrong.com](https://lesswrong.com
Wagamaga OP t1_j8e8ck5 wrote
Reply to The brain can rapidly detect and process fearful faces that are otherwise invisible to the eye. There appears to be a neural pathway for detection of fear, which operates automatically, outside of conscious awareness. by Wagamaga
second, even though the patients were not consciously aware of having seen the images. https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/brain-fear-unconscious-awareness/
Insighteternal t1_jape092 wrote
Reply to comment by Leadpipe19 in Solar for all? U.S. cities take green power to low-income homes | Context by el_gee
come to find. In the past decade alone, News headlines have become [overwhelmingly negative](https://bigthink.com/the-present/negative-media-headlines-skyrocketed/) and biased in comparison to what we had before. In reality, things were a lot worse
whatshamilton t1_irxth1j wrote
Reply to comment by SeryVober in NASA says DART mission succeeded in altering asteroid's trajectory by Gari_305
which you throw away money on monthly. Edit to add a [link with more info](https://bigthink.com/hard-science/asteroid-impact/). The 50,000 number comes from the fact that we’ve identified under 30,000 near-Earth
a4mula t1_jb2dv0b wrote
Drake Equation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation#:~:text=The%20Drake%20equation%20is%20a,in%20the%20Milky%20Way%20Galaxy.) [Fermi Paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox) [Eukaryogenesis - Hard Steps Problem](https://bigthink.com/13-8/key-steps-evolution-earth-intelligent-life/) We don't know, but advances in research seem to be narrowing it down more and more
tonymmorley OP t1_iwimf6a wrote
Reply to comment by louieanderson in The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. by tonymmorley
hunger](https://theprogressnetwork.org/progress-reducing-hunger/) 2. [9 astonishing ways that living standards have improved around the world](https://bigthink.com/the-present/9-ways-living-standards-improved-world/?fbclid=IwAR3O60MeoJVAH_OPbMiH9d6v47Z_91zEER0IEN3-KTAQMPLsdkfHdkg1Zcg) 3. [How child mortality fell from 40% to 3.7% in 200 years](https://bigthink.com/health/child-mortality-progress/)