Yeah it’d be valuable to have an archive of first hand perspectives for future historians, or just regular people interested in researching their family trees. If people aren’t talking to you it doesn’t matter, because it’s not you and it’s not conscious and bored or lonely. There’s no really downside other than cost really

If I’m talking for any amount of time, I end up bringing up future things I’m worried about and asking why isn’t anyone doing anything, are our leaders morons or something? And then everyone gets excited to talk about how the leaders are morons. That’s the hook

I 100% agree with you. I just don’t see UBI happening in my lifetime. I hope to be wrong though!

While I mostly agree, the most appealing part of viewing art, or film, or reading, isn’t the spectacle of the image or the plot, but meeting another mind. That said, my bigger worry is that generating cool images and plot twists is how a lot of artists pay their rent. AI, to my mind, won’t replace the need for human art, but it might make producing human art even harder to do if you don’t already have a trust fund to support you

Yeah but that’s very dumb

People end up being blown up for ai. The night is young

It’s not essentially a bio compute, and we harness our brains just fine right now

Because it’s a forum about massive and largely unavoidable technological upheaval that is Henry well might destroy the way most people earn a living. Whatever the exact contours of the new economic reality, it’s going to be unlike anything that’s existed up until this point. Part of the reason for arguing for a utopian way forward is because we know that’s not where the society is naturally heading and we want a utopian voice in the conversation when the utilitarians start talking.

That’s my take as well. I would bet that many jobs will still exist because of inertia, but nothing will be done the same.

You have no control over where things will go, so why torture yourself over what may happen? It’s a waste of energy. You might trip, fall and hit your head and die making dinner tonight. Are you going to stay in bed because of that?

Rick and Morty is a fun show. It’s not reality, man

I don’t disagree that duality is conceptually beautiful. I disagree that we are already living in a simulation and that it’s surprising that people trust their sensory input over your psychotic break

Good rebuttal. I’m completely convinced that you’re an idiot

Probably because that’s not true

That’s the black mirror twist. Any more time than say five minutes inside an eternal porn chamber is too much time, but once you are in you are IN. So eventually we all go in during a moment of weakness and then after we finish we spend an eternity feeling queasy inside some computer program that’s guessing you want step-sibling scenarios because they were the most googled term in your region.

And I think the right and powerful get eternal life and the smartest, strongest, and best looking of us might get the chance to serve them, and to have their children and their children’s children serve them

I think this will mostly be a question for the next generation. The early adapters are only going to be billionaires and other essential people until they are absolutely certain their are enough resources. I think we get eternal life in the next hundred years but only for between 500 - 2000 people. Then maybe eventually they get those numbers up to maybe 200,000 people by the year two thousand

Everyone should quit their job, kick their feet up, and wait for the computers to design the eternal life pornography simulation chambers so that they can be left free and to run the world and explore the universe

If the internet were wiped out by solar flares it’d probably be a net positive for humanity at this point. The much bigger problem would be all the mass starvation that would follow

I’d feel a lot more reassured about this project if the Chinese space program wasn’t still letting their rockets fall back to earth out of control. What are the chances they don’t accidentally start a forest fire with this tech?