b00ks101

b00ks101 t1_j2divgn wrote

Reply to comment by Mr_Mons_of_Nibiru in Accepting Science Fiction by Exiled_to_Earth

[I am not mad and there is no darkness in my soul.] I welcome a future where a much older, dilapidated version of me is able to have access to the 'suicide pod' you mention. I think if you have ever actually seen the terrible end that faces some old people in our current health care system - begging to go home at each family visit, unending pain, bed sores, catheters, urinary infections, gasping for breath and the eventual 'drowning' as your lungs fill with fluid or if you are lucky heart failure - YOU WOULD BEG for a such a peaceful, painless transition on your own terms.

We would be arrested if we treated animals the way we treat some humans stretching out their last weeks or months for no other purpose than "it is gods will" or some other ancient hierarchical bullshit. If you haven't seen it you are lucky - but you are also uninformed and should not be allowed to have an opinion until you have actually seen what awaits you with your own eyes. If that was gods plan for us all along - then he needs a new playbook or we need a new coach.

Personally I welcome the suicide pod option for me as a sane choice in a hopefully more compassionate, rational future.

TLDR: Personal choice is always good - especially if its about how you die.

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b00ks101 t1_iuf3lna wrote

Reply to comment by b00ks101 in 99.9% of Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2025-2030. Will the public have less access to truth and divergent ideas when AIs make 99.9% of writing, images, music, movies, etc. (and when their output is controlled/censored by technocrat controllers of AI)? Will it drown human-made content? Solutions? by voterosticon

As a thought experiment: "What percentage of the material you have EVER watched, listened to or read was created by someone that you have met or had an actual conversation with?"

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b00ks101 t1_iuf1t0h wrote

Reply to 99.9% of Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2025-2030. Will the public have less access to truth and divergent ideas when AIs make 99.9% of writing, images, music, movies, etc. (and when their output is controlled/censored by technocrat controllers of AI)? Will it drown human-made content? Solutions? by voterosticon

I feel there is a qualitative element to the argument that is missing in the article and also the comments section.

99.9% of the current material on the internet (by mass, of course) is of poor quality and/or of no interest to me personally not to mention inaccessible due to the incredibly slow progress being made in longevity research.

If the <0.0001% of the 'Internet' (by photon count) i will EVER see in my lifetime is created by a human, a trained chimp or a succession of AI(s) is of no real importance to me as long as the 'work' is either beautiful, engaging, informative, thought provoking, sexy or inspirational TO ME.

To think that something can only have 'value' or 'meaning' if it was created from within their own species seems somewhat overly myopic? for example: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/08/mysterious-underwater-crop-circles-now-with-video/

Just one example, it would take more than a 100 lifetimes to find them all.

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