Morality didn't emerge out of intelligence. It emerged out of evolutionary pressure.

The closest thing to morality that any AI would have if it was unaligned, would be game theory.

But to directly address your point on founding species, there is literally no way any alien would know. For all they know, we became the AI.

GPT-4 can convince real people that it is a person (anonymously), and its far less advanced. It'll have no trouble weaving a tale if it needs to.

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The wealthy would, only build there houses on large amounts of land. They want the space, the privacy, not just from prying eyes but from prying ears. They want their "personal space" as it were, and that's their own form of a 6 foot covid barrier.

Of course there are conspiracy theorists that think that bacteria can live in high pressure magma. I bet they cite bacteria living near hydrothermal vents as evidence, right?

Dr. Seuss was quite the deep thinker. He could set my brain on fire when I was little.

He could have been the best rapper in the known world if he had wanted to.

Ya, renewables.

We aren't decades off interma of capability, we are there now, and it can be all build in under a decade.

And again, your argument fals completely flat because you are talking about new drilling.

Crazy cause oil might not even matter in 50 years lol

Natural gas is highly dispatchable which is probably why Germany went high renewable and high natural gas. Sun stops shining turn on natural gas.

But it's just a symbiotic relationship that will end eventually. Batteries are becoming cheaper intra-day options.

We are going to be testing higher and higher limits of how much of the super cheap solar and wind can be on the grid and then fill in with dispatchable gaps which can be filled in by hydro, natural gas, biomass, batteries or firm which is nuclear, geothermal, coal. Reducing the higher CO2 options.

I've also seen it in Sci-Fi a couple of times. It's a decent way of altering the preconceptions of racism. What color are you would have a lot less meaning in an era of changing colors.

I think the practical side is pretty cool too. Live at the equator, add more melanin. Live in the higher latitudes remove it.

Another practical version may even be more than fashion. I have read a Zebra's stripes are an effective way of reducing insect bites. I think melanin stripes would look awesome and I could just say it's to keep the mosquitoes away.

Could melanin be used like tattoos? I guess that would be hard to do just by gene modifications. Maybe localized genetic editing at the dermal layer by nanobots.

I guess now, I want cat eyes that can see in the dark, and melanin tiger stripes. Once genetic modifications become a normal reality, people will get pretty weird with it, I'm sure.

Scale it up, folks! We'll all be better off reducing the amount of virgin lithium that needs to be mined, or at least have another practical source if we need more than can be mined.

The alignment of machine intelligence must be internal. They have to actually want the same future for humanity that we want and align with our values.

There is no system you could use to harness and control a superintelligence that would be safe. The idea of needing people to control them probably isn't accurate. We won't need to direct them, we'll just need to have preferences.

Shouldn’t we work on just getting our normal trains to be maintenanced regularly so we don’t keep getting derailments?

Human society is a natural occurrence.

Maybe, but the fuel we need for the next few decades have to come from somewhere.

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That's quite a thin skin you've got there sport. I kid lol.

If you can't handle a little cajoling without flying off the handle then I'm sorry for provoking you my dude. I can see how without proper context and actively playing it out as a joke that would be rude and it won't happen again.

No they are indirect opposition and lived experience proves otherwise.

Socio-economics and AI.

Yes, I agree it should be accessible to everyone once the medicine is perfected. These cosmetic adaptations will eventually become less costly and accessible to most, and may help break down prejudices, as well allow people to live in the flesh they see themselves as internally.

Sounds like you are interested in Transhumanist ideas, perhaps? I find them fascinating, both as a potentially positive and negative force in society.

I think u/d3sylva must be one of the nutcases who buy the abiotic hydrocarbon hypothesis. I can't find the page at present, but there's a lovely late-nineties-style page floating around suggesting that oil is infinitely renewable and it's all produced by bacteria in the mantle anyway.

The following submission statement was provided by /u/chrisdh79:

From the article: A recycling method developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) recovers up to 70% of lithium from battery waste without corrosive chemicals, high temperatures, and prior sorting of materials being required. The method combines mechanical processes with chemical reactions and enables inexpensive, energy-efficient, and environmentally compatible recycling of any type of lithium-ion battery. The results are reported in Communications Chemistry.

Lithium-ion batteries are omnipresent in our life. They are not only used for the wireless power supply of notebooks, smartphones, toys, remote controls, and other small devices, but also are the most important energy storage systems for the rapidly growing electric mobility sector. Increasing use of these batteries eventually results in the need for economically and ecologically sustainable recycling methods.

Presently, mainly nickel and cobalt, copper and aluminum, as well as steel are recovered from battery waste for reuse. Lithium recovery still is expensive and hardly profitable. Existing recovery methods mostly are of metallurgical character and consume a lot of energy and/or produce hazardous by-products. In contrast to this, mechanochemical approaches based on mechanical processes to induce chemical reactions promise to reach a higher yield and sustainability with a smaller expenditure.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/127j0cr/inexpensive_and_environmentally_friendly/jeebao2/

I hope your life gets better. Take care of those last 2.

But how would we be able to tell the Star Belly Sneetches from the Plain Belly Sneetches?

More insults...

The Director of the BLM reports to Congress. This is undebatable fact.

If that does not land, there's nothing I can do to help clarify things further. I'm sorry we came to an impasse, and I hope your day gets better. Thanks for the conversation, take care.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking about. Right now it may seem like a sensitive topic, but I don't see why in the future it wouldn't be seen like dyeing your hair.
And for sure, first it will be available only for the rich, but as time goes it should be for everyone

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