Danbooru is like a library of anime (often sexual) art. It is all tagged. Are you angry at your local library for lending books that are copyrighted? I don't think so. If not for Danbooru, I wouldn't know about many good artists. I came upon my all-time favorite artist on Konachan in 2011 (I used to browse E-Shuushuu and other websites, not Danbooru). Back then, Pixiv was 100% in Japanese and translators were nearly useless. With anime and manga things are different, because they are media you have to pay for. Paid rewards are banned on Danbooru since 2020. Art on Twitter etc is free and Danbooru always provides links for sources.

If in the 2030s and 2040s somehow there won't be more automation, then things will start to get worse instead of getting better in the so called developed nations. Because of aging population. Robots and intelligent computers or things won't be great. Of course it comes with a risk of AIs doing something bad.

Prices of about everything will gradually trend towards zero, but never actually reaching it. So people in the future will have it much better than we do. Just like we have it much better than people a thousand years ago. For example cost of energy is going to decrease substantially.

You are completely wrong. Sex robots and VR will completely replace human sex. I think you underestimate how much better will it feel.

For example as societies get older, they need more automation. In the past there were slaves and serfs. In the 21st century we need robots and intelligent systems to take care of things. Do you want to do things by yourself for the rest of your life or do you prefer robots and computers taking care of (at least some of) them?

Solution: make humans better before AI becomes extremely powerful.

We'll see. I hope that enormous prosperity and satisfaction happens. It's possible. I'm rather optimistic, but I think hardware will be limiting what is achievable. I'm looking forward to new developments.

We need them in AR glasses or contact lenses.

Singularity ≠ human level AI

I want huge open-world games with very good graphics set in some chosen anime worlds for example.

Danbooru is getting criticism for AI that was taught on it. That's not fair, it's not Danbooru's fault. Anyway, I'm going to wait a few years until AI can actually rival good artists. I don't want the Web to be flooded with millions of mediocre and similar AI "artworks".

I don't assume that. I don't know. What we need the most are better tools. Not necessarily conscious AIs.

The longer I live, the further away the Singularity seems. I don't understand how you guys can possibly think it will happen before 2045. I think if it happens at all, it will happen no earlier than 2065. Either you have a different definition or you don't understand progress. I'm optimistic. I think the future will be gradually better. Without some overly crazy stuff. But we will gradually get wealthier, live longer, healthier and be happier. I saw for example how much faster is RTX 4090 from 3090 in AI. It's only 60 to 70% faster after 2 years. That's certainly nothing close to what is necessary for the Singularity to be near.

Of course I would if the robot was nicer and more interesting to me than humans.

One day such assistants will work perfectly and will be in everybody's hands.

But do you know how hard it is to run modern games on Ultra settings in 4K 60fps? Let alone higher framerates. We need better hardware or some software breakthroughs. DLSS looks horrible btw.

It feels unreal, I originally thought we would need terabytes of RAM and that we would get them, thanks to Moore's Law giving us 100X in a decade. Looks like we won't even need those terabytes and low gigabytes might be enough.

How are we in "the endgame" if we've just started as a civilization? We still don't have AGI, FDVR, worker androids, FSD, commercial fusion reactors, anti-aging, cure for cancer, human augmentation, space elevators or arcologies. Let alone orbital rings, sombrero planets, Jenkin Swarms, Dyson Spheres or giant future things like that.

I believe we are the only intelligent species in this galaxy and we are destined for exponential growth. It can't be stopped. It doesn't mean the Singularity will happen in the 2030s or anything like that.

It will be cheaper than three large high-end monitors. But for now I will keep using monitors.

Such VR meetings would be certainly more interesting than looking at a 2D screen with Zoom calls. But I wouldn't want to sit for hours with Quest 2 on my head. They must make them more comfortable for using them for longer periods of time.

It's true that currently Zoom meeting are usually without cameras being on, only microphones and only when you actually talk.

I did that once 😛

In the past, people wore walkmans and discmans and even boomboxes, so it's not that farfetched to imagine people walking with glasses connected with a wire to a pocket computer, like a smartphone + wired headphones today.

Yeah, there would need to be a large shift in our culture for people to wear headsets outdoors. Unless they are like normal glasses today. I would certainly prefer to wear slick, lightweight glasses than something like Quest 2. But glasses would need outside processing, because you wouldn't put a 10-watt SoC inside glasses. I think that Apple may have an answer to the problem, we'll see. For sure M2 would not be enough.