The nanofactory will indeed enable post-scarcity which means we'll be completely self-sustaining.

Countries where the citizens are well-educated and healthy have less crime, and with greater technology (including medicine), people are going to become smarter and healthier than ever before, so while I'll probably get criticized for saying something so utopian, I'll say it anyway:

I think that the singularity will lead to all crime ending this century, within a few decades, and obviously, the sooner that all crime ends, the better it will be for everyone and everything.

I love Japanese adventure games, but Nutaku is an absymal store filled to the brim with shovelware; I buy said games on DL Site, Jast, MangaGamer, Yahoo Auctions, I'd buy them from DMM if they started taking foreign payment again, etc.

Anime is too powerful to ban. The citizens would leave the nation where you're the president and form their own nation of otaku in which democracy reigns supreme.

I'll use AI to play Japanese adventure games to find out which romance routes it chooses first.

I joined in April of 2022. I'm more confident now than I was then that AGI could happen this decade. In fact, I think AGI could happen within a few years from now, which is exciting.

I mention the nanofactory so often because the technology is incredibly important.

There won't be any jobs.

Yeah, so it's good that we'll have unlimited energy soon.

There's no molecular manufacturing happening now.

The nanofactory will be capable of rearranging atoms in any way permitted by the laws of physics, and all that's required to run the machine will be air, dirt, and water, so the moment the nanofactory is created, post-scarcity emerges.

You might think that such powerful technology will only be available to the rich, but every nanofactory will be able to created another nanofactory, ad infinitum, meaning that there will be no way for corporations to stop everyone from having their own nanofactory.

I think most jobs (including office jobs) will be automated in the 2020's and all jobs will be automated in the 2030's. Universal basic income has to be implemented to support people until nanofactories are created (at which point, people will be able to completely support themselves).

Great. Open source is always the way to go. The so-called "abuse" of AI-related applications that journalists fearmonger about is already possible with existing technology and rarely if ever happens because most people are decent and focus on non-harmful uses. Also, these AI-related applications are fiction, often times animated, so be skeptical of doomsday predictions.

That's not to say ignore the potential downsides, of course it's good to make technology as safe as possible, but preventing the general public from accessing creative tools doesn't help anyone and the reason it happens at all is for corporations to financially benefit, but I don't care about corporations, I care about people and open source models give power to the people.

I respect the ambition, but there's no point in guessing what'll happen post-singularity, because it's literally impossible to know anything that's qualitatively different with our current neocortex.

It's comforting to read about technological progress being made literally every day.

That will change soon. We'll go from reading about science to benefitting from technology.

I agree. I can't wait to enhance my neocortex and experience qualitatively new things.

Your predictions aren't far off from my own.

Do you have any predictions for when ASI and the singularity will happen?

Companies like to announce their latest models at the same time that others announce theirs, so don't be surprised if more audio models are announced soon, possibly as soon as tonight.

Everyone will have AGI. I'm sure yuppie bastards think otherwise, but open source will win.

According to the nanofactory.

Any day now.

Indeed. Technological progress can't happen fast enough.

Wow, you already posted a few threads about Imagen Video so quickly!

I don't blame you, though; it really is interesting how fast progress is occuring in this area.

Money will be obsolete in the future and the idea that it won't be is ridiculous.