I am old enough to remember the announcement that scientists are going to decode the entire human genome and it will take at least 45 years. The next year it was completely decoded.

As long as it is a choice for the person affected without any pressure. A lot of people with autism are happy with their life, they just struggle with intolerance from neurotypical colleagues. I'm not advocating stopping this, I'm saying don't push it on people if they don't want it.

Which is why I said:

>I get it for debilitating levels of Autism

Now we just have to convince people with Autism that they have to change who they are to fit in with society be we are intolerant. I get it for debilitating levels of Autism but beyond that, I don't see it being taken up.

This will sound very outlandish and impossible or just hundreds of years in the future but what I'm about to discuss is something that will be normal in most peoples alive todays lifetime.

When we achieve true ASI, we will transition to a world of abundance. Part of that will be an ability to change matter into different forms and it will be regarded as trivial. This will also be true of very complex systems such as living tissue. The structure of living tissue being modified in a relatively short time will be easy. Basically it will be trivial to change your appearance dramatically in a short time.

You will also be able to change other characteristics like your stature eg. Height and weight, your ethnicity/race, gender, age, features and anything else that you want. I can imagine whole fashions coming and going related to your body. I suspect initially at least you will find lots of waifu and other characters along with those who choose an indestructible body.

Life will be very different and advantages will disappear. Personality really will be more important at that point.

People are begging Saudi Arabia to pump more oil. Everyone cries if oil approaches $5 a gallon in the US. No one complains if oil price goes down. No one is building batteries in Canada to wean it off oil....

People need to stop shitting on Australia for its coal. Most is exported or used in making iron.

People never complain about oil producing nations but coal gets shit on all the time. Why the double standard? Yes the world need to move to clean energy, I'm all for that but even playing field here please.

That is not how it works. Go and watch the videos as I suggested.

Find a way to reverse ageing. After that we can look at other things.

Go onto YouTube and search for GPT-3. After your mind is blown away by that, search for Lambda AI. Then search for Dalle-2, stable diffusion and mid journey. Finally cons that GPT-4 is expected to be released in the next few months and is rumoured to be very significantly better than GPT-3.

> The powers that be in the book were also sure before they started the project that there wouldn't be problems

This is called a defence. Arguing on the books behalf is defending the message.

But can we make it even cheaper. Cheaper power gives us more options.

That is what they are trying to figure out. No clouds, optimal alignment, no atmosphere and potentially generating power at night might change the equations. Time to find out.

> In any case, you're taking an offhand reference to a sci-fi book way too seriously.

I'm not the one that referenced it as tho it had any validity. You even go so far as to defend it lol.

They have accouted for that and eliminated the risk. Read the article or even the summary posted here.

Samantha

The AI OS from the movie 'Her'. I think if GPT-4 can get to that level, at least on a social level our society will change forever.

I'd say that given how they covered the pandemic, it is a good bet that they will protect people affected. If course I don't live in a 3rd world country like the US so might be different there, watch who you vote for.

This is Futurology, not Fuckarology. Please delete your post. Thank you.

Alan D Thompson is a great YouTuber who really knows his stuff. Highly recommend watching his videos. Awesome to see him posting here.

Turing definitely seemed to know what was coming and how we would react.

Even if you escape the simulation, you only get into a new world which is almost certainly also a simulation. There may be billions or trillions of nested simulations before you get to the base simulation. You are unlikely to ever make it to the base. Even if you did, they may not have answers.

Why do we have to get this same question every time there is talk of funding space activities? Do you question government funding of sports? Of funding the arts? Of funding public Transport?

Have you heard of climate change? Guess where most of the data comes from in that research... Without satellites, our science would be set back terribly, earthquakes, weather, geology, defence even keeping an eye on farming and deforestation all rely on satellites.

So this is normally the point you concede satellites but insist that that is all we should do. There is huge potential to do far more good by tapping the potential of space. We can mine in space, move heavy dirty industries to space and even move farming and forestry there. That means we will not have to do these things down here and we can return much of the natural environment. Isn't that worth a few tens of billion dollars out of an 80 000 billion global economy.

We can move heavy industry to space and possibly even farming. That means we no longer pollute the one place we know has life and we allow farms to rewild. Earth can be saved this way.

> There is a lot of waste and chemical burn and pollutants that are shot up into the atmosphere for a launch

Actually Artemis uses a combination of Oxygen and hydrogen, so the end result is..... Water. Similarly, SpaceX uses Methane and Oxygen which they will be making from CO2 and water. They need to start doing that asap and we should push for that rather than just complain about rockets in general. We need to shape future technology, not just try to stop it.

People who think their lives are shit and think they would be better if the world was different tend to gravitate towards collapse discussion. It is a terrible reflection on them, they are basically the incels of life and they want everyone to suffer because they think they would be happier if everyone was like them.

Fuck! No seriously, fuck. That is literally how you fix the problem. Everything else is just whinging. Get yer pants down and get on with repopulating. This is socialogy, not Futurology...

Don't take anything David Sinclair says at face value. He is a known crook and liar. He sold his company for $700 million with claims about Resveratrol and their secret alternative that was 1000x more effective. It was all lies (look it up). Any research he is involved in is discredited and should be ignored. Plenty of good real researchers working in the field to follow instead.