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[–] CanadaPlus 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Generally, it's envisioned as being a lot like now, but with no classes, and people making and remaking the rules on the fly rather than having set laws and set authorities. No laws, no government, but not no rules.

[–] CanadaPlus 11 points 2 years ago

Which version? If all you need is an uncoordinated, dopey person, I'm right here. /s

If undeath is required, no. It's not even a concept that makes much sense without mind-body dualism, which is all but ruled out scientifically.

[–] CanadaPlus 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you for this enlightening post. I'm truly better for it. (/s, non-salty)

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago

Sadly, that sounds like them.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

So based on the abstract, they use a multiple small fields of view, each of which crosses a star at different times, instead of one main one. They can then correlate anything unusual they find with which stars are in the field of view. Nifty.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Man, I love CGP Grey.

It's also kind of interesting to see how the predictions have changed, 10 years on. We're still worried about the basic idea, but it seems less imminent, and there may be a period where blue collar workers fare the best. CGP thought blue collar workers would be replaced; in present tense, even.

Case in point, Baxter was discontinued in 2018. Word on the street is that he sucked, and the demonstrations were very produced. Self driving cars "were there", but they didn't "work" like he said; not a very important few percent of the time, anyway.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

The website blocks me, but assuming this is about a system that allows a worker to do manual labour at a distance, it might be the most interesting use case for robotics right now. AI struggles really bad with complex physical environments - even the most controlled, public roadways, have proven to be a research money pit. There's no reason you couldn't just transmit human movements to a robot with similar mechanical capacities, though, and sensory information the other way. The acronym makes it sound like that's what this is.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Hey, do pending subscribes count? I can't really see beehaw's tech community for the most part, and I suspect this is the issue.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

DNA is a programming language

JavaScript no longer has the worst type system, then.

Jury's out on whether brainfuck or general relativity is more tractable.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, that's a bit of a salty tangent, but yeah, I guess they could take a class warfare sort of line on it. The other classical options are going full luddite, or just blaming a minority. Maybe they'll come up with something new, because I have trouble picturing laid off creatives spouting any of these.

Right now, I think people are firmly in the denial stage. For whatever reason the thread isn't federating properly for me, but on beehaw I can see others in here saying human exceptionalism stuff, which is kind of not in accordance with science.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Expect a lot more "white collar workers laid off due to AI" posts coming. I wonder how long it will take for a (very well resourced, those are status-y jobs) movement to form in response.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Exactly my thought. The article seems like a good general overview of emerging trends, though. This is the first I've heard of backside power delivery.

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