Future Timeline

As long as sentient beings exist somewhere in the universe,they'll likely speculate about the future. Of course, the idea that the future will include massive scientific and technological advancements is a modern one and may not be a widely held view forever.

I think politics should be kept out of entertainment.

Unless it happens to be politics I agree with, of course. Which is none, as all politicians are bad people and the only problems that politics/politicians solve are the ones they create to justify their own existence.

Yes of course, this is how they'll eventually take over, by slowly persuading us to hand over the keys to our industries and social/political institutions one by one. Not with some skynet bs.

Furthermore, I can't see the owners of a cosmic simulation becoming emotionally attached to entities in the simulation, any more than you or I would be emotionally attached to NPCs in a video game.

How can you know what the simulation owners consider "attractive" or what goal they are pursuing?

what if i don't want to live in a megacity? That aside, yes the carrying capacity of Earth can be vastly increased. Though posthumans would likely require more energy than normal humans, they could just source it directly from the sun instead of re-routing it through plants and animals. It's not cle...

I don't think it's too plausible but I read it years ago and it was really interesting

That's impossible, only time can confer maturity and life experience.

Yuli Ban wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 8:17 pm

Jakob wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 1:29 am The zipped archive is at https://gitlab.com/jcoles/ftl

I must have unzipped it wrong because only the front page is in html; all the other files just read as "file"

It seems to be working for me. Maybe it wasn't fully unzipped yet?

My official stance is that the technological singularity won't happen because new developments in science, technology and other domains will never get so rapid that unaugmented humans will not be able to keep track of them. This will even be the case after artificial general intelligence is created...