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Think of all the fun you could have if you had an implant that could stimulate every part of your brain, and you laid down and set it to "Random." The brain implants might also make drugs and alcohol obsolete since they'd let you induce any kind of mental state at will, including various ...

I'm sure these deficiencies will be fixed.

This excellent essay on Astral Codex Ten explains why the success of GPT-5 is so important to the pace of AI development. Let me explain: There have been four GPT AI's so far: GPT-1, 2, 3, and 4. On average, each took 18 months to invent after the last. Each one cost roughly 30x as much money to cre...

In a future where everyone's subsisting off of UBI and there is mass surveillance, some key aspects of life would be improve and become more efficient. Welfare fraud would go way down since an AGI would manage your UBI transfers and directly pay for your food, rent, utility bills, and other essentia...

An advanced android could be like Jesus. 1) It could have tiny needles in its fingertips that it would use to painlessly inject people with medical nanobots that would heal their health problems, and mind-altering chemicals to make them appear to fall into trances in front of everyone. 2) The miracl...

wjfox wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:30 am

Generations are only 15 years long?

The automation of chemistry lab work is continuing. This will let human chemists focus on harder problems and accelerate the pace of innovation.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-po ... mation-rip

Boston Dynamics just released a video of its "Atlas" humanoid robot doing physical work. It looks like it was moving car shocks from a bin to a rack. https://youtube.com/shorts/SFKM-Rxiqzg?si=H8jqMYvsT9VtoJW1 The task reminded me of loading a tank cannon. https://youtu.be/un__9ZMYgR8?si=JH...

I've written before that robots could someday let us eradicate invasive species and restore ecosystems to earlier states. Basically, there would be so many robots spread out across the face of the Earth that they could find and destroy every invasive animal or plant. Well, this would be especially h...