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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Energy & the Environment
- Topic: Energy & the Environment News and Discussions
- Replies: 688
- Views: 935546
Re: Energy & the Environment News and Discussions
Here's a failed energy prediction from 18 months ago. Of course, it’s not the rich countries of North America and northern Europe that will suffer the most through the energy crisis, whether this year or next. This energy crisis is global. Already poorer countries are facing blackouts, protests, and...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Culture, Economics & Politics of the Future
- Topic: 2050 predictions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15568
Re: 2050 predictions
-I think some kind of American secession crisis before this date is entirely possible. I can't really see how a civil war would work, though I confess I'm no expert on the subject. As an American, I think the likeliest cause would be a disputed election result. Imagine a replay of the 2020 election...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: Culture, Economics & Politics of the Future
- Topic: 2050 predictions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15568
Re: 2050 predictions
How 2050 will be different from today: -Plausible (40%+ chance) that true AGI will exist. -Even if AGI has not yet been invented, narrow AIs will be vastly better than they are today and will perform countless niche tasks better and cheaper than humans. Many of them will be paired with robot bodies....
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:08 pm
- Forum: Culture, Economics & Politics of the Future
- Topic: 2050 predictions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15568
Re: 2050 predictions
By 2050, non-Hispanic whites will become a minority in the U.S.
https://apnews.com/article/growth-popul ... ba5d7cdade
https://apnews.com/article/growth-popul ... ba5d7cdade
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: Culture, Economics & Politics of the Future
- Topic: 2050 predictions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15568
Re: 2050 predictions
Assuming the singularity isn't happening, with or without AGI a lot of the world will start looking more like this including now developed nations. AGI alone will not stop the ecological crises, that's something we as people have to desire to do, especially if we misalign AGI's priorities and feed ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello, I'm John Meeks from California.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3249
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: Computers & the Internet
- Topic: Why not use a server to heat the water in your house?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 28094
Re: Why not use a server to heat the water in your house?
To elaborate on the idea, heat generated by the servers would first be shunted into a district heating network to heat nearby support buildings and worker housing. The remainder would be pumped back into the river. I envision mini towns built around data centers, their accompanying power plants, and...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: Images, Podcasts & Videos
- Topic: Ray Kurzweil on the Joe Rogan show
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3801
Ray Kurzweil on the Joe Rogan show
"Exponential" got flung around so many times it nearly ruptured the spacetime continuum.
This is the most sluggish I've ever seen Ray. The 80 pills a day can only help so much at his age.
This is the most sluggish I've ever seen Ray. The 80 pills a day can only help so much at his age.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:34 am
- Forum: Military & War
- Topic: Ukraine War Watch Thread
- Replies: 3460
- Views: 1623201
Re: Ukraine War Watch Thread
Interesting to look back on this essay by a Russian blogger from two years ago. The war hasn't ended yet, but out of the six possible outcomes he forecast, #2 seems the likeliest right now. He predicted there was a 90% chance it WOULDN'T end that way. 2. Bloody slog, “draw” (10%) — Russia’s military...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:14 am
- Forum: Off Topic & General Discussion
- Topic: My random thoughts
- Replies: 424
- Views: 377126
Re: My random thoughts
If we all turn into technologically unemployed UBI bums, won't we start having more children like today's unemployed welfare bums? Won't that solve the depopulation crisis?