It’s so easy shitting on techbro VC nonsense that only separates us from our humanity to sell adspace. What actual problems do you want technology to solve?
A better planned economy than what could be done in the 20th century. In particular, the way that many western countries’ education systems and job opportunities are completely mismatched. It doesn’t even have to be some advanced AI thing. Just some modern computer-assisted statistical work. For example, a population of N size will need N amount of primary school teachers, N amount of secondary school teachers, etc etc etc. Then just match up population growth estimates with the time it takes to train someone for that job, and have that number of student spots open (plus some percentage of additional spots, to cover people who decide it’s not for them, early mortality, etc) in the universities and colleges and trade schools.
Stop talking so logically about how easily supply and demand can be predicted for simple things everyone needs. You’re going to get people yappin
I would like to see robots that kill landlords
Creative
I can guarantee eight of those nine words.
honestly brain chips made someone other than elon musk. Imagine if you could use direct brain control for prosthetic limbs as if they were no different from organic ones, or perhaps even direct brain interface with other things, the possibilities are plentiful. would also be neat if those chips could be used to treat otherwise untreatable mental illness.
I feel similar, I think actual cyborg stuff could be life changing for so many people, but as long as its locked behind a capitalist’s will, nothing good will actually come from it.
Really goes for most medical technology but most stuff isn’t as bad as musk brain.
yeah I completely agree
Brain chips made by someone other than Elon running Free Software at every level down to the firmware
free and open source software and open source hardware
Yes, every chip and circuit completely open and transparent with published schematics.
Having the source be open is a necessary but not sufficient condition of Free Software already, so there’s no need to say “free and open source” since the Open Source movement is a capitalist plot to dilute the meaning of software freedom.
the Open Source movement is a capitalist plot to dilute the meaning of software freedom.
wait really?
Yes. Consider Android for a concrete example. Android is an Open Source project, but to build a completely working Android phone with all the features a user would expect from that requires a significant amount of nonFree Google software. Further, Android devices can be (and in fact usually are) sold in a condition which deliberately locks away the user’s ability to examine and modify the code running on them.
I would like to see it being used in the collection of data to plan more efficiently in meeting the overall needs of every person in a global communist society. Make the planning more accessible for regular people to see and give their input on, using the power of the internet’s instant communication.
Some sort of public repository for the culmination of all human achievements in art, knowledge and culture
Damn, it’d be crazy if that existed in some form already
US Library of Congress is pretty great if you can ever visit. Although it’s obviously a bit anglo-brained.
The combination of VR, BCI (+other biometrics), and Deep Learning has the potential to help us master the placebo effect and open up a whole new understanding of treating the body. Instead it’s gonna be used by corporations to make Manufacturing Consent seem quaint.
I’ve always been a big fan of VR/AR usecases. I made another post recently about zoloft and was amazed how placebo was often just as effective. I was a rare google glass defender. I know it’s not quite what you were saying but it reminded me of this.
Google glass had the limitations that meant it couldn’t stuff ads down your throat, while being useful for real hands free tasks. Navigation while walking around a city, hands free picture taking from your current perspective, basic web searches to get an answer in your eye while your hands are tied up. It was such a simple but useful device and that’s why it had to be taken away.
I have a fantasy of a society that basically lives in symbiosis with AI. The AI would serve as a custodian of the Commons, providing us with information and resources while we live gamified lifestyles seeking out experiences and creating art and doing research to expand the AI’s training data. Our lives would basically be like an RPG; Fleshing out our customized skill tree and living in a state of Flow while reporting our experiences, thoughts, and feelings back to the AI.
I don’t think that sounds appealing?
Too bad.
Have you read the culture series?
Lol, yes I have.
A bidet that pats my corn hole dry with a fresh towelette.
My dick is really small like 1.4 BP and I’m hoping technology makes it so that I have a bigger penis
British Peeners?
