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Re: Ask HN: What tech utopia/horror ideas do you see materialising soon?

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Post by stackbutterflow »

Tepix wrote: post #13

Social media (twitter) will get worse due to ChatGPT et al. One little consolation: Eventually the trollbot armies will waste resources by mostly talk amonst themselves. Other predictions: Quite a few jobs will be lost: Text editors, translators. There will be new ethical questions: Is it ok if a Chatbot aids you writing your dissertation? How much is ok? 20%? 40%? All in all, doesn't sound so great, does it? Looking…

I'm not an expert so someone from the industry can correct me if I'm wrong but I heard that the next season of Star wars Andor and House of the Dragon are due in two years because post production is taking more and more time. I think a productivity jump in that area would be welcomed.

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Post by ianai »

Wishing for this not thinking it’s necessarily likely.

Utopia: people massively reject the noisiest and most inflammatory parts of the internet. Doesn’t mean reverting to 20 years ago. Just taking things with a grain of salt. And lose the “conspiracy theory” junk.

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Post by ddulaney »

ermir wrote: post #15

What I see happening soon: The mainstreaming of a new religion. Its tenets are broadly: the worship of technology and "progress", the cyborgization of the population, the proliferation of AI on all spheres of life, and the ultimate creation of the successor of humanity. This is not new, it's been going on for at least 200 years, but finally the technology exists to do it in a decentralized, scalable fashion. Think of…

Hmm... Hard to see where that gets mainstreamed from. If it was coming, you'd expect to see it now in fringe groups. Most of the "fringy" belief systems I'm aware of either go the other way with a radical rejection of technology or just don't really care. Any sense of where something like this is bubbling outside of the mainstream?

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ermir wrote: post #15

What I see happening soon: The mainstreaming of a new religion. Its tenets are broadly: the worship of technology and "progress", the cyborgization of the population, the proliferation of AI on all spheres of life, and the ultimate creation of the successor of humanity. This is not new, it's been going on for at least 200 years, but finally the technology exists to do it in a decentralized, scalable fashion. Think of…

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Post by maxbond »

082349872349872 wrote: post #11
BirAdam wrote: post #6

The FBI kind of does that: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment... As such, a terrorist organization doing so wouldn’t surprise me either. As for what I see happening in a dystopian sense, I think that the hacking of smart homes will become more common. I think the hacking of smart cars will become more common. I think that at some point, the central banks will introduce CBDCs and governments…

One of the reasons I have for avoiding the straight reading of 1984 is that the protagonist jumps, eagerly, into such an entrapment. Not a sympathetic look. But if you want money for people with minds that hate All I can tell you is brother you have to wait

He jumps eagerly at the only glimmer of hope in his otherwise terrible life, I'd say.

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Post by maxbond »

monero-xmr wrote: post #19
ermir wrote: post #15

What I see happening soon: The mainstreaming of a new religion. Its tenets are broadly: the worship of technology and "progress", the cyborgization of the population, the proliferation of AI on all spheres of life, and the ultimate creation of the successor of humanity. This is not new, it's been going on for at least 200 years, but finally the technology exists to do it in a decentralized, scalable fashion. Think of…

I genuinely see politics as a new religion. Blind faith, ignoring logic, heresy if you disagree, excommunication, various forms of worship. Both sides

Pretty bad faith interpretation of both politics and religion. I'd encourage you to consider looking into political theory & religion to broaden your perspective (speaking as a nonreligious person).

Speaking for myself I stopped thinking of religion as being just like kooky nonsense when I got to know some religious people and understood what it was their religion meant to them, and understood that they were using it to do things like figure out what life meant, how they should respond to it, and how they should treat others that I was also doing, even if I wasn't using religion to do it.

Similarly I think dismissing politics as "both sides are kooky" is missing a lot of nuance, "both" being part of it (politics is fractal like any other human endeavor). Speaking for myself again politics started making a lot more sense to me after learning more about political theory and history, as I understood the context better.

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Post by r3trohack3r »

AI is here - we just haven't noticed it yet. An entire class of problems are fairly solvable with the current tech with good unit economics, the market is still figuring itself out.

If you think AI is going to replace your job, it probably is. But that's only true if you consider your job to be the motions you go through day to day and not the problems you solve.

We are about to have a seemingly infinite army of mid-low skill workers standing by 24/7 to do our tasks for $0.002 a pass. It's time to start thinking about how you'd deploy that army at your daily tasks and integrate their resulting work. We're all leaders now.

This is a utopia. We're just too "in the thick of it" to realize it is.

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Post by sklargh »

A little banal since the tech is not new. Forward-deployed low-yield nuclear weapons are a little easier to use than their large strategic cousins. NATO and ex. Warsaw Pact deploying low-yield, low-time-to-target land based cruise missiles reciprocally increases danger of nuclear exchange substantially.

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Post by 13of40 »

It might actually already exist, but imagine if on the other side of the internet they aggregate all of your usage information so that a tech can sit down at one console and see that "jimbo123" on Reddit is actually Bob Smith who lives on Sunnydale drive, owns a Subaru Outback, bought dogfood three times this month, and has been talking about the war a bit more this week on his other social media accounts. Anyone who is willing to pay the enterprise-level subscription fee can access it, including banks, potential employers, etc. and it's entirely composed of information you handed over via EULAs and TOS agreements.
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