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Re: I want

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Post by voltagex_ »

fudged71 wrote: post #7

I want things like Uber, Lyft, and Taskrabbit to exist in my city. I want services like Pandora and Google Music to not be restricted in my country. I want people around me to understand what's possible with today's technology. I want the industries in my city to move to Excel rather than tons of paper. For now, all I want is the present to be evenly distributed.

I want my government to be looking to the future, not denying climate change and slowing down broadband. (Australia).

I agree with everything in your post.

Re: I want

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Post by invalidOrTaken »

It's worth distinguishing between absolute goods and relative goods. When everyone has a fashion stylist, for instance, it becomes a necessity rather than a perk.

Re: I want

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Post by jw_ »

I would like the trend towards ever-concentrated power and wealth to be reversed.

I would like people to be able to expect their interactions online to be private instead of operating under the assumption that intelligence agencies are scooping up all of their private information.

On a much more selfish and trivial note, I would also like an plugin-electric 4x4 so I can drive around the woods AND drive a futuristic Tesla-ey thing. Damn you Jeep, cancelling the electric Wrangler. :(

Re: I want

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Post by secstate »

goldenkey wrote: post #10

This is what this post meant to me: I want to be a soul-less cyborg empress given the ultimate in life by mechanical minions. I want the world in my palm, with no struggle, no meaning to mean. I am _RoboRock_

Haha, I was writing some flowery philosophical disagreement about Curtis' post, but this was way better. Note: I like a great many things he's written, but this just falls flat on its face.

Makes me think of Paranoid Android. Fitter, Happier, more productive.

Re: I want

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Post by gbog »

I'd go further:

- I want everyone to own an amount of clever metal molecules that group together to form the object I need right now: need a bowl to eat rice, molecules migrate to form a bowl in a few seconds. Need a helmet? Here it is. A knife? here you go. That's the christmas tree machine without the waste.

- I want to project movies, music and books inside my head, so I can watch movies or read books eyes-closed, hear music in my head without headphones.

- I want to be able to teleport in my friend's eyes/glasses when they party and I cannot attend.

- Ultimately, I want my self to be able to migrate in a newborn soul, and re-live, when my body will be too old to support me.

- However, I do not want to eat pills to avoid fat, that's cheating.

Re: I want

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Post by yapcguy »

I want to know why a random blog post is on HackerNews and why people are voting for it.

I want to know if people remember that the author claimed and tried to justify why Apple's iPhone screen size of 3.5 inches was perfect, large screens were a stupid idea, and of course only Apple could have figured it out.

http://dcurt.is/3-point-5-inches

Re: I want

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Post by secstate »

I would like people to appreciate that expecting 40% of your life to be spent on trivial entertainment and artificially introduced challenges is unreasonable and unsustainable.

I would like the homogenization of culture reversed.

I would like everyone to be taught how to be interested in understanding things and to pursue their passions above all else.

Re: I want

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Post by goldenkey »

secstate wrote: post #15
goldenkey wrote: post #10

This is what this post meant to me: I want to be a soul-less cyborg empress given the ultimate in life by mechanical minions. I want the world in my palm, with no struggle, no meaning to mean. I am _RoboRock_

Haha, I was writing some flowery philosophical disagreement about Curtis' post, but this was way better. Note: I like a great many things he's written, but this just falls flat on its face. Makes me think of Paranoid Android. Fitter, Happier, more productive.

Paranoid Android is very fitting. I think Curtis has some great ideas - but the things like give me the toaster that 80% of the people in the world favor, just falls flat on its face. What about the other toasters? What happened to choice - to choosing something different, because it might be not as well liked, but better? I know his blog post was moreover a non-analyzed wishlist, not meant to be carefully studied. I can't help but say that the sentiment was eerily deaf and soul-less, with a lack of humanity, a kind of wishing for the uber-human. There have been so many fictional novels based on utopian cyborg scenarios, and well, they don't end well. I will agree with Curtis on one thing, if we can eliminate many menial tasks, we will be freed in time and energy for more important and jovial endeavors. This in fact, relates to the recent article about a default base wage for everyone. Interesting ideas all around, but lets not remove our humanity at the cost of optimization.

Re: I want

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Post by gbog »

redguava wrote: post #2

I want smoking to be illegal. At a minimum in public places and around children.

And farting, too?

Seriously, if you want even more restrictions on what your fellow human beings are allowed to do and enjoy, you should be very happy in North Korea and I can only invite you to prepare your visa application papers. Wait, US citizen are not allowed in NK. Hope you are not US citizen?

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