For me it’s Open Source AGI not controlled by the enshittifying power of capital

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I want robot body parts.

    I want to live forever, or at least until I get lazy and flash some shady firmware to my robotic heart…

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Sending someone to mars and keeping an eye on how he lives his life and survives.

    Would feel like a survival game let’s play.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’d like to see fusion power (or some other good power source) become a thing. It’d be nice to live in a society where energy usage was basically safe and free.

    If we’re being unrealistic, easy access to ftl spacecraft for everyone would be nice. Exploring the galaxy sounds fun.

    • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      What’s funny is that we DO have access to fairly clean energy already! Nuclear and renewables (not as much solar, until we solve the rare earth metals problem) are pretty darn clean. I mean… have you looked up Thoroum reactors? Those things are really neat, much safer and better for the environment, etc., but came just a bit too late combined with the nuclear scare.

        • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Well, that was mostly right— until we actually built one. Now we’ve built 3 fusion reactors. It’s no longer theoretical.

          Now comes the phase of overcoming certain limitations wrt scaling up the tech to make commercially-viable reactors, and estimating that at about another 15-20 years (considering the rapid advances of the last few years) is t unrealistic.

          Before it was a question of, “can we even do this?” We’re finally past that milestone. Now it just a matter of the very achievable goal of scaling up the reactors. The timeline for that is much more predictable.

          • davidgro@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            Those scaling issues have always been the issues. We’ve had working reactors for over 65 years.

            “The first experiment to achieve controlled thermonuclear fusion was accomplished using Scylla at LANL in 1958.”

            And don’t think that the NIF ignition results are the kind of breakthrough that headlines make it out to be - that project is weapons research, and is not designed to produce power, nor is it anywhere close to doing so when the power to the lasers is measured and not just what the pellet absorbs.

            However, what’s new in the last few years is commercial investment in fusion, and I do think that it will make the difference that the last 65 years haven’t. Maybe even in the next 20 years™

              • davidgro@lemmy.world
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                7 months ago

                You’ve been taken in by intentionally deceptive headlines.
                The energy absorbed by the pellet (what they are measuring as the “input”) is something like 1/20th or worse of the energy used to power the lasers. The output is greater than that “input” by a little, but again, nowhere near the actual energy used, and it won’t ever be at that experiment because it’s not designed for it, it’s designed so we can simulate H-bombs without setting off real ones.

          • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            The next major goal is still overall energy-positive output, right? We’ve only breached the threshold of output > input naively, without considering any external energy costs. I hope we get there though, it would be very neat!

            • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
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              7 months ago

              Oh, no, we’ve managed net positive! That was the most critical achievement, and we finally did it last year! Not a whole lot, but we have. The problems we’re encountering now is dealing with the massive heat produced. But we just hit a new milestone in dealing with that, too!

              Progress is being made, and that’s (the heat) is one of the biggest factors now in scaling up. But it’s an achievable goal. The more heat we can handle during the reaction, the bigger reactors we can build.

    • ShouldIHaveFun@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      He said “technological” advancement, not “political”. I think the greed and slow politics is what is holding us back here, not technology.

  • MamboGator@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Mass market availability of true self-driving vehicles and humans on Mars. Both seem possible if not likely in my lifetime, but there’s still lots of room for capitalism to eff them up.

  • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    devils advocate: if the technology is not […or quickly become] affordable. then sometimes, some of these hopes, are unrealistic.

  • BallsandBayonets@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Lab-grown meat that is both indistinguishable from animal-grown and is cheaper. Bonus points if they can make bacon have 100% of our daily vitamins and minerals.

  • Rin@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    -Discovering extraterrestrial life

    -Phasing out of disposable plastics and gasoline vehicles

    -Transferring to clean energy and clean industrial processes whenever applicable

    -More widespread ethical and sustainable farming practices

    -Lab grown organs and/or more efficient artificial body parts

    -Improved healthcare system/healthcare research

    -Better treatments and potentially cures for chronic and/or rare diseases

    -Much longer lifespans I just think we don’t live long enough even with the current best case scenerios lol

    Though some of this would be viable now, if it weren’t for capitalism/politics holding it back so might not entirely count

  • promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    7 months ago

    Evidence of life elsewhere in the universe. It would be so cool. I just hope its far enough we cant get there and fuck everything up for them (or that they cant do the same to us)