There are lots of other success stories too. For example there is a reason why Keytruda is the most valuable medicine globally -- it does amazing things against melanoma and lung cancer
> I'm wondering if an immortal life can be a well-lived life
Why not? It does not mean that we will be some omnipotent god. it just means that we wont age. You can still die from physical trauma, infections, cancer etc. So in practice this would mean that the average human lifespan is not say 70 years, but 120.
I'm pretty sure that humanity will eventually get to immortality (why not? We are already controlling most of our environment) but this will not be like an invention of a magic pill, rather the average lifespan will creep up by a decade or so with every generation.
Now we're at the point where we know whats actively killing you and what to avoid (we can also cure most infections and diseases)
in 30 years most cancers, and likely Alzheimers will be curable too. I'm also sure that lots of aging related conditions will be treatable too (say osteoporosis)
in 60 years we might know enough to start reversing aging effects, and fear of cancer will be a thing of the past, just like now bacterial infections.
.. and who knows when we will start to regrow limbs and fully reverse aging
The more I use AI for coding the more I realize that its a toy for vibe coding/fun projects. Its not for serious work.
When you work with a large codebase which have a very high complexity level, then the bugs put in there by AI will not worth the cost of the easily added features.
We know that OpenAI is verz good at least in one thing: generating hype. When Sora was announced everyone thought that this will be revolutionary. Look at how it looks like in production. Same when they started floating rumours that they have some AGI prototype in their labs.
They are the Tesla of the IT world, overpromise and under deliver.
Russia is putting everything it has to the Ukrainian front since 2.5 years and signs of exhaustion are clearly visible. They have lived up their Soviet tank reserves, are offering astronomical amounts of money for soldiers, are using north Korean ammunition, huge inflation etc
Because your luggage is not checked at all. I'm sure that a state level actor could circumvent TSA but an amateur could not, and they pose a huge threat too, see the recent bombing attempt at the Tailor Swift concert or the Trump assassination attempt
This will be a no go for more and more large companies.
We just had a major incident because someone accidentally uploaded our codebase via a VS code extension, lawyers, everything involved. I expect that non local AI tools will be banned soon.
Think about it, what 3rd party tool would you let scrape your whole codebase and send it to their server?
IMO the main issue are zoning laws and urbanization. You can find lots of articles about rural areas, small villages elsentially dieing out, while large cities just (try) to grow larger.
Also there is a shift from people living in families to living single or just with one person which is more inefficient and requires more space.
I'm kinda sad that the whole voxel technology could not become mainstream. There were some really ambitious projects started in the 2010s like Voxel farm https://www.voxelfarm.com
And people were speculating that the current technology of rendering triangles will be obsolete because voxels represent reality better. I'm a bit sad that we did not see the breakthrough, it would have been as large as the introduction of the GPU to accelerate rendering
Also their site was fill with intrusive ads, the repo browser was crap. GitHub was fast, no ads, markdown rendering and a decent repo browser.
Also the main advantage of git was local copies, so the source code was more safe. And speed SVN was slow for large repos. At my first place we had an SVN server in the server room, when it's hard drive crashed no one could work for a day :)
Still people hated git first because it was much more complicated with it's branches, PRs etc
> This only makes sense if you think poor people are dumb or naive. They don't know how to compare prices?
Its pretty hard when each thing is served in a different size container and it can have different values from the most important ingredient. This is sometimes pretty easy to figure out (e.g. juices usually have the same 2-3 sizes where I live) but sometimes its practically impossible to know whats the best value for money, e.g. paper towels -- size, number of layers, number of sheets, total length etc are all the parameters that one should consider. Or bring a precision scale?
Nope. People are concerned. There has been a million times when people recklessly and blindly did things without carefully examining the consequences leading to terrible results and human suffering. Some examples: DDT, Iraqi war, fast fashion, early usage of radioactive materials as medicine, asbestos, etc
Actually your comment gives me hope that we will never have AI singularity, since how the brain works is flawed, and were trying to copy it.
Heck a super AI might not even be possible, what if we're peak intelligence with our millions of years of evolution?
Just adding compute speed will not help much -- say the goal of an intelligence is to win a war. If you're tasked with it then it doesn't matter if you have a month or a decade (assume that time is.frozen while you do your research), its a too complex problem and simply cannot be solved, and the same goes for an AI.
Or it will be like with chess solvers, machines will be more intelligent than us simply because they can load much more context to solve a problem than us in their "working memory"