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Anyone that wants a good short story about teleportation should read The Jaunt by Stephen King
My goodness, they straight up put the ending spoiler on the cover lmao
Technologies that don't exist but that would revolutionize daily life
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My goodness, they straight up put the ending spoiler on the cover lmao
What do you think happens to the automotive industry/airline industry/airports/truck drivers/ etc. How many jobs would be completed eliminated because of teleportation.
Isn't this just what an Airtag or Tile is? Assuming you buy enough of them to put on every one of your items.
Good riddance polluting industries we don't need.
Better get that UBI going and tax those teleportation conglomerates highly.
I agree cloned organs in general would basically be one of the best innovations for the medical field.
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In regards to the life-elongating tech, ironically the only thing that saves the world is that the old die and the young take their place.
Placing a dying human's consciousness into a robotic entity or uploaded to some servers face the same problems as a teleporter; the being that comes out the other side is only the same being to everyone else. The actual being is deconstructed/destroyed and reconstructed on the other side of the process. That's great for the new atoms that are arranged and gain consciousness at the end, but your consciousness and experience just end and a new copy of you begins, but it's not really you. That's at least how I puzzle the situation through. It would just be an exact copy of you with all of your memories that thinks it is the original.
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shit, if we could (When we can, I should say) upload a human consciousness somewhere else, it's just going to be an exact copy that thinks it's the original, which is great for IT and everyone else, not so much for you the original.
Am I thinking this hypothetical quandary through properly? Are there solutions to this that people have theorized? I guess when this eventually happens that society will have to come to grips with a new definition of what "alive" means.
I guess with teleportation if we're like bending space so that you essentially "slip" through a wormhole to your location that wouldn't necessarily tear you apart atom-by-atom and reconstruct you, so I'd be game for that.
My favorite theoretical invention is some sort of replicator tech; rearranging atoms into necessary materials; food, shelter, etc. Reading around the interwebs you see conflicting articles- some saying that the technology may be possible someday and that there are startups working to create machines that can turn carbon nanotubes into anything, even food. Some articles say that this technology will forever be a fantasy.
Imagine a world where we could just produce what was necessary using carbon harvested from polluted air?
Placing a dying human's consciousness into a robotic entity or uploaded to some servers face the same problems as a teleporter; the being that comes out the other side is only the same being to everyone else. The actual being is deconstructed/destroyed and reconstructed on the other side of the process. That's great for the new atoms that are arranged and gain consciousness at the end, but your consciousness and experience just end and a new copy of you begins, but it's not really you. That's at least how I puzzle the situation through. It would just be an exact copy of you with all of your memories that thinks it is the original.
Like if we're talking some
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Am I thinking this hypothetical quandary through properly? Are there solutions to this that people have theorized? I guess when this eventually happens that society will have to come to grips with a new definition of what "alive" means.
I guess with teleportation if we're like bending space so that you essentially "slip" through a wormhole to your location that wouldn't necessarily tear you apart atom-by-atom and reconstruct you, so I'd be game for that.
My favorite theoretical invention is some sort of replicator tech; rearranging atoms into necessary materials; food, shelter, etc. Reading around the interwebs you see conflicting articles- some saying that the technology may be possible someday and that there are startups working to create machines that can turn carbon nanotubes into anything, even food. Some articles say that this technology will forever be a fantasy.
Imagine a world where we could just produce what was necessary using carbon harvested from polluted air?
Eh...if it means everyone else after me gets a better life, I don't mind dying. We've been dying our whole existence, I'll manage.
It's hard to imagine that life without aging would be a worse existence for people even with inequality. It is responsible for a large proportion of the pain and suffering most people experience after all.
Pretty nice, but I want something where you could dump your laundry into rather than feeding it one shirt at a time.
A way to turn plastic back into oil, so it could become actually fully recyclable, instead of the fraction of plastic waste we're recycling today
100 % effective, non-invasive (or completely reversible) contraceptives that don't mess with body hormones
100 % effective, non-invasive (or completely reversible) contraceptives that don't mess with body hormones
https://www.waldenfarms.com/product-category/peanut-spreads/ This company makes zero calorie "peanut spreads". I imagine it's all made of ingredients that your body can't digest so you just expel all of what you've taken in.
I was intrigued and tried it. Listen, I've had eating problems my whole life. Weight fluctuating by hundreds of pounds based on my willpower. For some reason I just want to consume and sometimes I'll buy a whole bag of just plain spinach or spring mix just so I can shove something in my mouth with as little impact as possible.
Believe me when I say that this shit was so gross I took one spoonful and I couldn't even finish that. Threw the whole damned thing away. As a huge fan of diet soda, I think they've damn near perfected that. Zero calorie food is gonna take a lot of innovation.
AR with a seamless interface/HUD is the future and will be terrible for the world overall.
Endless internet scrolling without even lifting a device or letting others know you're scrolling/watching video.
Could be great for industrial and creative uses, but most people will become more mindless.
Endless internet scrolling without even lifting a device or letting others know you're scrolling/watching video.
Could be great for industrial and creative uses, but most people will become more mindless.
There might be a way around the problem that allows continuity of consciousness to be maintained. You basically need to Ship of Thesus the brain. We don't know exactly what consciousness is but it can't be tied to any single brain cell because during your life they'll all be eventually replaced so what if we replace just one brain cell with an artificial equivalent? Continuity of consciousness is undoubtedly maintained, right? Repeat the process again and again until nothing organic is left. Would continuity of consciousness ever be lost? Why? At what point?
Exactly! Back in the day I was a total soda fiend. While traveling the first thing I always did after arriving in the new country was me going to the supermarket and buying some of their local sodas. Transition to diet drinks was weird as hell at first but ONLY after a couple of weeks i started preferring diet soda to regular. Nowadays real sugar coke tastes sticki and I don't like it.
Stuff like Walden farms is sadly not even 5% there just like you mentioned. And even then the majority of stuff is being done for the sweetest of teeth. I want 0kcal sushi God damn it!
Ok, we modify it a little.
Instead of transfer, we can only copy and the part that host the consciousness is not repairable because we are not getting Right to repair.
The consequences is the wealth will be split into half each time a copy is made.
I think we'll actually get there. We seem to be a lot better at the micro and nano level with tech.
It's not real sugar. The "sticky" is from high fructose corn syrup. Your body can break down hfcs like real sugar but it has to work harder to do it.
The fake sugars in diet sodas aren't broken down at all like real sugar, which is the point, but it tricks your body into thinking it's real sugar and you still produce insulin to handle the sugars. You consume enough fake sugars and your body stops producing as much insulin as it's not needed.
Then when you do consume real sugar, your body struggles to break it down because it's not producing enough insulin.
There are studies that show fake sugar can actually increase the likelihood of developing diabetes.
It's about getting the tech to function at that level, not make the body hostile to the presence at that cellular level, allow for long term self sustaining or replication.. Lots of things to avoid trauma to the person they'd occupy
Teleportation would kill a bunch of industries. If anyone could teleport then people would teleport themselves out their shitty job or shitty country. Capitalism would collapse. Rich people would have take control of the tech or they'd never be able to keep people in shitty countries/cities to be exploited.
Wouldn't just revolutionize daily life, they would change the world. Faster travel, easier travel, automization into a post-work society, expansion into local space, sustainable consumption and management of planetary resources, more efficient energy production...to name just a few!
Then you get to the more philosophical side of things. Cities no longer catered to the automobile. Community oriented layouts encouraging cooperation. Socioeconomic and political systems that can handle humanity at a scale of billions or more. Elimination of prejudice and other insidious bias.
That would turn us into a level 1 civilization based on energy production. But more importantly would be a world where depression is less prevalent, where most of the population would no longer be time poor, where selfish wealth and greed are no longer encouraged systemically. Not to say technology is the cure for all our problems, it would only help facilitate.
Then you get to the more philosophical side of things. Cities no longer catered to the automobile. Community oriented layouts encouraging cooperation. Socioeconomic and political systems that can handle humanity at a scale of billions or more. Elimination of prejudice and other insidious bias.
That would turn us into a level 1 civilization based on energy production. But more importantly would be a world where depression is less prevalent, where most of the population would no longer be time poor, where selfish wealth and greed are no longer encouraged systemically. Not to say technology is the cure for all our problems, it would only help facilitate.
Not under fucking capitalism lmao (but yeah that would be dope)
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How so? Technically that would give us more time to work and be productive.
The management pressure to work more when it specifically wouldn't be more productive. Don't get me wrong, I'd take the chance 100% but there would be a push from some sectors for longer hours/more frequent shifts etc.
A gaming system from the big 3 that required you to exercise and take standing/stretching breaks in order to keep playing.
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Fusion-based nuclear power plants, though we are likely only a decade or 2 away from commercially viable ones. Would solve most of the world's infrastructural problems, as energy would be cheap, abundant, and sustainable.
In that example there would be a point of equilibrium where the ai and the organic were equally conscious. How can two consciousnesses come from one?
Probably worried we would only get 3 hours off and then be expected back at work. Since we don't have to sleep.
We already got that.
Batteries in the 90s were shit. I used to have top end batteries for my 1/10 scale RC kit car, they don't hold a candle to what we have now.
And we'd have to do annoying shit like discharge them completely with light bulbsnonce they were drained from the motor. But then also occasionally charge them full and slowly discharge them with light bulbs, less they work less with the higher draw of the electric motor.
And also the brushless motors we have now are league setter than we had back then too.
It's complete science fiction, but functional, nationwide mass transit in the US would make things so much better.
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Why would a separate consciousness emerge? Every artificial cell performs the same input/output functions as the organic one it replaces. Both natural and artificial cells work as part of the same whole. Why would it be any different than a cell naturally dying and being replaced?
