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SorakaWithAids t1_j3nkoi5 wrote

Reply to comment by Zakku_Rakusihi in A Singular Trajectory: the Signs of AGI by mjrossman

thank god im young. i hope we can finally be the last generation of humans to HAVE to die by aging. Our doctors are getting close, and AGI / ASI will absolutely fucking smash that problem. I want to be in fucking Altered Carbon.

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OblongRectum t1_j3okjv4 wrote

>I want to be in fucking Altered Carbon.

You want to be in a dystopia? Where the wealthy just keep taking and concentrating wealth and never fucking die? iirc poor people did not have their stacks placed into new bodies if they couldn't afford it

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Helpful_Opinion2023 t1_j3qapth wrote

If your standard of living and quality of life are so great that you are effectively immortal and without serious want, then who cares how much the rich are hoarding?

The value of their wealth sharply drops in meaning if everyone else is well off enough to say "eh, so? Who cares what's in your bank account!?!?"

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icedrift t1_j3qxhe5 wrote

I take it you haven't watched or read altered carbon. It would be like if only billionairs were immortal and the rest of us were slaves under threat of having to pay off our debts by selling our physical bodies to our debtors.

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OblongRectum t1_j3rls17 wrote

I don't think you know what you're talking about lol. maybe you're mixing up IPs

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SorakaWithAids t1_j3obb4b wrote

Nah if we get AGI in 10 years we are chilling.

I'll sacrifice my soul right now for that.

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SorakaWithAids t1_j3r6jvb wrote

doesn't matter how many animal species we lose if we have AGI let alone ASI. We will be creating species from scratch in a lab.

I think all consumer electronics should be dummy devices with nice screens that never need to be replaced unless you want a different design. all software based on a local server for home / powerful things, or cloud for everything else. obviously there is more nuance.

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SorakaWithAids t1_j3r9dej wrote

I'm talking more about ASI than AGI. But even with AGI i think it will be possible. hard but possible. Insects and bacterium replicate like crazy. especially if we design them to. We can release them into specific habitats and let them multiply. won't be instantaneous, but i think it would be doable to some extent.

maybe not for the whole world population at first, but we will build up to it eventually.

regardless, i still assume a lot of people are going to starve to death. thats a given.

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PolyHertz t1_j3p6ozp wrote

iirc in that series they were just using a chip implanted in people to make copies of their memories/personality. No one actually lived any longer, just when they died a body got implanted with said copy and were in a deep state of denial believing they were that person because it was all they knew.

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JhonnyHopkins t1_j3o0sjh wrote

Makes me grateful to be born in this time period, if we happened to “spawn in” one or two generations prior however…

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SorakaWithAids t1_j3o0xgm wrote

Yeah... they still might be able to make it though. Someone who is 50 now could potentially still have another 40-50yrs to wait

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