Sashinii t1_itnzx95 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 1:17 AM

Reply to comment by sheerun in Is anything better than FTL as a future? by ribblle

Technology will enable everyone to be self-sustaining, so I don't buy a dystopian future.

sheerun t1_ito44ft wrote on October 25, 2022 at 1:47 AM

Yet we live in one

Sashinii t1_ito4qfk wrote on October 25, 2022 at 1:51 AM

The world sucks in a lot of ways, but it's still statistically better than ever before, and we're on a positive trajectory thanks to accelerating technological progress.

sheerun t1_ito5n5o wrote on October 25, 2022 at 1:58 AM

We live in society of multiple facades, brain-computer interface won't change it. It will serve every facade. Top ones to gain power, middle for money and surveillance, then lower layers of society indeed will use it in positive ways. All I'm saying it can unleash as many good things as bad things, and wealthy will get this technology first. Software, especially Open Source is more forgiving than hardware.

Sashinii t1_ito6uod wrote on October 25, 2022 at 2:07 AM

There won't be money in the future that has nanofactories.

Corporations are already shitting themselves at the prospect of AI music synthesis and the same most definitely applies to AI in general; they know that their control over damn near everything will soon be over and they hate it, but I'm happy that corporations will become completey worthless in the near future as a result of the democratization of technologies that far surpass the bullshit sold by the rich.

sheerun t1_ito7s43 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 2:14 AM

I cheer for it as well, but I'm not so sure it's going to happen