Yeah calorie restriction and exercise and clean diet will get you very far. Hopefully we can make progress on cancer and heart disease as those can strike you down as you get older even if you’re healthy.

Agree with this timeline. Maybe 5-10 years later but basically yeah, the 2040s are where the truly mindblowing action is gonna be.

There’s always cryogenic preservation…

Also 38. Feels like we are likely gonna be the last generation that actually gets old, and perhaps the only generation to revert from old to young again. What an insane experience that will be if it pans out.

I do think if people our age make it to 60 there will be enough advancements to get us to 88 pretty safely. And from there who knows… I definitely expect to live well past 100 if I make it to 60.

Great post and what a beautiful quote from CSL. It’s imperative that the sub doesn’t become like r/futurology. It will call for strict moderation. However I also think we should have a backup sub for those of us interested in the positive aspects of the singularity. We can simply migrate to it if this one is overrun.

Amazing how people don’t understand this lol

Why not use ChatGPT to explain anything you don’t get?

One of my favorite films of all time. That monologue was also my introduction to all this stuff.

This is super fascinating, thanks for this. Obviously it’ll get better as you incorporate newer tech.

One thing I’d do is pay attention to advancements in music generation like MusicLM and once that tech matures I’d make a version of 80s MTV where all of the music and music videos are AI generated. Sitcoms take a bit of time investment but back in the day you could pop in and out of MTV for a few minutes and catch a couple videos, I think that really works well with this “forever” model. And offering 80s MTV and 90s sitcoms would get a ton of attention and traffic.

I didn’t know hyperphantasia was a thing. I have always been lost in my own imagination and I wonder if that’s why.

I’m in the same boat friend. My only goal in life right now is simply surviving another decade, zero career ambitions or anything like that. Just stay alive.

I mean yeah UBI will have to be a thing if no one can work. There’s just no other way around it. I have no clue how long it will take to be in a post-scarcity society, I mean it’s not insane to think AGI would get us to ASI in a very short timeframe. But it could also take decades.

I want to start researching alignment and security and seeing how the best minds out there are approaching those issues. It all kinda feels like it’s about to start getting out of hand fast tbh. I mean watching TTI evolve in a single year was mindblowing last year, and that along with ChatGPT is just the very tip of the iceberg.

Anyways as a futurist I think it’s kind of ridiculous to see all of this advancement and how we are on the cusp of the most incredible and epic era in human history— and start crying about muh digital art muh music. Just zero perspective or awareness of the much bigger picture. Curing cancer and heart disease and dementia and even depression or anxiety, reversing human aging and radically extending our lives, the ability to not have to work a soulless grind flipping burgers or being trapped in a cubicle or whatever. All of this is within our grasp right here in this century and we’re gonna abandon that because artists will have to get a different job for a while and then ultimately get paid to chill and create whatever they want? No fucking way

Well I don’t speak for all creatives but the musicians are in denial and delusional. You’re not gonna make a living as a musician or even be heard in this era. Social media and streaming have killed that for 99% of artists already, it’s idiotic to bash AI.

And the few artists that do blow up are all pushed by the industry because of their persona or because they will sell. It has nothing to do with the actual music these days at all. It’s like post-music WWF entertainment.

I’m so jaded by the current music industry that I welcome its total destruction by AI. Good riddance. The people like me who want to play instruments and write songs as a hobby will keep on doing just that and we’ll keep supporting each other at the local level. Live music isn’t going anywhere either. It’ll be just fine and hopefully we won’t even have a mainstream or “indie” music industry gatekeeping everyone and forcing dogshit music down our throats.

Left wing opposition to AI is massive and way more vocal than right wing. AI feels more like a centrist movement.

As a songwriter and multi instrumentalist I’m super stoked about this. I have so many song ideas that I just can’t record at a high quality due to price or time or whatever… this will be an incredible tool in a year or two.

Longevity sub is still going strong. I don’t mind the cultist posting here as long as cool innovations are still being discussed but once the doomers take over I’m out.

You are mentally ill.