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CharleyZia t1_j1qrnxb wrote

Reply to comment by crazytumblweed999 in What do you see happening over the next 300 years to a millennia? In what way will it be different to how it is today? by Serious_Final_989

Hard agree. When you examine speculative future artwork it's all 'this wild tech ensconced in our current world' - with our values, social structures and expectations, legal/policy institutions, etc. Evolving people in chaotically morphing contexts is always the X factor. Tech, low and high, are our tools.

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crazytumblweed999 t1_j1qssa4 wrote

To be fair, usually speculative fiction uses wild tech advances to examine current social values, but this is a good point to bring up.

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Hrspwrz t1_j1s6dim wrote

machine learning, robotics is the future. Whether or not machines become sentient is another question, but imo we should make damn sure they can never think for them selves.

Sometimes I wonder if skynet already exists and controls more than people think economically before technology actually catches up to make a brain for them in a small package. as of now, we need an entire facility to have the same floating point operations as one terminator. that's like thousands of homes worth of power to do it. Makes you wonder how skynet would even evolve. Would they keep an adhoc blockchain type of neural network, or have massive facilities that cannot be assaulted easily miles underground and simple have all the robots empty shells that are just being remotely controlled? D:

in any case, the future is machine learning and automation. The only people who win are the shareholders, and everyone else will lose as a result.

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