I belive “art” will be more present in our lives than ever before thanks to AI.

I just also believe even less money than now will go to the producers of art and even more money will go to the performers of art…

I see “getting entertained” as the wild card here you will agree :-)

Carbon is not toxic, it is just at the wrong place at the highest possible entropy state.

To reverse that entropy you need energy. And that energy has to be immensely plentiful and immensely dense.

The mass of carbon itself has absolutely no importance and whether polymerised and put back where it came from, or as biochar in the ground or even frozen at the poles will do.

So yes, AGI and fusion energy could start to do something about atmospheric carbon levels…

AGI could do something about anything.

By definition.

Singularity, the topic of this forum, means it could do anything about anything.

Oh that’s a softball.

IPCC says so.

IPCC represents more or less ALL of the climate scientists.

Their models are public, what are your models?

That what people said about handmade fabric or handmade shoes or handmade wine.

Now even the premium ones are made on the same machines as the rest, only with a little bit more care, and a lot more marketing…

Mother Gaia wants us dead, so we are trying to build some other Gods to save us.

And it we succeed it is impossible they Will ever stop, this will literally change the fate of our Universe.

Whatever happens, this century will be the last.

How poetic is that :-)

Lots of interesting problems:

Songs/music videos will become virtually free and instantaneous to make.

What genre will survive?

I suspect they will be a “merger” of celebrity profiles allowing the top ones to do music, real TV, paintings and generally outrageous things all together.

Elon Musk will “make” classical music and Jazz, the Rock, Hard Rock, water paintings etc… as everyone could make the same, value will be locked to their persona with tokens.

We will come back to the middle ages in a way, with relics of Saints being traded all over Europe :-)

The way things go, pretty good digital avatar of those people will become available for a few dollars to everyone. Seeing the power of mimetism, I can easy see people interact directly with them instead of with each others.

We could end up with maybe a hundred celebrities AI clones providing all interactions for everything…

I guess GPT allows people to see how the most probable “interface” with AI is gonna look.

Most probably text, speech and art, not robots or AI driven cars…

I must say text and speech was mostly self evident, but I admit I have never thought artistic production to come this early.

Interestingly upper middle and lower upper class will get impacted first.

Upscale art is seen as a surrogate of success and in my experience the main or second most talked about topic of very rich people.

AI will allow increasing art production 100x, this will decrease added value of new production and increase value of preAI production.

I think art value is going to quickly equate social network value of the artist. NFTs representing that could shine :-)

With large part of human intellectual production being automatically produced, I think an even larger value will be given to physical characteristics like good look, performance in sport, performance in living arts like singing or acting.

The US is a long way from “post scarcity”. It would means goods allocation would not be necessary anymore because all materials needs are more than fulfilled. (Atmospheric O2 is the only current thing with such characteristics I can think of…)

The notion itself is very contentious and hardly even fulfilled even in extremely optimistic science fiction.

My take is that a softer version of it could be achievable through clever manipulation of collective wants and needs through social media.

I think AI could help make aggregate mankind wants much more gentle on hard ressources like helping develop extremely addicting competitive sports or arts/activities so that almost everybody’s attention could be steered towards something more benign…

The way I see it is that we will end up having AI gods taking care of our warp drives and some experts will still explain that they are not truly “intelligent” but just large transformer models doing massive matrix math…

IMO, in the “beginning” , it will be hard to tell apart improvements coming from fusion power from those coming from AI…

IMO the most well defined and worthwhile castle to be taken will be oncology.

Beating cancer has been said multiple times but I think we will get it this time.

I believe so because we seem to have already the right sized tools for the job, like understanding the nature of carcinogenesis, the fact that nature already gave us some good weapons to fight it (the immune system) and that deep down the entropy of the problem is not so big.

Senescence/dementia/getting old is much trickier.

Cancer will end up the way infectious diseases did, IMO.

PS Im an oncologist…