I'd honestly saying housing at least here in the US. We have so much open land and yet so few people actually want to live in rural areas. People move to cities where housing is already expensive and "maxed" out because no one wants to build more. In turn we get more suburban sprawl of 3bed 3bath ~1700sq foot homes that new home owners can't afford.

Ultimately I think it is a national issue (have not heard of this occuring in East Asia or Europe, unsure about South or Southeast Asia) and will see a further increase in urbanist/YIMBY circles further developing downtown areas into signuficantly higher density and allowing surbia to keep what they currently have. Might not be as large as global climate change or war but the housing situation of millions of Americans is pretty serious and I don't see much talk about it from national outlets and only slight touches from outlets such as The Economist.

If it weren't him it'd be Bezos and Blue Origin, or Branson and Virgin. Musk has his eyes set on Mars when SpaceX is actually taking the steps to get to space first. Sure he put up the initial capital to get it going but he could walk away from the company today and it'd still go well.

No. He's just another corporate executive. He might have his hands in some potentially altering technological companies like Neuralink and SpaceX but he him is just the CEO/owner/dictator/whatever authoritarian style he wants this week where as there's a lot of people who do the actual work for these companies who should be getting the recognition.

His wealth doesn't mean anything, his mindset isn't making the developments and his marketing is that of the first rich who needs eaten.

Whatifalthist who went from a questionable Alt Hist YouTuber into someone who thinks Jordan Peterson is a moderate and the future ideologue of majority of western men

> AI is taking over most jobs, it keeps expanding day by day and getting smarter.

Yes, same with every other area of technology.

> At one point it will be smarter than humans and will be able to do almost anything we can do

What's with the assumption that all AI is the same piece of AI? It's like saying all of humanity is one mind itself which just isn't true. How's the private AI developed in Denmark supposed to just somehow agree with the government made Japanese AI on everything?

> possibly even a point where it feeds off itself and gets smarter without the need of humans, leaving us as an obstacle

How would we just suddenly become an obstacle to an AI let alone all of them all at once? It's made by a bad faith actor or rouge state? We're already dealing with bad faith actors and rouge states without AI. It'll just be another thing to pile on for counterintelligence and operations.

> want a specific video? Generate it. Specific Music? Generate it. Specific art? Go ahead

Why would an AI make art unless told to? If an AI is advanced enough to make art of its own volition and can justify it by saying "I made art because it represents this thing important to me" or "I made it because I wanted to make it for myself" I'm willing to say it's no longer just AI and is now a person.

> And since services like ChatGPT can practically act like people and they keep on becoming more human, when will we get to a point where you won't know when someone's real or just AI in a human suit?

And? If I spend some 20 years treating an AI like my child, programming it, installing a sense of ethics, teaching it how to critically think for itself instead of just what to think and it can act as its own person how is that different from raising flesh and blood? Is that person less real for being steel and fiber optics instead?

> People with power will be able to just get in contact to make AI specifically built for anything they desire, including AI that can kill.

As opposed to just hiring someone to do it or making some trumped up allegation or an outright fabrication to murder whom they damn well please because they felt it. Say how's the protests in Memphis going?

> You won't really have freedom to yourself since either way you're always being tracked, monitored and listened to by the tech around you, mostly everything is going to be digital. And at that point humanity will just downfall.

I assume you're American so the government has your SSID, address, place of work, income information, registrations, insurances, phone data, et, al. So we're not only already there but have been for a while.

I really enjoy Isaac because he covers nearly every aspect of the particular topic and doesn't shy away from talking about both the extreme positives and extreme negatives of a particular scenario. I don't particularly agree with him socially, his wife is his wife and already spoken about on this thread and some of his crossovers are with.... interesting people. Sucks because I've yet to see anyone else have an in depth talk about possible geopolitical futures off Earth outside of his crossover with Whatifalthist.

Scott Manley is really good for space exploration and real world rocketry and space infrastructure advancements.

Simon Whistler's Megaprojects when they touch on near future developments speaking very well on some more near term missions.

And while not a YouTuber, The Economist puts out a weekly podcast on technology called Babbage who often puts out some incredible pieces be it on AI or their most recent episode speaking on the current private race to the Moon and possible commercial developments as well as who actually owns it.

Oh so you're just a doomer who just believes that people just need to die.

So then what? Humanity as a whole finally unites together, something which has never been done before, all to stop technogical progression? Space infastructure will become limited to solar which is itself just a byproduct of the Sun's nuclear fussion?

The history of humankind is the history of warfare? Thanks for being the first person ever to point that out.

Nuclear technologies are incredibly powerful and can be dangerous, I will not deny that. But it is a tool the same as any other. Just because it can be used as a weapon does not mean other aspects can be thrown aside purely out of fear, same I believe of many up coming technologies such as AI and automation.

That doesn't negate my point that fearing a technology because someone could weaponize it is stupid.

So should we stop developing any new technology for fear of its weaponization? Should we stop drilling petrol of fear it could become napalm?

Or it gets used as a vacation tool and people still live life normally

> Other benefits to space travel include increased science payload capacity and higher power for instrumentation and communication. In a nuclear thermal rocket engine, a fission reactor is used to generate extremely high temperatures. The engine transfers the heat produced by the reactor to a liquid propellant, which is expanded and exhausted through a nozzle to propel the spacecraft. Nuclear thermal rockets can be three or more times more efficient than conventional chemical propulsion.

> NASA, the Department of Energy (DOE), and industry are also developing advanced space nuclear technologies for multiple initiatives to harness power for space exploration. Through NASA’s Fission Surface Power project, DOE awarded three commercial design efforts to develop nuclear power plant concepts that could be used on the surface of the Moon and, later, Mars.

> NASA and DOE are working another commercial design effort to advance higher temperature fission fuels and reactor designs as part of a nuclear thermal propulsion engine. These design efforts are still under development to support a longer-range goal for increased engine performance and will not be used for the DRACO engine.

We get the narcos we deserve from the drug war. Every kingpin taken out gets replaced by a more ruthless one.

So can you explain something to me? Why is it that we can see all the awful shit going on, and yet when something new comes up that can mitigate it is proposed the more cynical act like it won't change anything and as such we shouldn't bother?

We need stronger metamaterials, life extension and power sources (likely fusion). Not a forever away but I'd guess a century or two.

So just leave the people to the whims of the gangs?

At the moment it's nonexistent. Key part there is at the moment. Should technologies such as verticle farming and hydroponics take off in the coming years/decades we could very see cities dedicate skyscrapers to growing crops as well as said technology being used to attempt space grown crops.