Acceleration, keeping up with new information and breakthroughs will be the challenge. Having an AI assistant to filter and condense information may become necessary.

At present there is such a need for coders that it will just make the existing coders more efficient.

I do worry that as these tools become more ubiquitous that many coders will not really understand the code and will have a hard time modifying or debugging it.

When crime spikes again citizens will acquiesce to technology like facial recognition a gait tracking (identifying someone by how they walk). The criminal wearing a face mask might as well be naked with they're home address tattooed on their chest. Together with return to three strikes sentencing will see a major reduction in crime.

Most so called "space travel" is just going into low Earth orbit. The farthest we've been is the moon haven't been back for 50 years.

No, the majority of humanity has a Dickensian hellscape to look-forward to living on a very modest UBI.

Humanity will never leave this rock in any meaningful way. We are evolved to survive here, space is a very harsh environment that humans are not adapted to live in. The AIs may go to space, humans never will.

This isn't markets, it is billionaires bribing politicians to do what is best for their business not what is best for society.

>One thing billionaires do provide is an efficient allocation of capital.

We are allocating capital to unnecessary weapons systems and dirty energy. Not efficient at all.

Inflation should take care of it. Now you have to be trillionair.

Fair enough.

Recursive self improvement does seem like the beginning of the end.

The explain it to me like I'm 5 years old bot.

Under the direction of humans they will most certainly come into conflict.

The question is if they will come into conflict over resources. Say two AIs wanted to exploit an iron mine. Would they fight over it or work a cooperative agreement:? Only time will tell.

The holders of capital will have to pay the taxes. They will be so obscenely rich it will make today's rich look poor.

You will not be needed. If you are lucky, you will receive a modest UBI to keep you from rioting. Many on this sub seem to be ignorant of history and economics.

Watch the original Rollerball.

AGI is not going to need that.

Oh, it is going to be the coffin (living capsules) for most. You get a UBI, you get more if you agree to be sterilized. The younger you agree to be sterilized the more you get.

Pipe dream.

No jobs. Maybe a few serving the 1% as a status symbol. Everything else automated.

AI will examine the world's religions. Take the moral lessons and discard the supernatural nonsense.

We may be the only ones in our galaxy with a technologically advanced civilization. Of all the species that have ever lived on Earth we are the only ones to have achieved this. The result of just the right combination of happy evolutionary accidents that have allowed humans to become the rulers of the planet. These are.

- Walking upright leaving our hands free to manipulate objects.

- The opposable thumb allowing us to grasp objects much more efficiently than other primates.

- Sweating which allows us to track down prey of long distances giving us plenty of protein to grow our big brains.

- Large brain relative to our body size.

- A uniquely shaped vocal tract allowing us to form complex sounds and create languages. This allows us to communicate information to others of our species and down the generations which leads to the creation of culture, our most powerful tool.

I am sure that the universe is teaming with life, even intelligent life but, life having all of the above attributes in one animal is most likely very rare indeed.

Proles gotta have their lattes.

Feed most people enough cheeseburgers, porn and Netflix and they will be perfectly happy. I don't have much hope for the future.

The PR people and the con men have warped the definition of capitalism, socialism and Christianity to such a degree that most people don't even know what they actually mean.

AI weapons will be powerful but not invulnerable. EMP weapons, Net guns to take down drones, camouflage to confuse AI are all options to defeat military robots. Things will be difficult if not impossible if AI dictatorship becomes too oppressive.

I worry more about the proles having the brains and the will to do anything effective once the handwriting is on the wall. We already live in a techno-dystopia but, our bellies are full and the there is something to watch on Netflix so protesting too much work.

I hope it is soon. I only have 30 years left.

Exponential growth. A lot of the theorizing seems to be about reaching computers with a certain number of artificial neurons capable of X number of Peta flops and such. I'm not sure that size alone is going to deliver the desired result.