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I have this thought often, what if instead of football and baseball we got around to watch a team if engineers do cool science shit for the season.
Jet pack cyber dogs can play capture the flag, recreation of midway w drones replacing fighter planes, pizza deliver drones that fly so high entry warms your pie.
Just saying paying men to move ball ain’t for me…so I wanna see your money and support go to something I think cool.
The ice bucket challenge paid off in real medical breakthroughs within 2 years by raising 115 million. Komen had a HUGE impact on breast cancer research that lead to real medical improvements that saved lives.
If we dumped AI money broadly into almost any field of research we’d see more people shift toward that field to get funding. We’d see struggling projects get the funding they need to continue. We’d see stuff that wasn’t pursued because it’s a long shot get the funding it needs. Better staffed and equipped labs where work is already being done.
You’d see an explosion in progress over the coming years.
More money does not always work to accelerate science. It does make scientists lives nicer though.
Which in turn incentivizes more quantity and quality of scientists which leads to…
Micro scale youre right though.
I’ll take some of that blacksmith funding. My plan is to take two laminated Damascus swords and then forge weld them together so you get twice the sword for your money.
Instead of welding them directly, can you please connect them with a nunchucks chain?
I’d take a Gordian Knot, and then fuse the ends together and then, I dunno, throw it at Alexander the Great’s grave.
We should join forces and become a Venturesmith duo. Forging our way across the land, raiding lost tombs.
After Alexander The Great we can hunt down that rascal Genghis Khan.
Yeah! We’ll develop CRISPR weapons to hunt down all traces of him in the genealogy of the general populace, and knockout/knockdown his DNA out of existence!
I support actually doing this.
As in literally taking the money straight out of the billionaire funding pockets. But not in parity with the amounts used for AI funding, I just mean all of it. And not simply “all of it”, but actually all of it, to the point where they’re in soup kitchen lines and panhandling, hoping to get enough to pay for dinner.
Take all that money and put it in science research, charities, etc.
If they can’t get enough from the charities back to keep breathing, then oh well. Sorry people that deserve it got it instead, oh well, we’ll make a note that we’re all doing great on the money that was yours.
Imagine if we just awarded it every year to the farmer who can grow the largest yield per acre or the manufacturer who built the best car.
none of these things are one man operations though, the farmer needed farmhands to spray the pesticides and collect the produce, and the car manufacturer needed several different engineers, many who would not be motivated to work if they didn’t drink or beat their kids to ease the pain of their daily mistreatment at work
Sure. I’m just saying we should be getting some kind of real tangible benefit rather than some kind of bifurcated ponzi scheme.
nothing good will come out of this if there’s big tech venture capitalists involved. if these guys were in charge of developing a pencil - we would’ve been stuck with styluses and told that this is peak tech.
Leads only available on a subscription plan.
Bimonthly eraser upgrade.
you get lead credits - after you reach the limit - it locks you out of using the thing
yeah, and always online with GPS on
And once every four paragraphs, a helpful ad that is related to your content will be shared before you can continue use.
If we could communicate with dolphins or primates I’m sure we’ll use the tech for military use, breeding millions of primates in captivity to be sent to the frontline
‘breeding millions of primates in captivity to be sent to the frontline’
Isn’t this what Texas/Arkansas is already purposed for?
CIA tried it with dolphins already.
Or feeding the poor
That would leave a couple trillions left over still however
Pfff, come on — impossible. Who will I beat with my cane if they aren’t begging for scraps?
I was going to say, something like ‘actual’ UBI given to the most indigent and homeless, and you would see some measurable change.
I think they would prefer not to be forced to eat it, but something like that.
You really want a tribe of Truth-Speaking Warrior Dolphins…? because I do. In all seriousness, yes please, fund the sciences
“O great warrior dolphin, who only speaks the truth, what tidings do you bring?”
“I’m gonna rape you”
“Yes, but what else.”
How about just universal healthcare, housing, and education?
See, now you’re just being ridiculous.
Or like enamel growth on teeth experts.
Or tinnitus research.
Or migraine research.
Or longevity research.
Or any other research actually.
Or longevity research.
This one freaks me out. Rich people living long lives, long enough to build cults around them that the mortal poor will revere even more than they do now
For me it’s the opposite that freaks me out:
Let’s all grow old get sick and die so that dictators can’t stay in power.
Doesn’t seem to work perfectly well IMO.
Remember, longevity won’t mean living forever or be immune against disease and accidents. Also if we would live longer laybe we’d have more time to figure things out and take care of what we got.
Death is the great equalizer, despots leave behind power vacuums to be filled by their many illegitimate children or other parties for vying for power. Good to know that the maximum extent of any of these reigns is 80 years.
As for us living long enough to figure things out, I wonder instead if we simply just retreat more and more into our creature comforts and echo chambers
Death isn’t a great equaliser, it’s just pain for decades and then death. How old are you 😅?
In the same vein, should we stop all medical help to speed up this process of yours 😉 ?
Kidding a bit, we’ll see what happens if/when it does I guess.
There’s a rational argument for making live extension universal, namely that so long as you increase healthspan you’ve essentially delayed retirement by X years meaning you get a higher working to retirement ratio out of each worker. Unfortunately the people in charge are not rational and would probably support poisoning the drinking water to make themselves comparatively longer lived by ensuring no one else lives past 60 if they thought they could get away with it.
For real
I don’t want to live longer in this world.
I suggest whiskey and cigarettes.
Shortlivity is already well researched tho.
Tbh I don’t get why all these men who are as rich as god aren’t pumping large portions of the fortune into longevity research. Do they not want to live forever? We finally live in a time where we are starting to see real possibilities of growing all organs, and maybe even curing memory loss due to age. And they just, don’t seem worried?
Well here’s the thing. Rich people are kinda dumb.
And just plain longevity research, which have again and again proven to work by repairing things, and thus rejuvenating us (works in mice \TM).
My bet is that either they are drugged up and their brain are mush, or fooled that AI will do it just more money bro plz.
That’s precisely why they’re pumping money into AI research. At this point mind uploading seems inevitable, but not necessarily in our lifetimes.
I think that’s a long way to go before that’s a possibility. The main issue been the question if how we scan a brain.
And if it will just be a copy, or if the “consciousness follows”.
And they don’t want to wait the time it will take humans to figure that out.
They didn’t become rich by taking smart decisions, they took the ones that made them money. Climate crisis is what it is today because of profit maximization. Certainly, they also live in this environment. They also get microplastics in their bodies.
They are. Just not in ways that are accessible to the general public.
They can’t figure out how to make themselves live forever, and as they’re the richest, they think they must be the cleverest, so anything they can’t think of is beyond the human mind and therefore they must create an artificial mind to solve it.
Or you know… you could make food and water and renewable energy infrastructure for the entire planet.
But those things are obviously not as important as improving our predictive text algorithms!
naaaaaah
OR we give it all to the rich.
But like honestly though, I’ve seen on YouTube people funded almost entirely through commissions and patrons manage metallurgical feats previously considered impossible like the forge welding of titanium to steel. Imagine what they could do with even a fraction of Nvidia’s or OpenAI’s budget?
NileRed might make an actual Philosopher’s Stone (out of Code Red Mountain Dew and Silly Putty or something).
(Not being mean, I like his content, but the guy has a verbal tick right? He starts every vowel starting sentence with this strange descending squeak. Or is it just an accent?
“II’m here to show…”
I think he’s forcing through a stutter. Specifically I think he’s forcing through a stutter on hard vowels which begin without a preceding consonant. I have a similar specific impediment and while I’ve mostly worked through it sometimes when I’m nervous (like when recording) my voice will crack/squeak like that. Words that trigger it: I, Egg, international, Apple, Ypsilanti…
I also have triggers with words with too many consonant sounds at the start, like jump, which because of the shape of my mouth I form as DJhomp, the dj part shifting into a nearly unspoken H is tough for me.
I spent years in specific therapy, Nigel from NileRed talks like he has too.
Ah that makes sense. I had a noticeable stutter myself until I was about 25, and then I joined a gym and it magically went away
Confidence helps. For me it was changing schools at 14, being near people who didn’t know my shortcomings gave me the confidence to succeed at talking that 6 years of speech therapy couldn’t.
Nowadays when I’m mega nervous I still get tripped up by preglottal plosives like the Hard C in cat. I learned to speak alliteratively in those times because it makes me feel like I’m singing and I never stutter while I sing.
This time, I’m going to make a diamond out of a pile of dirty socks!
They might end up shooting the dolphin up with acid and jerking it off until it commits suicide.
If anyone is curious about the actual experiment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me
We can all hope to go out in such glorious fashion.
Speak for yourself.
Prude
Sounds pretty fucking sweet to me!
I have a grey diving suit around somewhere
Maybe they should have spent the money on fusion research first. They could have had nearly free power, and make a fortune selling off the rest, all while saving the climate.
The cruelty is the point
