• EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    AI to run companies in sustainably profitable ways that benefits their workers instead of rich greedy sociopaths.

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      I’d rather a free and powerful energy source that’ll benefit humanity not have a logo and pricetag slapped on it so that only the ones who can afford it are allowed to use it.

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        Any energy source is going to be able to have a price tag and a logo slapped on it as long as energy generation requires infrastructure and capitalism is a thing. Wind, solar, and tidal are great; we desperately need more of them as part of our energy strategy. But they can also have a price tag and a logo. In fact, home solar has become quite a lucrative…well, not exactly scam, but “bad deal” in my area.

        And fusion will have to be here, too, to fill the gaps that wind, solar, and tidal leave; at least for now. There’s no “forever” answer here, only some that’ll last longer than others.

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            Precisely. It’s already done to our homes and our food and the water we drink, pretty soon it will be done to the air we breath unless we stop that unnamable thing that privatizes wealth and is defined by the ability to profit from it.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    I’m sure you’ll get a bunch of respectable answers, but keep in mind that secretly, everyone is actually thinking sex robots.

  • skarn@lemmy.today
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    Energy storage. We could already produce all the power we need and more using solar power, the problem is that we can’t store it in an efficient energy dense form. The word efficient there is doing some heavy lifting. It needs be comparable or better than our methods today in terms of cost, safety, energy density, climate impact. If we could solve energy storage, it’d change society and technology dramatically.

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    4 months ago

    Probably thinking too small, but if I were rich, I’d give a bunch of money to OpenStreetMap.

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    I’m fairly certain that we could actually fully automate food production, and might even be able to automate each step from farm to distribution with a little additional effort. The major obstacle that I can tell seems to be the upfront cost of the precision machines necessary to handle harvesting, automating the planting and care has already been accomplished.

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    Fusion power or cures for diseases.

    Fusion power, should it work, would solve a lot of problems. Environmentally, in particular, but if we could get a decent distribution of reactors around the planet we’d alleviate food problems, water problems, and a whole bunch of suffering of one kind or another. Cheap power would help a lot.

    Otherwise, anything to help cure diseases. Genetic, auto-immune, cancers, misfortune, whatever. Alleviate more suffering, let people live and work again.

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    Medicine (i.e. research into cures for illnesses we can’t cure yet) seems like just about the only thing that’s worthwhile. Most of our modern issues aren’t really about not having the right technologies, but about billionaires being greedy.

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      It’s amazing the amount of ressources that are spent on creating an environment/platform that locks users in.

      Like, shit, if we spent like 10% on that efforts into open source stuff we’d be living in a utopia right now or something.