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I mean, he’s not wrong. “A few breakthroughs…”
If we crack fusion, cold fusion, and room temperature super conductors, the potential societal shift would be like, I dunno, switching from pre-electric to electric, or horse and buggy to cars.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room-temperature_superconductor
Out of the three, I only think room-temperature superconductors are possible for humanity to achieve within our lifetimes. Fusion would require unfathomable amounts of energy to kickstart.
i don’t think cold fusion is possible
I think you’re in the same boat with a lot of people, but as a hypothetical it’s…
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Cool.
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Honestly, we just need the first one. The other two would be fantastic, but are by no means strictly necessary.
I would say it’s optimism.
I can haz Star Trek future?
Even in Star Trek, all major governments had to be nuked out of existence, we had to invent warp drive, and aliens had to make first contact before humanity could finally move forward.
But don’t worry. That’s all supposed to happen in the next 40 years, and it all starts in 2024 with sanctuary districts. 🖖🏻
Even in Star Trek, didn’t we just “find” the solution to gravity in space thanks to a lootbox left by a previous race that conquered the galaxy and then all died?
No no, I don’t want that part. Please jump directly to… Hm, let’s say TNG. I don’t want the protein resequencer either.
I don’t want the protein resequencer either.
what, you don’t want a poop sandwich?
It’s really tempting, but I don’t like the texture.
just ask the resequencer to corn it up for ya!
Star Trek also predicted Irish Reunification this year via a violent civil war.
He’s not lying. He’s just talking about himself, not the entire world.
… Wait, if you can get fusion to work why do you need solar?
Because solar would be less resource intensive than fusion, at least for the first long while.
Even if we get fusion to work it’s going to be quite a while to go from working fusion to working fusion in your neighborhood.
For remote locations ?
It’s certainly true that if we have the breakthroughs allowing us to do those things, then those things will be possible.
However I feel like the word “only” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
Sam Altman is one line of cocaine away from being Elon Musk. The most sci-fi thing he’s ever done is try to get people in third world nations to let a giant orb scan their retinas in exchange for a couple dollars.
All Effective Altruists are con men at best.
The difference is that Elon would have said “And we can do this today!” back in 2017.
If someone grabs me off the street and tells me hey look directly into this orb and I’ll give you some crypto, I will gouge my eyes on the spot
Ever seen Phantasm? Different orb, similar idea
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a plot summary start like this
I mean… They’re not lying.
What was the orb thing supposed to do?
IIRC it’s the counterpart to OpenAI, Altman’s other project.
To paraphrase how he’d probably describe it: AI (his AI) will be able to realistically create deepfakes of you, so proving your actual identity will be important. So you scan your retina into this and your identity gets onto the Blockchain. Which will be stored safely on the Orb.
Just by reading that I csn see that it was just a grift
I only heard about Worldcoin from some guy chatting to me about it in the pub. I thought it was just some Ponzi scheme coined up by a random grifting crypto-bro, not the CEO of OpenAI…
Did you know the guy, or was the premise so outlandish that you figured it was more likely to be real than just a conspiracy theory? If I didn’t already know about the Orb, I would have said it was made up
I really thought for a second he was going to say “if the richest just used their money for good” or something.
