... countries are to a large extent just pawns on the chessboard of a few mentally deranged clowns that care more about stupid games than advancing humanity. I wonder how many more revolutions and generations it will take before governments either disappear entirely or start acting in the interest of humanity.
One revolution and one generation.
Because Bitcoin exists, and that is enough. ™®
There's also AI and computing power. So it's certainly not impossible. I wouldn't be all that surprised if some of us ended up in the last generation to miss out on longevity breakthroughs given that such research has been gaining more traction and financing in recent years (on top of technological and scientific advances).
You lost me. There's no AI.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609048/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-ai-predictions/ https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai . It's one of your 'stupid games', as per quantum computing.
meh some of us have lived quite long enough
Have you studied AI/ML? There is no myth of AI, unless you're trying to argue about whether or not it is conscious in a way that humans are.
And at that point you can only guess anyways, since we don't even know what human consciousness is or how it works, and I certainly don't even know if you have an experience of the world that is in any way comparable to mine or even any at all.
ML/AI does fundamentally what humans do, which is gathering and assimilating information, and with higher computing power and other breakthroughs (physical interfaces for example), they will be producing tangible goods that will be beyond the sophistication of anything humanly possible. We already have algorithms that can fine tune other algorithms and there are first rudimentary steps towards algorithms programming programs (one example being an algorithm that "looks" at
video footage of a game that recreates the underlying game engine).
These algorithms are fundamentally just applied statistics, which is just applied Mathematics, which is equivalent to human interactions with the world in the most abstract form that we are aware of. None of these are a myth.
P.S. I looked at the guy's bio and he's a computer scientist. As such, I don't really care too much about his opinion since he's not qualified to assess what AI is and what it is not, since as I've mentioned it's an extension of Mathematics, not of computer science. Will read once I got some food though.