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8 votes
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AI can ruin movies now, too - Aliens and True Lies on 4k
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Studio musicians are still waiting for credit in the streaming era
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The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
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California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up
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Waddi, a virtual tour guide, uses artificial intelligence to answer visitor queries and engage in conversations on the Danish island of Fanø
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Meet the Finnish biotech startup bringing a long lost mycoprotein to your plate – proprietary single-cell fungus-based protein was originally developed by local paper industry
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Jane Street [Capital] gets into mobile gaming
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Am I alone in thinking that we're bouncing back from a highly technological future?
I have this notion that we're entering a new fuzzy era of rejecting the hyper technological stream that we've been on since the 90's. I notice people now wanting to use their phones for longer...
I have this notion that we're entering a new fuzzy era of rejecting the hyper technological stream that we've been on since the 90's. I notice people now wanting to use their phones for longer (e.g. not replacing them every 2 years because it's the trend) and I feel there's a push back towards certain things like touchscreens in cars being reverted back to clicky buttons.
Sure, there are these crazy developments happening in science. A.I. is changing so fast it's hard to keep up with, and we're going back to the moon! (I say we because it's a human endeavor goddamn it).
But there also seems to be this realization that we might have strained Earth a little too much and that we need to tend to Earth, and ourselves a little bit more.
For reference, I'm a millennial born in '89.
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How the internet revived the world's first work of interactive fiction
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How much research is being written by large language models?
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
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New GPS-based method can measure daily ice loss in Greenland
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Cryptocurrency mining as a novel virtual energy storage system in islanded and grid-connected microgrids
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Cyberattack forces major US health care network to divert ambulances from hospitals
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Finland's national carrier Finnair will resume Estonia flights in June after GPS interference prevented landings
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Many widely used reproductive health apps fail to protect highly sensitive data, study finds
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Meet AdVon, the AI-powered content monster infecting the media industry
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Bike brands start to adopt C-V2X to warn cyclists about cars
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Powering homes with PVT energy, Stirling engines, battery storage
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A big new facility built to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere opened up in Iceland. It's a stepping stone to bigger plans in the US.
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Musi’s free music streaming app is a hit with thrifty teens. The app claims to tap content on YouTube, but some in the music industry question the legitimacy of that model.
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Everything is Sludge, art in the post-human era
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Hey GM: If you want to beat Apple, give people the buttons CarPlay can’t
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AI, automation, and inequality — how do we reach utopia?
Ok, not utopia per se but a post-scarcity-ish economy where people have their basic needs—food, shelter, healthcare—met virtually automatically. A world where, sure, maybe you have to earn money...
Ok, not utopia per se but a post-scarcity-ish economy where people have their basic needs—food, shelter, healthcare—met virtually automatically. A world where, sure, maybe you have to earn money for certain very scarce luxuries like a tropical island trip, jewelry, nightly wagyu steak dinners, or a penthouse overlooking Central Park, but you get enough basic income to eat healthily and decently every day, have a modest but comfortable home, and not stress out about going to the hospital — and then you can choose if you want to work to earn money to buy additional luxuries or just spend your time to do sports, make art or music, pursue an academic interest, counsel or mentor others in your community, or devote yourself to nature conservation.
I want to get this conversation rolling regularly because it's evident that we're on a cusp of a new economic era — one where AI and automation could free us from a lot of menial physical and intellectual labor and the pretense that everyone has to work to earn their continued existence. It's evident that not everyone has to work. If anything, our economy could be more efficient if incompetent or unmotivated folks just stayed at home and got out of other people's way. I think we all know someone who stays in a job because they need it but are actually a net negative on the organization.
It's an open-ended topic, and there's a lot to talk about in this series—like, how would we distribute the fruits of automation? How would we politically achieve those mechanisms of distribution? What does partially automated healthcare look like?—but I think it'd be good to first talk about current economic inefficiencies that should and could be automated away.
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Cold brew coffee in three minutes using acoustic cavitation
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AI to drive natural gas boom as utilities face surging data center demand
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Security is being tightened for the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden's third city Malmö, with large demonstrations planned to coincide with the event
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Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job
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An extreme body modification website made nearly £300,000 showing its subscribers male castration
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Colorado lawmakers approve broad, nation-leading Right to Repair law
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Enzymes open new path to universal donor blood
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UK becomes first country to outlaw easily guessable default passwords on connected devices
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New products collect data from your brain. Where does it go?
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Car tracking can enable domestic abuse. Turning it off is easier said than done.
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What's the deal with the popcorn button?
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AI video won't work in Hollywood, because it can't make small iterative changes, former Pixar animator says
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Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption
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Net neutrality is back as US FCC votes to regulate internet providers
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Into the Tubi-verse
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May the best AI win - Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League
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The tech baron seeking to “ethnically cleanse” San Francisco
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Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The Crisis
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US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform
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How GM tricked millions of US drivers into being spied on (including me)
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Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon
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Tesla’s two million car Autopilot recall is now under US federal scrutiny
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B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
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GM ends OnStar driver safety program after privacy complaints
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Big Tech has slashed its office presence in San Francisco by half
22 votes