KindleGem
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KindleGem@futurology.todayOPto Futurology@futurology.today•How many of you believe you’ll live forever?English1·2 years agoGood point
KindleGem@futurology.todayOPto Futurology@futurology.today•How many of you believe you’ll live forever?English14·2 years agodeleted by creator
KindleGem@futurology.todayOPto Futurology@futurology.today•How many of you believe you’ll live forever?English13·2 years agoWho? I’ve never heard a single person say this, ever.
Reddit and in particular r/singularity are filled with them
I have never heard anyone bring either of these up, ever. By who? What even is that besides a sci-fi thought experiment?
See my previous response
KindleGem@futurology.todayOPto Futurology@futurology.today•How many of you believe you’ll live forever?English1·2 years agoNone of the research or advancements I have seen give me any indication we have made a dent in the seeming genetic hard stop for humans at ~120 years.
Yep, exactly this.
I also have seen nothing that indicates we have been able to reverse the effects of aging, only slow their effects.
Yep.
KindleGem@futurology.todayto Futurology@futurology.today•Hadrian X, a robot-bricklayer that can lay 300 bricks an hour is starting work in the US.English2·2 years agoThat’s 5 / minute (as another commenter pointed out) or 1 every 12 seconds. If a human bricklayer worked that slow, my guess is they’d be fired
KindleGem@futurology.todayto Futurology@futurology.today•Japanese company developing drug to grow new teeth, plans for clinical trials on humans in 2024.English1·2 years agodeleted by creator
KindleGem@futurology.todayto Futurology@futurology.today•TESS has found thousands of possible exoplanets: Which ones should JWST study?English0·2 years agoTbh, for our generation i don’t think it even matters, since we ain’t getting there anyway. These exoplanets are 10’s if not 100’s of lightyears away and theres no guarantee that any of them are even habitable.
Even for getting to proxima centuari, 4.2 lightyears away and the nearest star to earth, the most optimistic thing I’ve heard is “we could maybe get the travel time down to 80 years if (and big if) we travel at 10% lightspeed”.
Now imagine how we’re going to get to an exoplanet even 30 lightyears away.
The reality is our generation was simply born too early for many of the things talked about in futurist circles.
I’m assuming these would be more for archival purposes than consumer grade data storage.