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Title text: This is how you all fucking sound

[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]

Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]

Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]

Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]

Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
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    1 month ago

    We could be in a space where it makes sense to dump tons of resources into rapidly progressing automation because it would enable people to finally stop doing tedious labor.

    I dont think this is true.

    Space mining is only for resources to use in space. The economics of transporting resources back to earth will never stack up.

    I dont think any significant number of humans will spend any amount of time in space in any practical time scale.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I don’t mean people actually being in space. Perhaps a better word choice would be place, eg “we could be in a place where…”

    • GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I think we could be seeing a shift in the economics if humans can reliably live off world anyway.

      I think NASAs SR-1 can show a reliable link to mars via what amounts to automated space trucks, but really only time will tell if we can kick off a new age of humanity or just keep letting neo-aristocrats take over again and again.

      • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Nah.

        It would be infinitely better to go live in a box in your back yard for several years. At least that way you avoid the chronic health issues arising from “living off world”.

        Even with a lot of yet-to-be-theorised physics, I just cant see the motivation for humans to leave earth in significant numbers.

        IMO space will be populated almost exclusively by machines.

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Maybe that’s the end use for AI.

          Edit: i think of space as like this infinite ocean depth. There is eventually gonna be like this massive pocket of new world down there, but until there is, there just isn’t any reason to go ourselves unless you’re one of those types of people.

          I’d also like to invoke the cautions of 2001 Space Odyssey as food for thought

          • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Actually I’m interested to hear your perspective because I have no experience of anything like that.

            I just feel like star trek has romanticised space exploration to the point where most people can’t conceptualise the hardships that would be involved.

            Just as an example, on the ISS, just outside earth’s atmosphere, ive heard that the air smells putrid. Astronauts just deal with it because they’re passionate about the project.

            I guess my pessimistic view is that “life on Mars” would basically be very similar to life on a submarine but with no ports or shore leave or furlough.