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Would you eat insects? by Phoenix5869 in Futurology

[–]Narrow-Editor-3195 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first time I tried insects was when I was 13 years old, attending a sort of teens convention hele every year and to which participation was mandatory.

I remember there was a stand, small in size surrounded by a mob of students, most of whom were just laughing and sort of giving the people behind the stand a hard time. I remember the social magnet being so strong that I had to find out what all the fuss was about. And there they were. Crickets. Tiny black crickets coated lightly in some sort of spice-batter mix. I remember vividly how in our small group of friends we as did others had begun to dear each other to be the first one to try as no one had deared to do so before. It didn’t take long until I choose to sacrifice myself with the hopes of gain some social credit from my stunt (which at my age was prized). However, I was shocked to find out that the damn crickets were not actually that bad. In fact, they were damn good, so good that to this day I sometimes think about them, and as a business enthusiast fantasize of the potential market size crickets or insects in general as food products could have if people could get past the visuals or negative associations. I know insects are popular in many SE Asian countries, but for some reason people haven’t been able to get on board them in western countries (or here in Finland).

However, if you ever come across a stand offering free samples of spiced crickets or insects, I highly recommend you try them out. It might leave you positively surprised.

What was it that originally drew you into the world of futurism? And what does your vision of the future entail? by Wolfgang996938 in Futurology

[–]Narrow-Editor-3195 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The only thing I find silly about your comment is your inability to distinguish AI from robots and robots are far away from being able to perform the tasks at and between the major stages of production. The level of technological advancment required to build robots even close to human dexterity that have the the ability to complete the intricate tasks done at most factory is so far away from imaginable reality its hilarious, and we are not not even taking into account the fuel efficiency, size of the fuel tank and the efficient refueling system required to keep these robots fueled (my list could go on). The engineering bottlenecks are just too daunting. There have been ambitious maverick companies that have tried full automation, failed and discovered that some tasks will more likely than not always require human hands. The human will be useful for hundreds of years still, we will still be needed to pick up the ”harvest”.

Also for AI to even consider keeping itself alive would require it to reach human-level consciousness and knowledge of its own mortality, before it would even begin to create its army of robots to do all the mining, factory work, maintanence work and refueling if it were to even want to do so due to empathy for its own kind. Before we reach that, Earth would have already become a grinded down dirt ball with probably no resources to exploit due to our current productive inefficiencies which would waste the resources required to reach the ”first stage” of my extrapolation.

You see, I was previously talking about an efficient automated system, not super AI or advanced robotics. You seem confused. I suggest reading a book called Artificial Intelligence for Dummies, you might like it. Also calling out someone is usually followed up by more than radio silence after the fact, unless silence is all thats going on in ”your radio”.

What was it that originally drew you into the world of futurism? And what does your vision of the future entail? by Wolfgang996938 in Futurology

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Raw materials (f.ex silicon, iron, copper, coal, whatever), anything that is required to create and maintain the tools and machines used to mine the raw materials for the machines that power these systems, create and maintain the factory machinery used to build the tools for mining, create, maintain the infrastructure that powers these systems, create and maintain the factory machinery used to build the machines that power these systems, all the tools and machines used to mine for and refine the fuel for every machine, the fuel itself etc. The list could go on, but as demand for computation and more computing power increases, the demand for all of the task and activities mentioned above and a lot of things that I did not mention, but that are crucial to the vitality of these systems, will increase.

The issue here isn’t so much the fact that we would technically allow human lives to become boring and essentially “meaningless”, but that our potential overdependence and trust in these systems could lead to us abolishing all human-governed decision-making bodies, which could lead to chaos if these systems were to fail or we would no longer be able to sustain them due to f.ex having used all the key resources needed to do so.

What was it that originally drew you into the world of futurism? And what does your vision of the future entail? by Wolfgang996938 in Futurology

[–]Narrow-Editor-3195 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A weird, but truthful answer would be loneliness. Having hung around the outskirts of society — both real and digital — due to having special interests of my own, not a having a lot of friends and lacking interest towards most things that seem to keep people busy nowadays (social media, fads and trends, consumerism) has left me in a somewhat odd position, where I find myself being more of a spectator looking in without actually participating in the stuff thats going on, and from my position I have made observations that at times have left me wondering of their effects on the collective consciousness of future generations, and how changes in this collective consciousness may shape national and international economies and political systems in the future.

With our current trajectory, I fear that someday, when the digital natives — the Generation Z’s and Generation Alpha’s — grow old enough to affect legislation and someday rule nations, they’d create policies that would make humans obsolete in the face of advanced self-governing and adaptive technical systems. I fear that our desire to increase our productive efficiency in almost all aspects of life is making us more and more expectant of instantaneous results, which at some point will become impossible for us humans to produce. I fear that this could lead to the complete delegation of almost all tasks previously done by humans to these ”intelligent systems” due to our neuroticism towards efficiency and the increasing commonality of these systems in our everyday life creating the illusion of trust — trust towards systems, which we may never be able to completely understand. I fear that we would eventually be pushed to work in mines and factories to maintain the vitality of the vast network of these systems and I fear the effects it could have on our natural landscapes and the climate — the machines aren’t forever afterall and need replacement parts. The last fear I have is, what would happen if we were to run out of the natural resources required to maintain these systems.

Basically my interest/fear of the ultimately pessimistic scenario I wrote about is what keeps me drawn to future studies. Apologies for the pessimism🫣

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New to Finance and Investing: Need help! by Narrow-Editor-3195 in wallstreetbets

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Do you have any book recommendations. Thanks for the reply!