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Or like enamel growth on teeth experts.
Or tinnitus research.
Or migraine research.
Or longevity research.
Or any other research actually.
Or you know… you could make food and water and renewable energy infrastructure for the entire planet.
But those things are obviously not as important as improving our predictive text algorithms!
Or longevity research.
This one freaks me out. Rich people living long lives, long enough to build cults around them that the mortal poor will revere even more than they do now
There’s a rational argument for making live extension universal, namely that so long as you increase healthspan you’ve essentially delayed retirement by X years meaning you get a higher working to retirement ratio out of each worker. Unfortunately the people in charge are not rational and would probably support poisoning the drinking water to make themselves comparatively longer lived by ensuring no one else lives past 60 if they thought they could get away with it.
For me it’s the opposite that freaks me out:
Let’s all grow old get sick and die so that dictators can’t stay in power.
Doesn’t seem to work perfectly well IMO.
Remember, longevity won’t mean living forever or be immune against disease and accidents. Also if we would live longer laybe we’d have more time to figure things out and take care of what we got.
Death is the great equalizer, despots leave behind power vacuums to be filled by their many illegitimate children or other parties for vying for power. Good to know that the maximum extent of any of these reigns is 80 years.
As for us living long enough to figure things out, I wonder instead if we simply just retreat more and more into our creature comforts and echo chambers
Death isn’t a great equaliser, it’s just pain for decades and then death. How old are you 😅?
In the same vein, should we stop all medical help to speed up this process of yours 😉 ?
Kidding a bit, we’ll see what happens if/when it does I guess.
Old enough to see powerful rich old men unwilling to pass on control onto anyone else, both personally and in the public sphere.
Medical progress that trickles down to the masses (e.g. washing your hands after delivering a baby) is a net benefit to all. We have however seen the limits of trickle down theory, and are currently witnessing the dismantling of large public medical and scientific resources (NIH in particular was a longstanding pillar) at a speed and scale never quite done before, whilst pharmaceutical companies are swallowing up the talent pool.
Future medical advances genuinely might happen behind closed doors in the future, instead of under the eye of public discourse.
Tbh I don’t get why all these men who are as rich as god aren’t pumping large portions of the fortune into longevity research. Do they not want to live forever? We finally live in a time where we are starting to see real possibilities of growing all organs, and maybe even curing memory loss due to age. And they just, don’t seem worried?
They didn’t become rich by taking smart decisions, they took the ones that made them money. Climate crisis is what it is today because of profit maximization. Certainly, they also live in this environment. They also get microplastics in their bodies.
Well here’s the thing. Rich people are kinda dumb.
They are. Just not in ways that are accessible to the general public.
I don’t want to live longer in this world.
Shortlivity is already well researched tho.
I support actually doing this.
As in literally taking the money straight out of the billionaire funding pockets. But not in parity with the amounts used for AI funding, I just mean all of it. And not simply “all of it”, but actually all of it, to the point where they’re in soup kitchen lines and panhandling, hoping to get enough to pay for dinner.
Take all that money and put it in science research, charities, etc.
If they can’t get enough from the charities back to keep breathing, then oh well. Sorry people that deserve it got it instead, oh well, we’ll make a note that we’re all doing great on the money that was yours.
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I have this thought often, what if instead of football and baseball we got around to watch a team if engineers do cool science shit for the season.
Jet pack cyber dogs can play capture the flag, recreation of midway w drones replacing fighter planes, pizza deliver drones that fly so high entry warms your pie.
Just saying paying men to move ball ain’t for me…so I wanna see your money and support go to something I think cool.
This is basically FIRST robotics. It should extend beyond high school though imo
Its funny, we dont fund all these things because they’re “good enough” to work. And the reason we’re dumping lumps into AI is because it doesn’t even do “good enough” right now but there’s a lot of people that expected it to already.
These things dont get funded because they dont make enough (or are not expected to make enough) money
The ice bucket challenge paid off in real medical breakthroughs within 2 years by raising 115 million. Komen had a HUGE impact on breast cancer research that lead to real medical improvements that saved lives.
If we dumped AI money broadly into almost any field of research we’d see more people shift toward that field to get funding. We’d see struggling projects get the funding they need to continue. We’d see stuff that wasn’t pursued because it’s a long shot get the funding it needs. Better staffed and equipped labs where work is already being done.
You’d see an explosion in progress over the coming years.
The last time I ever saw our current dipshit of a president (who wasn’t president at the time) do anything remotely altruistic was when he had ice water dumped on him for ALS.
Or feeding the poor
How about just universal healthcare, housing, and education?
See, now you’re just being ridiculous.
But like honestly though, I’ve seen on YouTube people funded almost entirely through commissions and patrons manage metallurgical feats previously considered impossible like the forge welding of titanium to steel. Imagine what they could do with even a fraction of Nvidia’s or OpenAI’s budget?
NileRed might make an actual Philosopher’s Stone (out of Code Red Mountain Dew and Silly Putty or something).
Or put it in a tube and fling it into space… …oh wait.
Maybe they should have spent the money on fusion research first. They could have had nearly free power, and make a fortune selling off the rest, all while saving the climate.
The cruelty is the point
I’ll take some of that blacksmith funding. My plan is to take two laminated Damascus swords and then forge weld them together so you get twice the sword for your money.
Instead of welding them directly, can you please connect them with a nunchucks chain?
I’d take a Gordian Knot, and then fuse the ends together and then, I dunno, throw it at Alexander the Great’s grave.
We should join forces and become a Venturesmith duo. Forging our way across the land, raiding lost tombs.
After Alexander The Great we can hunt down that rascal Genghis Khan.
nothing good will come out of this if there’s big tech venture capitalists involved. if these guys were in charge of developing a pencil - we would’ve been stuck with styluses and told that this is peak tech.
Leads only available on a subscription plan.
Bimonthly eraser upgrade.
More money does not always work to accelerate science. It does make scientists lives nicer though.
Which in turn incentivizes more quantity and quality of scientists which leads to…
Micro scale youre right though.
