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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
    1·
    12 hours 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
      5·
      12 hours 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
      1·
      11 hours 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
        1·
        8 hours 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.