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Several-Car9860 t1_j9n7w7n wrote

This reminds me quite a lot of when people 100 years ago imagined the future and said things like

"Instead of having to put a letter into your mailbox, the mailbox will grow legs and run to deliver itself!"

If we ever reach singularity and the physics allow for it, the future will look nothing at all like that video. That is just a "sci fi optimized version" of what we already have.

One path could be a energy generator as a core, with some transport mechanism to an outer layer that is composed of compute hardware or just a bunch of brains connected without the need of a physical body (supposing humans don't want to disappear).

Farms, cities, transport, Etcs are all human inventions to facilitate the things we need.

You will have wildly different "solutions" if your problems are different, and I doubt we stay on this "human body" pattern for long if singularity happens.

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monsieurpooh t1_j9ntc8p wrote

99% of these sci Fi fantasies are kinda obsoleted by a perfect VR that can immerse you in any world that's a lot more interesting than real life interstellar exploration. It's also one of the solutions to the Fermi paradox!

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AwesomeDragon97 t1_j9olafs wrote

Unlikely a solution to the Fermi paradox. I and many other people would never use VR, so it is unlikely that 100% of an alien population would use VR unless it was imposed on them by force.

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monsieurpooh t1_j9pcoov wrote

Can you explain why?

To be clear I'm talking about actual perfect VR like the Matrix with all 5 senses, not the crap that passes as "VR" today where parkour is impossible, swordfighting is terribly unrealistic because your enemies are required to be ragdolls, and don't even get me started on Judo/wrestling.

A true direct-to-brain VR will be indistinguishable from the real world and, if the user wants, better than the real world in every way. There are 1-2 legit reasons why you would still want to use the real world, but just wanted to make sure your reason wasn't that the real world is more sensory-rich or "feels more real", which won't be the case with advanced technology.

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Nanaki_TV t1_j9q0oib wrote

Maybe he's scared of not being able to determine if he woke up in the VR or not. Speculating but damn now I'm kinda freaking myself out. If the ASI wanted to enslave humanity, you go into the Matrix for fun but "leave" into a different Matrix. Kinda cool premise for a book. Probably already done too ha

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monsieurpooh t1_j9q9xsl wrote

That is an interesting idea, even without the evil AI villain. There was an episode in that Electric Sheep tv show that explored this; I think it was the first or second episode. Of course black mirror also had brilliant ideas about VR but I think this one explored that idea even better than Black Mirror.

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AwesomeDragon97 t1_j9qdtmo wrote

I wouldn’t use VR even if it was indistinguishable from the real world because I believe we should focus on making the real world a better place rather than creating a fake world and being at the mercy of whoever hosts the servers.

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CompressionNull t1_j9nqdpi wrote

Isn’t the video some type of structure in space, that is rotated to generate gravity? That’s what it looks like to me anyway, which is a big hope skip and jump away from anything we have now.

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Several-Car9860 t1_j9nrlkw wrote

It's a different way of doing the same. You have biological creatures inside a protected atmosphere that gather nutrientes from plants, with a transport system, etc. It's pretty much today's society but more fancy and jetsonian.

If AGI quicks in, society itself and the concept of "living being" may just flip completely.

Why 8 billion people? Why not a hive mind of computación substrate?

Why a hive mind? One entity alone maybe, and so on.

People usually thinks of something like what we have right now, but way more advanced. I think reality is going to spin the bottle and get really weird.

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