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Are you horrified at the idea that we still use screwdrivers when power tools exist ? Wordpress does the job. It's not particularly good at anything, but it wo
by ohgodplsno 3y ago
Are you horrified at the idea that we still use screwdrivers when power tools exist ?
Wordpress does the job. It's not particularly good at anything, but it works damn well. Wordpress is 40% of all sites in the world.
- echelon 3y agoI'll be horrified if we're still using screwdrivers in 100 years. I'm ready for brain uploads and immortality and unlocking the rest of the galaxy for exploration. I'm tired of everyone turning to dust.
- riffic 3y agoscrewdrivers are a very good example of the Lindy effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
- jacquesm 3y agoPrepare for disappointment.
- gruturo 3y agoThere Will Be Screws. (and rivets. Joints. Pipes. Flanges, if we're unlucky)
- willis936 3y agoAnd all of those things if we're lucky. If we're unlucky it will be edges of chiseled stone. If we're really unlucky it won't be anything at all.
- andrepd 3y agoWell sounds like you're gonna be disappointed.
- somenameforme 3y agoTake yourself back to 1960. Mankind has never once been to space, though there have been endless efforts to achieve such. The next year Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, Alan Shepherd follows shortly behind him. The following year the President gives a riveting speech about putting a man on the Moon. 7 years later, we land the first man on the Moon. And then do it repeatedly - to the point that dozens of men have walked on the Moon. In 1971 we put the first space station into space, with men began living in it for weeks at a time. All of that over ~1 decade. Can you even imagine where we'll be in 50 years? You're there today.
- superq 3y agoAnother day older and deeper in debt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1980WfKC0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1980WfKC0o
- echelon 3y ago> Can you even imagine where we'll be in 50 years? If we're not careful, buying slightly faster smartphones.
- jeremyjh 3y agoYet 2023 is barely different from 2013.
- JW_00000 3y agoTo be fair, did 1970 really feel that different from 1960 for the average person? Also, between 2010 and 2020, cancer death rates declined from 173 to 144 per 100,000 population, i.e. a 17% decrease in the US [1]. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-deaths/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-de...
- gwbrooks 3y agoAccording to the World Bank, global poverty has decreased by nearly 20% during that time; the rate of decrease for those in extreme poverty has been even greater. That's something like a billion and a half people who absolutely think the world is different between 2013 and 2023.
- ssivark 3y agoAnd what kinds of tools do you think will be used to the assemble data center racks where you wish to “upload” yourself? :-P
- willis936 3y agoBrain uploads don't cheat death. Let's say you made a digital clone of your brain. Your last thought would be "oh shit I'm dying". The description of you is not the thing you inherently try to protect, but the physical brain itself. Your brain's contents change quite often compared to the medium.
- jeremyjh 3y agoThis just boils down to the dualism/physicalism argument. Physicalists would say that the mind is software and state, and they can be copied or moved just like a VM can be moved (e.g. Vmotion) from one host to another without any internally perceived interruption. The brain is just the host.
- willis936 3y agoThe real answer is likely that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon. In reality there is no mystical magic that makes us special. There is no one right answer for "the best way to cheat death" because it's all about satisfying a moving target of how comfortable you are with the fact that there is nothing intrinsically special about consciousness. Saving the brain is at least a concrete thing that satisfies most interpretations of identity.