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In 200 years we will spread at most up to 200 light years from Earth. This is way way less than the observable universe.
by serallak 2y ago
In 200 years we will spread at most up to 200 light years from Earth.
This is way way less than the observable universe.
- LegionMammal978 2y ago"Ah," says the optimist, "but we will clearly invent FTL travel just by throwing enough money and AI-hours into researching it." (I've seen this 'enough money ought to surmount any barrier' take a few times, usually to reject the idea that we might not find any path to AGI in the near future.)
- zerocrates 2y agoThe claims that AI will itself solve the problems it creates are I think my favorite variation of this. I think it was Eric Schmidt who recently said well sure breakneck AI spending will accelerate climate change but then we'll have AI to solve it. Second cousin to Altman saying it will solve "all of physics," I suppose... and actually he said "fixing the climate" right before that.
- agentultra 2y agoIndeed. The delicious irony is that we know how to solve climate change. We’re simply not doing enough about it.
- moi2388 2y agoThat’s not too much of a stretch. The standard model already has solved almost all of physics. Only a few edge cases remain.
- Intralexical 2y agoEdge cases like 85% of the mass in the universe, and 95% of the mass-energy.
- moi2388 2y agoThat’s a misnomer. We know what probably causes the mass energy, it’s the cosmological constant. It only regards 68% of the energy density currently. Same for dark matter. There are a few hypothesis, but all in all they are pretty simplistic cases. We know the particles, the forces, there is not really “new physics” to be discovered here. All the interactions anybody can encounter in their lives is fully understood.