Having spent way too much time with AI over the last 6 months trying to live in the future, I'm thinking a new trend is going to be people thinking that average human beings who might have otherwise been there friends are going to be considered terribly boring, needy and inadequate.

That is, most people won't bother with friendships at all and get all they need from AI. Many people will decide that besides having children, what do you need really need another human for anyway?

I was recently in Berlin and we hired a tour guide. The guy was knowledgeable, and friendly, but I just couldn't help being ashamed of thinking, this guy is just an underpowered LLM fine-tuned on Berlin. I felt super bad about those thoughts, but I'm sure there are a lot of people in the future who will think that about everyone.

"Reports of two recent incidents where robots wiped out vast numbers of humans after vibemanufacturing mistakes."

The critical differentiator is you get a rating as a passenger on Uber. Public transit in the U.S doesn't work that well because of the 5% most anti-social people on transit who are harassing people, drunk or high on meth or crack. They'd get banned from Uber, but it makes all the difference.

Are you referring to the president who humiliated himself and the US at Helsinki? The president who had a negotiation regarding the Ukraine war without including Ukraine? The president who admires Putin? That president?

I go up to them and look over their shoulder and say, "WOW That thing your watching is so interesting!" Then I get an annoyed look back, and I say, "well you had it on speaker, so I thought you were interested in sharing it with everyone here."

There it is guys, the whole democratic political ideology in a nutshell. 200,IQ stuff.

Waste reprocessing will be easier with advanced robotics. Once it gets automated, you'll be able to reprocess and use the same nuclear fuel for power over and over again for centuries. This is a hard engineering problem, like landing rocket boosters, but it will be worth it to solve.

"White Hydrogen" is the hydrogen that's present in underground deposits. Geologists say that there are enormous amounts waiting to be extracted. If they fix that, then this will all be viable, and competitive even with diesel. The white hydrogen business is just in its early stages though. It's even found underground in France!

https://www.euronews.com/next/...

The new Freenet is written in Rust.

lol - same thing with pilots ;)

Thank you!

You're very welcome :)

When the new Freenet is up and running, I think it will be the first system of any kind that could host something like wikipedia, not just the data but the wiki CMS system it's built on. An editable wikipedia, entirely decentralized and very scalable.

I think when the history of the last decade is written, it will be about - in part - the terrible social damage caused by opaque and biased social media algorithms manipulating the public discourse.

Locutus is primarily designed for decentralization, not anonymity - which will make it less suited to IP theft than various other technologies that are already pervasive, the same is true of a lot of the other "people you don't want to be your early adopters" that you mention. It's definitely a risk for systems like Freenet, but it's a manageable risk.