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    Tech Debt. So many of these companies investing in AI are doing so at the expense of out dated, broken shit that AI will never address.

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        Fixing the Y2k issue was a single endeavor spread across a massive number of systems worldwide.

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        I can’t speak for other companies, but in mine we do have a single line item for Tech Debt. It gets IGNORED most of the time, but we do have it! ;)

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            Largely software updates. You would not believe how old some of this stuff is.

            The problem becomes each update is tied to multiple systems, so testing has to be done across the board for each update.

            So it’s easy to go “Why are we running xxx from 2016?” but then you have test it everywhere and that’s why it’s almost 10 years out of date.

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      It’s amazing the amount of ressources that are spent on creating an environment/platform that locks users in.

      Like, shit, if we spent like 10% on that efforts into open source stuff we’d be living in a utopia right now or something.

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    Fusion power or cures for diseases.

    Fusion power, should it work, would solve a lot of problems. Environmentally, in particular, but if we could get a decent distribution of reactors around the planet we’d alleviate food problems, water problems, and a whole bunch of suffering of one kind or another. Cheap power would help a lot.

    Otherwise, anything to help cure diseases. Genetic, auto-immune, cancers, misfortune, whatever. Alleviate more suffering, let people live and work again.

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    it’s called ‘online deliberation’ Here is a paper on what it might include: https://deliberation.stanford.edu/tools-and-resources/online-deliberation-platform

    Here is my idea on how to implement it: https://www.theconsensusengine.com/ (I’d start on page 25 at the example section)


    It’s a way to get people to work together by finding common ground and making the internet a friendly place not a hateful one of conflict

    It can reduce loneliness by bringing people together based on shared values and interests, as well as location, so you can find a community of people who like the same things, and find a community in your own community to make our localities stronger and more united.

    it can be a way to stop and greatly reduce misinformation and the idea that it takes much more work to refuse lies than to make them, but keeping an list of arguments on both sides and letting the consensus based on evidence emerge

    it can advance science and the knowledge base of all humans by creating a chain of trust with links, so reproducible things and empirical facts are are stronger and more impactful. This will help find answers in currently unknown directions while also reducing or eliminating the publish or perish model of science. If someone is found to have lied then all their contributions going backwards are effected so that the emergent consensus always works towards truth

    it can force hypocrites like almost all republicans and religiousnuts to be faced with their own judgements on their own actions, based on how other people interpret their statements and evidence. This can show delusional people not only that they are wrong, but where they went wrong so they can be aware and try and correct it.

    With a huge amount of money to create it and also to give away we can make people want to contribute and use the system because they stand to benifit from it

    and it can act as an agora and planning department for all human kind on a multigeneration level where decisions are based on evidence and desire. this along may allow something like this idea to take ahold and be the source of progress for society into the future, because what we are doing now is not working.

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    AI to run companies in sustainably profitable ways that benefits their workers instead of rich greedy sociopaths.

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    I would say “High Temperatur Superconductor”. If they can be made cheaply, they solve our Energy Problems in almost every way. Turbines will become more effective, Transport of Energy cheap and lossless and storage crazy effective. They will also revolitionize meassurement of magnetic fields witch will have a huge impact on medicin and other fields.

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      Wow, that must be the best answer yet, at least from my ignorant point of view about the feasibility. I am extremely fascinated by material science. Are there any promising lines of research for this?

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        Yes. Every now and then we get a paper claiming that they found a HTSC. It always is a big deal because they are considered the holy grail of solid state physics. Later we find that it’s a mistake.

        We are pretty good though. Records are in the area of −135 °C (138K, -211°F) but the phenomenon was thought to be at a few Kelvin max in the last century.

        The big BUT is that it’s science. Meaning that it is not granted that such a material (superconducting at ambient temperature and pressure) even exists

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          So the keyword to monitor is “HTSC”, got it. I heard Sabine Hossenfelder comment a few papers, but I have no idea about the full body of research.