Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)

• BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Are you a round earth nutter?

  It’s not going to happen. No one is going to get past the edge of the world or sail the whole world or find new land.

  Ever.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you don’t see how that’s a completely dumb comparison, this is hopeless. I’m reality-based, you are not.

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    • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Sure, friend. You can see reality thousands of years into the future and know exactly what happens.

      My bad.

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Do you think physics and chemistry have changed in some significant way over the last thousand years?

        Yet somehow, YOU can see reality in a thousand years, and it matches the sci-fi mindrot you watched as a kid…

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In practice my comment means that it’s far too early to think of space colonization.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Far too late as well. It will never happen.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I disagree. It just won’t be fancy. It has to be an enormous project with existential risks. And you have to really send many people at once with no return ticket. “At once” is important, you can’t ramp it up, that’s far more expensive. It has to be a mission very deeply planned in detail with plenty of failsafe paths, aimed at building a colony that can be maintained with Earth’s teaching resources, technologies and expertise, and locally produced and processed materials for everything. So - something like that won’t happen anytime soon, but at some point it will happen.

      The technologies necessary have to be perfected first, computing should stop being the main tool for hype, and the societies should adapt culturally for computing and worldwide connectivity.

      These take centuries. In those centuries we’ll be busy with plenty of things existential, like avoiding the planet turning into one big 70s Cambodia.

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Um, OK.

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