Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future?

Re:Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future? by trifit on Thursday July 14, 2022 @03:45PM (#32100645)

Flying cars, cures for incurable diseases like cancer, Augmented reality Goggles, sex robots to look like your favorite celebrity, universal basic income, life extension drugs or surgeries to name a few things I’m looking forward too.

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Re:Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future? by onion2k on Thursday July 14, 2022 @04:56PM (#32101344)

sex robots to look like your favorite celebrity

On the face of it that sounds like "wahey, sexy fun!", but if you consider it for a second you're actually suggesting a life without a real relationship with another person which is beyond depressing. If that tech becomes mainstream humanity has a major problem.

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Re:Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future? by throwaway743 on Thursday July 14, 2022 @05:44PM (#32101822)

I see what youre saying, but then again, think of those who are unfortunately disabled, maimed, disfigured, socially inept, etc who have never/may never have a fair shot at a relationship. For them, sex robots/robotic companions could be a fantastic thing given that theyd accept them unconditionally. It could have the ability to fill an emotional and/or physical void for them.

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Re:Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future? by agent008t on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:35AM (#32107440)

It will make things worse for a lot more people though, just like the likes of 'dating apps' and pornography did. I wouldn't be optimistic about that; the only hope is that we develop a culture to regard it as we now regard smoking, and try to revive normal human contact.

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Re:Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future? by onion2k on Friday July 15, 2022 @02:39AM (#32105306)

think of those who are unfortunately disabled, maimed, disfigured, socially inept, etc who have never/may never have a fair shot at a relationship

None of those things stop people having relationships.

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Re:Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future? by throwaway743 on Saturday July 16, 2022 @11:19AM (#32118976)

For some, they sure as hell do.

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Re:Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future? by lvass on Thursday July 14, 2022 @06:08PM (#32102031)

>Flying cars, cures for incurable diseases like cancer, Augmented reality Goggles, sex robots to look like your favorite celebrity, universal basic income

Energy inefficient, contradiction, evil big tech nightmare, creepy, inflationary.

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Re:Ask HN: What makes you optimistic about the future? by dane-pgp on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:45PM (#32102731)

* Tax them heavily until we've solved climate change (and if we don't solve climate change, flying cars will be the least of our worries).

* I'm guessing the GP meant "currently incurable diseases", so pointing out the supposed contradiction isn't very helpful.

* You're right that strong regulation would be needed to prevent the captured data from being auto-uploaded to the cloud, and even that might not be enough if it means all our embarrassing semi-public moments are sitting on the hard drives of strangers, ready to be used as blackmail material or sold for viral views to some social media algorithm.

* Tax them heavily except for people who are permanently lonely (and require them to have therapy too).

* Do you also think that countries shouldn't have a minimum wage? I assure you that a world with 50% unemployment and no UBI will be much worse than one with 10% inflation.

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