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Mercurionio t1_jdpwv4p wrote

The question is in rejection.

Plastic won't be good anytime soon (I mean, without consuming drugs to contain them), while organic has issues of their own.

STEM is good and nice, but we won't know for sure, since it requires study in a long run ( I mean, we need to understand how it will mutate in human body, can we control it and so on in 20-40 years).

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RoHouse t1_jdpwpah wrote

I'm talking about surviving a nuclear blast. Unlike the movies, there's no guarantee you'll be instantly vaporized. Many will die, but many more will be injured, with broken bones, burns over large parts of their body, blindness, deafness. Then comes radiation sickness, disease, famine, etc.

Same with AI. There are worse options than it wiping us all out.

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czl t1_jdpwbhi wrote

> Inverse lithography’s use has been limited by the massive size of the needed computation.

This massive computation is done once per design so for example the chip that powers the latest iphone will be ready two weeks faster?

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acutelychronicpanic t1_jdpw1fd wrote

If unemployment was so bad that no taxes were coming in from that many people, I don't think tax revenue is the biggest concern.

My hope is that corporations realize the smoothest way to transition from here, to an AI augmented workforce, then to post scarcity will be using something like UBI.

Someone has to actually purchase the products produced unless we are throwing out the whole system (which would also place their roles as capital owners in jeopardy).

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Low-Restaurant3504 t1_jdpvtl6 wrote

I'll take my chances. Let it loose. Either we die, drift into an overstimulated dream, or reach the apex of society. Dying by AI is such a dumb thing to worry about. Either you worry and are right, in which case you died, or you worry and you are wrong, in which case it's pointless. Same as worrying about getting nuked. The other two options sound fun. Let's fucking do this and see what happens! So exciting!

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FuturologyBot t1_jdpvre8 wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Vucea:


Inverse lithography produces features smaller than the wavelength of light, but it usually takes weeks to compute

Nvidia says it has found a way to speed up a computation-limited step in the chipmaking process so that it happens 40 times as fast as today’s standard.

Called inverse lithography, it’s a key tool that allows chipmakers to print nanometer-scale features using light with a longer wavelength than the size of those features. Inverse lithography’s use has been limited by the massive size of the needed computation.

Nvidia’s answer, cuLitho, is a set of algorithms designed for use with GPUs, turns what has been two weeks of work into an overnight job.


Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/122czjz/nvidia_speeds_key_chipmaking_computation_by_40x/jdpt2c6/

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Advanced-Payment-358 t1_jdpue3z wrote

Through competition, product prices can be reduced as cost of making them plummets due to removal of paid human labor, which may have a huge factor on costs of products and and usually consists 50-90% of cost of services in developed countries, so the net purchasing power parity of a society does not degrade in the longer term.

As low wage factory workers may not be as expensive, white collar, expert and administrative workers and consult services may cost company a major share of it's expenditures, and cutting these off will allow a major leap in productivity and price competition. Most of the time, the worker that gets paid way too much only for repeating stuff they have read from books themselves, so AI can be well capable of offering similar expertise, with the improvement of removing the human error.

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BroomShakzuka t1_jdptfmo wrote

We need radical change, but most people I know have not even made a slight change. And the crazy thing is that some of these sacrifices are so tiny compared to the luxury they are drowning in.

I once asked some people whether they would go to a vegan eco friendly 5 star resort or a normal 5 star resort if they would get all expenses paid. Most people i asked said that they feared that they would not enjoy the food in the vegan resort. Even when i told them they would get world class food in both resorts most still chose the normal resort.

On this sub you see regularly posts about lab grown meat. It is absolutely horrific to see how many people respond to that that they will only make the change if it is cheaper and just as tasty. Not a single sacrifice in their comfortable lives shall be given. In the mean time let's blame ther governments and big corporates of course.

Unfortunately we deserve what's coming to us 🤷‍♂️

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Vucea OP t1_jdpt2c6 wrote

Inverse lithography produces features smaller than the wavelength of light, but it usually takes weeks to compute

Nvidia says it has found a way to speed up a computation-limited step in the chipmaking process so that it happens 40 times as fast as today’s standard.

Called inverse lithography, it’s a key tool that allows chipmakers to print nanometer-scale features using light with a longer wavelength than the size of those features. Inverse lithography’s use has been limited by the massive size of the needed computation.

Nvidia’s answer, cuLitho, is a set of algorithms designed for use with GPUs, turns what has been two weeks of work into an overnight job.

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Lirdon t1_jdprdyi wrote

Especially in the US, with how much influence the rich have over the politics, the situation seems rather grim, I agree. But the issue of automation is not one that wasn’t thought of before. That’s where the Guaranteed Minimum Income comes to play. Basically the government pays to sustain its not working population by taxing all corporations, or those that replace labor with automation. The issue is that people thought it would be robotics that will replace people in menial labour, but now it seems that AI will be the frontier of automation, and it targets white colar jobs — the top earners of the working class.

It is still left to be seen how will the whole thing play out. But it seems to me that there will need to be a reform in taxation that will either disincentivize the use of AI, or will compensate for people that lose their jobs to AI.

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