You can easily code crispr to target specific strings of DNA. Just take a sample of a patients cancer, analyze which parts of DNA are driving that specific cancer, code your crispr enzyme accordingly, pack it into a virus, and away you go... its really not complicated. Even if the virus infects a healthy cell, the crispr enzyme is specific to cancer DNA and has no effect on healthy dna. The amount of off-target effect is negligible compared to current treatments i.e. chemo and radiation.

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I am in a highly regulated industry and surveillance is a part of life. I have had my LinkedIn flagged multiple times. I have emails, IMs verified etc. I hear people say they use curse words or don't talk in code or talk shit on their managers or company and am surprised. I saw last week Apple is counting badge swipes which isn't unique to them as people go back into the office. As technology gets better I think we will see more surveillance, bit it's more up to the company to choose if they use it. It exists if you use basic web tools like anything Microsoft.

i have already told you that anything can be a drive through. so what contextual clues does a field have that would clue an AI into it being a drive through if there are no lines, no lanes, no arrows, only a guy in a chair. AI don't "assume" things. i want to know specifics. if you can't give me specifics, it cannot be programmed. AI requires specifics.

I mean seriously, i can disable an autonomous car with a salt circle. it has no idea it can drive over it. do you think a 5 year old child could navigate out of a salt circle? that shows you how dumb they really are.

The sphere is just the first step, surely. After that, we have the energy of the heavenly bodies themselves to harness. The solar system is just a big gyroscope twiddling around forever and a day. Why not capture all of that

Eventually, we have to find some way to power all these stargates

Because you coded the the virus enzyme to specifically target cancer DNA and not healthy DNA. Even if the virus infects a healthy cell, it will have no effect

Very odd that you can't provide a link to the data....

1 humanoid robot could do all the things. It could bake bread, oh, we forgot flour, the robot could then go to the store and buy some. Then it can clean the house, keep us company, walk the dog, make dinner, do the dishes.

A humanoid robot smart enough to do every day tasks would be awsome. I would gladly pay equally as much for one as i do for a car

We build highly specialized computers for different tasks. We have desktop computers, phones, laptops, servers, clients, cryptominers, consoles, etc. There's a reason for that.

Also, this doesn't serve your point that there is demand for human-emulation robots. It *might* serve the point that there's demand for a centralized robot that can perform multiple tasks, but it wouldn't look or function like a human.

How does a Dyson Sphere deal with Solar Flares, huge Coronal Holes emitting massive solar winds, Carrington-class CMEs, or Miyake Events, which we have not even seen yet in the modern era?

I would think they are trying to do this with implants to reduce immunosuppressants or rid them altogether?

Might I suggest religious tolerance needs scooping up and shoving in to room 101.

It can infer intent pretty effectively. I'm not sure how to convince you of that, but I've been convinced by using it. It can take my garbled instructions and infer what is important to me using the context in which I ask it.

I liked the Kurzgesagt video on it. Was fairly interesting, and I love their "Let's just assume these magic technologies exist" attitude.

That’s so fucking cool and holy shit let’s speed this research along

ROCK AND STONE!

>What will the mobile phone of the future look like?

Pessimistic guess: a lot like current spyphones but opting out of them means opting out of 99.9% of civilization. Also they'll be so subtle (like built into your body) that large sections of society won't know they're even a thing thus leaving them powerless to resist.

Optimistic guess: same, but AI displaces our human overlords and treats us better than they do.

Climate deniers are just waiting for that point of no return so they can say "doesn't matter what we do now".

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

Once we emit about 1000 gigatons of carbon, much of the massive ice sheet will melt irreversibly. We’ve emitted 500 gigatons so far.

The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 1.7 million square kilometers (660,200 square miles) in the Arctic. If it melts entirely, global sea level would rise about 7 meters (23 feet), but scientists aren’t sure how quickly the ice sheet could melt. Modeling tipping points, which are critical thresholds where a system behavior irreversibly changes, helps researchers find out when that melt might occur.

Based in part on carbon emissions, a new study using simulations identified two tipping points for the Greenland Ice Sheet: releasing 1000 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere will cause the southern portion of the ice sheet to melt; about 2500 gigatons of carbon means permanent loss of nearly the entire ice sheet.

Having emitted about 500 gigatons of carbon, we’re about halfway to the first tipping point.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/123zxg2/the_greenland_ice_sheet_is_close_to_a_melting/jdx4blf/

Any answer other than yes is wrong because it means you aren't actually building a Dyson sphere.

The AI would use the same context clues you would use.

You have to remember that AIs are actually super-human when it comes to pattern matching in many instances.

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This is part of the "we need to get serious" situation. If we treated this as an existential emergency (and, it is part of the package) -- then, we might put up some heat reflectors over large swaths of ice to lower the temperature. It wouldn't take too much to artificially trap more water ice (relative to building an aircraft carrier or large dam) and thus, prevent a huge dumping of ice and freshwater melt into the sea.

Once it leaves Iceland, it's going to be a lot harder to trap all that water there again in any short period of time.

And the thing about the climate models, is most of them refer to the heat energy and time it takes to melt all this ice -- not, how much it could quickly raise sea levels if it fell off of Antarctica and into the ocean. Of course, it can take about 50 years to distribute this sea level rise -- but, it's also a point of no return.

My thought was Mercury. We could scoop out material from the dark side leaving the Sun facing side as a shield and just drop the panels as it orbits.

>What do you imagine something like a "GPT-5" will be capable of?

I imagine it will be capable of predictive modeling of language, just like GPT-4, and just like GPT-3; that it will be better at it, that it will continue to confuse people who don't know what they're talking about into believing it is somehow alive or conscious, and that it will continue to just be a statistical model running on silicon in a cooled warehouse.

I imagine that it will be just good enough to convince business leaders to replace all their workers with it, and that it will be ever so slightly shittier than a normal human because it lacks any sort of foresight or higher level reasoning, and as a result the world will be just a little bit shittier for everyone.

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