/sci/ - Science & Math

I don't see how it could possibly not happen.

>>9465935
I don't know how likely it is, personally i'm doubtful. This thread is not off to a good start. It seems the only replies you're gonna get are "epic" memers and muh global warming fanatics

>>9465935
1 billion immortal streetshitters

>>9466088
>The concepts behind biological immortality or consciousness emulation are physically impossible

But they literally aren't. There is no physical law impeding with the idea of a cyborg-filled ageless human race. Basic economic and technological ones, definitely.

Anyway what sort of doublenigger thinks we're already utilizing the limits of physical law in everyday situations?

I do agree things will get shittier because white nations want to kill themselves for some reason apparently and asian nations are better at imitating than innovating.

>>9465941
>Real GDP
I hate it when anybody uses GDP as a corollary. It's completely arbitrary and can be artificially inflated or deflated based on how economists choose, it has no actual basis in reality. Even just shipping product through your territory without a single drop of income from taxes inflates your GDP enormously (which is part of why states like California and NY have such disproportionately large GDPs)

>>9465935
In the 1950s, after the rapid technological development during the war era, scientists thought machine translation would be solved in 2-3 years. It's taken ~60 and it's still very far from perfect.

Right now, people are making really optimistic (or in the case of Yudkowsky, delusional) predictions because of the sudden breakthroughs on image, voice recognition and reinforcement learning. But there is a long, long, long way to go before we are near something like biological immortality.

Every time I hear Ray Kurzweil speak, I can't help but think he's a retard

And I respect his achievements in science and technology so it makes me wonder how someone can accomplish so much while being a retard

Pic related, it's the 100 pills he takes every day so he'll live forever.

>>9466411
Why doesn’t he just taste the void and get frozen?

>>9466397
This nigger doubts that real gdp has risen in the last 50 years

>>9466411
That's a lot of pills. 6 fish oils, a bunch of multivits, what are the rest?

>>9465935
>>>/x/ is that way

>>9466391
You are reading the image wrong, brainlet.
It doesn't mean things like that will be impossible.
green curve means development will shift over to a constant progress after a short acceleration in which we are now. (computers now, Moore's law is kill)
red assumes development gets so hard for ever advancing things, it actually slows down again. (See battery science, it's not improving at all anymore)

And blue is your retarded singularity, which is just a modern and fascinating dream

>>9466397
>Even just shipping product through your territory without a single drop of income from taxes inflates your GDP enormously
elaborate

>>9466576
Forgot to mention all of these lines are based on your opinions

>>9466576
I'm not the guy you were replying to, but that graph does not say that the y axis is a rate of change. It says "technology" and has a line that shows what's physically possible, which implies overall advancement. The graph is a (you) baiting shitpost plain and simple.

>>9465935
>How realistic is it?
Depending on what you mean by it, It's seems physically possible.

However, it's best living your life like it's not going to happen rather than hoping for some salvation that may never come.

>>9466576
But battery science is clearly at the green one.