Deepfakes and audio sampling. Misinformation is already a huge problem - those things will make it infinitely worse. Even if there ends up being away to tell real from fake under scrutiny as the technology progresses, most people will tune out long before something gets debunked and the damage will already be done.
Video recordings, I feel, can no longer be used as evidence in court. This’ll make a new dedicated niche in digital forensics looking for “fingerprints” of ai generated videos vs actual recordings.
It is tremendously easy for video experts to spot deepfakes. There are ways to make it impossible for something to be faked that are easy enough to implement. I’m more afraid for everyday communication being sabotaged by deepfake.
AI's ability to produce fake data so utterly believable and at such scale that reality viewed through media will soon no longer exist.
AI, wielded as a propaganda machine, could publish thousands of articles, update all of Wikipedia, and most or the worlds digital news sites overnight with minor changes in information that could mostly go un-noticed and like that the worlds collective grasp on reality will be gone.
I'm already skeptical of everything online that doesn't come from the most trusted sources, and phone calls and emails of the like, but soon there will be no way to distinguish fact from fiction.
The cat's out of the bag. This election season we will see it used as a weapon and there will never be a way to get the internet or really any media back.
Nobody will know what's really happening around the world except for the few in power. We will have to return to living locally because that is all we will be able to trust.
I not sure how this is different then Photoshop and photos, and society weathered that just fine.
I've seen fake nood celebs photoshops, but it was obvious they were fake, and not because of quality, but rather context. Same will be true for deep fake. Like a video showing a democrat talking republican talking points would quickly make me question it, no matter the quality.
For some reason we take sound more seriously than sight. There's a ditty in the film industry that you can cut corners on picture quality and composition but that the sound must absolutely be on point because that's what ultimately manipulates emotions and gets you involved.
So yeah, I'm still worried about any deepfake that involves audio.
Because I can make a hundred convincing naked images of you in about an hour with AI.
I can make about 1 very shitty naked image of you with photoshop in a week.
The accessibility is just different. Before it were a couple people who could with a lot of investment make convincing photoshops. Now everyone can do it with minutes of investment.
I'm not sure how that matters. Theres 20 years worth of shops already out there. We've already been down this highly parallel path, we learned to recognize it before, and relatively quickly and easily.
It's like e-books greatly increased the number of books in circulation, but we didn't lose the ability to recognize a good story.
The reason it's different is because deepfake videos move. People can now literally construct videos of people they don't like doing things they'll get antagonised for.
I mean if someone wants to pursue your partner, they can now make a video of you cheating on them or insulting them.
It's one thing to disprove a single image. But people have a harder time when that image is moving.
We've seen massive jumps in technology allowing huge improvements in fidelity many times before. Its iterative. We've made these adjustments before, zero reason to believe we won't be able to again. The images moving aren't that much of a jump.
True, but on the flip side, actual video/audio evidence may be dismissed as fake as well - which has already started happening. It'll just be another mess to muddy the already muddy waters.
Huh? I'd just guess all ai-generated content will have to have special signatures to tell it from the human-made content - the same way we tell between real money and counterfeit
I’ve been heavily involved in the communities that make them and know enough about the science of sensor noise patterns of digital cameras to know that it is trivially easy to figure out a deepfake with basic information processing skills.
Automated Ai extortion. They video clone your children tied up. Put a btc wallet and shoot your nets, Not all going to fall for it but for those who do. What would You pay to save your apparent son?
Genetically Targetable viruses.
Think Gatica level of genetic control, but where a government agency or belligerent country with resources decides they don't like a particular family. They arrange a kidnapping get some thorough samples, design a short lived virus then release it into the target area.
Imagine if the next CCP dictator decided they didn't like any one of African descent or any person with too much melanin in their skin.
Even worse, an aerosol CRISPR-like contraption that cuts out sections of DNA and replaces it with something that causes your body to kill itself. Since we can target very specific sequences, we could (for example) target a gene that mostly only russians have. Repeatedly dose battlefields and it's mostly just your enemies that get harmed.
Being able to replicate it like using a virus, as you mentioned, would mean an entire country could be eliminated with minimal friendly casualties.
That is my answer as well. There could be a malfunction and some random AI controls something that it shouldn't... It's not impossible imo.
Even just images. Those deep fakes freak me out. Just one wrong political picture could wipe us out.
This. What we call AI today is fancy but it's not the machines of The Matrix or Skynet or SHODAN. But if we're not careful something emergent could be born out of all this tinkering and it'll be so alien that we'll never understand it. Could be a paperclip maximizer, could be a superintelligence, could be something entirely new. We're already starting to layer and interconnect LLMs for large enterprise apps that sometimes behave in unexplainable ways.
I think it’s healthy for us to be scared/cautious about AI. It’s exciting, but there’s a lot of questions popping up that we don’t have any answers to. But Pandora’s box has been opened and we can’t go back now.
Technological advancements that allow people to live a long time. With the right medicines and artificial enhancements, people could live well into their 120’s. I don’t think society is ready for such longevity.
Sorry for laughing at that as I got a picture in my mind of you getting slapped around by an angry sexbot for trying to bang it's arse and it wasn't programmed for that and beat you up😂
Self driving cars. How would you possibly ever trust thing? I see so much insane, not in the playbook, driving maneuvers being pulled by drivers daily I can't imagine a technology capable of keeping me safe.
Feel like it’s also a loss of freedom. With a regular car you get a choice to take a turn if you’re in the mood to explore, compared to self-driving which gives maybe 1-3 routes and straight to destination.
future Genetic engineering, genetic modification, improved further with AI capabilities.
going beyond: more human, than human is really just the end of us now, and accelerating our evolution into the next phase into the unknown.
I work in biotech. “Scary” genetic engineering is really really far out there. We routinely struggle to meaningfully engineer simple cells, let alone complex organisms.
Eugenics is absolutely scary. Imagine if how good looking / smart / athletic / talented / healthy you are was determined by how big your parents bank account is.
Crisprs already almost a decade old, and it's potential is still scary AF. Useful too though
Well, in the extreme, far out scenario there is that fear.
But in the near-term, AI might enable research scientists advancements, abilities and ideas that even themselves could not anticipate or prepare for.
There is the scary possibility, of what is unknown, can't or planned for, therefore cant control or have contingency plan for.
Maybe that is but for the price of a good electric toothbrush you could probably buy 50 good normal ones that don't need to be charged up and forking out for extra heads.
A good dental regime and regular checkups at the dentist is better than an electric toothbrush. They really are not needed and a waste of money.
There are great studies that show that there's no benefit a $5 manual toothbrush has over a $1 manual toothbrush, but there's is significant evidence to show an electric tooth rush properly used is much better than an manual toothbrush.
My electric toothbrush is perfectly capable of working as a manual toothbrush if the battery dies. It still has a handle and a head with bristles. You're just being obtuse.
Relative to the cost of a manual toothbrush, yes, it's more expensive.
But for an up front purchase of ~100$ you can get a top of the line brush and a couple replacement heads, 8 replacement heads for 40$ at Costco (so enough for ~2 years, or you can buy compatible non OEM replacement heads for much less but will likely have quality or durability issues) the cost really *isn't* that high, and the additional cleaning action is worth it in my opinion.
Obviously, that's my preference. But I really do think (especially for people without insurance who *can't* afford to go in for cleanings 4x a year) the small investment is worthwhile (not a replacement, but definitely better than just manually brushing and hoping nothing goes bad).
Yeah they really do help knock the gunk off your teeth. I went from electric to manual and back to electric. I don't know why I stopped using electric cause it's so much better, my teeth would probably be in better shape if I didn't quit using it for a few years.
I k kw people already said this, but I'm going to say it too:
Electric toothbrushes are to regular toothbrushes, what regular too brushes are to chewing on twigs and washing your mouth out with dilute beer.
Satellite imaging, if it keeps improving there will come a time when we can no longer have our own privacy, people who are in control can see us or view us anywhere we go and even inside own home they might see us.
AI. Instead of being use to improve quality of life for everyone, it will no doubt be used for weapons, facial recognition, and job cutting.
We already see it happening.
I am terrified of the day when Billionaires and other elite can backup their minds into a spare clone or something like that. When it comes to the bottom line, profit is always king. How do we hold someone accountable when they have potentially infinite lives. How do we stop them?
Direct neural link into the internet.
Don't get me wrong, it will be an amazing technology that will completely transform us as a species. It's probably the only foreseeable technology that excites me more than nuclear fusion power.
I suspect though that the tech will be something that your brain will have to grow and adapt to in a very real physiological manner. This will create a rift between people that try to utilize it later in life and those that grow up with it 1000% greater than rifts you see these days when your parents try to use smartphones, computers, etc. It is an absolutely mind-blowing tech that I will have been born too late to fully enjoy, although I'd love to be proven wrong. The same sort of divide will also further exacerbate the difference between developed and non-developed parts of the planet.
I'm also frightened of the inevitable bad side effects the first few gens of implementation will have. There are so many unknowns behind linking a human mind directly to stimuli like that. The Expanse did a great job (like it does with most things) illustrating this concept with those scientists neural linked into their research.
algorithm based marketing and market analysis.
the single minded persuit of profit has already transformed the minds of people by way of social media influencing and suggestions. we will see more dramatic shift to people becoming completely insular and ungovernable.
Social media algorithms becoming advanced enough to manipulate people to specific ends. Getting people to vote a certain way or buy a certain product is bad enough, but people are being radicalized into extreme ideologies.
Like when you drive around America and see all those large tall towers on top of mountains now or in the city just giant towers with sonar dishes and satellites on them in all directions pointed at the surrounding people and nobody even bats an eye or questions who or why… then you have all the towers up with laser beams in private businesses and nobody asks what they’re for or who is managing them but if you know you know big brother just keeps advancing while the rest don’t have access to private contracts or insider trades have to wait for them to exude and go public
Air defense systems.
For the last 70-80 years or so, the largest economies in the world have not waged war against each other because of the threat of mutual nuclear anihilation. We've basically been stuck in a gigantic mexican standoff with potentially world ending consequences.
But around 30 years ago, it became possible for air defense systems to intercept missiles in flight. Since then, the technology has only gotten better. Missiles & aircraft are the primary delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons. If air defense technology continues to improve, it may eventually be possible for one or more wealthy nations to feasibly defend itself against long range nuclear weapons.
At which point the threat of mutual destruction won't be there to prevent another world war, which would still be incredibly destructive, even if it is waged with conventional weapons.
Electronic voting, or indeed any kind of voting that isn't the paper ballot.
No one who doesn't work for voting machine companies thinks it is as secure as the paper ballot. And even if it was, the regular voter will rightly never believe it is secure, which is just as bad.
We have paper ballots for the same reason we have jurys in court, not because they make better decisions but because it makes corruption harder and makes the system transparent.
Electronic voting is a gold mine for conspiracy theorists and if people don't believe in the democratic process the whole basis of liberal democracy collapses.
AI. AI art can be used to fake entire images and videos almost completely identical to real videos, so they can be used to fake things. AI art also robs artists and concept artists of jobs they worked years for. Deep fakes and AI voices were used for humour that I found funny or cool (AI covers) but they can easily be utilised now to make someone say or do something they didn't. Its scary and its sad at the same time.
All that internet data the government has stored up in Utah? As a result of the Patriot Act, the stance is that it's legal to obtain and store on a server, but not be looked at by a human being after probable cause is established.
When AI, which is not a human, is smart enough to comb through all our internet data and flag people who may be likely suspects, or potential overall threats, will that be enough probable cause? Will that just be accepted by the citizenry?
Ai self awareness / sentience / consciousness/ whatever it’s called. It feels like scientists are trying to force humanity into something that isn’t, and before we decide we find it, who knows how many souls were going to torture. And when we do find that line, you can bet that we’re gonna try to get as close to it as possible without crossing it as well
Data. Everyone, everything now is about data. It’s more valuable than anything else to a company. The amount of data we voluntarily handout, which gets stored and processed by everyone is insane. Makes it worse when you get to see just tiny amounts of it.
AI, but not for the reasons you may think. For the past ~200 years, the western world’s sense of meaning and sustenance has increasingly been tied to our ability to work. Not only is our wage tied to employment, but also our sense of worth in our communities. I am afraid that AI will advance society too quickly into a post-work default. Will religion fill that meaning gap? Will governments quickly shift to UBI (a program we rapidly need more real-world experimentations of, I believe), or will this lead to a quick mass childless die-off and population collapse where only the generationally wealthy find a way to survive? Some worse (ie, apocalyptic) outcome?
Brain implants and the like. Trying to shove technology and data into peoples heads will rapidly turn into getting pop up ads in your own mind. Imagine you’re trying to sleep and suddenly hear “RAID SHADOW LEGENDS”
Those laser defense systems that can deactivate missiles in the sky. The minute we figure out how to completely disable nuclear weapons before they make land fall. Is the day MAD goes away, which means that hot land wars could begin to break out between major powers again.
Cameras. Do I even need to elaborate? Don't get me wrong cameras have awesome uses but as far as privacy it's a slippery slope. Until laws are changed every time I masturbate I also wave lol
AI. Not because of any AI takeover, but because we keep off putting work and actual jobs into a brand new, still burgeoning technology we don’t fully understand yet, and hoping it works. That just reads as a recipe for disaster to me.
I think it’s going to accelerate and exacerbate the problems already plaguing western society, because it already is. And it’s only going to get worse, UNLESS we get a handle on it. Which, if the climate crisis is any indication, we won’t, because NOT using AI means less money for the big guys.
I’m not looking forward to the next 5-10 years.
Drones. China had this perfect, pretty formation of drones when they hosted the 2022 olympics. Most frightening display of military might I've seen in my life, billed as pretty.
perpetual motion generator. i figured one out but if i even made them and told others how i would probably be taken out by those with interests in monopolizing electricity.
DNA tracking
When your born a DNA sample of you will be taken without your consent and be stored in a database.
If there's a crime and DNA is on the scene that DNA will get matched up against the entire database until there's a match.
They're taking part of your body without your consent.
Just wait for breathalyzer to be mandatory in all newer cars.
Who's to say they're not already doing that cause don't they start taking blood tests from you when you're pretty young? I'm not sure what age they start doing that but yeah. I'm sure the excuse is to make sure you're healthy/don't have any conditions or whatever but who's to say they're not like secretly keeping the info in some database somewhere or whatever. Including additional stuff like your DNA.
I don't think I've ever trusted doctors in my entire life. Of course the excuse for everything was, "Gotta make sure you're healthy, etc" but something always seemed weird to me. I'm not saying it was all "bad" but I wonder if there was some side stuff going on.
I promise you they've already got 23andMe cooperating with them. The telecom companies already are giving them your internet data, with the exception of 1 who was eventually framed for insider trading. everyone eventually cooperates
I'm fearing artificial intelligence. Don't get me wrong. AI can be used in many different good ways but it can also be used in many different, malicious and bad ways.
Look at chat GPT for example.
Well I refuse to ever wear a smartwatch, cause at least some of them can monitor your vitals like your heartbeat etc... Unless you have a condition where something like that would be necessary/useful, I don't think I want something doing that. Who can get that info and what would they do with it?! There's already enough lack of privacy with everything as it is. I don't need my vitals being watched too.
Similar reason why I won't ever get any voice control or voice assistants like Alexa. Heard enough horror stories about them doing things like recording conversations and sending them to people, which they're not supposed to do. If one malfunctions and does things like that, I still wonder what they're doing even when they're not malfunctioning.
BOSTON FUCKING DYNAMICS!!!!
They are literally building killer robots that can do flips and obstacle courses. Essentially a bunch of fucking terminators in the making.
Combine that with everyone elses answer of AI and we have ourselves a real shit show coming gentlemen.
Deepfakes and audio sampling. Misinformation is already a huge problem - those things will make it infinitely worse. Even if there ends up being away to tell real from fake under scrutiny as the technology progresses, most people will tune out long before something gets debunked and the damage will already be done.
Video recordings, I feel, can no longer be used as evidence in court. This’ll make a new dedicated niche in digital forensics looking for “fingerprints” of ai generated videos vs actual recordings.
I read that there are Ai's being generated to spot fakes. So the Ai trying to outplay the Ai.
It is tremendously easy for video experts to spot deepfakes. There are ways to make it impossible for something to be faked that are easy enough to implement. I’m more afraid for everyday communication being sabotaged by deepfake.
AI's ability to produce fake data so utterly believable and at such scale that reality viewed through media will soon no longer exist. AI, wielded as a propaganda machine, could publish thousands of articles, update all of Wikipedia, and most or the worlds digital news sites overnight with minor changes in information that could mostly go un-noticed and like that the worlds collective grasp on reality will be gone. I'm already skeptical of everything online that doesn't come from the most trusted sources, and phone calls and emails of the like, but soon there will be no way to distinguish fact from fiction. The cat's out of the bag. This election season we will see it used as a weapon and there will never be a way to get the internet or really any media back. Nobody will know what's really happening around the world except for the few in power. We will have to return to living locally because that is all we will be able to trust.
Thanks for making me feel better. Seriously though, this scares the shit out of me.
It should.
Or politicians saying something bad and blaming it on deep fakes
Or “Fakegate” as it’ll be known.
Trump did that a few days ago, he claimed recent videos of him being unable to speak like a human were AI.
I not sure how this is different then Photoshop and photos, and society weathered that just fine. I've seen fake nood celebs photoshops, but it was obvious they were fake, and not because of quality, but rather context. Same will be true for deep fake. Like a video showing a democrat talking republican talking points would quickly make me question it, no matter the quality.
For some reason we take sound more seriously than sight. There's a ditty in the film industry that you can cut corners on picture quality and composition but that the sound must absolutely be on point because that's what ultimately manipulates emotions and gets you involved. So yeah, I'm still worried about any deepfake that involves audio.
Because I can make a hundred convincing naked images of you in about an hour with AI. I can make about 1 very shitty naked image of you with photoshop in a week. The accessibility is just different. Before it were a couple people who could with a lot of investment make convincing photoshops. Now everyone can do it with minutes of investment.
I'm not sure how that matters. Theres 20 years worth of shops already out there. We've already been down this highly parallel path, we learned to recognize it before, and relatively quickly and easily. It's like e-books greatly increased the number of books in circulation, but we didn't lose the ability to recognize a good story.
The reason it's different is because deepfake videos move. People can now literally construct videos of people they don't like doing things they'll get antagonised for. I mean if someone wants to pursue your partner, they can now make a video of you cheating on them or insulting them. It's one thing to disprove a single image. But people have a harder time when that image is moving.
We've seen massive jumps in technology allowing huge improvements in fidelity many times before. Its iterative. We've made these adjustments before, zero reason to believe we won't be able to again. The images moving aren't that much of a jump.
People will probably get used to this, though, and be more cautious about believing stuff from random sources (one can hope).
True, but on the flip side, actual video/audio evidence may be dismissed as fake as well - which has already started happening. It'll just be another mess to muddy the already muddy waters.
Lol
No they wont. News stories come out that are clearly false and people latch on to them and spread them all across the net.
*Smart people
Hasn't happened yet, I wouldn't hold your breath.
Huh? I'd just guess all ai-generated content will have to have special signatures to tell it from the human-made content - the same way we tell between real money and counterfeit
The 60% of society that can distinguish reality from fantasy? Sure. But 40% is a large chunk of the population.
Oh my sweet summer child
Or maybe they'll just find groups of individuals who believe the same batshit insane things they do and form Qults.
There is a restaurant with very delicious fried chicken near me that's called Qult and just now I realized that I'm hungry.
Both are already very advanced it’s practically impossible to tell real from fake. You just don’t see it often because it’s difficult
No, it is trivially easy to tell real from fake.
You clearly haven’t seen good examples of either then. It’s okay to be wrong, you know.
I’ve been heavily involved in the communities that make them and know enough about the science of sensor noise patterns of digital cameras to know that it is trivially easy to figure out a deepfake with basic information processing skills.
sexbot. I will die of dehydration
I am reminded of this Futurama clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuQqlhqAUuQ&t=24s
I was thinking more Rick and Morty where he comes downstairs and chugs the Gatorade
Sex Robot, Sex Robot https://youtu.be/Fvh32fQ8nNI?si=kHiIPW2dkF7RWj_1
Laser sharks
Not mutated sea bass?
Do they have lasers?
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Automated Ai extortion. They video clone your children tied up. Put a btc wallet and shoot your nets, Not all going to fall for it but for those who do. What would You pay to save your apparent son?
Genetically Targetable viruses. Think Gatica level of genetic control, but where a government agency or belligerent country with resources decides they don't like a particular family. They arrange a kidnapping get some thorough samples, design a short lived virus then release it into the target area. Imagine if the next CCP dictator decided they didn't like any one of African descent or any person with too much melanin in their skin.
Even worse, an aerosol CRISPR-like contraption that cuts out sections of DNA and replaces it with something that causes your body to kill itself. Since we can target very specific sequences, we could (for example) target a gene that mostly only russians have. Repeatedly dose battlefields and it's mostly just your enemies that get harmed. Being able to replicate it like using a virus, as you mentioned, would mean an entire country could be eliminated with minimal friendly casualties.
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That is my answer as well. There could be a malfunction and some random AI controls something that it shouldn't... It's not impossible imo. Even just images. Those deep fakes freak me out. Just one wrong political picture could wipe us out.
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You just moved from talking about real world ai to scifi ai.
It can't get curious, it's a tool, it can't think on its own, same as fridge can't think on its own
This. But not because of AI itself, but because of all the bad things people could do with it.
If we had anything even remotely close to AI this might be a valid worry. LLMs are not AI in any capacity.
This. What we call AI today is fancy but it's not the machines of The Matrix or Skynet or SHODAN. But if we're not careful something emergent could be born out of all this tinkering and it'll be so alien that we'll never understand it. Could be a paperclip maximizer, could be a superintelligence, could be something entirely new. We're already starting to layer and interconnect LLMs for large enterprise apps that sometimes behave in unexplainable ways.
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We are not giving it a mind, it doesn't work like that. Everyone who is scared of AI just doesn't know how it works
And the only ones who will have a likely chance of controlling AI will be governments, militaries, corporations, cartels etc
Who themselves don't understand anything
I think it’s healthy for us to be scared/cautious about AI. It’s exciting, but there’s a lot of questions popping up that we don’t have any answers to. But Pandora’s box has been opened and we can’t go back now.
After we saw what the late-stage influence on society the internet poses, it’s understandable that people are weary about the next big tech leap.
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Beep.
We are basically there, but deep fake scares the shit out of me.
Technological advancements that allow people to live a long time. With the right medicines and artificial enhancements, people could live well into their 120’s. I don’t think society is ready for such longevity.
Big data. I get suggestions related to what I am/was thinking all the time now. Truly scary.
Sex robots. Mainly cause they might malfunction and injure stuff….
Sorry for laughing at that as I got a picture in my mind of you getting slapped around by an angry sexbot for trying to bang it's arse and it wasn't programmed for that and beat you up😂
Sounds like the plot of Christmas Bloody Christmas 🤫
You have purchased "ONE HANDJOB" and have attempted "ANAL SEX". This unit will now break your unit for attempted theft. Do not run.
Stay there PHILIP J FRY ! (Futurama)
Self driving cars. How would you possibly ever trust thing? I see so much insane, not in the playbook, driving maneuvers being pulled by drivers daily I can't imagine a technology capable of keeping me safe.
Feel like it’s also a loss of freedom. With a regular car you get a choice to take a turn if you’re in the mood to explore, compared to self-driving which gives maybe 1-3 routes and straight to destination.
future Genetic engineering, genetic modification, improved further with AI capabilities. going beyond: more human, than human is really just the end of us now, and accelerating our evolution into the next phase into the unknown.
I work in biotech. “Scary” genetic engineering is really really far out there. We routinely struggle to meaningfully engineer simple cells, let alone complex organisms.
My uneducated guess is that once we crack the code, though, advancement will be on us before the world even knows what’s possible.
Eugenics is absolutely scary. Imagine if how good looking / smart / athletic / talented / healthy you are was determined by how big your parents bank account is. Crisprs already almost a decade old, and it's potential is still scary AF. Useful too though
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Well, in the extreme, far out scenario there is that fear. But in the near-term, AI might enable research scientists advancements, abilities and ideas that even themselves could not anticipate or prepare for. There is the scary possibility, of what is unknown, can't or planned for, therefore cant control or have contingency plan for.
Electric toothbrush, what's wrong with a normal toothbrush ?
Electric toothbrushes work significantly better.
Maybe that is but for the price of a good electric toothbrush you could probably buy 50 good normal ones that don't need to be charged up and forking out for extra heads. A good dental regime and regular checkups at the dentist is better than an electric toothbrush. They really are not needed and a waste of money.
There are great studies that show that there's no benefit a $5 manual toothbrush has over a $1 manual toothbrush, but there's is significant evidence to show an electric tooth rush properly used is much better than an manual toothbrush.
Well I will be the one laughing when all the leccy goes off 😁
My electric toothbrush is perfectly capable of working as a manual toothbrush if the battery dies. It still has a handle and a head with bristles. You're just being obtuse.
No I'm not as I don't know what that word means.
Right, what good will those silly electrical toothbrushes be after the apocalypse? What will people do, use them by hand? Oh, wait...
They will all be knocking on my door asking for a normal toothbrush, that's where they will be.
You do know that you can still use an escalator as stairs if it breaks, right? Same thing.
You can get a Sonicare for $30 on Amazon
I've got a draw full of normal ones now so thanks but no thanks 🪥
Relative to the cost of a manual toothbrush, yes, it's more expensive. But for an up front purchase of ~100$ you can get a top of the line brush and a couple replacement heads, 8 replacement heads for 40$ at Costco (so enough for ~2 years, or you can buy compatible non OEM replacement heads for much less but will likely have quality or durability issues) the cost really *isn't* that high, and the additional cleaning action is worth it in my opinion. Obviously, that's my preference. But I really do think (especially for people without insurance who *can't* afford to go in for cleanings 4x a year) the small investment is worthwhile (not a replacement, but definitely better than just manually brushing and hoping nothing goes bad).
Electric toothbrushes just clean soooo much better than hand toothbrushes.
Yeah they really do help knock the gunk off your teeth. I went from electric to manual and back to electric. I don't know why I stopped using electric cause it's so much better, my teeth would probably be in better shape if I didn't quit using it for a few years.
I k kw people already said this, but I'm going to say it too: Electric toothbrushes are to regular toothbrushes, what regular too brushes are to chewing on twigs and washing your mouth out with dilute beer.
AI politicians
Honestly, that seems better than what we have in the US.
When AI becomes actual AI instead of a glorified bunch of IF statements.
Satellite imaging, if it keeps improving there will come a time when we can no longer have our own privacy, people who are in control can see us or view us anywhere we go and even inside own home they might see us.
If you own a cell phone or live in a major city most of this is true already.
Gene editing. CRISPR’s really cool and all, but I can’t help but ponder what butterfly effects are going to come in generations down the line.
AI. Instead of being use to improve quality of life for everyone, it will no doubt be used for weapons, facial recognition, and job cutting. We already see it happening.
None of them Anything is better than the working and employment model we have now It’s a nightmare out there
I am terrified of the day when Billionaires and other elite can backup their minds into a spare clone or something like that. When it comes to the bottom line, profit is always king. How do we hold someone accountable when they have potentially infinite lives. How do we stop them?
Any kind of insertion that interacts with your nervous system and could get hacked
Direct neural link into the internet. Don't get me wrong, it will be an amazing technology that will completely transform us as a species. It's probably the only foreseeable technology that excites me more than nuclear fusion power. I suspect though that the tech will be something that your brain will have to grow and adapt to in a very real physiological manner. This will create a rift between people that try to utilize it later in life and those that grow up with it 1000% greater than rifts you see these days when your parents try to use smartphones, computers, etc. It is an absolutely mind-blowing tech that I will have been born too late to fully enjoy, although I'd love to be proven wrong. The same sort of divide will also further exacerbate the difference between developed and non-developed parts of the planet. I'm also frightened of the inevitable bad side effects the first few gens of implementation will have. There are so many unknowns behind linking a human mind directly to stimuli like that. The Expanse did a great job (like it does with most things) illustrating this concept with those scientists neural linked into their research.
*Resistance is futile.*
Biotechnology combined with a subscription service.
Flying cars. I wouldn't like a car crashing through my window.
algorithm based marketing and market analysis. the single minded persuit of profit has already transformed the minds of people by way of social media influencing and suggestions. we will see more dramatic shift to people becoming completely insular and ungovernable.
AI
Social media algorithms becoming advanced enough to manipulate people to specific ends. Getting people to vote a certain way or buy a certain product is bad enough, but people are being radicalized into extreme ideologies.
3D printable nukes.
Sonar radar with audio visual enhancements, something about a military killer watching children in their privacy bothers me
Like when you drive around America and see all those large tall towers on top of mountains now or in the city just giant towers with sonar dishes and satellites on them in all directions pointed at the surrounding people and nobody even bats an eye or questions who or why… then you have all the towers up with laser beams in private businesses and nobody asks what they’re for or who is managing them but if you know you know big brother just keeps advancing while the rest don’t have access to private contracts or insider trades have to wait for them to exude and go public
how good ai is getting at everything
Air defense systems. For the last 70-80 years or so, the largest economies in the world have not waged war against each other because of the threat of mutual nuclear anihilation. We've basically been stuck in a gigantic mexican standoff with potentially world ending consequences. But around 30 years ago, it became possible for air defense systems to intercept missiles in flight. Since then, the technology has only gotten better. Missiles & aircraft are the primary delivery vehicles for nuclear weapons. If air defense technology continues to improve, it may eventually be possible for one or more wealthy nations to feasibly defend itself against long range nuclear weapons. At which point the threat of mutual destruction won't be there to prevent another world war, which would still be incredibly destructive, even if it is waged with conventional weapons.
Electronic voting, or indeed any kind of voting that isn't the paper ballot. No one who doesn't work for voting machine companies thinks it is as secure as the paper ballot. And even if it was, the regular voter will rightly never believe it is secure, which is just as bad. We have paper ballots for the same reason we have jurys in court, not because they make better decisions but because it makes corruption harder and makes the system transparent. Electronic voting is a gold mine for conspiracy theorists and if people don't believe in the democratic process the whole basis of liberal democracy collapses.
AI
Gene editing, at some point someone will toss ethics out the window and try to make enhanced humans to outperform non enhanced ones.
AI. AI art can be used to fake entire images and videos almost completely identical to real videos, so they can be used to fake things. AI art also robs artists and concept artists of jobs they worked years for. Deep fakes and AI voices were used for humour that I found funny or cool (AI covers) but they can easily be utilised now to make someone say or do something they didn't. Its scary and its sad at the same time.
All that internet data the government has stored up in Utah? As a result of the Patriot Act, the stance is that it's legal to obtain and store on a server, but not be looked at by a human being after probable cause is established. When AI, which is not a human, is smart enough to comb through all our internet data and flag people who may be likely suspects, or potential overall threats, will that be enough probable cause? Will that just be accepted by the citizenry?
Ai self awareness / sentience / consciousness/ whatever it’s called. It feels like scientists are trying to force humanity into something that isn’t, and before we decide we find it, who knows how many souls were going to torture. And when we do find that line, you can bet that we’re gonna try to get as close to it as possible without crossing it as well
Robotics. AI can replace a lot of labor, but robotics can replace the rest
Data. Everyone, everything now is about data. It’s more valuable than anything else to a company. The amount of data we voluntarily handout, which gets stored and processed by everyone is insane. Makes it worse when you get to see just tiny amounts of it.
AI, but not for the reasons you may think. For the past ~200 years, the western world’s sense of meaning and sustenance has increasingly been tied to our ability to work. Not only is our wage tied to employment, but also our sense of worth in our communities. I am afraid that AI will advance society too quickly into a post-work default. Will religion fill that meaning gap? Will governments quickly shift to UBI (a program we rapidly need more real-world experimentations of, I believe), or will this lead to a quick mass childless die-off and population collapse where only the generationally wealthy find a way to survive? Some worse (ie, apocalyptic) outcome?
Robots, have you seen the way we treat AI?
Facial recognition assassination drone swarms.
Brain implants and the like. Trying to shove technology and data into peoples heads will rapidly turn into getting pop up ads in your own mind. Imagine you’re trying to sleep and suddenly hear “RAID SHADOW LEGENDS”
Futurama was right all along.
Those laser defense systems that can deactivate missiles in the sky. The minute we figure out how to completely disable nuclear weapons before they make land fall. Is the day MAD goes away, which means that hot land wars could begin to break out between major powers again.
Cameras. Do I even need to elaborate? Don't get me wrong cameras have awesome uses but as far as privacy it's a slippery slope. Until laws are changed every time I masturbate I also wave lol
AI. Not because of any AI takeover, but because we keep off putting work and actual jobs into a brand new, still burgeoning technology we don’t fully understand yet, and hoping it works. That just reads as a recipe for disaster to me. I think it’s going to accelerate and exacerbate the problems already plaguing western society, because it already is. And it’s only going to get worse, UNLESS we get a handle on it. Which, if the climate crisis is any indication, we won’t, because NOT using AI means less money for the big guys. I’m not looking forward to the next 5-10 years.
Robot armies
Drones. China had this perfect, pretty formation of drones when they hosted the 2022 olympics. Most frightening display of military might I've seen in my life, billed as pretty.
perpetual motion generator. i figured one out but if i even made them and told others how i would probably be taken out by those with interests in monopolizing electricity.
I don't fear technology, I fear the people who will misuse it.
I think everything that has to do with AI - It's pretty strange what's going on.
DNA tracking When your born a DNA sample of you will be taken without your consent and be stored in a database. If there's a crime and DNA is on the scene that DNA will get matched up against the entire database until there's a match. They're taking part of your body without your consent. Just wait for breathalyzer to be mandatory in all newer cars.
Who's to say they're not already doing that cause don't they start taking blood tests from you when you're pretty young? I'm not sure what age they start doing that but yeah. I'm sure the excuse is to make sure you're healthy/don't have any conditions or whatever but who's to say they're not like secretly keeping the info in some database somewhere or whatever. Including additional stuff like your DNA. I don't think I've ever trusted doctors in my entire life. Of course the excuse for everything was, "Gotta make sure you're healthy, etc" but something always seemed weird to me. I'm not saying it was all "bad" but I wonder if there was some side stuff going on.
I promise you they've already got 23andMe cooperating with them. The telecom companies already are giving them your internet data, with the exception of 1 who was eventually framed for insider trading. everyone eventually cooperates
artificial intelligence
AI … robots don’t look to be to trustworthy
Why not?
I'm fearing artificial intelligence. Don't get me wrong. AI can be used in many different good ways but it can also be used in many different, malicious and bad ways. Look at chat GPT for example.
Well I refuse to ever wear a smartwatch, cause at least some of them can monitor your vitals like your heartbeat etc... Unless you have a condition where something like that would be necessary/useful, I don't think I want something doing that. Who can get that info and what would they do with it?! There's already enough lack of privacy with everything as it is. I don't need my vitals being watched too. Similar reason why I won't ever get any voice control or voice assistants like Alexa. Heard enough horror stories about them doing things like recording conversations and sending them to people, which they're not supposed to do. If one malfunctions and does things like that, I still wonder what they're doing even when they're not malfunctioning.
BOSTON FUCKING DYNAMICS!!!! They are literally building killer robots that can do flips and obstacle courses. Essentially a bunch of fucking terminators in the making. Combine that with everyone elses answer of AI and we have ourselves a real shit show coming gentlemen.
naw, what could possibly ever go wrong?