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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Wait. I just realized something. One of the significant reasons humans are such amazing creatures compared to the other species is our generational knowledge we can pass down. But we have a saturation point. We need consciousness information downloading. Not immortality. But a way to download Wikipedia to our brains. That's the next step.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The solution to that historically has been urbanization, which allowed people to become specialists in a chosen field. They get to absorb all the knowledge in a specific field of expertise, and then a select few are smart enough to push it further.

Unfortunately we haven't really managed to apply this to politics yet, because those who are specialists in getting elected aren't necessarily specialists in governing either. Nor are they likely good at governing everything, maybe just a specific part. But picking who is suitable enough is not done by specialists but by the general public, which is both democracy's strength and weakness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I can agree with that. But something has gotta give? I think we're in the right direction, we have some significant spedbumps along the way is all

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed. It's so tiring actually navigating Wikipedia. I just want a megacorp to select the best bits and inject them directly into my brain when they see fit!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

But make sure they take out anything that would negatively affect their company!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think it will work. Some knowledge you just can't acquire without lived experiences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Sure. But you don't need lived experiences to have full knowledge of economic histories or previous laws that have failed and should not be brought back. "Lived experiences" is just another bandwidth problem for most.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Possibly. I think that might be a temporary stop gap until we get to bio engineering. I doubt we are going to integrate with AI

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

not necessarily, just a brain chip, doesn't need ai

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

economy collapsing and all we do is eat hot chip & lie

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can be bisexual too (until the camps for us filthy gays open)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Don’t worry. I’ll bath in the blood of the wicked to protect you. If they come for my gay autistic god son. I will eat the throats of the ones who step through that door looking for war.