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Can't help but imagine/expect a future where the greediest and most tyrannic people live practically indefinitely, protected by swarms of AI drones.. You can b

Can't help but imagine/expect a future where the greediest and most tyrannic people live practically indefinitely, protected by swarms of AI drones.. You can bet at least some of them are thinking about this too

eloisant 1y ago
Altered Carbon
- accrual 1y ago
  Great show! Worth a watch for anyone into live action cyberpunk.
  - bwb 1y ago
    Great book first, the book is far better than the show :) (and I liked the show).
  - BurningFrog 1y ago
    Truly great on so many levels. The second season is best avoided though.
    - accrual 1y ago
      Yeah, I had a tough time getting into the second season. Joel Kinnaman was really great in the first season though.
2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
They should read about the 14th century peasant revolts that make ISIS look tame in comparison.
maerF0x0 1y ago
What makes you assume that greediest and tyrannical people are the ones who would be preferentially selected for in a system that offers increased healthspan / lifespan? It's my presumption that these services are expensive now but once proven will become commodity. In sufficient time it would be as cheap/free as penicillin or a multivitamin.
- gdbsjjdn 1y ago
  Who's getting these services now? The people with the most money. You can't just extrapolate any technology out and say "one day it'll be cheap", this is a labour-intensive process. MRI machines are not getting Moore's Lawed
  - htss2013 1y ago
    What is the fundamental reason why MRI machines could not be produced in higher quantities at much cheaper unit costs?
    - BizarroLand 1y ago
      Demand. When the first 5,000 units cost a mil a piece, few manufacturers are going to go all in, especially when a product improvement could make their systems obsolete before they're finished being built. If you had a large country like china or the us or some other big baller walk in and say, "make 5,000 MRIs to these specs and we'll buy them" then by the end that manufacturer could quite possibly crank out another 5,000 for comparative pennies and flood the market, but until someone puts a few billion on the line it's not going to happen.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
    > MRI machines are not getting Moore's Lawed Are you sure about that? Commercial: https://hyperfine.io https://hyperfine.io 'DIY': https://hackaday.com/2015/05/04/hackaday-prize-entry-a-low-cost-open-source-mri/ https://hackaday.com/2015/05/04/hackaday-prize-entry-a-low-c... https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/building-an-mri-machine-(for-$100)/ https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/building-an-mri-machi... https://www.ismrm.org/22/program-files/ET-08.htm https://www.ismrm.org/22/program-files/ET-08.htm https://github.com/mri4all https://github.com/mri4all https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385920900_ezyMRI_How_to_build_an_MRI_machine_from_scratch_--_Experience_from_a_four-day_hackathon https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385920900_ezyMRI_Ho... ^^^^ Those actually aren't the ones I remembered, there was something in between that 'DIY' stuff, and the commercial thing a few years ago. ISTR also commercial, but slightly less bulky. But can't be bothered to search for that now. (Probably something related to https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rebco+mri https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rebco+mri ) There is also commercial mobile stuff for veterinary use.
beAbU 1y ago
This is a common trope that's been covered by a few sci-fi creations I've consumed recently.
- bongripper 1y ago
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qoez 1y ago
Everyone is complaining about boomers being selfish but just wait until longevity focused meglomaniac millenials are in power.
BurningFrog 1y ago
You sound depressed. Might want to have that looked into. I'm only 25% being a jerk. That is how depression thinks and talks.
- Razengan 1y ago
  You sound like a gaslighter. That is how gaslighters talk. But yeah I am depressed, cause I've seen and heard and read about too much shit. You've probably mostly been in a bubble that has had no reason to expect anything but the best outcomes of everything.

eloisant 1y ago

Altered Carbon

accrual 1y ago
Great show! Worth a watch for anyone into live action cyberpunk.
- bwb 1y ago
  Great book first, the book is far better than the show :) (and I liked the show).
- BurningFrog 1y ago
  Truly great on so many levels. The second season is best avoided though.
  - accrual 1y ago
    Yeah, I had a tough time getting into the second season. Joel Kinnaman was really great in the first season though.

2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago

They should read about the 14th century peasant revolts that make ISIS look tame in comparison.

maerF0x0 1y ago

What makes you assume that greediest and tyrannical people are the ones who would be preferentially selected for in a system that offers increased healthspan / lifespan? It's my presumption that these services are expensive now but once proven will become commodity. In sufficient time it would be as cheap/free as penicillin or a multivitamin.

gdbsjjdn 1y ago
Who's getting these services now? The people with the most money. You can't just extrapolate any technology out and say "one day it'll be cheap", this is a labour-intensive process. MRI machines are not getting Moore's Lawed
- htss2013 1y ago
  What is the fundamental reason why MRI machines could not be produced in higher quantities at much cheaper unit costs?
  - BizarroLand 1y ago
    Demand. When the first 5,000 units cost a mil a piece, few manufacturers are going to go all in, especially when a product improvement could make their systems obsolete before they're finished being built. If you had a large country like china or the us or some other big baller walk in and say, "make 5,000 MRIs to these specs and we'll buy them" then by the end that manufacturer could quite possibly crank out another 5,000 for comparative pennies and flood the market, but until someone puts a few billion on the line it's not going to happen.
- LargoLasskhyfv 1y ago
  > MRI machines are not getting Moore's Lawed Are you sure about that? Commercial: https://hyperfine.io https://hyperfine.io 'DIY': https://hackaday.com/2015/05/04/hackaday-prize-entry-a-low-cost-open-source-mri/ https://hackaday.com/2015/05/04/hackaday-prize-entry-a-low-c... https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/building-an-mri-machine-(for-$100)/ https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/building-an-mri-machi... https://www.ismrm.org/22/program-files/ET-08.htm https://www.ismrm.org/22/program-files/ET-08.htm https://github.com/mri4all https://github.com/mri4all https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385920900_ezyMRI_How_to_build_an_MRI_machine_from_scratch_--_Experience_from_a_four-day_hackathon https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385920900_ezyMRI_Ho... ^^^^ Those actually aren't the ones I remembered, there was something in between that 'DIY' stuff, and the commercial thing a few years ago. ISTR also commercial, but slightly less bulky. But can't be bothered to search for that now. (Probably something related to https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rebco+mri https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rebco+mri ) There is also commercial mobile stuff for veterinary use.

beAbU 1y ago

This is a common trope that's been covered by a few sci-fi creations I've consumed recently.

bongripper 1y ago
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qoez 1y ago

Everyone is complaining about boomers being selfish but just wait until longevity focused meglomaniac millenials are in power.

BurningFrog 1y ago

You sound depressed. Might want to have that looked into. I'm only 25% being a jerk. That is how depression thinks and talks.

Razengan 1y ago
You sound like a gaslighter. That is how gaslighters talk. But yeah I am depressed, cause I've seen and heard and read about too much shit. You've probably mostly been in a bubble that has had no reason to expect anything but the best outcomes of everything.