Things that p*** you off/bug you/annoy you

[Immortality]

I keep reading all the replies but my brain always ends up in the same location.

Once those ******* become self aware we are screwed.

 

[hademall]

What p15S3s me off is when some idiot doesn’t secure their load onto the back of their Ute/ trailer or whatever, and it ends up hitting someone else’s car or even worse going through their windscreen possibly causing serious injuries or death.

And what really really piS5ys me off, is the amount of drivers who just drive past sh1t like this on the road, possibly several times a day and don’t think to take one minute out of their obviously very busy lives to perhaps save someone else’s life by removing the sh1t off the road.

Spotted this, this morning, a piece of structural pine measuring 1.6 metres long, 45x90mm, along with a length of architrave around the same length, in the middle of a main road near me. Couldn’t stop due to seeing it late and busy traffic. Came back several hours later thinking someone surely would have picked it up. Nah!

 

[Derekthetree]

That view only exists because of a lack of imagination.

Systems will be developed where AI continues with its own software development and training to the detriment of mankind. Other systems will be developed where robotic systems manufacture and repairs all manner of robots. At that point it will be close to game over…

At that point the mass of humans will be superfluous to the needs of the 1%ers who will be the only ones living in utter luxury with their own robotic police force to protect them. The rest of us will be given a living wage (for a life of relative poverty and unfulfilment) and the only jobs left would be for cheap meatbags where those jobs would be too damaging for the robot (just look at how Tepco treated workers during Fukushima for a hint on that mindset)…

What will throw humans over the edge will be when we are stupid enough to give autonomy to military AI and their robots with kill decisions then made by software… Game over unless you’re in the 1%… or maybe the more elite 0.1% group…

Wont happen overnight but it’s well on its way…

That's why I said "still" need to fix them.

Although I think that the current ability to invent a true AI is not there. The human brain is very complex, and while computers are faster, they cannot (currently) think beyond their programming. Honestly, I'm not sure they'll ever get to that stage, but supremely fast things with access to everything ever documented may be indistinguishable

I've seen an agent punch through a concrete wall; men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air; yet, their strength, and their speed, are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong, or as fast, as *you* can be.

 

[Sabbath']

I keep reading all the replies but my brain always ends up in the same location.

Once those ******* become self aware we are screwed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk

 

[hademall]

I reckon there would be a market for a smaller unit, something about lawnmower sized that crawls along the wall laying the bricks. It’d have to be constantly feed with bricks and mortar (or mortar mix and water?). But with a laser alignment system and some way to indicate end, or corners, of the wall, this system could speed up brick laying. The brickie could just focus on the tricky bits and let the laying machine (with an unskilled labourer) fill in the rest.

I think there is something like what you suggest.

 

[VS 5.0]

There’s been talk of a guaranteed basic living wage (even for the unemployed) which should ensure the peasants are reasonably happy until the long term solution is developed

Indeed.

However, no one on UBI will be buying $x,000 phones, super massive TVs, new cars etc every couple of years.

Non-discretionary spending would disappear.

 

[Skylarking]

I think there is something like what you suggest.

Lots of different systems have been proposed over the years but at this point I suspect people are still cheaper and easier to manage..

Below is a 6 year old video of a conventional brick laying robot

and these 3D print system for making houses have been around for a while

Once economics make such system the better approach, human bricklaying may be a very specialist trade…

 

[NORTI]

banks. or specifically waiting on hold for call centres, and then not getting answers. 12 months on this home loan cant come around fast enough. I will be looking to change home loan providers this time next year.

 

[Skylarking]

Indeed.

However, no one on UBI will be buying $x,000 phones, super massive TVs, new cars etc every couple of years.

Non-discretionary spending would disappear.

The will have to be some discretionary spend else the peasants will revolt…

Only after our (meatbag) overloads have the means to be independent of and protected from us will that equation change but then it’d be too late… Who knowns how far away such a dystopian future awaits…

 

[vc commodore]

Don't think I'd ever buy a Kia.

Coppers in S.A are using them as patrol vehicles