/pol/, what are the political implications of the following emerging

I just want a machine that I can put my dick inside of and it makes me ejaculate instantly. That's fucking it.

>>134390769
Solar power won't be useful since nuclear far overshadows it unless you don't need much power and can be in the sun constantly, like a cheap satellite in space. Battery storage is useful if you aren't running on a continuous power source and have something dock.
AI is a meme and just needs to be controlled.
3D printing is and will be very inneficient and should be used only for modeling.
Gene editing has great potential but will take the longest time to develop. A potential use for AI.
Virtual reality will never be convenient because few people have the time to put on a headset and walk around for hours a day.

>>134390769
>Solar power + battery storage
it is already here for some time and it didn't changed much
>Electric vehicles + Level 4/5 autonomous driving
1st one is still to expensive second still in testing
>Machine learning/AI + Big Data and robotics
again still tests not much in terms of wide commercial use
>Additive manufacturing/3D printing
Here already and it is getting bigger every year
>Crispr/Cas9 gene editing
GMO is already here and it is pretty controversial so not much except better quality of products. Don't expect any human GMO any time soon and this would actually change something.
>Augmented reality/virtual reality
Mostly affects entertainment but it is grwoin esspecialy since it got support from giants like Sony and Valve

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>>134391777
Source? It seems that every major bank, automotive executive and energy executive are bracing for a massive upsurge in solar power, battery storage and electric vehicles. If that actually is the case, I would be fascinated to see whether the States would make a push to become energy independent, since the petrodollar is such an important piece of global politics at this point. Would the States finally stop sucking Saudi dick? If the world moves to solar energy, maybe the Saudis will go bankrupt and we can finally glass the M.E.

CRISPR/Cas9 would be really interesting if they could figure out a gene therapy to increase IQ, and it seems like some transhumanists want to try to use technology to bridge the race-IQ gap, which would be interesting. I doubt it will happen, but who knows?

>>134390769
having read a lot of gene therapy papers, all I can say is you dont want anyone injecting that stuff into you... yet.

Give it 20 years at least, likely 30 before we start to see it in somewhat regular use. We have really only started to push the lentiviral and retroviral vectors, and only recently started exploring beyond the Tameyaka (cant remember spelling? its japanese and i think it was Nobel Prize winning) factors to induce stem cell development.

In the short run, expect a lot more trials akin to using hair follicle cells to grow peripheral nervous myelin and axons; such work has been done with rats.

A big issue is that the long-term effects simply cant be seen easily. Rats are great, but they dont live long enough to see damage down the years. Their neurology is also more friendly than ours (rat neurons dont scar quite like human neurons do). As such, highly optimistic studies on mice and rats dont always pan out on people. At the same time, Monkey trials are expensive and even hazardous (monkeys are vectors for hepatitis and all sorts of nasty things; rats at least dont fling their germ-infested shit at you for fun or try to rip your face). So human trials will have to be long and look for increased cancer risks, etc., but human studies with experimental therapies tend to be unethical, and thus you have to wait for cases to arise where treatment would be helpful... Suffice to say, there are practical and ethical difficulties just in testing theories, let alone financial and labor.

Bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) may be the next big thing tbqh, as it could help answer the "antibiotic resistant" problem. The main advantage is that Viruses can work to overcome resistance with a little push, and even be targeted to species, rather than trying to make new broad antibiotics.

>>134394516
Nuclear is more efficient and is the real way to go. You see countrues without resources investing in it. That is because renewable energy has slim profit margins.

>>134394516
most bets are hedging on the idea that solar will get cheaper and more efficient, but diminishing returns says otherwise. It's also ludicrously toxic to the environment to make, even though once made emissions are zero.

Solar can be a core part of energy planning, but there are a LOT of practical benefits to coal, nuclear, and gas. A lot will hinge on battery storage in the future. Right now they are just on this side of mediocre for driving, maybe okay if you only do city commuting.

>>134394825
Yeah, my idealistic future scenario is miniaturized fusion generators powering all kinds of shit, but we're probably ~50 years away from that at least. Hell, if we can get a nuclear fusion reactor with a Q>1 in the next 30 years, that would be a damn near miracle. The fact that China and India are investing in the technology is promising though.

>>134394825
>slim profit margins

try negative once you factor out subsidies.

>>134390769
>implying technology exists and everything isn't just secret magic
>being this bluepilled

In this thread no one has a clue what they're talking about and are fronting giant opinions like they're well resourced.

>>134395597
>implying my opinions aren't facts

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> implications

For most of history, "defense" beat "offense". There was no reliable lie detection. It was easy to hide in the woods. A besieged garrison could hold off a much larger force.

Today, "offense" is getting ahead of "defense". Lie detection is fairly reliable and gets good when combined with Internet history logs. There are no unexplored places to hide. Besieged garrisons get drone strike'd.

What I'm saying is our domination by the ruling family's AI is nearly complete.

I hope he likes space colonization.

>>134390769
>solar power + battery storage
useful in some cases (residential use, grid assistance maybe), almost useless for industrial cases.

>electric vehicles
the torque is amazing, less complexity (although at a cost since it seems all electric cars will be apple tier), potentially more efficient depending on where you live and what you do. great for stop and go traffic. shit for long distance travel, places without good infrastructure, and lugging things.

>autonomous driving, machine learning
deep learning (which is what everyone thinks of when these topics come up) is useless for complex situations. deep learning is extremely good at taking a set amount of inputs, and calculating an output according to training data. if you give it information that it wasn't trained to deal with, it will fail horrendously. so far a meme but a meme with lots of promise.

>robotics/additive manufacturing/3d printing/crispr/gene editing
no clue.

>augmented reality/virtual reality
great promise, the tech isn't there yet.

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>>134390769
AI is going to kill us all if we give it the ability to handle weapons and make decisions, and you already know that the defense departments in every major country have a secret weapons program going for it. I personally welcome our new robot overlords. I hope we go extinct.

Gene editing will just make everyone white, so that's a plus. Niggers will scream black pride all day but they're just jealous.

There are essentially two extremes that will likely happen.

1: The socialists/communists/liberals win and the tech is all centralized by the one world government who decides who can get and do what

2: Humanity moves towards a more individual freedom trajectory and uses the increases in technology to allow every human on Earth to be 100% independent and do whatever the fuck they want

>>134397124
>both outcomes are communism

Fuck right off with that. Materialistic desires must be expunged

Singularity ~33 years from now. Man hands fate over to the machines. Incomprehensible processing power, data and architecture. It's not a matter of whether it will or will not happen. We will, as a matter of fact, demand it.