For me it’s Open Source AGI not controlled by the enshittifying power of capital
Cure for cancer
Sending someone to mars and keeping an eye on how he lives his life and survives.
Would feel like a survival game let’s play.
Sending someone to mars
…and it should be Elon himself.
Pretty please.
Naw, just send him out for a French haircut here. Much cheaper. Reserve space missions for people who are actually respectable.
Naw, just send him out for a French haircut here.
But… … but then he would come BACK!!
Is he immortal or will he become undead or something?
I mean… in at least 2 pieces, so it all gud.
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Lab-grown meat that is both indistinguishable from animal-grown and is cheaper. Bonus points if they can make bacon have 100% of our daily vitamins and minerals.
Sustained fusion
Sustained net positiv fusion.
It’s plausible that we’ll see it in our lifetime.
Would be nice
That’s the first thing that comes into my mind when people say ‘you can’t spend that much money’, when thinking of being a billionaire.
I would finance the living shit out of fusion technology. You know. For mankind and such.
Flexible, plug-n-play solar energy capture methods with more versatile applications than inside aluminum frames glued to huge hunks of glass.
Like, a paint. I could just paint the south side of my house with the stuff and it handles my electricity demand.
Room temperature superconductors. Not for any of the particular uses per se, but just because the world would go nuts and it would be interesting to see.
Alzheimer/Dementia cure. That would be so nice.
Defeating aging.
Read the book Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey…
Limitless Peace
so no more inheritance? no more younger generations getting their turn to control things? sounds like a nightmare scenario.
Maybe think more creatively and not with a scarcity oriented pro-aging mindset. Limitless peace.
Fusion reactors that produce all the (electrical) power we need.
This is the big one. With infinite energy you can basically do matter transmutation and end most forms of commodity scarcity.
I think the “promise” of fusion is a huge misunderstanding.
I mean we already have a nearly infinite source of clean energy, it’s called fission. The only difference between fission and fusion is that fusion will be much more expensive.
If you want a truly unlimited source of energy, we have those too, they’re wind and solar.
Seriously though, the expectations for fusion are completely rediculous, when we finally do get it working, it will be the most expensive form of energy ever concieved. If the reactors use the standard method of generating energy, heat capture to run a turbine, it will also require enormous amounts of beryllium as part of the “blanket” around the reactor. How much beryllium will be needed? In the whole world, we probably have enough beryllium for 4 grid scale reactors, the cost of which would be astronomical.
Here’s the worst part, over time those blankets would absorb neutrons, the materials would degrade and eventually the now radioactive blanket would have to be disposed of and replaced.
The tldr is this - tokamak and stellerator style fusion reactors work great in theory, they will probably successfully make sustainable fusion reactions quite soon. But they may never generate electricity in practice, they’re a logistical and economical nightmare.
I do think fusion could make a fantastic spacecraft engine however, I expect that will be a huge application.
That god is a chemically sustained illusion, and the dismantling of religion.
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Large scale terraforming. We’re gonna need it here on Earth if we don’t get climate change under control… and we’re not gonna get climate change under control the easy way cuz it’s not profitable.
But if we do get a hold on planet-scale, controlled climate manipulation here, that’ll give us a gold mine of data for extraterrestrial use.
We’re gonna need it here on Earth
But we are way too stupid for it.
I want robot body parts.
I want to live forever, or at least until I get lazy and flash some shady firmware to my robotic heart…
Immortality or at least a usefully extended lifespan
So much I want to do!
- Find proof of extraterrestrial life
- Find out what causes gravity and learn to use it (just imagine a world in which we could create gravity)
- Master matter and build Replicators
- Get a grasp of what time is and why we don’t have a real perception of it
Wait, which Replicator are you taking about? It makes a difference.
Oh, I meant the ‘make me a sandwich’ - device from Star Trek.
