What does 10x more capable look like now? Surely at some point we will reach an asymptote of what can be done purely digitally: all useful coding tasks can be automated, most math research, etc. At some point the physical world becomes the dyke holding back the singularity; until these genius models can scale their investigation into physical experiments and manufacturing, the future will have arrived only in the digital world.
I think you're making a mistake in thinking the digital world is the only one reachable to AI. Robotics and sensing would be opened up by a sufficiently capable AI.
In the Culture series, the hyperintelligent Minds that run civilization are described as keeping human citizens happy as a competition with eachother, where they compare their approval rates. One character likens it to people keeping a beloved aquarium.
The Culture has a lot of opinions of the proper way of doing things as any society does, and I'm certain that a ship doing that with its people would be considered very bad form. There are ships that decide to do things that go against the usual ethical boundaries[1], but they're outcasts. The really big ships generally have multiple minds running them, too.
Humans in the Culture are generally improved in a few ways (they don't get sick, live for 300-400 years by default etc) but still very human.
I do recall a bit about playing in different worlds in dreams though, during sleep. Ultimately, really, the average person's life in the Culture already involves doing pretty much whatever they like within reason any time, so it's not like they need to escape too much real-world suffering.
Iain M Banks himself described the relationship between humans and the ship Minds as having "a status somewhere between passengers, pets and parasites."[2]
It's more like running a daycare. The stream of children never ends and they never grow up. If you get really sick of it though you can always kick out the kids (responsibly) and leave.
He explores that, but being an entertainingly twisted sort of writer he focuses more on its use for torture, with "neural laces" in Excession and virtual hells in Surface Detail.
Yes, this is definitely more an article about Cyan than it is about the Myst-like genre of games. Quern was relatively popular and it is certainly the best Myst game since Riven. Dimhaven is quite good too if a lot more linear. I think the problem is that it’s just very hard to build a satisfying puzzle game. You need brilliant puzzles and a lot of testing.
Happy to continue paying annual for Plex as I think it's worth it, but I'm definitely also installing Jellyfin alongside and starting to look at what really limits swapping completely. Currently that's mostly things like missing PlayStation apps, need for plugins to handle certain features, more complex accounts/auth story, etc.
I'm hopeful that with AI development (on a short leash), the Jellyfin core contributors can increase velocity somewhat and really close the gap.
If Jellyfin had a PS5 app I would switch to it instantly, it’s the only thing keeping me on plex right now. Are there other similar apps for streaming your own media to a playstation?
I believe of Plex/Jellyfin/Emby, only Plex has a app for PS5. From what I gather Sony are rather strict about who they allow to develop PS5 apps, and Plex is a "strategic partner" ($$$).
Google Drive reneged on unlimited storage for Education accounts once they realized that universities also contain researchers who need to store huge amounts of data.
Not only did they cut unlimited, they went to insultingly low limits with not much warning after all their nice promises. Moderately large universities ended up with less space per student than the 15GB they give out to anyone for free. It was a pretty bad rug pull.
Massive fraud from abroad didn't help there either. A favorite backup spot for terabytes of pirated media, complete with guides on which schools had good @edu addresses for it.
Hadn't even considered your obvious point, a good one!
I use the non-Pro version for 1080p streaming and have for years. It’s great, does what I want and gets out of the way. Some years ago they were forced by Google to use the standard AndroidTV UI instead of their own custom one, which means it now shows ads on the home screen (a carousel of “watch this on service X”), which are inoffensive enough I haven’t bothered to circumvent them. You can swap to your own custom UI if you want with some ssh futzing.
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