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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Transition from toilet paper to the Three Seashells.

[โ€“] Coreidan 3 points 3 months ago

An asteroid

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Quantum computing becoming practical for ordinary people.

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[โ€“] Weirdfish 2 points 3 months ago

Vert skating in the Olympics

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Oblivion. The one prediction I'm confident will happen.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Competent, honest leadership everywhere.

[โ€“] artichokecustard 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

the ability to scan one's brain to unlock all the memories that i hope are still stored in there, uses would be things like knowing exactly how many times you've sneezed, how many sandwinches you've eaten, how many total minutes spent hiccuping, and you take the information and compare your stats with friends

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here's the thing. You are all trillion of your features, but you are mostly an informative subset of maybe a million. You drop a verse of shakespeare from your memory and you'd essentially be the same person.

Your memories don't encode every single thing that has happened to you, they encode blurry snapshots of fast-decaying events and flatten them over time depending on importance, filling in the blanks with other parts of your mind (made with other blurry decaying events).

If you thought AI was bad at hallucinating events, be glad you cannot ask your brain direct questions

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Or hide the parts we want to forget and breathe normally for a few days.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The American Government dying

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Maybe start with the death of the two-party system?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

in sha' allah

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[โ€“] Crackhappy 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

AGI singularity would be cool

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Human extinction. Thankfully, climate change exists, and will very likely be the end of us if we don't blow ourselves up sooner.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Okay, you first /s

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Human's have done some impressive things. We're unravelling the mysteries of the universe and building some amazing tech. Yes, a powerful few of us have done some horrific things, to ourselves and to the creatures we share our home with, but I don't think it was all for nothing if that's what you're getting at.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

The deaths of certain people.

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