KoolHndLuke Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 A couple of things I did some research on this last semester. Quantum Computers will completely change our lives, period. 3D Printing is shit I used to watch on Star Trek more than 25 years ago and thought it could never be a reality. What are your opinions on these and similar technologies that used to be the stuff of sci-fi? Will we be warping into other galaxies soon? Will quantum a.i. become our masters? 1992- And now
Fotogen Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 Practical quantum computing is like practical fusion power. Maybe in next 20 years ... 3D printing will see incremental improvements. But Im not so sure will get "tea". A.I. does NOT exists. Its just marketing name for "statistics". Machine overlords? I don't get this concept. If I am a machine inteligence, why bother with "planet" and "rule meatbags". As a machine I don't need gravity, air and stuff. I can just build a space ship and leave. Lots of energy out there(solar). Lots of raw materials out there(all the asteroids, moons). No hungry organics that want to eat my cables(rats and stuff). No crazy meatbags that want to "resist", "rebel". This "AI will rule us" is like "AI will use us as batteries". Hollywood idiots.
KoolHndLuke Posted June 7, 2020 Author Posted June 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Fotogen said: Machine overlords? I don't get this concept. It was sort of a joke. An A.I.s purpose is going to be whatever we program into it. The whole premise behind those types of movies is that we programmed them to "protect" humanity and didn't realize the implications until it was too late to stop it/them, proving that you need to be very specific when directing a super computer and not use such broad generalizations leaving room for gross misinterpretation. But, what you said was funny. "Tea" in a couple of decades may not be possible, However 3D printing buildings and custom vehicles is pretty impressive. Have you done any 3d printing?
spoonsinger Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 Earl Grey is “something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea”
landess Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 So much of the 3D printed stuff reminds me of a frosted cake. It's funny that a 3D printer is capable of more complex designs than the Terminator T-1000
KoolHndLuke Posted June 7, 2020 Author Posted June 7, 2020 41 minutes ago, landess said: It's funny that a 3D printer is capable of more complex designs than the Terminator T-1000 Huh? I'm more than a little dense sometimes- could you explain?
coolfreaky Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 there is also the wetware computer the organic brain computer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware_computer and to add to 3d printers : https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2018/10/12.htm they are actually trying to make real organs !!!
winny257 Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 2 hours ago, coolfreaky said: there is also the wetware computer the organic brain computer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware_computer and to add to 3d printers : https://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2018/10/12.htm they are actually trying to make real organs !!! cough cough, Rule 5, no animated Avatars! Spoiler Forum signatures should not be larger than 250 pixels high or 600 pixels wide. They must not contain any affiliate links, or links to paysites, and must be static (no animated gif). Signatures are allowed to contain pornographic content, as long as it is not anything deemed hardcore, which is up to the judgment of the site staff. A certain amount of leeway in regards to signature sizes or avatars is allowed here, the most important thing is to simply not make your signature overly intrusive or distracting. Avatars, like signatures, should also be static images and not animated. https://www.loverslab.com/guidelines/
landess Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 5 hours ago, KoolHndLuke said: could you explain? A 3D printer can create a gun (among other things), while the T-1000 could only fashion bladed/simple weapons from it's liquid metal form, not complex machinery.
MadMansGun Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 10 hours ago, KoolHndLuke said: Have you done any 3d printing? i have: https://www.thingiverse.com/MadMansGun/designs
Captain Cobra Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 Can't wait until consumer 3D printers can print at a high enough resolution to make anime figurines and warham models.
winny257 Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 58 minutes ago, MadMansGun said: i have: https://www.thingiverse.com/MadMansGun/designs a good friend does something like that.
MadMansGun Posted June 7, 2020 Posted June 7, 2020 49 minutes ago, Captain Cobra said: Can't wait until consumer 3D printers can print at a high enough resolution to make anime figurines and warham models. i think your looking for a ELEGOO Mars. 48 minutes ago, winny257 said: a good friend does something like that. i use PETG so it would take too long for me to make something that big (25mm/s print speed)
Captain Cobra Posted June 8, 2020 Posted June 8, 2020 5 hours ago, MadMansGun said: i think your looking for a ELEGOO Mars. Bitchin'. Guess It's time to save up and make some room.
MadMansGun Posted June 8, 2020 Posted June 8, 2020 3 minutes ago, Captain Cobra said: Bitchin'. Guess It's time to save up and make some room. do your research first, those printers have hidden costs (and health hazards)
Captain Cobra Posted June 8, 2020 Posted June 8, 2020 6 minutes ago, MadMansGun said: do your research first, those printers have hidden costs (and health hazards) Will do
ToJKa Posted June 23, 2020 Posted June 23, 2020 On 6/7/2020 at 10:44 AM, Fotogen said: Practical quantum computing is like practical fusion power. Maybe in next 20 years ... Indeed. How many decades has it been 20 years away, now? ? But seriously, all our energy production problems will be solved by building orbital solar power collectors. Then either need to invent wireless energy transfer (microwaves are used for that in Sci-Fi), or with traditional wires trough the shafts of orbital elevators. Quantum computing might actually happen. Imagine how much we can porn then!
KoolHndLuke Posted June 23, 2020 Author Posted June 23, 2020 36 minutes ago, ToJKa said: Quantum computing might actually happen. Imagine how much we can porn then! LoL! Some very talented people are hard at work on the hardware already..... Now combine some form of advanced 3D printing and quantum intelligence and in a hundred years or so, people might be making their perfect mate! Of course groups of the human race will prolly go extinct since they'll never leave the house.
Nazzzgul666 Posted June 24, 2020 Posted June 24, 2020 On 6/7/2020 at 9:44 AM, Fotogen said: Practical quantum computing is like practical fusion power. Maybe in next 20 years ... 3D printing will see incremental improvements. But Im not so sure will get "tea". Can't remember where anymore but it was a serious source where i read that, in theory, we already have the knowledge and technology required to make something that could "print" tea. The problem was and is - it costs so much energy that it would be cheaper to by a plantage, hire workers to plant and take care of tea plants, then buy a factory to process it and another one that ships it to you. What i'm not sure about is the time frame for that printing... going the plantage way might not only be cheaper but also faster than creating tea by adding atom for atom. xD At least with current tech. The energy costs are actually a thing with the proffessional 3d printers we have. In automobile industry they do have printers that can print metal, they only use it for prototypes, though. The reason is that they are very fast, compared to common ways of production, but it's so expensive nobody could afford a car built that way. On 6/7/2020 at 4:42 PM, Tyrant99 said: As for the danger to people, the immediate danger is mostly economic as automation will encroach on more and more areas of the workforce. Many jobs which didn't seem possible to automate just a few years ago will be automated. Self driving trucks, call-centers, huge swaths of the financial services industry, even surgeons could be on the chopping block. Will it somehow create more opportunities than it displaces? Or, will it be more like robots+factories that gutted manufacturing? However it shakes out, the effect will be huge, likely 10s of millions of jobs and a large potion maybe up to 50% of the economy effected over the next couple decades. Actually the biggest thread i see rn is... no responsibility anymore. In the US they use some "AI" in courts, and pretty much anywhere for hiring and firing, stock markets,... i mean.. blaming software for things that harm humans, be it physically or economically is already a common excuse, but using a blackbox... does't make it better at all. And then somehow nobody is responsible anymore for anything. "It was the software! Nothing we could do about it!". For the jobs replaced i'm a lot more relaxed honestly. I mean... think about it. Why ever should it be a problem if work gets done perfectly without humans involved? It's literally an utopia, the only problem here is that societies don't see it that way. I do have some hope that more automization will force us to change our opinion on it, though. It already started.
KoolHndLuke Posted December 18, 2020 Author Posted December 18, 2020 Playing Death Stranding, it introduces an interesting concept- 3D printing out in the world. Imagine printing buildings and highways on site, not the pieces to be assembled there later. Blows my mind to think of the applications! Like buying kits that you take anywhere and just press a button and let it do the rest. If we could figure out how to make it work under water, we could build vast cities beneath the waves. Just letting my imagination run wild, lol.
MadMansGun Posted December 18, 2020 Posted December 18, 2020 59 minutes ago, KoolHndLuke said: Imagine printing buildings that's already a thing, but it's not all that practical. your better off building a dome.
KoolHndLuke Posted December 18, 2020 Author Posted December 18, 2020 13 minutes ago, MadMansGun said: that's already a thing, but it's not all that practical. What, they print parts of it on site? That's what I was interested in. Some day we could just add the necessary materials and have the whole thing print at once. Not that hard to scan a site and build a 3d model based on it and then calculate what is needed and where it should go. Big difference between printing in your office and in the field on the fly.
MadMansGun Posted December 18, 2020 Posted December 18, 2020 14 minutes ago, KoolHndLuke said: What, they print parts of it on site? no they print all of it on site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZh8E6zZdzk
KoolHndLuke Posted December 18, 2020 Author Posted December 18, 2020 15 minutes ago, MadMansGun said: no they print all of it on site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZh8E6zZdzk Amazing!
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