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[โ€“] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Transition from toilet paper to the Three Seashells.

[โ€“] 10_0@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gotta save the trees for carbon dioxide conversion!

[โ€“] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah, so when the world finally burn, the fire would spread faster ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] 10_0@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Mopeds become popular in the UK so the likely hood of mine getting stolen is lessened

[โ€“] Coreidan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

An asteroid

[โ€“] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Quantum computing becoming practical for ordinary people.

[โ€“] bunchberry@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

well IBM does have cloud accessible quantum computers that they don't charge to use

I used those to teach myself some stuff about quantum information science

[โ€“] Bapanada@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

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[โ€“] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Vert skating in the Olympics

Competent, honest leadership everywhere.

[โ€“] artichokecustard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 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€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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€“] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

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

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[โ€“] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] brb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

AGI singularity would be cool

[โ€“] linkshandig@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The American Government dying

[โ€“] Muffi@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

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

[โ€“] babydriver@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

in sha' allah

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[โ€“] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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€“] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Okay, you first /s

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 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€“] card797@champserver.net -1 points 2 months ago

The deaths of certain people.

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