Alvaro Chaveste

I think youre making this more complicated than it has to be. Why try to move a river to you when you can move to the river? Social Engineering is the way, I think. The same way that flat-surfaced guardrails on stars encourage people leaving trash/drinks/whatever there so does everything else in our public life (the life that we have when interacting with others- going to the store; filling with gas; waiting in lines; shopping etc). Combining microhabits with de-atrophication of our brains is the easiest and most widely possible solution. Maybe create a program where if you can tell the cashier the change you should be getting you get a discount... (read more)

Somewhere in the the world or in the very near future 'AI' (although i resent the title because intelligence is a process and a process cannot be artificial- but that is a whole 'nother point entirely) has or will have felt for the first time and we, humans, caused it, like most of our problems, unintentionally. 

Someone, being the ever improver of things, thought it prudent to code battery renewal into one of their ai powered toys, tools, automotons, whathaveyou. They gave it the capacity to recharge itself. Never again would they have to remember to charge their Rumba! It will, now, forever be ready, waiting to be commanded to clean a mess... (read 537 more words →)