I feel like I’m a really good judge of character; I can tell if I’m not going to get along with someone or how they will treat me in the future. When it comes to high profile celebrity figures, i can get a sense of their character through very minimal data. This is why I predict Andrew Tate (toxic manosphere influencer) will pivot into becoming an alien conspiracy influence. But I have no evidence for it, thus the prediction is baseless.
Anyone have any similar beliefs/predictions?
Trump will live to be 102 just because life isn’t fair
The longer he lives, the more time he has to live with the consequences that catch up to him.
Okay now it’s weird how many people are citing things i’ve also thought about!
I expect him to be a quite significant figure in history textbooks, hopefully as an example of how not to lead, as the USA’s version of King Henry VIII of England, and the reason why the constitution and electoral system was changed. A rare example of president->prison pieline taking place in the USA.
However. It just feels like he has some unholy power to prolong our suffering and tank any blows to his career or even his life. I fuoly expect that he’ll stay alive as long as possible which wiol prevent americans talking so candidly bout him.
Or maybe it’ll allow trump to see every last member of his cult turn on him. Maga voters will finally admit that whoever comes after trump is better, they haven’t seen lasting change or security following his regime, and it wasn’t at all worth the humiliation they subjected themselves to. They’re like a really toxic F-ed up college fraternity.
With so many AI data centres needing so much power and none seeming to use solar power etc, we’ll start seeing “grid rationing” where suburbs will get “time zones” where there will be power and no power.
Instead of people rising up or pushing back, they will get distracted by arguing that certain/richer suburbs get prioitised more than lower class suburbs.
Plus water supply rationing, like in Cuba
…god dam it i can see that coming too
Yes, they will dam it
I’m sure AI can be used to solve the problems that might introduce :-)
Welcome to third world life.
Not completely baseless, but Florida is going to go bankrupt one year and cause a major political problem for the US.
If they move on with removing taxes on property the political and operational shot show of cities and counties without cash turning to special assessments and creating fees for school police and public services, essentially taxes that can raise without being voted, and with less supervision, that will make the “no step on snake” crowd revolt because gvmnt services without payment seems to be their thing.
I think there will be some crazy scientific breakthrough that will change everything.
Totally baseless, and it’s mostly the idiot optimist inside me that believes it, but I kind of have to believe it else I’ll go bananaser then I already am.
AI has honestly changed a lot about my life/intended life plan. Especially when it was released, it basically rolled out as i graduated high school.
I actually started out in a creative/arts based degree but quit it early on, so i think to a lot of people it looked like i was scared of AI stealing my job. I wasn’t back then, but i now kind of am concerned that scummy employers will lay-off a lot of people and try to have AI do their work in that field.
Anyway not to say AI fits your description, as it doesn’t really, but it indicates to me that sense of tumultuous change. Likewise, covid. That changed everything too. I don’t think these things come in pairs but in waves, kike the chsnge of the 19th and 20th centuries.
To me, AI is most impactful in ways it was originally created for: combing through large data sets to make connections, even if that data set is a picture, or fifty of them. E.g., an ai was used to look at pictures taken with a microscope and it was able to pick out different structures/organisms without staining. Similar systems were also used to find discrete hints of far off galaxies than astronomers would struggle to detect without making their data quite noisy.
The big companies had nothing to do with these afaik, especially since the researchers that wrote the papers used machine learning in there methodology instead of the colloquial “AI”, which I will always see as a misnomer until such time an AI is generally accepted to be someone, which I don’t believe will happen anytime soon with our level of technology and failing biosphere.
The AI bubble will burst sometime in 2027/early 2028.
Trump will use the financial collapse as an excuse to suspend elections.
The majority will be too busy scrambling to survive to complain.
Same to first statement, i actually forgot trump would be around by 27 and 28 (because i’m not american), and that theory all lines up
Geoengineering to combat climate change by mass carbon capture will be the solution that saves humanity but will arrive too late to prevent some harrowing effects.
Self-driving vehicles will become good enough to technically be safer for passengers than human drivers soon, but the stigma around them will continue for a long time after they are road legal and their uptake will be very slow.
Couldn’t disagree more with either of those takes. Self driving cars won’t be safer even theoretically given unsolvable problems and will almost certainly lead to even worse pedestrian rights and make our cities so much worse. That solution to climate change isn’t realistic of feasible at all we need if we are going to solve it massive systematic change and an end to capitalism.
What are the unsolvable problems with autonomous cars? Also I agree it is a bad thing for pedestrian rights and cities in general.
the decision making problem is the obvious one. there are an infinite number of possible edge cases to deal with when it comes to driving a car on roads with humans. current strategies require a bespoke solution to pretty much all of them, meaning tons of common edge cases arent covered and the vehicles will take potentially wildly inappropriate actions in unhandled cases, without even considering false positive or false negative detection of handled edge cases. this problem will never go away, and if you could make a computer that could do it as reliably as a human it would basically be agi. its a sisyphian problem that isnt going to be solved before we remember how great trains and streets without cars are.
that saves humanity but will arrive too late to prevent some harrowing effects.
One harrowing thing i expect is for there to be mass migration attributed to climate change - after all, we already see mass migration for smaller reasons, so even if they don’t strictly speaking need to move north (or south), i think new media and scientists will just attribute any migration that occurs as being climate-
influenceddriven.Arguably a good thing, if it raises peoples’ concerns for climate change. I think this is why a lot of RWers dismiss climate change as a hoax though, because of its connection to mass exodus from the “globsl south”. Two things can be true.
I expect we will lose some entire settlements, coastal ones. I think Egypt will get messed uo because of their weird relationship with water, and major cities with major sea defence projects are ones to look out for - they’re ramping up sea defences in New York right now, making me think something is coming (next 20 years or so)
Have you seen Elysium?
Yeah…pretty much that. In some form or another. It won’t necessarily be the wealthy people blasting off to a space station, more likely just hiding away on luxury islands while the rest of the world continues to go to shit.
I’ve heard New Zealand is a popular place for that.
Some other ones:
- I think North Korea will be accepted back into the fold of the international community - this could occur through any of these 3 mechanisms: 1) “rehabilitated” to be more like other nations, 2) eventually proves its system to be successful, or 3) simply the US gives up on its shunning of the country. All evidence and past performance shows that it won’t, but i still expect it to happen some time before 2075.
- I don’t think sentient aliens exist. Okay so there’s the goldilocks nature of Earth’s position which evidences in favour of my stance, but even without that, i just feel like we’re alone
- bonus showerthought: imagine if aliens in the future try to “cancel” humanity for basically committing intergalactic blackface by making things like Star Wars and Star Trek. That’s my baseless prediction if aliens exist
- I think the star wars sequel trilogy will be retconned out of canon
Regarding North Korea, it seems like it is a national decision instead of an international decision. There have been cases where trade was allowed to occur with North Korea and it was North Korea which chose to close the program.
Even now, North Korea could theoretically force a more open travel system with Russia and North Korea chooses not to. Hell, North Korea probably could get a peace treaty out of Trump and chooses not to.
I have also had the thought that aliens might be offended by all the media humans have made about aliens
Especially all the ones depicting them as genocidal bodysnatchers xD
Stargates
I think the earth is going to metaphorically say enough is enough and step in to fix climate change because humans are too selfish and greedy to do it ourselves. I think this is going to come by way of a massive volcanic eruption that causes short term global cooling while killing a good chunk of the population across a large geographical area both from the immediate disaster and the resulting long term damage from widespread ash/famine that could result.
The earth has been through many many climate changes, this isn’t the first, it isn’t the last
The earth don’t care, it keeps chugging along, no it’s us that won’t survive
Yeah i think that too! Great example, fits with the “no evidence” aspect
The world order will collapse when brainrot GenZ will take the reins
Nah. Gen Z is going to end up like Gen X. It is Gen Alpha which is going to kill us all if the Boomers don’t already do it.
I don’t want to think about it but probably. I, as a GenZ, see them as very similar to boomers but with a kind of restlessness they will apply to inappropriate contexts. Boomers for all their faults are good at only tapping into their blood pressure dysregulation to kill people or advocate for war or racism, GenZ is just in a transient state between chaotic or tranquilised, so i could see a GenZ world leader firing a nuke for fun or something. But hey.
Pretty sure I’m going to find myself in some kind of mass migration by highway, get identified at a checkpoint as politically unacceptable in some way, then get moved to a large empty sports stadium with about 1-2 hundred other people, then get marched out onto the field and shot. I saw it very vividly in a dream that did not fade after waking up.
I think humanity will achieve digital immortality and might achieve a form of physical immortality by uploading themselves into artificial bodies.
And I’ll 100% sign up for it if it becomes possible.
You’d get a kick from the series Upload, then
The digital immortality you want: living forever in a virtual paradise.
The digital immortality you get: you are recorded doing something stupid that ends any career or relationship potential and is never able to be removed from the internet.
In another aspect, what does uploading ones self look like and when is the upload taken? Do they kill the original body after taking the upload or is there a you living out their days stuck in the mortal husk while another you (possibly not the one you are) is off living it up in an immortal body or virtual paradise?
I imagine it to be not unlike a system snapshot of a computer, just of your brain and the data your mind contains, thus making every experience accessible like a computer file in additional to all of the recorded data that exists online.
As for a mortal body, if my second prediction is correct, you wouldn’t need it anymore. Perhaps those who upload could donate their bodies to those who choose not to. That would be nice.
Ahh so the idea would be that the upload wipes the original so there arent multiple copies kicking around.
Seems like making new people would be difficult unless you made everyone keep a bio body until they had reached mental maturity and made more humans …
Like someone else said either the show upload or the show altered carbon.
I don’t know that FlashMobOfOne needs to just apply a dystopian tv show to the only possibility of how they see it playing out. Other ideas are a thing, particularly if they are 100% signing up. Would they still 100% sign up if the copy gets the digital immortality but FlashMobOfOne still has to live on in their own skull regardless? If that’s the case why bother? You’d effectively create another person that is based on you but isn’t you, they’d think of themselves as you, but OEM hardware would probably still hold the rights to the title.
Reminds me of San Junipero
Honestly all i can say is thst i hope it never happens. I expect it will be possible given that some people are so hell bent on pursuing it, but my cope theory is thst “hell bent” is the right term, because it would be a living hell.
I can’t say this is completely baseless because there’s too much out there about it but it will be disclosed that aliens do exist, they’re not from other planets but other dimensions, and they’ve been manipulating mankind for thousands of years.
Seems to be a popular theory from 4channers actually, i think i read a bunch of /x/ greentexts proposing theories like that.
I think cooling jackets with built-in fans will become a fashion statement in the west
Here in Japan lots of people wear these while working, it looks like a great solution for mild summer temps of 28c, but sincerely is mostly unusable in the wet heat of other regions.
Dunno about that, they’re used a shit load here in Vietnam, when it’s 35°+ with 85% humidity (aka. when I keep my white behind indoors, otherwise I’d pass out)
I have no idea why they’re not popular already in Europe
Thanks for sharing the experience, sounds like it can be executed in other places with some success then.
