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>>12856590>True AINr.1 Easily. We will probably have it in 20 years is my guess, and it will revolutionize every single other human endeavor and immanetize the eschaton.
>widespread genetic engineering for things like IQI'd put the expected time of advent further away for this than AGI, maybe we will have it widespread in 50 years, largely due to the bureaucratic and political mess surrounding it. It could potentially change humanity a lot though, if it was practiced freely enough. I'd put this at a nr2.
>advanced planet colonisation (mars terraforming etc)Huge meme. Nr.5. We're not gonna get this before we get like 2-3 of the other ones anyways. It wouldnt impact how people live their lives much either.
>advanced VR close to life like experienceThis would be cool, but wouldnt matter all that much. Videogames are already quite immersive. A new video game being released that was three times as immersive as any other game would be a cultural sensation, but I think to get to the point where everyone plugs themselves into the WIRED or the matrix, a lot of other developments in game tech need to be there, and a lot of political changes as well. Either way it doesnt impact the fate of humanity much.
>exotic propulsion systems (antimatter, antigravity whatever)Who cares. We're not utilizing even 1% of 1% of the energy output of our solar system. Voyaging beyond the solar system is probably only gonna be done for the same reasons we do it now, ie research, at least for the next couple hundred years.
