'Forces of the Next 30 Years' - Talk by Charles Stross

Speaking at Olin College as part of Olin's Technology and Culture Seminar Series, science fiction writer Charles Stross speculates about the forces that will shape the next 30 years.

[rubenjames]

He's a better speaker than I would have thought. Going to question the statement that Africa will be the next China, though. Everybody (in general, at least) is doing better now than they ever have. That doesn't mean that the curve will continue.

[DveJapn]

I feel like the girl at the front doesn’t realise what a gift this is

[Pearls_Have_Eyes]

is Charles Stross actually a character from Matt Lucas?

[realnoid]

"Neptune's Brood", a slow starter, more than makes up for Accelerando.

[JezebelIsHongry]

<smiles> the time when charlie double hand drinks </smiles>

[fnordable]

And then, in 18 months, we'll be able to have two singularites for the price of one.

[mckennaespressoseries]

I can't get over how Charles says "years" .... yuuuhs. Quite posh english sounding. XD

[JezebelIsHongry]

a swarm of cryptids discovered a small tribe of ai researchers and interacted with a 70b llama model trained on two instances of Claude Opus riffing in the Infinite Backrooms

and tokenized everything
every meme

drove one memecoin based on Goatse to a 500m marketcap

charlie hates crypto
charlie thinks the current “ai” meta is a grift

except the fusion of these two clusters just brought economics 2.0 to the Actual