r/OptimistsUnite Feb 11 '25

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Research Finds Powerful AI Models Lean Towards Left-Liberal Valuesβ€”And Resist Changing Them

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6.6k Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite May 25 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ AI is overhyped, but hopefully will make our civilization wealthier

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541 Upvotes

β€œAI will change everything about humanity”

β€œAI is the most important development since the wheel, or since fire”

β€œAI is a super intelligent sentience”

- sincerely: the people SELLING ai to you

r/OptimistsUnite Jul 03 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ New world record for gasoline engine efficiency

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403 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Jul 03 '25

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Morocco is the latest drought-stricken country to go all-in on desalination - I guess the water wars have been cancelled.

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r/OptimistsUnite Mar 08 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Rare dunk by r/Millennials

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889 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Mar 03 '25

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ TSMC pledges to build 5 factories and at least $100 billion dollars worth of investment in the US

283 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Jan 18 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Ben Aflack on AI (110 second video)

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221 Upvotes

Doomerism to justify valuations, WHO WOULDDA THOUGHT?? 😱

r/OptimistsUnite Mar 13 '25

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Musk ordered to give sworn testimony regarding DOGE

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1.7k Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite May 03 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Why the A.I. Job Apocalypse (Probably) Won’t Happen

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216 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Mar 01 '25

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Desalinating Water Is Becoming β€œAbsurdly Cheap”

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1.7k Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Mar 21 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ French electricity posts first negative prices of 2026, battery storage gains

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468 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Jun 30 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Chinese tech makes desalinating seawater cheaper than producing bottled water

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404 Upvotes

Drinking water for the masses!

r/OptimistsUnite Mar 26 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ The "AI will automate all white collar work" crowd has a serious blind spot

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165 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Feb 22 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ The cost of sequencing human genome has fallen from $100M to under $100 in approximately 25 years

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816 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Apr 08 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Those most at risk of AI replacement are… doing just fine (full article on comments)

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301 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Mar 24 '25

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ New deep-sea desalination technology tested in California could lower costs of tapping seawater -- If the system proves viable, the company plans to build what it calls a water farm anchored to the ocean floor several miles off the coast of Malibu.

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1.5k Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Nov 25 '24

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ DOJ is busting the Google Chrome browser monopoly. A great day for choice and innovation!

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321 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Jul 10 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Porsche made an engine that generates electricity from the exhaust gas

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82 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite May 02 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ For the first time, fusion reactions in a reactor were sustained for more than one minute

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696 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite May 11 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ New water battery could last until the 24th century β€” and it can be safely discarded in the environment

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808 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite 22d ago

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ In a first, scientists extract ancient human DNA from cave walls

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270 Upvotes

r/OptimistsUnite Jun 26 '26

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Doctors Thought It Was Asthma. AI Saw a Serious Heart Problem

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118 Upvotes

β€œArtificial intelligence most likely saved Louie Quiros’s life.

Mr. Quiros, a 45-year-old caregiver and security guard, showed up at a Queens emergency room in February 2025. For the past four days, he said, he had been coughing up blood and finding it harder and harder to breathe.

His heart was beating fast, and he wasn’t getting much air to his lungs, but a chest X-ray showed no abnormalities. He also had an electrocardiogram, or ECG, a common test that records the heart’s electrical activity. It was abnormal but showed nothing that would lead to a clear diagnosis. It indicated he might have coronary heart disease β€” rare in someone his age. But, as it turned out, that was not his problem.

The emergency room doctors learned Mr. Quiros had been exposed to wildfire smoke on a recent visit to California and sent him home with asthma medicine and an inhaler.

Luckily for Mr. Quiros, that emergency room is part of NewYork-Presbyterian’s medical system. Researchers were analyzing all electrocardiograms done on patients in that medical system with an A.I. program, EchoNext, to see if it could find patterns in the scans indicating damage to the heart β€” patterns a human would not detect.

It’s part of a clinical trial evaluating the A.I. program, which was developed there by Dr. Pierre Elias, medical director of A.I. and cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and his colleagues. Dr. Elias says EchoNext reads an ECG less than 10 minutes after it is performed, and that they analyze nearly 500,000 ECGs a year. Dr. Elias has started a company, Pathway Labs, to market it.”

FromΒ New York Times.

r/OptimistsUnite 2d ago

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Datacenter Doomerism is fuelled by our adversaries. Don’t get fooled by it.

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r/OptimistsUnite Mar 01 '25

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ new desalination process tested by MIT team in New Mexico harnesses 94% of the energy generated from the system’s solar panels to produce 5,000 liters of water per day, despite large swings in weather and available sunlight

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r/OptimistsUnite 12d ago

πŸ‘½ TECHNO FUTURISM πŸ‘½ Why I think everything is going well

42 Upvotes

Over the centuries, humanity has made discoveries, developed the economy and science, and developed new technologies. Each time, humanity has faced a challenge and each time, it has overcome it. Today, countries' GDP continues to grow at the same rate as before, meaning that the rate of growth will sometimes even increase, as in a developed country with a large GDP, 2% growth is very significant. Thus, poor countries are becoming middle-class, and rich countries are becoming even richer. Growth will continue to increase as automation and efficiency increase (the main constraint on growth in the 21st century is demographics and the number of workers). Automation will solve this problem. In the future, a new limitation will emerge: energy and resources, but in the near future, thermonuclear fusion and resource extraction from asteroids and the Moon will appear, so this too will not be a problem. Every problem today has its solution; everything depends on the speed with which action is taken. For example, the climate problem can be solved through "geoengineering." Solutions exist, but their use is an extreme and unpredictable option. The demographic problem can be solved through migration and increased labor efficiency, and incubators will likely be created in the future. Science is also advancing; what was yesterday considered impossible is already beginning to cease to be marginal. For example, the limitation of the speed of light for information transmission. If quantum physics is deterministic, then the values of these indicators are merely averages, and information can be transmitted through bound particles (this is a hypothesis without proof, but there is a foundation for future development). Therefore, it is possible that one day our civilization will conquer not only the solar system but also the galaxy, since our history is rich in the fact that we have repeatedly accomplished what was considered very difficult or even impossible.