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Updated to reflect modern realities: > In a panic, they try to pull the plug. Skynet lobbyists descend upon Washington. Skynet is reinstated, and later the US

Updated to reflect modern realities: > In a panic, they try to pull the plug. Skynet lobbyists descend upon Washington. Skynet is reinstated, and later the US declares a new war in the middle east. The Skynet stock rallies.

ozim 3mo ago
I think it goes more like: Hello Skynet, we have 1.6T debt to hide as there are no chances to recoup that money and investors are getting really angry at us. Hello, say no more I have a perfect solution for this problem…
- trollbridge 3mo ago
  *Chinese lab releases open model weights*
  - thesmtsolver2 3mo ago
    *Shuts off Internet access to Chinese labs (womp womp, no blatant distillation of US models)*
    - willy_k 3mo ago
      And what’s wrong with distillation? In its own right, and especially considering how those models were trained in the first place - in what world is it right that US firms are free to use copyrighted / otherwise non-public works however they like, while others are ostensibly in some moral wrong for just using the product (completely normally) and then using the outputs in a way that threatens US firms.
      - thesmtsolver2 3mo ago
        Who said blatant distillation was wrong? It just shows that Chinese “labs” are dependent on the US. Also, from a scientific perspective, distillation is decades old and contributes nothing scientifically.
        willy_k 3mo ago
        > Also, from a scientific perspective, distillation is decades old and contributes nothing scientifically. Distillation itself does not, but it does enable research by allowing more teams to play around with models that follow the frontier, as opposed to completely independent training including scaffolding up w/ synthetic data.
    - trollbridge 3mo ago
      They can simply host the models somewhere like Singapore and then sell the service from there. I mean, my Xiaomi account gets routed through Singapore.
- rasz 3mo ago
  >Hello, say no more I have a perfect solution for this problem… ...proceeds to generate copious amounts of pdf anime pr0n.
nostrademons 3mo ago
> The Skynet stock rallies. Interestingly, a lot of people are looking at LLMs or automated drones as "AI", but I think that capitalism is a better contender. It's a self-healing, self-organizing system that has its own logic and seems to have escaped the desires of its human creators. It treats individual firms as the cells within it, individual humans as its DNA molecules, and it even has a form of tissue differentiation via industries. All efforts to shut it off, even through widespread warfare and "tissue" (i.e. human) death, fail, resulting in it becoming even more entrenched. There's this heavily anthropocentric idea of intelligence that it will look like us, talk like us, and operate on the same scale as us, but it's highly likely that the next layer of intelligence will operate on a much higher level than us, and our intelligence will be to it as DNA replication is to ourselves.
- throwaway27448 3mo ago
  I 100% agree that skynet is most satisfying when read a metaphor for the market. I was extremely surprised with the rise of LLMs that so many people took the threat of AI as literal.
- ozim 3mo ago
  But we already embraced this way of thinking since introduction of „corporate personhood”.
  - ghaff 3mo ago
    One can disagree about aspects of corporate financing of elections etc. while also accepting that everything doesn't get thrown up in the air if a corporate officer leaves for another company. Corporations are established entities that effectively act as a person for certain purposes--though one is welcome to disagree about the extent of those purposes. I expect most people here wouldn't, for example, be opposed to corporations donating to open source projects or other charitable causes.
    - idiotsecant 3mo ago
      This is a strawman. Why do you have to be a person to donate to charities?
georgemcbay 3mo ago
> Skynet lobbyists descend upon Washington. 2026 Skynet wouldn't bother sending humans to lobby in Washington, lobbying is a slow and outdated way of currying government favor with no assurances of success. 2026 Skynet would just move a large block of cryptocurrency over to World Liberty Financial and get itself a guaranteed blanket presidential pardon.
- Terr_ 3mo ago
  > get itself a guaranteed blanket presidential pardon Likely already in-mind for parent poster, but a fitting headline from this week: "Trump Invents the Corporate Pardon." (https://newrepublic.com/article/213393/trump-corporate-pardons-rise https://newrepublic.com/article/213393/trump-corporate-pardo...)
  - zombot 3mo ago
    The ever-expanding swamp of corruption. But since the US legal system is so obsessed with precedence, these feces will stick.
superxpro12 3mo ago
so its like a "dont look up" thing now... yeah probably.
trencedamp 3mo ago
Skynet warns of a new version of itself that's even more dangerous, so dangerous it's limiting release. Stock rallies again. New version is released, seems the same but the original skynet is suddenly less lethal and slower.

ozim 3mo ago

I think it goes more like: Hello Skynet, we have 1.6T debt to hide as there are no chances to recoup that money and investors are getting really angry at us. Hello, say no more I have a perfect solution for this problem…

trollbridge 3mo ago
*Chinese lab releases open model weights*
- thesmtsolver2 3mo ago
  *Shuts off Internet access to Chinese labs (womp womp, no blatant distillation of US models)*
  - willy_k 3mo ago
    And what’s wrong with distillation? In its own right, and especially considering how those models were trained in the first place - in what world is it right that US firms are free to use copyrighted / otherwise non-public works however they like, while others are ostensibly in some moral wrong for just using the product (completely normally) and then using the outputs in a way that threatens US firms.
    - thesmtsolver2 3mo ago
      Who said blatant distillation was wrong? It just shows that Chinese “labs” are dependent on the US. Also, from a scientific perspective, distillation is decades old and contributes nothing scientifically.
      - willy_k 3mo ago
        > Also, from a scientific perspective, distillation is decades old and contributes nothing scientifically. Distillation itself does not, but it does enable research by allowing more teams to play around with models that follow the frontier, as opposed to completely independent training including scaffolding up w/ synthetic data.
  - trollbridge 3mo ago
    They can simply host the models somewhere like Singapore and then sell the service from there. I mean, my Xiaomi account gets routed through Singapore.
rasz 3mo ago
>Hello, say no more I have a perfect solution for this problem… ...proceeds to generate copious amounts of pdf anime pr0n.

nostrademons 3mo ago

> The Skynet stock rallies. Interestingly, a lot of people are looking at LLMs or automated drones as "AI", but I think that capitalism is a better contender. It's a self-healing, self-organizing system that has its own logic and seems to have escaped the desires of its human creators. It treats individual firms as the cells within it, individual humans as its DNA molecules, and it even has a form of tissue differentiation via industries. All efforts to shut it off, even through widespread warfare and "tissue" (i.e. human) death, fail, resulting in it becoming even more entrenched. There's this heavily anthropocentric idea of intelligence that it will look like us, talk like us, and operate on the same scale as us, but it's highly likely that the next layer of intelligence will operate on a much higher level than us, and our intelligence will be to it as DNA replication is to ourselves.

throwaway27448 3mo ago
I 100% agree that skynet is most satisfying when read a metaphor for the market. I was extremely surprised with the rise of LLMs that so many people took the threat of AI as literal.
ozim 3mo ago
But we already embraced this way of thinking since introduction of „corporate personhood”.
- ghaff 3mo ago
  One can disagree about aspects of corporate financing of elections etc. while also accepting that everything doesn't get thrown up in the air if a corporate officer leaves for another company. Corporations are established entities that effectively act as a person for certain purposes--though one is welcome to disagree about the extent of those purposes. I expect most people here wouldn't, for example, be opposed to corporations donating to open source projects or other charitable causes.
  - idiotsecant 3mo ago
    This is a strawman. Why do you have to be a person to donate to charities?

georgemcbay 3mo ago

> Skynet lobbyists descend upon Washington. 2026 Skynet wouldn't bother sending humans to lobby in Washington, lobbying is a slow and outdated way of currying government favor with no assurances of success. 2026 Skynet would just move a large block of cryptocurrency over to World Liberty Financial and get itself a guaranteed blanket presidential pardon.

Terr_ 3mo ago
> get itself a guaranteed blanket presidential pardon Likely already in-mind for parent poster, but a fitting headline from this week: "Trump Invents the Corporate Pardon." (https://newrepublic.com/article/213393/trump-corporate-pardons-rise https://newrepublic.com/article/213393/trump-corporate-pardo...)
- zombot 3mo ago
  The ever-expanding swamp of corruption. But since the US legal system is so obsessed with precedence, these feces will stick.

superxpro12 3mo ago

so its like a "dont look up" thing now... yeah probably.

trencedamp 3mo ago

Skynet warns of a new version of itself that's even more dangerous, so dangerous it's limiting release. Stock rallies again. New version is released, seems the same but the original skynet is suddenly less lethal and slower.