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by akomtu 1y ago
> He predicts we'll merge with AI to transcend biological limits. The merge with a machine 1 million times more intelligent than us is the same as letting AI use our bodies. I'd rather live in cave. Iirc, the 7th episode of Bla
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by akomtu 1y ago
It's about the same as betting all life savings on nuclear war not breaking out in our lifetime. If AI gets created, we are toast and those assets won't be worth anything.
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by akomtu 1y ago
The same deterministic physics that says that the spot where an electron ends up in the double slit experiment is not only nondeterministic, but doesn't exist in principle until it's measured.
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by akomtu 1y ago
Glencore corporation? It's Swiss-based, very shady and very profitable.
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by akomtu 1y ago
It's also arrested our development. It's like a skill we've got comfortable with and now we arent willing to go further.
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by akomtu 1y ago
I'm pretty sure it was a Geoffrey Hinton's paper who published it shortly before leaving Google.
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by akomtu 1y ago
Appeal to complexity? I see this common pattern when science-minded people need to explain something that's beyond their reach.
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by akomtu 1y ago
IMO, a big reason for this stagnation is that many researchers who could push the AI further choose not to because they came to believe that AI will do no good for humanity. It would be odd to have intellect strong enough to advance AI and
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by akomtu 1y ago
There have been many attempts to create a one-world tyranny: Nero's empire, the Inquisition, Hitler's reich, Stalin's communism and so on. All of those tyrants were antichrist wannabes: they wanted to live and rule forever. H
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by akomtu 1y ago
> So who or what is the antichrist? Thiel is admirably and uncharacteristically specific on this matter in a scattershot sort of way. The antichrist wants to erect a one-world state, which largely seems to mean any kind of global regulat
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by akomtu 1y ago
Even the common folk see their own demise in AI. Today it's AI slopware that nobody's asked for. Tomorrow it's AI-managed employees squeezed for maximum output. We are lucky the scientists haven't figured out yet how to
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by akomtu 1y ago
Was it ever meant to make us free in any way? Internet started as a gov project to create a resilient war-time network, a tool of coordination and control. It certainly wasn't "built for us by our fathers".
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by akomtu 1y ago
Next comes SoraT.
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by akomtu 1y ago
IMO, what's remarkable is that words AI and Antichrist appear in one sentence. This will make people think. If Antichrist is to come, he will need a monopoly on AI - nothing less will let him rule unchallenged.
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by akomtu 1y ago
Computation is a terminal life form that barely resembles life at all.
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by akomtu 1y ago
When neuralink becomes usable, the same hordes of people will rush to install the AI plugin so it can relieve their brains from putting in any effort. The rest will be given a difficult choice: do the same or become unemployable in the new
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by akomtu 1y ago
In fact, Sama talks about this too: https://archive.is/20250109011408/https://blog.samaltman.com... "We are already in the phase of co-evolution — the AIs affect, effect, and infect us, and then we impro
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by akomtu 1y ago
Nearly half of their users use ad blockers. The AI spyware, on the other hand, bypasses ad blockers and can answer questions like "what was the user up to on Sep 18?" These short summaries will be carefully kept in database, and i
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by akomtu 1y ago
More AI spyware running on user devices?
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by akomtu 1y ago
Using Thiel's own words: "Perhaps we should fear the Antichrist, perhaps we should fear the one-world totalitarian state more than Armageddon." A prerequisite for antichrist is a world without boundaries: moral or territorial
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by akomtu 1y ago
Two mirrors will make it allowed.
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by akomtu 1y ago
It plays the same role as feelings to common folk. In other words, most people out there live for feelings: they seek good tastes, smells, comfort and so on. That's their purpose in life. More sophisticated folks collect art or watch o
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by akomtu 1y ago
IMO, the endgame is tyranny that we cannot escape. Something like stasi on hi-tech steroids. Such a tyranny can only be possible if there are no places on earth we can escape to and if domestic survelliance is so comprehensive that potentia
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by akomtu 1y ago
The reptile-brained politicians really hate that we can think our thoughts in secret and communicate with each other in secret.
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by akomtu 1y ago
I've found out that advice that works simply highlights truths already recognized by whoever you talk to. On the other hand if you try to dump your own thoughts, those will be rejected. So my advice for giving advice is to understand f
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by akomtu 1y ago
Creating a machine lifeform that competes with humans for resources is hardly a heroic act.
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by akomtu 1y ago
Today it's full access to your laptop, a decade from now it will be full access to your brain. Isn't it the goal of tech like neuralink?
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by akomtu 1y ago
AI means technology no longer needs humans. With AI, technology will become a quasi-lifeform, competing with us for resources.
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by akomtu 1y ago
Indeed, a good AI Snitch runs in background on your phone. The era of intelligent spyware.
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by akomtu 1y ago
I can imagine the same conversation 10 years later: "The productivity boost of AI implants is obvious by now, it gives at least +50 IQ points. Those stubborn employees should just yield and grant full control to their brains if they wa

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