How my mind works sometimes:

We all know how the universe works: it's like a machine endlessly and flawlessly repeating the same fixed set of algorithms. Everything we know has evolved out of the randomness of nature. In that case, why would there be a hell to threaten people into living right? That doesn't fit the algorithm. Then it occured to me: if there is an afterlife, wouldn't that constitute proof that we're living in a simulation? I mean, why would it evolve out of an ordinary universe?

There you have it: if you go on to an afterlife, it's because we're living in a simulation. The universe programmers need to retrain their living LLMs for the next cycle.

Elon Musk: "one billion huge AI satellites, please!"

I have no idea how true this could all be (in the video, re: causing so much light it'd lighten up nightsky and other issues), but even just the constant resources/pollution factors re: having to maintain/repair/replace 1 billion all the time seems, y'know, stupid. Seeing how I'm very slightly older than Musk, I guess I can't hope he'll die of old age "soon"/before actual world approval/in my lifestime. I suppose I'll just have to hope I die before AI Judgement Day, first. ;p

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Fun times in Capetown, South Africa.

If anything, the thumbnail understates how close they got to a stadium with 55k people inside.

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Roof angle:

Now the americans will need to one up them.

That was pretty cool.

(language warning etc).

I laughed so hard at some spots. Plus he makes a lot of mostly valid points.
Now, I don't care if anyone wants to or doesn't want to use A/C in their home. Up to them. But I didn't realize it was such a political topic in some parts. I suppose that doesn't surprise me but still, seems weird. Oh, I do think one of his points re: cost of a small AC window unit is too US PoV. I think some of Europe at least, it's not as easily had cost wise like in US, whether because of licenses/local laws, taxes, tariffs etc.

A lot of Europe has AC, there isn't an apartment in Serbia and Balkans without it. Italy and Spain are probably the same deal. The issue other countries north are having is that their summers had gotten hotter. I imagine that it's a couple of idiots that are yelling that are being amplified by the government, probably due to infrastructure that would collapse by mass AC adoption. Energy is in a precarious state in EU, no dirty coal, nuclear is not popular apart from France and gas is no longer cheap and readily available.

^ I'd wager most of this type of US-reaction/competitive nature, when they say Europe, they are talking about mostly Northern Eur, like GB/France/Germany, (maybe Italy, because, fashion, Rome, Pope). Y'know, the places that get a lot of news and multimedia/ent. coverage in the US. >.> Kind of like when a lot of US joeblows say "Asians" they're likely largely referring to Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Viet. etc.

I have zero notion what current average joeblow in the US thinks, but in the old days I felt like half the people I met, something like Spain was just considered, well, Spain. Something unto its own. Haha.

From some of the comments, assuming any of them has merit, it sounds like some spots may also have a privilege problem. eg, no A/C on lower/low level offices/living areas but oh so oddly, those upper floors do.

Also, I think since AI data centers, everyone's energy infrastructures are under attack. Even in the US. If Musk had his way, we'd go dark/to sleep by 7pm, to save energy for AI centers.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-approves-resolution-support-map-that-shows-africas-true-size-2026-09-04/

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AI's gonna get smart/not need us and could kill us all! We're all gonna die! In a few years! Or a decade. Or a few decades. Or whatever.
--I'm not against all AI - but It's the pace and pushing, pushing, pushing. Humanity always in such a rush, leaping before looking. It's a strength, and it's a folly.

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I dont have the energy for the video. How is it going to kill us...hack the codes and launch all the nukes?

4 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

AI's gonna get smart/not need us and could kill us all! We're all gonna die! In a few years! Or a decade. Or a few decades. Or whatever.
--I'm not against all AI - but It's the pace and pushing, pushing, pushing. Humanity always in such a rush, leaping before looking. It's a strength, and it's a folly.

One of the benefit of getting old. Unlike the time of the cold war (when i was young), I no longer care if the world implodes. Been there, seen it. Bring in the next one please 😂

Of course, those who still expect to live a long time yet, might get a bit peeved if it suddenly becomes uninhabitable 🤔

6 hours ago, Gfted1 said:

I dont have the energy for the video. How is it going to kill us...hack the codes and launch all the nukes?

They're getting to the point where they don't need input from humans or any more info to learn/figure out/invent stuff "on their own."
They could create a new biological weapon/virus on their own. (maybe this is supposed to be that we'd then use such to our demise, vs. AI "attacking" us)

Er .... that's about what I got out of it. Most of the time host/s would ask questions and the young man didn't really answer, just kept going on about how everyone in the places he worked/knows all talk/whisper about how scared they are about what they're seeing/doing but keep working. Probably because they like being paid. But he couldn't do it anymore and he quit/is warning us all.

@Gorth - I remember the duck and cover drills still done in my kiddie schools, under our desk in case of nuclear war (early-mid 70's). Although even by then it was probably more for earthquakes/other disasters. I think duck and cover originated in the 50's or something?

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This guy is easier to understand. "Recursive self-improvement" maybe 2 years away.
note: because of the 1st guy being all over the news, the topic in general is being storied all over the news.

1;15 or so

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Gotta love SWAGs with made up odds. Seriously, there's no way for anybody to know the actual probabilities; they just wanted to make a statement so they picked a number.

It does appear that we're intrinsically unable to avoid the lure of AI. We're programming it to know exactly how to push our buttons and it is steadily wiping out our ability to think for ourselves. Even smart phones have been reducing our rate of reproduction.

Why Today's Teens Are Having So Much Less Sex

AI interaction is already making that worse. In the end, it won't even matter whether it wipes us out or not.

Edited 12 hours ago12 hr by rjshae