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[Mind]

We have to be on the alert for killer robots sneaking up on us. Did you hear a sound in the night? Bots. Do you have the feeling something is following you? Its bots. They are waiting for a moment of inattention and they will get you. They have the ability now to look like someone you know changing appearance through cgi. If your neighbor starts acting a little strange there is a good chance a bot took over and your neighbor is long gone while a bot took his place. Do not take any chances. As a matter of fact, how do we know you are not a bot now? Why should we trust you? You never warned us against shape shifting bots. The sudden change in avatar is a dead give away. Your posts against AI are obviously to throw us off the track so we won't suspect you are the one who infiltrated. If you deny any of it that, it is absolute proof so fess up

 

Perhaps we should make lists of who is a definite bot, who is a maybe and who is safe? We need a test to weed out the shape shifting robots among us. Make a list and check it twice

 

 

 

 

Indeed

 

I appreciate your sense of humor. Humor is often used to make it through uncertain and/or dangerous times.

Edited by Mind, 17 February 2026 - 06:16 PM.

[adamh]

The doom and gloom was getting a little deep.

 

 uncertain and/or dangerous times.

 

Thats certainly true. I feel a lot of it is due to international tensions moving toward war. Idiot trump says he is going to attack iran because isreal told him to do it. When he was cutting govt waste and fraud, eliminating entire agencies, I was happy. When he no longer kept his promises, lied and stonewalled, he lost a lot of support. Watching him try to bully entire nations and sometimes succeeding is nerve wracking when the warships sail and things happen. He doesn't like what someone said so he slaps 100% tariffs on them. This is nuts

 

It was supposed to be make america great, now its support isreal whatever it wants and anti semitism is the worst crime. Those you are not allowed to criticize are your rulers. Nuke war could break out at any time, several nations have said they will give iran a nuke to use on its enemies. They now have upgraded radar, and missiles that can get past the iron dome. And trump wants to attack again. I never voted for that. WW3 could be any day now

 

Compared to that, killer robots are a minor concern

 

 

[Mind]

Some interesting opinions about recent AI developments/economics

 

Who exactly is going to be earning more money when AI/robots take all of the jobs?

 

What aspects of humanity are we losing during the rush to develop artificial superintelligence.

 

Several former executives and engineers from the leading AI companies are sounding the alarm about the fast development of AI. It isn't just Yudkowsky, but also Nobel laureates, leading philosophers, and CEOs that are getting freaked out about the seemingly unstoppable/rash AI development. I am willing to listen to them, especially considering the utopian scenario has no signs of happening yet.

[Mind]

You are a starving young entrepreneur and coder. You come up with a great idea for a new APP. You slave away for a couple of weeks and put it up on the APP Store and Gooogle Play. You stand to make millions of dollars. Do you give it away for free? Because of "prosperity for all".

 

You are a major shareholder of a large AI/robotics company. The company is doing well, but then the CEO decides "AI/robotics prosperity for everyone" and starts giving away the product/services for pennies. You stock will soon be worth zero. What do you do? Shareholder revolt, of course. The Board fires the CEO and hires someone who will increase profit margins.

 

Look at what happened to OpenAI. They were supposed to create prosperity for all as a non-profit. Just the opposite happened.

 

I am unsure how we get to "prosperous" UBI/UHI when economic forces will all be aligned against the concept. If anything, you will be given unlimited digital entertainment/porn to keep you distracted from your pitiful place in life, at the bottom of the totem pole, collecting welfare scraps from the government.

Edited by Mind, 12 March 2026 - 05:48 PM.