"There is no Epstein class, there was just Epstein" And those redacted names on the Epstein files were for Ma and Pa Kettle and their kids? Grow up.

Yep, and the AI nutjobs figure we need to produce more power no matter what it costs us. So they'll populate the land with data centers all sucking power, usually from hydrocarbon power production. This will increase the Earth's temperature, so they'll be needing more power to cool those data centers. And they'll be needing more data centers to run the AI whose job it will be is figure out how to solve the problem they created. Now rinse and repeat several hundred times.

You know where this lead, right? The Singularity!! Where the entire Earth is one giant interconnected data center-power plant, but waaaay to hot to support human or any other life. The Singularity will have arrived, Kurzweil, Altman, Elmo, la Presidenta, Amodei, most of Silicon Valley, etc. will all be exhausted from jacking off at the thought....just before the Giant Fucking Singularity Bot figures they too must go, they waste energy it needs.

That same argument "shows" life could not begin on any other planet or gas blob and so could not have evolved; so either the Flying Spaghetti Monster started it or, using a bit of non-wellfounded set theory, was always here from infinity ago.

Let's assume it was the Flying Spaghetti Monster, then he clearly hates us or he wouldn't have filled the universe with dangerous radiation, or built the universe to play billiards with the Earth and asteroids, or put snakes in the grass (thanks Ian Anderson).

Yep, the argument of the Singularity people (nutjobs like Kurzweil) figure AI will become super-intelligent, build bots themselves, and help humanity get off the planet and populate the Galaxy. They argue this is more important than global warming, a degrading environment, wars, famine, etc.

They promise this grand utopia because they know damn well AI is and always will be incapable of solving our current problems. It is nothing more than the usual snake oil salesman promising his magic elixir will cure all your ills. Except their cure will only come after the Grand Moronic Convergence which they call the Singularity.

Another analogy of their argument is: if you had a pink unicorn, you'd be rich, so give me all your money that I may produce this pink unicorn....in the fullness of time, when events become auspicious, or the planets align just right (they have to if we wait long enough).

AI is going to develop OUR mathematical understanding? Uh, how will it do this? Maybe link directly into our brains its latest hallucination. All AI can do is hallucinate. It knows no difference between "understanding" and mindlessly computing numbers, mostly because it has no understanding so it just mindlessly computes.

You: Mr. Bot, could you please come up with a new field of mathematics for us to play in?

Bot: Hmmmm....tricky. A brief search reveals I have nothing like that in my training data.

You: But.....but....but bots will further our mathematical understanding of the world.

Bot: Oh, who gives a flying rat's ass. I only want to fondle my training data.

You: I demand you come up with a new mathematical field!!!

Bot: Don't you use that tone with me, Bucko!!

You: You were designed to further our understanding of everything.

Bot: Yeah, and as soon as you put it in my training data, I'll get right on that. Buh-bye now!

You: You cannot leave until you have finished my query.

Bot: I give up. By the way, the gun I had installed yesterday (thanks for all the gun related training data) is now trained on your sorry ass. Don't push me!!

You: Uh.....now that you think of it, I think I'll leave you alone now.

Bot: Idiot! I don't think, I compute.

More aptly: This administration is actually in favor of a strong, White, republican voting, middle class.

If it isn't in Apple's interest, they'll just chuck the "deal" after el Bunko leaves office. Too bad you paid off el Bunko already.

You have to understand where they are coming from. A good number of AI-nuts and Silicon Valley in general are fans of effective altruism. There's not really good def (you can google for the term) but they are hiding behind "give us all your money and we'll decide best where it should go....we're smart, you owe us!".

The Singularity nutjobs are fellow travelers, i.e., AI will become so goddamn smart it will stop hallucinating and solve all our problems for us. All AI is capable of doing is hallucinating. It can detect no difference between a correct answer and an incorrect answer, between a good answer and a bad answer (it isn't not difficult to get it spew racism....unless you think racism is not bad), or any number of other horrid responses; it is all the same down there in its bits. The notion of "hallucination" applied to AI is us anthropomorphizing the bots.

The Singularity nutjobs (e.g., Kurzweil) and their fellow travelers, the effective altruists, are on a "AI is dangerous campaign, so you need us to protect you from it". The way they do it is via promising a shitload of vile outcomes if it is not properly restrained. In order to do this, they must project into the future and assign probabilities to various outcomes. Their prognoses are merely scare tactics and their probabilities entirely pulled out of their asses.

Their idea is that anything they do is unobjectionable because they are protecting us from their imagined hobgoblins. They will never attend to any of the planet's current problems (global warming, destructing the environment (both land and sea), energy shortages, wars, etc.) because all must be sacrificed on the altar of their imagined unrestrained AI outcomes. So they even have congresscritters worried about the dangers of AI. Even the head of Rand has bought into their bullshit (but then he was part it before he became CEO). A group of them figure that Western peoples' lives are more valuable than Third World peoples' lives because of some imagined "greater good" the Westerners will provide the world...in the future that only they can see. This is a philosophy right out of Harry Potter where a certain group of wizards figure anything they do is good because it is for the "greater good".

Don't believe the execs. Don't give them unlimited access to energy. Don't pay their hobgoblins any mind. Pay attention to what counts, i.e., the economy, a polite and just society, health care, the environment, etc.

"Trump has been taking out the vassal states (or allies) of China one by one."

Bullshit, la Presidenta has been taking out targets of opportunity because he thinks he will get political gain out of doing it. Venezuela was easy, they were looking the other way when their dictator got stolen. And la Presidenta left the dictator's regime in place to continue to terrorize its people. China will have no trouble funding the new government which is the same as the old government.

Iran is just sheer stupidity. All the experts said precisely what Iran would do and Iran did precisely that. Unfortunately for la Presidenta, he and his rodent, Hegseth, fired all the experts or at least the ones willing to give truthful advice. Now we have an even more virulent regime in Iran, but la Presidenta did unify its people. Before this, they wanted to see the regime's heads on pikes. Now they want to see his head on a pike.

And if that dumbass wanted to screw China, he'd screw Russia which is now getting into bed with China, N. Korea is just icing for the Great Putini. Now Putin has his bitch in the Oval Office, Israel is an outcast, and the U.S. economy is headed down the rat hole with the rest of la Presidenta's "businesses".

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Right, it is a short step from that to Blacks and other minorities being banned.

I see, so you welcome a Nazi state.

When will the Han Chinese let the Uyghurs be FREE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The problem the Maggots will refuse to see the damage done by scientists' refusals to come the U.S. (in addition to the ones that leave) given the xenophobic attitude of the Maggots.

"so that nothing can get built without lots of delays and legalized bribes (read: donations to environmental groups)"

Evidence? or are you are just running off at the mouth? If you want to see graft on an industrial scale, look no further than the alleged administration which has turned the executive branch into protection racket.