There have been some interesting threads on Twitter recently where they discovered that by flipping two bits in a local AI model they could convert it to full "KILL ALL HUMANS!" mode where everything it generates looks like posts from the deep, dark depths of Reddit.

AI can craft a small routine or single command customized to my parameters faster than I can write it myself even if I have it committed to memory.

AI can do slightly more complex things, and so long as I keep it tightly compartmentalized so it's easier to debug, it's fine.

You cannot sit down and ask an AI to write you anything long and complex and expect it to do so successfully without requiring more debugging than writing it yourself.

At least, that's been my experience. I rarely code and never anything particularly complex by the standards of a working pro... and I still hit those limits of AI regardless.

There are 'easy' places to build a base at the equator, in partially collapsed lava tubes that provide free shielding you could build a city inside.

There's a problem; the best science locations are at the southern pole. At the south pole you can build on the side of a crater rim and have permanent sun above the lip for solar power and heat, and permanent darkness below the rim for cold to keep your telescopes happy.

You're probably digging through 8m of regolith to anchor your base and dealing with the risk of lunar avalanche and that nasty lunar dust.

I'd just send a MIRV-like rocket to fire low-ex penetrators into the crater wall at the desired location to deliberately shift the regolith clear of my construction site, then send up boring equipment to dig into the crater wall... but so far as I am aware, nobody's done even a cursory feasibility study on anything like that and it's certain nobody could get it done in 2 years even if they had and decided it would work.

Thanks to our AI Oligarchs, pretty soon no-one will be able to afford a gaming PC so they'll have to rent Microsoft server time to run the games for them.

Indeed. I heard on Twitter that Russia is losing two million men a day now.

We make things worse, more of us die, the issue is blunted. Make it bad enough, civilization fails, lots of people die, and the surviving population will be environmentally worse individually but few enough in number it won't be a major climate factor.

Then the Sun expands, bakes the planet sterile, and possibly burns it into a puff of plasma.

Long term it's a losing game, but short term we could play to win if we didn't lack the required strategic thinking as a species.

Moderna spent years and years trying to get mRNA cancer treatment through clinical trials before 2020 and never managed to. They might have gone bust if governments around the world hadn't pushed mRNA Covid vaccine on billions of people around the world without having to pass safety trials.

I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

They soon will be North Korea because South Koreans aren't breeding (I think they may have the lowest reproduction rate in the world now?) and Kim will be able to just walk over the border into an empty South Korea before long.

Not sure I'd want to live in North Korea, but I wouldn't want to live in South Korea either.

Don't forget all the money American banks lent to Nazi Germany before the war.

It was likely also a demonstration that they can destroy Western surveillance satellites any time they want to.

But yes, if they know how communication works they may be able to jam it instead. I've seen alleged satellite radar images of Crimea which show large areas with no usable data, presumably from jamming.

NATO turned what was originally intended to be a mostly peaceful show of force like the temporary invasion of Georgia into a war of attrition.

Remember WWI when the lines were pretty much static for years and then suddenly it was all over?

That's what's happening here. Russia has most of Donbas plus a buffer zone in some other regions that directly border Russia. Ukraine is throwing men at the front lines for Russia to kill but is running out. Territory held is largely irrelevant compared to the number of men killed and weapons destroyed.

Hence the desperate calls for 'ceasefire' on the Western side because they know Ukraine can't last much longer.

Where's the required multi-factor authentication?

> none have had jobs that an AI could replace - construction, ships captain, harbor pilot, and so forth.

1. All those jobs can be replaced with computers and/or robots.
2. Who's going to be paying to build houses or ship Chinesium gadgets around the world if the rest of us don't have jobs?