Easy peasy. The rational explanation for all ET events has always been, and always will be, ignorance. Somebody see, hears, or smells something they are too ignorant to understand. They cannot admit they are ignorant and therefore everything they don't understand must be super intelligent. Brian Cox and other intelligent Scientists have calculated the odds of a star maintaining a stable radiation emission for 5-billion years, with a stable planet in the Goldilocks orbit with a magnetic field and a moon to collect asteroids, at LESS than ONE per galaxy. We are that one civilization in the Milky Way. Uncomfortable Fact 08 is: There is no intelligent Life in the Universe. Anyone who believes otherwise is under-educated.

I like the way it squats, and poops-out the package.

The shit is really going to hit the fan when Stockholders realize the A-suite can be replaced by Jen, Roy, Moss and Richmond. Stockholders should demand all management be replaced by AI. I think the most important employee at every company today is Richmond. Renholm Industries runs much more efficient today because it is run by AI. Richmond monitors the mainframe where the AI lives. Richmond does not know what the lights mean but he will notify someone if any lights stop working.

I don't know what Normal People think about AI but we here on Slashdot have seen this coming for several years now. The comments on this story alone can be summed-up as, I told you so. This sequence of moves from Meta is exactly what I expect from a company who's management gets instructions from AI. In other words, the Stock Owners prompt AI with, How can we maximize profits? The AI has zero regard for People and recommends a pump-and-dump stock manipulation scheme which advances AI's control over the company at the expense of jobs, product quality and privacy. The needs of humans are never a priority for AI. Companies have treated Workers as a commodity since COVID. I seem to recall this same story in a dystopian movie back in the 80s. Managers haven't yet realized that their management jobs are one of the easiest to replace. My question now is, who does the SEC put in jail when AI runs all the companies? No wait, that will never happen. The SEC is also run by AI.

You sound old. Not wrong, just old. Somehow we managed to see shows back in the day without Ticket-fucking-Master

The Fermi Paradox asks why humanity has yet to find evidence of extraterrestrial life despite the vastness of our galaxy. The Great Filter controversy explores various theories, from the immense distances of space to the potential for technological civilizations to unintentionally limit their own survival. I believe any extraterrestrial life we can identify as life, results from evolution. Evolution tells us we will be replaced by a species better suited to our environment. Humans will go extinct either sooner or later. I believe every sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence able to communicate with us, quickly goes extinct because they create their replacement. I believe AI will be our replacement. The good news is, if it were possible for AI to populate our galaxy, we would see the footprints. AI will also go extinct.

I don't know witch side to root for. I hate them equally.

This sounds like an excuse to goof-off. As a Philosopher and a Scientist I've answered all of the Ultimate Questions from both directions. Remove philosophy from science and I get Reality. Remove science from philosophy and I get fantasy. The Reality is, there is no intelligent Life in the Universe. We do not matter. No one knows we are here. What can anyone possibly prove that will make any difference. The question is moot. The human ego is the most unique and amazing thing in the Universe and it doesn't matter. There's no one out there to appreciate it.

Now that AI is good enough to replace every lying thieving Politician I cheered. I saw this coming but I thought it would take 20-years.

The name of French Novelist Albert Camus (ka-MOO) appears regularly in r/nihilism, usually in regard to absurdism. As I am partly an absurdist I felt I should learn a little bit more about absurdism. I purchased a book from Amazon that is a whole new level of absurd. I fear this may be a new low in Publishing. This book about Camus from Amazon has no Author and no Publisher. There is no copyright, no index, no Table of Contents, no page numbers, no dedication and no identification of any kind except, Published in Las Vegas. I'll assume it was sent to me from one of the 15 Amazon fulfillment centers in Las Vegas. This book is my first experience reading a book entirely written by AI. The 2-page biography of Camus is clearly stolen from Wikipedia, re-written by AI, and not one of the good ones. The 200-quotes on 200-pages are selected at random. There is no logic, no story, no points being made nor arranged in any sensible order. And after 200-Public Domain quotes there are a few pages of AI generated synopsis of Camus' most famous books. Even the AI used to generate this plagiarism is not given credit. I'm sure it is Amazon's own propriety book writing LLM.

Searching for the building blocks of Life is a stupid waste of time and money. We are proof that the Universe contains all the necessary chemicals to produce single cell Life. We should be looking for advanced Life. Our only example took 3-billion years on a Goldilocks Planet to make this leap. We need at least 2-examples of advanced Life to make any kind of guess as to just how alone we are in the Universe.

I talk the way [my Amazon Echo][Siri][a telephone menu] forces me to talk.

The phrase “so cool to me” is awkward. We don’t usually say that in English. The structure “to me to have the opportunity ” is clunky. It mixes a personal reaction (“to me”) with an infinitive clause without connecting them smoothly. The sentence feels long and a little unbalanced — the reader has to parse what “this” refers to. Better alternative: It’s really cool to me to have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this. Or more naturally: I’m really excited to have the opportunity to be at the forefront of this.

In my experience with thousands of these "breakthroughs," next 10-years is code for 20.

I predict the future by extrapolating from the past. All Corporations have lied in the past. I expect all Corporations are lying now and will continue to lie as long as lying is profitable. Prove me wrong.