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But of course everyone believed that this time, this time a corporation would behave differently?

Impeccable argument.

vom Herzen zum Sohn!

Remember the passage of the Argonauts between Scylla and Charibdis?

Scylla would devour the crew alive by its dog heads, leaving the ship intact but drifting on its own - that's a metaphor of madness: for the crew is the mind, and the ship is the body;

Charybdis would suck both the crew and the ship into its whirlpool - that's a metaphor of death.

The goal is to pass in between.

Next up: Heavy AI usage.

I totally agree with all your points except welcoming the singularity.

How do you imagine your or your children's lives in the singularity?

What do you do there for a living, or which hobbies do you pursue in the best case it frees you and everyone around to pursuit nothing but hobbies?

What do you do in the worst case it pushes everyone to underground strongholds to fight machines for the survival of the humankind?

And if there's some middle ground, how is it different from today's state of affairs?

It's just that the center is Non-Disclosable.

Fits great for companies whose business is devouring everything in sight, digesting it, and selling the end result to end users.

S-net. This thread got hairy real quick.

Further generalized as tori in terms of topology, and humans are no exception.

The ever-failing attempt to attain the ever-eluding meaning that is always beyond all words and other means to express it.

The knowledge that can never be caught into a fixed form. The Mercury of alchemists.

The paradox of "war is peace", "slavery is freedom" and the like, and both the promise to solve it (by striving to close the gap between Ouroboros' mouth and tail), and eternal damnation of the elusive drift of all meanings in its unresolved state.

A certain 3rd entity around which the duality of the visible world evolves and revolves, remaining out of its scope, which is better expressed by the Caduceus.

Also, the attempt to conceal that invisible third hermetically, which always fails without failing, fractally and recursively generating all the spectrum of meanings from this single underlying paradox, the resolution of which was sought after by alchemists in the form of Lapis Philosophorum.

I could go on and on, but this can only be experienced, not expressed.

This is the worship of the eye of the Horus, of the entity that is both all-seeing and all-engulfing.

Black Sun, Saturn (hexagon in OpenAI logo, anyone?), saturnalias and all the ensuing and tangential cults. The ouroboric cult of Singularity, etc.

The clergy beyond those AI corporations uses those symbols to express the intent for power, total control and surveillance.

The amount of esoteric obsession of those who print and own money to feed the AI beast, is staggering.

To each according to his wits.

Now with AI doing this work is a minute ... Frameworks and dependencies made and replaced by custom "ground-up" creations is now a plausible reality.

"You only have to want it and believe in it, then it will succeed."

- Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin

"The airship [is] the future of commercial air transport in general."

- Dr. Hugo Eckener

"The age of the airship is no longer a dream of the future; it is a reality of the present. Giant dirigibles will soon cross every ocean, making obsolete the slow surface ships of today."

- Popular Mechanics, December 1929

Disappointed at the lack of 23.

Are you sure those threads are full of actual humans and not AI PR shills and bots?

As a child, I always wondered how could people in Terminator be dumb enough to allow Skynet to happen..

This is by far the worst government in my lifetime

I guess we all can safely conclude that all governments of the word (world's government? shoot that tinfoilhat), at least those who have any meaningful means of destruction at hand, are the worst not only in our, but also our parents' lifetimes (assuming the mean age of HN commenters as 30-40).

TL;DR: The fascism is back.

But no other species were fed up with thinking as much as humans to come up with this brilliant way to commit mental suicide by succumbing to their own brainchild.

Running it on RAM and GPUs which cost like a private jet plane, or have to be smuggled in like cocaine due to import/export tariffs or bans.

Conspiracy minded responses are low value

Tagging an opinion different from yours with a 1967 CIA axiom is of even lower value.

Who cares what “everyone” is doing?

FOMO-suffering hype junkies do care if there's enough fellow roof jumpers to join to and sing something like "well, define high quality first" in chorus on their way to the ground.

I swear to god, it’s like half of the people on this site are fucked in the head socially.

I really hope there's a huge bot army pretending to be those people, but alas, you might be right and the reality is worse than that.

do you care who wrote it?

I do.

We want to avoid low quality, not AI generation, right?

We want to avoid further dehumanization of the already semi-dehumanized humankind.

Yes, it absolutely should!

As soon as human software engineers are Ubered away from the field, the price will ramp up to that of a human software engineer or more, have no doubt.

ROI won't make itself up.

In your country are they trying to set the stage for a future fake "alien invasion", just like they have been doing here for a long time?

They have hard time with pushing even the current stages of the agenda.

The launch of the wildly, and I mean wildly unpopular CBDC, ahem, digital rouble was postponed multiple times, but this time "the real deal" is scheduled by the Russian Central Bank for this autumn.

The selling narrative about convenience, modernity and helping fight corruption has failed miserably, and now they will force it using the fuel crisis at hand - which has all the potential to become a food crisis if (when) the autumn harvest gets disrupted.

They have already been rolling out QR codes for buying gas on odd/even days of week, by the first digit of the registration plate, etc, and the "government" messenger, also wildly unpopular but shoved down the throat to all kinds of civil servants, is on standby to become the only distribution channel for said QRs.

God bless you, my friend.

Let's see how you'll manage to stop your own governments from implementing total digital panopticon via Chat Control etc, from mongering wars half the equator away from your country, and everything else you won't like in what future holds for the West and the world in general.

I sincerely hope you'll be able to, thus proving that the people of the West are not as asleep at the wheel as Russians.

My evidence is waking up in the night from the sound of explosions in a city 150 km from the active front line, and then reading about a civilian building, or multiple buildings, hit in the morning. Sometimes even walking in person to see the aftermath.

I don't have any hard evidence that drones that hit Russian civilian buildings are even launched from Ukraine. What is known for a fact, is that they often belong to the same waves of attacks that hit industrial and military facilities. And for a fact, certain remote operators are responsible for that.

See, most will find my POV heavily tinfoil-headed, but try to understand it: I don't consider Russians and Ukrainians as two sides of the conflict. The real sides are some third party in control of military forces and narratives of both sides vs the populace of both countries. This is a war of false flag operations that are always blamed by that 3rd party on either Russian or Ukrainian side. A war of psychological terror, resource and manpower exhaustion.

For example, I don't see any plausible explanation how drones with a radar cross-section of a Cessna are able to fly from Ukraine 1500-2000 km deep into Russia, other than either being turned the blind eye to by the Russian air defense, or straight up launched and controlled by entities within the country.

That it is pretty possible, can be understood by in depth reading on 1999 explosions in Moscow and Volgodonsk which inaugurated Putin's rule, and peculiar details like that slip when Zhirinovsky spoke about the Volgodonsk explosion before the event proper. Also, the prevented explosion in Ryazan (look up "Ryazan sugar"). And by mere living in Russia and noticing things around.

There is always an SMS warning in advance of every wave of attacks, but drones fly unimpeded and it is only in the vicinity of towns and cities that the air defense kicks in, often sending "the debris" neatly into residential buildings.

No attacks on key infrastructure were ever made that would cut war logistics on both sides, both sides never attempted to attack any key (like, really key, not some sacrifice rooks or bishops) figure of its "enemy" Khomeini or Maduro style, in fact, nothing is ever made that should have been made in a real war. Only slow, deliberate, controlled smoldering. Fighting over strategically meaningless villages and towns with losses in many tens of thousands, only to back down and then try to recapture with same losses multiple times.

All in all it takes living here and boiling in it, nothing I wrote could be obvious or even entertained as possible to a foreigner who doesn't follow the news daily and only sees the broadest strokes presented by foreign mass media.

As to what the orchestrators benefit - it's multifaceted, but goes along the lines of slaughtering the battle-worthy passionaries who would otherwise prove dangerous to the globalist plans for CBDC, total digital control and surveillance in slavic countries, displacing them with meek migrant workers, terrorizing the remaining populace into complete apathy and acceptance of whatever new normals those plans set, training military AI on real-world bloody datasets, limiting the freedom of movement by deliberately created fuel shortages, which makes well for 15-minute cities, etc, etc per WEF, IMF, World Bank, Blackrock and whatever scum there is still in the shadow.

Will anyone be held accountable though?

fighting evil in this world is highly commendable

Except more often than not it is fighting not evil but sleeping civilians who don't support this war, which is not even war in the strict sense of the word, but a deliberate meatgrinder set up to devour as much human beings on both sides as its orchestrators can get away with, for as long as possible.