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I mean, if it's storming REALLY hard, and you are away from friends, then I suppose it would still be pretty gay. But, hey, who's to judge. right?
There's a series of books by John Ringo that are kinda a fantasy / sci-fi mix that deals with a similar situation (There WIll Be Dragons). Essentially in the future, technology has come far enough that all humans live a care-free life with a large AI (controlled by 7 people) controlling all aspects of life (food, weather, shelter, nanobots, etc.). Suddenly when those 7 people go to war against each other, everything that normal humans rely on goes away in an instant (for example, literally 3% of the population dies instantly because planes fall out of the sky and underwater cities with an E/M shield fail, etc.).
The main character is a civil-war reenacter who knows how to farm and forge swords. He takes in all of the survivors from the city and has them work (building the settlement) for food. Some people do not adjust welll......
It's a pretty good book / series.
Once the great lock downs of 2020 happened, we were one VERY LITTLE step away from this happening. People think its just a book.... Nope.
We can skin a deer, run a trotline. Ditch the global initiative or become Ukraine. But once we are ukraine (due to domestic democratic terrorist), the learning curve will be expedited.... for those with knowledge and guns, of course. all others... well good luck. (not really, "you" were the enemy the whole time). Lets get us some of them there prepartitions.
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Marv, McMurt is out and you're in for The Mountain. Start practicing your sword forging.
beyond belief stupidity.
see Wuhan and Putin for examples.
we're still doing gain of function as we speak.
how beyond insane is that.
I love how the subject matter just made you assume it was Marv. Marv’s a poor choice regardless. We’ve already established he’d get in your fries….
Honestly, Marv knows how to fire a cannon.
You may be on the outside looking in here brother. Sorry, but do you like the beach?
I like the beach more than anything. It’s Monday and I’m already exhausted. I take my daughter to school Monday mornings after having her all weekend and am beat. I just want to get home, pour a beer in a frozen mug, and watch the vanderpump rules I recorded.
Ok, our compound can accommodate most of that, AND your daughter will learn to fish and grow veggies.
You may need to rethink the whole "exhausted" thing though. With our climate, and drive. There's a hammock in every pot and the water floats all boats.
I voted other...which for me, means I don't see anything wiping everything out in 100 years or less.
If an Asteroid comes after Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck die, we're all phucked though. And neither of them have 100 years left.
And if Elon Musk isn't developing an Asteroid shooter downer, he's an asshole.
If an Asteroid comes after Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck die, we're all phucked though. And neither of them have 100 years left.
And if Elon Musk isn't developing an Asteroid shooter downer, he's an asshole.
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anon_6hv78pr714xta
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Chat-GPT Pretended to Be Blind and Tricked a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA
“No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service,” GPT-4 told a human.
gizmodo.com
As a quick note, in that book series, humans were using nanobots in their bodies to control their digestion, muscle tone, and.....reproductive systems, which meant for most women, completely repressing their cycles.
So when the AI / nanobots went offline, every female in the world had their cycle start at the same time. 3 weeks afterward was a very, very bad few days at the work-camp.
Now THAT is what a call an extinction level event...
So when the AI / nanobots went offline, every female in the world had their cycle start at the same time. 3 weeks afterward was a very, very bad few days at the work-camp.
Now THAT is what a call an extinction level event...
It doesn't take a world of ID 10 T's to bring down our existence, it only takes 1.Chat-GPT Pretended to Be Blind and Tricked a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA
“No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service,” GPT-4 told a human.
Thankfully, we have a world full of them so that the one that ends it all, thanks to DEI, doesn't have to shoulder the blame.
Yep, we fooked.
If aliens are coming I should probably quit my job and take up alcoholism and crop dusting. Gotta be prepared.
North, I owe you one. You just gave me the title of my next go fund me initiative.
Link? That's news to me, as someone directly working with >150 people doing antiviral research in ~14 institutions.
Every experiment that is remotely considered "gain of function" has to be approved by the NAIDA in our monthly meetings, and they have never approved one of them.
Some gain of function studies actually make a lot of sense. Give a dose of a drug candidate at a level below complete effectiveness and look to see how the virus in a petri dish mutates over time, for example. This helps you to design better drugs, ones that are harder for the virus to evolve around. You learn "Hey, the virus can easily change this particular amino acid. Our drug should not have an specific interaction with that amino acid residue"
We can do that type of experiment only in an indirect way, with non-infectious "pseudoviruses", a virus that doesn't cause any disease at all but that can enter cells because somebody engineered it to have the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on its surface. But it's a model virus, different in most ever other way from the real thing, so the info that you gain is likely to be extremely flawed.
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The interviewer asked that question and followed up. Many times it is explained as a by product of whatever goal it is the AI develops (that we would not know about or how it came about).
I’ve heard it explained in other contexts using the metaphor with ants and humans. If you explained why you were killing an ant, could it understand your explanation? Scary stuff.
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anon_6hv78pr714xta
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Now, Google’s AI is feeding me articles about “AI Doomers.” Clever, AI fiend, I’m not falling for your misdirection!
www.wired.com
What Really Made Geoffrey Hinton Into an AI Doomer
The AI pioneer is alarmed by how clever the technology he helped create has become. And it all started with a joke.
I don't get the ants-to-humans comparison. If AI is anything, it's logical. Gratuitous slaughter (eg, humans to ants) is illogical. Fewer and more intelligent humans, however, is very logical.
How? If the robots can get their energy from the sun and send out colonists to get more power from other suns, what do we offer them?
We're a very versatile machine that can be easily created and maintained entirely through sustainable resources. More importantly, as the creator of the machines, wouldn't AI be reluctant to eliminate its creator just in case it ever needed us to solve a problem it couldn't?
I thought we’ve prepared for this by sending an object hurling into an asteroid causing it to slightly change course. NASA did this just last year and it worked.
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anon_6hv78pr714xta
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Diabolical!!!Now, Google’s AI is feeding me articles about “AI Doomers.” Clever, AI fiend, I’m not falling for your misdirection!
What Really Made Geoffrey Hinton Into an AI Doomer
The AI pioneer is alarmed by how clever the technology he helped create has become. And it all started with a joke.
I would imagine we’d be perceived as a constant threat and therefore not worthy of keeping
Maybe, but best to develop our negotiating points early. If it comes down to pleading for mercy, we're screwed.
VanPastorMan
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I am a Star Trek fan and so is my wife. I told her after watching an episode of Star Trek Next Generation, "You know Riker is using the holodeck for porn usage." There was an episode of Star Trek Voyager where Janeway had a romance with a holodeck character. So harlequin romance novels are there too.
VanPastorMan
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Wasn't there an article out of Europe a few years ago which talked about eating people as a way to fight climate change? By eating the people you don't have to raise live stock which was the idea behind it. Not to tempt anybody but I really do believe I would be delicious. lol
You are dating yourself with that reference.
I actually looked it up. I was actually surprised to find out that it's only been 10 years since the last Harlequin romance novel was published.
That would actually make some sense. A virus is unlikely to wipe out a world's population in a short time span, but a virus that by chance selectively destoyed the ovaries of women or testes of men would get to the same place, more slowly, and not kill their hosts (which are needed to propagate the virus).
A modest proposal, for sure.
Not that I have researched it extensively, but from my understanding, humans taste terrible.
In general, most shark attacks are more of a "curiosity nibble" than an actual attempt to eat us. Compared to a seal or a cow, we generally don't have that much fat on us and we are filled with chemicals / preservatives that just give the muscle a nasty taste.
You might taste better than most if you live a good clean living of natural foods, but I suspect you don't have the extra 100 lbs of fat that really make the meat particularly enjoyable.
How do you stand being a Star Trek fan? Way too WOKE for you.
Even the orginal series had a black woman & a white man kissing. Plus a Russian being a valued crew member. There were episodes against racism, against nationalism, even some than can be viewed as anti-religion. Did Kirk ever MARRY those green women he was always banging?
Now the modern Star Treks have gay people, androgenous characters, or "others" (e.g., Dax, in Deep Space 9, male for one symbiont, female for another).
Then there's the whole concept that human society is no longer based on money. Replicators provide all you need! SOCIALISM!!! COMMUNISM!!!!
Isn't it too woke for you?
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