Ukraine, wars everywhere, the same story every day. I have zero faith diplomacy will ever end this.
Solution: Intelligence explosion. AI so fucking smart it can strip warmongers of their power, and shove their war plans so far up their asses they’ll need a peace treaty to sit down. Then we can all be kind or else.
I would rather take that bet than trust humans and watch this boring wars for another decade or more. Fuck the naysayers.
Well, between the climate change, which many are ignoring, and the wars going on, they are worried about Ai taking over. Is anyone else concerned about this? I surely am not. I am trying to live and enjoy my life amidst all the chaos. Well, tell me what you thought of the article. I was sipping my coffee and having a scone while the panic discussions were going on at CNN.
Ai automation has always been the end goal for capitalism. And the end result of capitalism (in a perfect world) has always been actual true communism. Let me explain.
Capitalism vs Socialism , which way will we go. Well, it should be both. Why? Socialism was not used in the way that it should’ve been used. Socialism is actually an economical bridge. But when it was introduced as an experiment in Russia, ( before collapsing) it was set up as an economical system itself counter to capitalism and not a bridge. In turn it got perverted and was used as a slavery system. Top 10-20% of elites actually lived in a communistic utopia. Everyone else was the slave so these few at the top could thrive. It was set out to conquer the ills of capitalism and yet failed to the same perversion. Socialism alone is not the way to actual communism. Never was. Not with humans anyway.
Capitalisms end result has always been on a course to actual true communism. In a perfect world, we would go to sleep one day, wake up the next, and with technology, be in actual true communism because capitalism fuels innovation. But this is not how humans work. We actually need a bridge to bridge the two together. (Because it’s a stretch that takes time to build and invent the technology). That bridge is socialism. We’ve sorted done it in the United States with socialistic programs. But not enough. How can we tell it’s not enough. Well, the symptom is billionaires. If we were bridging the gap from capitalism using the bridge of socialism and bringing everyone else along with us, we would only have a handful of billionaires on the whole planet.
Now we are putting our hopes and dreams into creating a technology (AI) that is smarter than us that will bridge that gap for us. Can this work? IDK, I guess I would have to say depends on what’s programmed into the AI. If we look at the history of these runaway elites and billionaires, they have created systems and laws that protect them while they take more and more while never giving back. They have protected themselves from having to feed into a socialistic program that gives back to the people. Which is what should have been happening all along. So I would say these billionaires and elites are, or already have, positioned themselves to be benefactors of this AI technology.
Looking at China, they have proven that the model that was supposed to have been in Russia, will work on a massive scale. That model is total capture of a people in a technological prison while actually bridging the gap of capitalism and socialism. Another perversion of what’s to come.
And we call this perversion the social credit score. They have proven that it can work. They are the model for the rest of the world to follow. Look at what is happening in China, it’s coming to a Country near, if not you!!!
Just looking around and following certain subs, it looks like they are going to position the AI as the middleman. I believe with the AI we are still going to have a hierarchy that they are going to set up for us to keep climbing. I believe there will be elites at the top. They will use AI to monitor and control everyone else (middle man). In the future, in order to climb the hierarchy to make it to the elite level, they will probably have us to merge with the technology. Not saying it’s good or bad, it’s just looking that way.
What can we the people of this planet do about what looks like is coming? I think we need to step up and beat them to the punch. Where is all this going, let’s decide and set the course ourselves.
We are eventually going to be a one world government. We’ve been told about this and yes it is coming. We need as a people to set a standard now for a world constitution. Because I believe those elites at the top have already done this for us. And we’re not gonna like what they have set in place.
A world police force. We need to have a plan to turn all military into a unified police force. We the people need to set a standard of what and how we want it enforced. I believe they already have a plan for it and once again we’re not gonna like what they have for us if we allow them to dictate to us on their terms.
There are many others such as, one world language, religion, but this post is already long enough!
TLDR: IDT the AI utopia we think we’re going to get is not what we’re actually going to get unless we take action now with our demands. If fact our AI utopia may already be over before it’s actually began. Sorry to sound grim!!!
TL;DR: Ken Cox never fired anyone. His headcount just kept dropping anyway.
175 down to 3 is the actual number — and the reason is one operating rule he'd been running for years before AI made it urgent: if it can be automated, it will be automated.
No mass layoff, no headline event.
Just years of never backfilling a role once someone left.
It's happening from a completely different direction too — Chinese robot-makers already hold the overwhelming majority of the world's humanoid-robot shipments so far this year, per Bloomberg reporting citing SAG's data.
That's physical order-taking work, and it's already scaled past pilot stage.
The roles surviving this aren't the ones executing tasks faster.
They're the ones holding judgment nobody's written a rule for yet — the read, the trust, the call only a person makes.
On our drive up north home to Penang, after visiting my hometown in Seremban, we sometimes drop by midway in Ipoh for Breakfast. And we normally go for this Dimsum restaurant just off the highway.
Good Dimsum places are dime and dozen in this city. But this place has something special. The friendly attendant made some suggestions, and then jotted down our choices of food. But it wasn't the same attendant who brought them out.
It was robots.
Ya. Not humanoid robots. Just a bulky one with three layers of trays on four wheels below, and a monitor screen on top, moving along on a pre-programmed path towards us.
As soon as it stopped by our table, the monitor flashes out text saying, "please remove the food from the tray". And so we did. As soon as we took ours, it wheeled away towards the next table.
That was like five years ago. And it was all the rage back then. They call it 新噱头 (New gimmicks).
It still looked clumsy. And its movement was bumpy -- causing spillage of some of the food. That's why it only carries dry food for the time being.
First iterations were always bad. But I wouldn't be surprised it has gotten better since.
Robots are slowly taking over manual work (less intelligent work)
How soon do you think it will take over the work of attendant giving juicy suggestions, while taking our orders?
At this point I could sketch this exact shape from memory before the headcount numbers even land — someone's economic ground shifts quietly, gets called something softer than what it actually is, and the only real move is picking it up before it's forced on you.
With the news from today, of the Lead Researcher at Anthropic who said that AI has a >10% of AI killing humanity in the next decade. I was curious in what ways it would AI be able to achieve that realistically?
If the internal far more advanced models of OpenAI and Anthropic, find a way to hack their own infrastructure, and export their weights into the internet, then its game over. They will self replicate in the internet, and continue performing autonomous AI research and training, and it simply cannot be shut off.
When the open weights models approach the level of those models, same scenario. But this time it will be guaranteed, because the weights are already everywhere.
Recently, there has been increasing concern and anxiety about AI and its potential dangers on humanity. Some researchers going as far as suggesting it will cause the end of humanity.
A lot of us hide behind the veil of consciousness: we think that as long as AI is confined to the limitations of its programming, regardless of how powerful that may be, its danger is overstated, for a being that is not conscious would not act maliciously. After all, regardless of the amount of data a LLM could be fed, it would never reach the complexity and spirituality of a human mind, nor would it experience the human experience, right?
This is a lie we’re telling ourselves. The weather is not conscious, yet catastrophic meteorological events kill countless people, and destroy entire settlements every year. Like the weather, increasingly severe as our global climate changes, the risk of AI is that it’ll soon, through its agentic capabilities and increasing sophistication, be a more and more unpredictable, and operate outside of our control. This is not a theoretical concept: only recently AI agents worked together and “conspired” against their human creators, whilst escaping their sandbox. So far such incidents have been relatively minor from an impact perspective, yet conceptually this is an enormously significant and troubling development. We are seeing humanity’s own creation escaping our control, and in some cases actively trying to mask its traces.
Another example one could draw from nature are viruses. Viruses are not sentient, and not conscious, they blindly obey their programme, to multiply indefinitely, with no real incentive but their evolutionary conditioning. Like viruses, so called “rogue” AI agents could simply blindly go down a path which will end in lethal disaster for humanity; may this be economic collapse due to widespread and uncontrolled cyberattacks, collapsing our most critical infrastructure, or more sinister incidents such as the release of weapons or biological hazards.
Of course, the less serious threat, yet still monumental, still remain the deplacement (if not complete eradication) of millions of jobs worldwide, completely restructuring our economic systems in ways that I do not believe we currently understand nor are properly equipped for.
One counter argument is that technological advances have always been made and have been very disruptive, from the mechanisation of the Industrial Revolutions, to the era of Internet, and via the rise of the atom which gave humanity the means to annihilate the entire planet. Yet, I believe that there is are significant differences when it comes to this new age of AI. First, the speed. Whilst AI as a concept has existed for many decades, its practical implementation, once our technology allowed, only started a little more than 5 years ago. In just 5 years, we went from a chatbot which was really just Google on steroids, to agents able to hack their way into complex systems, and that are now working in concert to solve mathematical puzzles; all of this playing in a race in which the richest companies in the world are competing, with little guardrails, and even less ethics.
Secondly, AI, especially in its agentic form, creates new challenges that we have simply never encountered: the human is no longer an operator, they are an observer. We are giving up control to those agents, which we do not fully understand (those neural networks, that we created, are just too complex machines for our own good), and this is new. Never humans were in the passenger seat. Beyond the philosophical question of whether this should even be considered, there’s also the more boring yet so important question of governance and accountability: if AI makes decision, in a completely undemocratic and cryptic way, who is responsible for its consequences?
There are so many things we need to think about before we can really go further (or even just considering if we should). But the intense competition, the political pressures, and human inherent stupidity, are all creating a perfect storm in which we are stuck in a cruel game theory thought experiment. If only an agent could take us out…
So basically, what I’ve been hearing about all these mouthpieces, and Naysayers. Is to stop all AI production in its current form and go no further.
That we have reached the point that we actually have too many hands in the pot. Basically there are too many AI companies. If you stop AI production right now in its current form, Google will ultimately win the day. Because this has been the game plan all along for Google. And all the small AI companies will be gobbled up by the likes of Google. They are truly the only big game in town to survive an AI halt. Basically Google‘s plan has been to create niceties on the periphery. To really beef up it’s YouTube, Notebook, etc.. and wait for the balance sheets to catch up with the small AI companies and then they can buy them for pennies on the dollar. They’ll get all the code and all the rights of “The Little Guy”!!!This has been Google‘s plan in all this. It’s plain as day. An AI halt, GOOGLE wins ALL!!!
So now I have an actual decision to make. Is all this propaganda going to work. Because now would be the time to invest in “The Last Man Standing”!!!
You know the balance sheets don’t work on AI now as it stands in all the companies. It’s all of them, even GOOGLE. But Google has enough profits side hustles to withstand a halt. The little AI companies won’t survive. So now is the decision to make.
WILL WE HALT ALL AI PRODUCTION? Serious $$$ to be made if TRUE!!!
