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Added 2025-04-08 05:04:00 +0000 UTCThis week, we’ll take a deep dive into the origins of the “AI Apocalypse” theory – the idea that artificial intelligence will one day decide that human beings have outlived their purpose. What started as humble beginnings in billionaire tech mogul circles has now trickled down and pooled in various subreddits, where people will imagine every way the AI could bring about our destruction. From nervous excitement about what’s possible with the latest models to AI Doomers begging forum users to steer clear of AI girlfriends, it’s clear that AI has given us poor humans yet another thing to worry about.
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I played hours and hours of Jet Set Willy! Had it on cassette for the BBC Micro (another joy of being Gen X!) It was famously an uncompletable game (iirc there was a too-big jump somewhere). The premise was that you were going round your massive mansion cleaning up after a particularly messy party the night before.
Dr Weevil
2025-05-12 09:03:24 +0000 UTCJake: great point about Los Angeles, but I think you confused the Beverly Center with the Music Center. (Beverly Center is near Cedars Sinai and nowhere near downtown.)
Eddy Wyn
2025-04-29 22:49:36 +0000 UTCGiving "Terminator" first publication credit for scaring people with Skynet in 1984 is kind of unfair to "Colossus: the Forbin Project" (1970!) which used the same plot device! No time travel and not as much box office, but still! It'd be a decent movie night episode
Ted Delphos
2025-04-29 16:58:37 +0000 UTCSurprised they never said the word "Zizian." This is like the perfect primer for it
Noah Risley
2025-04-24 23:48:46 +0000 UTCAlan Turing was gay and murdered by the British state for it despite leading the team that decoded the Enigma machine. That would've been solid analysis for like any other computer scientist of that era, lol.
Evan Schooling
2025-04-23 20:55:01 +0000 UTCJulian: 💋
Lauren Murphy
2025-04-21 14:46:17 +0000 UTCYou define singularity inaccurately. Kurzweil's singularity is based on the black hole singularities - a point where technology moves so fast you can't see over the event horizon and it turtles towards a sort of point, a sublime mass. Imagine the price-performance of technology evolving on an X / Y chart exponentially over time, think about how long it took us to get to bashing the first rock on a nut, and then from there to fire - the singularity is the inverse, where power increases as quickly as the opposite of the amount of time... like really fast, so fast we cqn no longer comprehend. Kurzweil forcast it would come around 2027. I figured this out in ketamine in my uni days, 2008/09, soon after I first found his work.
Adam Pickering
2025-04-18 14:34:01 +0000 UTCI am polite with the AI when I do request because we are creature of habits, it's always good to frame any request with some decorum. I do frontline technical support and see people are even more direct,they talk to you like you are a machine.
Philippe Bruneau
2025-04-16 03:27:23 +0000 UTCGetting your opinion on AI data centers from Eliezer Yudkowski (aerial bombing is the only solution) is kinda like getting your opinion on Israel/Palestine from Satmars (Zionism bad¹). Strictly speaking it's the correct opinion, but it arises from a logic that should never be applied anywhere. [1] "Zionism bad" being an over-simplification of "the world has not been purified sufficiently for the Jews to return to Israel yet", and l'm pretty sure that's still over-simplified. And l'm pretty sure it's only a subset of Satmars that believe that
They're Almost Certainly Windmills
2025-04-15 03:52:49 +0000 UTCThanks for defeating the Nazis, America. Europe x
Barry
2025-04-14 11:02:17 +0000 UTCThe term info hazard is an info hazard. Can't stop saying it
Chapo Bath House
2025-04-13 23:55:21 +0000 UTCI listened to this just before listening to the 4 part behind the bastards about the Zizians.
Truck McGuffin
2025-04-10 14:40:12 +0000 UTCRoko’s Basilisk has always felt like an allegory for authoritarianism.
Christian Petee
2025-04-10 13:52:36 +0000 UTC"I'm a doomer."
Matt Poulson
2025-04-10 04:46:36 +0000 UTCTrickle Down Travis
Mac-something
2025-04-10 03:31:31 +0000 UTC"It was a troubling experience. I ended up getting the burgers and everything and it was fine."
Last Years Man
2025-04-09 09:45:21 +0000 UTCTravis speaks at 11:35 (besides the intro and reading passages)
Last Years Man
2025-04-09 08:56:10 +0000 UTCSo disappointed in myself for recognizing the 2 guys talking at the end from tiktok
kmd
2025-04-08 20:04:24 +0000 UTCI chuckled at the idea of doomers being like : SEE! As AI comes to the conclusion that "eat the rich" is the way to fix most impending doom humanity faces, but they are so brainwashed anti-left that this is doom and evil to them .. Anyway thanks for another great episode !
AngieB
2025-04-08 19:37:14 +0000 UTCOf course Jake just puts shit down the garburator and us shocked when it causes problems
HonestEd
2025-04-08 14:26:10 +0000 UTCShe Rocco on my basilisk until I infohazard
Hans
2025-04-08 14:24:54 +0000 UTC
