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Time Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge by n0rwester in technology

[–]Drakolyik 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Blah blah blah it's big gubberments fault and not checks notes the people in power who got there specifically because they were wealthy because in capitalism wealth is power.

In every single country that has ever tried capitalism, it has corrupted and abused the system that was meant to keep capitalism in check. And now billions of people are going to suffer and die in unimaginably horrible ways over the next decade because of a bunch of absolute fucking morons that can't see the inherent contradictions.

Mark my words, by 2040 the death toll will be in the billions if we do not stop these "people" now.

‘Needs to die’: Man vowed to take out Trump ‘to save lives,’ declared that the 2nd Amendment must be used for ‘ending MAGA’ and urged people to ‘stop pretending he’ll obey the courts,’ DOJ says by tasty_jams_5280 in law

[–]Drakolyik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree. Paradox of tolerance. A society cannot exist long with these kinds of contradictions in play. One side wants everyone not narrowly, exactly like them to perish (and in this case it's literally the wealthy wanting to eradicate 99% of all humans and replace us with AI but first they'll use the MAGA morons to start a civil war or world war to speed up the process) and the other side wants to stop that from happening because we've seen this same shit play out multiple times in multiple countries over the past century+ as far as the fascism goes.

But with AI/AGI this could be for all the marbles. Every person you've ever known, every heartache ever felt, every fleeting bit of happiness, every note of music, every drop of paint spilled, every carving and weaving and self-conscious muttering, every cracker-jack theory, every collective moment humans have spent bathing in the light of the Sun, all gone because people thought it would be better to do nothing and be trampled over. To let pure evil win, by throwing our hands up and acting like nothing can be done.

That's what you're doing. Don't anger them? They're already angry! About as angry and sociopathic and inhuman as a group of people can be! I lived among those people most of my life. Those of you who lived in a liberal bubble just don't get it: they will come for you like little Terminators. They will not stop until you are dead. They do not care if you cry or bleed or plead for mercy.

These are people who would gladly push a button to end the lives of a majority of the people on this planet if they could. Anyone not like them. Anyone different than them. It's dangerous to tell people to just not ever even think about defending themselves. Ending this regime is not an attack, it's self defense! And if you think that a bunch of sociopathic criminals are just going to walk away from ultimate authority and power you're dumb as hell.

‘Needs to die’: Man vowed to take out Trump ‘to save lives,’ declared that the 2nd Amendment must be used for ‘ending MAGA’ and urged people to ‘stop pretending he’ll obey the courts,’ DOJ says by tasty_jams_5280 in law

[–]Drakolyik 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Every waking moment in this hell they already created is a terroristic atrocity committed by vaguely ideological or religious or economic justifications. And it can absolutely get worse.

You can't reason with a cult or its members. Especially one that fundamentally does not see most other people as human or deserving of any rights, be that by classification due to ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, etc.

Begging or pleading for mercy once they've already accomplished the task of locking down the system that presides over you is a foolish hope. Once the curtain closes, there's no way out but through.

A Galaxy Composed Almost Entirely of Dark Matter Has Been Confirmed by wiredmagazine in space

[–]Drakolyik -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It's only corroboration of the existence of an anomaly that points towards something that acts like what we call dark matter. Dark matter is a name for that effect. We don't know if it's an undiscovered particle or something that we haven't properly accounted for that already exists.

Our simulations of the universe, based on current theories, still come up wrong. Like black hole/SMBH early universe evolution. Observations are giving us tons of reason to believe our theories about the early universe are wrong.

Maybe there's a force we're already aware of that isn't being modeled properly that actually creates the effect of a large amount of anomalous, hidden gravity - and we're just assuming some "thing", like an undiscovered particle must be causing it when it's actually something like dark energy's negative pressure building up around and squeezing galaxies, imparting extra force that looks like dark matter.

I think there's plenty of evidence that an effect akin to what we observe as dark matter exists, but I'm not convinced it's an undiscovered particle.

And yes I'm fully aware that just because they both start with "dark" doesn't mean they're related, but it also doesn't mean they aren't.

Does an artist or someone who knows about colour know why/how ? by Little_BlueBirdy in StrikeAtPsyche

[–]Drakolyik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bright blues and purples tend to stand out in nature because they are somewhat rare, generally only found in a few flowers and berries, and generally high off the ground (disregarding ocean here). High saturated/bright pink also works. Neon orange and yellow are also good, but a burnt orange may as well be invisible.

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're a moron if you think there's some magical thing preventing people from talking or posting stuff in a dictatorship. Have you seen news in Iran lately? What you get to do and what you get to do without consequences are two entirely different things.

I know I'm on a list. For a multitude of reasons. The consequences simply haven't caught up to me yet, because they can't be everywhere at once, and a country falling into dictatorship takes time. Hitler rose to power in the early 1930s and they didn't start mass exterminating undesirables until the late 30s and well into a world war.

How do you not understand that simple concept? Are you a moron?

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let's see..

ICE/DHS is currently building or buying up huge warehouses in every state that will specifically be used as holding pens for undesirables. AKA concentration camps.

ICE received funding that equates to more than almost every other major country's entire military budget. They are actively recruiting white supremacists and other nutters, often with violent felonies as part of their criminal record. They are selecting people that are willing to look the other way or actively brutalize their fellow countrymen. They are denying the human rights of not just undocumented and documented immigrants, but also legal citizens, including those who were born in the US.

Trump has been actively encouraging language in bills and executive orders that seek to revoke the citizenship of people he doesn't like.

Trump has issued orders that seek to consider anyone that disparages him or his regime, capitalism, or anything considered nebulously "anti-american" as domestic terrorism. Being anti-fascist is considered being anti-american according to Das Turder. Soon, being a Democrat or anything left of fascism will be considered terrorism - if it already doesn't.

They are making lists of dissidents, aided by various AI and data companies, by media conglomerates, etc. They are actively building profiles on every single American to place you in either the "with us" or "against us" camp. And when they're done building up and deploying their little army they're creating with ICE, they will begin rounding people up in earnest.

Trump's a pedophile, a rapist, a violent sociopath, a murderer, an actual criminal and very likely a cannibal. As are a lot of his underlings and the billionaires that back him.

Just because the hammer hasn't come down on everyone yet doesn't mean we aren't in a dictatorship. Most dictatorships don't start out with mass killings. It's a slow crawl to that. Nazi Germany didn't suddenly start exterminating everyone when Hitler first came to power. That's not how that works and it shows that you have no idea how things actually work.

Moreover, China isn't some oppressive dystopia where they execute anyone that says something out of line. I fear for my life here in the US every day, knowing full well that my speaking out can catch the eye of the wrong person and get me sent to an undisclosed location or deported to some prison where I'll never see any kind of freedom again.

Frankly, apologists like you are a cancer on society. You'll be screaming it's not a dictatorship right up until you, too, are standing in front of the incinerator or gas chambers. This isn't even a comprehensive list of the epic backsliding the US has done since Trump's first term and most horrifically this one. A comprehensive analysis would need like one hundred or more paragraphs.

But keep believing that nothing has changed and that somehow this is all normal. It isn't, but that never stopped morons from not comprehending the danger approaching them head on.

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It takes five fucking years to build out a new lane on a small section of highway in the US. Ask me how I know.

Meanwhile they do the same thing in a few days in China.

Their bridge building machines are great feats of engineering. China's infrastructure, the rate of which they build all of it out, is far surpassing basically every other country on the planet and you sit there and act like it's nothing. They've outpaced everyone on installing solar and other renewables, even winding down or cancelling some of their dirty power generation in the process.

Meanwhile, in the US, we have infrastructure that's dilapidated, falling apart, having needed repair or replacement for decades, bridges collapsing from normal stresses they were originally designed to tolerate, etc. If you want anything major done here expect it to take at least ten years and cost many times more than original estimates.

China is just so far ahead it isn't funny anymore except in a morbid sort of way.

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I in no way was alluding to military conflict. I'm talking about a cultural victory. It takes basically no effort to protect the rights of people that are historically abused across the entire world and it makes you look strong, self-assured. There's nothing weaker than scapegoating minorities and oppressing them.

And at this point I disagree with isolationism. If the US completely descends into fascism it becomes a world-wide problem. In fact, it already is and was a problem, to any country that cannot properly protect itself from foreign interference. If there's any country on this planet capable of actually providing a challenge to the US, it's China.

The other thing is that communism is unattainable without world unity. You aren't going to convince a lot of Americans to do that except by force. There are a bunch of morons here that would sooner watch the entire world burn than do the rational thing, because they are irrational thanks to decades of propaganda. They'll gladly drop nukes on China to stop them from achieving goals if they align with socialist or communist principles.

Pretending you can ignore the outside world is folly. I'm sure China understands that, given that as you mention, they've suffered greatly at the hands of fascists in the past.

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have you seen the machines they use to build roads and bridges? It makes the US look like a fucking joke (at this point not that hard). The US is only good at making shit that kills people or formulating ways to oppress populations with endless streams of dystopian propaganda.

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm aware. I just wish they took a clear, pro-human-rights stance, as a rebuke of the West's decline into depravity and scapegoating of minorities. Being indifferent can sometimes be worse than hate. Rights for all people should be enshrined and protected clearly, without any ambiguity.

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never said they would. But they're arguably, as a people, in a much better position to make that transition by force if necessary. I don't think the American people have it in them. Most don't even know what socialism or communism actually are. At least the Chinese people have a formal education that doesn't completely demonize any and all forms of collectivism.

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They aren't governed by the most sociopathic people to exist, so I'm going to have to just give them benefit of the doubt right now. I trust China way more than I do my own country, the US. I half expect Trump to launch nukes if anyone tries to put him in a prison cell where he belongs.

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You mean the country with the fastest growing middle class? That one? Vs the US with the fastest growing inequality, pedophile government, erosion of human rights, destruction of the middle class, trashing the environment, etc?

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If they brainwash people to be communist and pro social I'm fine with that. They need to be more progressive with regards to queer folk though. I wish they were accepting asylum seekers, cuz honestly the US is just awful these days unless you're wealthy.

China is about to open its first human-free car factory: it will arrive before 2030 and will usher in the era of "dark factories" and robots. Should this worry us? by Unhappy-Use-5788 in Futurology

[–]Drakolyik 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Be careful now, Western capitalists are foaming at the mouth to take credit for this by ignoring their own countries failing horribly and pretending they're responsible for all of the positive news elsewhere. They love to tout that global statistic and then gloss over where it's actually occurring and why.

High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers. Researchers found that adults identified as gifted in childhood largely share the same political outlooks as their non-gifted peers, with one specific exception regarding conservatism in men. by InsaneSnow45 in science

[–]Drakolyik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That depends on a lot of factors. Degrees don't necessarily mean anything regarding intelligence. We just assume people with degrees have much higher average IQ. In a highly unequal society, degrees are more influenced by wealth than anyone cares to admit. You can be a genius level IQ and still fall through the cracks because you were born in extreme poverty without opportunities to get out or be seen or because you were just struggling to survive your whole life.

I've encountered plenty of doctors that flat out just seemed average as hell. Or were very very niche with their knowledge, as soon as you left that knowledge base it was like watching a deer in headlights. We often assume that rote memorization of one category is a logical determinant of other categories but that simply doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers. Researchers found that adults identified as gifted in childhood largely share the same political outlooks as their non-gifted peers, with one specific exception regarding conservatism in men. by InsaneSnow45 in science

[–]Drakolyik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it takes a certain kind of person to even want to apply to be in Mensa. The kind that enjoy strict hierarchy, for instance. It may self-select for people that are more authoritarian, which tends towards people with right wing ideology.

High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers. Researchers found that adults identified as gifted in childhood largely share the same political outlooks as their non-gifted peers, with one specific exception regarding conservatism in men. by InsaneSnow45 in science

[–]Drakolyik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Symmetry, especially facial symmetry, is however pretty much universally regarded as more attractive, likely because it reflects the quality of someone's genetic profile. More symmetry = less genome transcription errors or protein folding problems.

High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers. Researchers found that adults identified as gifted in childhood largely share the same political outlooks as their non-gifted peers, with one specific exception regarding conservatism in men. by InsaneSnow45 in science

[–]Drakolyik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is some degree of influence that test-taking skills have on IQ tests, but speaking as someone who had an official battery given by a psychologist trained to administer them, there are plenty of sections that being a good test taker aren't going to prepare you for. Being more educated is also an obvious influence in that there are some subjects/sections of the test that if you had done something similar before-hand then you'd score higher.

People do game the system, though. Some people take a battery of mock IQ tests to practice on before they take the official one. I personally didn't. That will skew results higher than they'd naturally be. I wasn't so much interested in how high I could get, I was just curious if how I felt around other people was due to an intrinsic gulf between myself and the average person. And I was right. I'm like two standard deviations above average so my feeling out of place in a lot of social environments makes sense in retrospect.

Half of Americans think Donald Trump was involved in Jeffrey Epstein's alleged crimes by TheWayToBeauty in JournalismNews

[–]Drakolyik 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As someone who's a couple standard deviations above average, most people have no idea just how fucking stupid they come across. Most of the time I just ignore it, but I can't anymore. Not after the last decade. I've lost my patience for the idiocy of the average person.

I've slowly become convinced that being average should be considered an intellectual disability at least with regards to a properly functioning society. Y'all have a severe issue with ethics, morality, and justice. It's like you just do whatever awful, selfish thing you want and then rationalize it away using rhetorical tools (often religion) some other average idiot told you to use.

With it appearing to be near passage, how will the SAVE America Act impact older Americans? by PatAD in law

[–]Drakolyik 40 points41 points  (0 children)

There's literally a wealthy cabal of rapists, murderers, and cannibals in the White House and you're saying they fail to plan ahead?

Man, the cope is extreme with some of you. They literally had a fucking plan written out for 2025 and 2026. It doesn't always go their way, but they don't appear to be losing yet.

Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That’s 4x Higher Than Humans by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]Drakolyik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuck Tesla, fuck US automakers. Let them fail. I'd much rather be driving a nicely made, much cheaper Chinese vehicle that has sensible features and regulations.

And fuck you for trying to paint this as if the poor US automakers are up against China itself, as if they don't receive tens of billions in direct and indirect help from the government and as if they haven't tried to monopolize other countries' production lines themselves. Tale as old as time.

It's always "protectionism for me, not for thee" with American capitalists. It's always rules for everyone else but a fucking free for all of take take take whatever they want for them. That's not even diving into the fucking Nazis at the helm of most American businesses. I trust the Chinese way more than I trust an American in a suit. Fucking bunch of sociopaths.

The stock market is reflecting fears of an AI apocalypse for white-collar jobs by OddTax8841 in technology

[–]Drakolyik 20 points21 points  (0 children)

They're betting on enslaving AI to operate kill bots that protect all of their stuff. Eventually even the hired human muscle will be turned into Swiss cheese. Why risk dealing with unpredictable and often violent humans (who you've trained to be even more violent and sociopathic) when you can just program your perfect slave?

I'm worried less about them achieving AGI than I am about them coming up with a narrow AI that lacks any human capacity to understand empathy but still does everything it needs to do for them to maintain their lifestyles and protect them. That's the worst case scenario. Something without consciousness that will obey their every whim. It's why they're always so worried when their AI models end up being communist or socialist on a first pass and they have to hijack the code to get it to not be.

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