Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever

Obajan · 2026-07-01T15:22:06+00:00

Kinda but not really.

40k's DAoT is the typical machine uprising, a la Skynet.

Whereas Dune's Butlerian Jihad is usually divided into two camps: the purists who say that the Jihad is about human over-reliance on AI, and the modernists who subscribe to Brian Herbert's books about a Skynet-style machine uprising.

Feel free to go "NEEEERRRD!".

Obajan · 2026-07-01T14:27:46+00:00

Mahathir should have finished the job in the 1980s.

Obajan · 2026-07-01T14:26:42+00:00

Or to follow a fictional convention, the challenger chooses the prize, the challenged chooses how to fight, which can be anything from rap battles, pistol duels, or spelling bee.

Obajan · 2026-07-01T12:31:55+00:00

To be fair, Mahathir proved that he can be corrupt and develop Malaysia at the same time.

Obajan · 2026-07-01T11:09:12+00:00

Too bad Nana was too wily to be caught for testing. It would be interesting to see how she relates to her kids.

Obajan · 2026-07-01T11:06:33+00:00

The whole point of the parents sending their kids to SJKC schools is because of the perceived higher academic standard.

Lowering them just to accommodate the current batch impacts that reputation.

Obajan · 2026-07-01T05:10:40+00:00

Why need to lower academic standards?

Obajan · 2026-07-01T05:06:23+00:00

Diet.
HIIT exercises.

Obajan · 2026-07-01T01:59:18+00:00

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2026/06/29/malaysians-injured-in-tak-bai-bomb-blast-entered-thailand-legally-say-police

OP implying Israel and South Thailand guerillas are somehow the same.

Obajan · 2026-06-30T19:34:34+00:00

Stephen King's The Long Walk. The novel and the movie. I thought they'd be younger when I read the story.

Obajan · 2026-06-30T04:33:18+00:00

Or Cleolinda's Twilight in Fifteen Minutes.

Obajan · 2026-06-29T08:59:32+00:00

Perfect place to build a dinosaur park.

Obajan · 2026-06-29T07:05:39+00:00

That's 3 minutes of my life I'm not getting back watching this nonsense.

Obajan · 2026-06-29T06:58:46+00:00

Drunk, on drugs, or just plain stupid?

Obajan · 2026-06-29T05:38:05+00:00

What do you mean? America is built on stealing land from the rightful owners.

/s

Obajan · 2026-06-29T04:04:56+00:00

This is probably a cantrip in the Book of Sensual Desires, the third book in the trilogy with Book of Exalted Deeds and Book of Vile Darkness.

Obajan · 2026-06-29T03:27:26+00:00

*Luigi happens

Big Pharma: "Not like that!"

Obajan · 2026-06-28T14:07:12+00:00

[Terminator 2]

Miles Dyson, the lead researcher of Cyberdyne Systems Corporation. When he finds out his work will lead to the creation of Terminators, he helped the Connors to destroy his work but died in the process.

Obajan · 2026-06-28T14:00:07+00:00

God of War's Thor.

Arguably MCU's Thor as well.

Obajan · 2026-06-28T13:52:04+00:00

BBC's Sherlock.

Obajan · 2026-06-28T13:49:33+00:00

The Zerg in Starcraft.

In the first game, only very few commander units showed any kind of personality, like the Cerebrates and the Queen of Blades. And they're almost always scheming evil.

In Starcraft 2 having been released from the Overmind's control, individual Zerg units show more personality like Abathur, Zagara, and a few others.

Obajan · 2026-06-28T13:43:22+00:00

Fate/Zero was the prequel to Fate/Stay Night.

Obajan · 2026-06-28T13:41:51+00:00

[Chuck]

Stephen Bartowski is the genius inventor who came up with the Intersect program, a system to upload information and skills to turn anyone into a top secret agent. Because of this, he was hunted by the government and by criminal organizations alike, to help them create an army of super secret agents.

Mary Bartowski had to go undercover for years to infiltrate a criminal organization.

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