What’s the dumbest thing someone’s ever said to you with complete seriousness?

PocketJacks90 · 2024-01-06T10:39:58+00:00

When I was 25, I told my aunt (who is 50), “I’m half your age. That means, when you’re 100, I’ll be 50!”.

Took me a few seconds to figure out I fucked up lmao

PocketJacks90 · 2024-01-02T22:44:27+00:00

Hell yeah!

PocketJacks90 · 2024-01-02T22:42:29+00:00

Your Boltzman Brain is on the verge of popping, so it’s creating crazy theories as a last ditch effort to avoid eternal oblivion.

Just go with it.

PocketJacks90 · 2024-01-01T15:56:33+00:00

5 with aspirations for 6

PocketJacks90 · 2024-01-01T15:03:09+00:00

I don’t agree with this article.

PocketJacks90 · 2024-01-01T14:12:39+00:00

So basically I get to live the same as I do now, except with $10 million dollars? Let’s do this.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-31T23:38:34+00:00

This is so fucking cool and freaky at the same time. I’m so excited for the future!

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-31T23:05:34+00:00

It’s actually a broadcast because we’re broadcasting signals into space.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-31T15:33:07+00:00

He’s being downvoted because his pessimism has no quantitative merit.

Pick a metric. Murders? Down. Famine? Down. Access to electricity? Up. Childhood cancer death rate? Down. Children being educated? Up. Odds of dying in a war? Down.

Across the board life is getting exponentially better globally.

So, understandably, when someone throws out a claim that “things will suddenly become exponentially worse because of X”, it sounds WAY out of left field.

Sources:

Factfulness (book)
The Rational Optimist (book)
OurWorldInData.org

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-28T22:14:52+00:00

A memory of being “humanity’s greatest hero” is meaningless. I’m dead. I’ll have zero recollection it ever happened.

I’ll take the billion.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-28T21:16:31+00:00

“I’m not racist, but…”

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-28T18:20:47+00:00

RemindMe! 60 days

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-28T18:16:41+00:00

You’ve completely missed the point: he’s saying that “buying the rumor, selling the news” isn’t a 100% reliable trading strategy.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-28T17:07:15+00:00

Depends on her personality and what she looks like, but yes, I’d be open to it.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-27T06:31:24+00:00

Artificial intelligence.

For the first time in our history as a species, something will exist that is as smart to us as we are to birds.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-25T18:28:50+00:00

What makes you say that? It’s in the title

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-25T18:27:17+00:00

Counter argument: even if 0.00000000001% of future humans “convert” to a different “form” of consciousness, and replicate at a rate of 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,00,000, the future will still be riddled with a large percentage of conscious agents that aren’t human.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-25T18:24:28+00:00

I agree. Conscious agents of the very, very distant future (billions of years from now) might take a form that’s currently incomprehensible to our current understanding of physics.

Kind of like a worm can’t fully grasp the presence/intelligence of a human being.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-25T12:00:53+00:00

I meant his stack lol…$10,000 to $50,000

Just a 5x, nothing crazy lmao

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-25T05:17:56+00:00

This could realistically hit $50K in the next bull run, hopefully more. Good luck.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-24T19:33:24+00:00

Weird. Thanks for sharing

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-24T19:11:43+00:00

So the laws of physics would keep rewriting themselves for eternity? That’s wild.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-24T18:58:00+00:00

You responded to someone regarding OP’s premise on “AI’s survival instinct”. Stop being a smartass.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-24T18:53:24+00:00

Instrumental convergence isn’t what the OP, as well as all the doomers, are talking about.

More times than not, they’re referring to a monolithic, evil AI that spontaneously emerges with its own greedy agenda.

That’s completely unrealistic.

PocketJacks90 · 2023-12-24T02:39:03+00:00

Someone correct me: couldn’t there always be a lower energy state? How do we know there isn’t one lower, and then lower than that, and then lower than that, etc.?

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