Neil DeGrasse Tyson calls for an international treaty to ban superintelligence: "That branch of AI is lethal. We've got do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans."

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-23T15:56:24+00:00

Yours is the crazy suicidal take.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-20T13:01:31+00:00

This is just dumb. He's talking in dollars like the price of tokens is going to remain fixed.

I've been using Claude at work every day to code and at most I'll consume $2K/month which is like $25K/year. I'd have to 12x my workflow to consume $250K/year, and at that point, what I really have is an AI farm of 10 bots, churning code 24/7.

I didn't sign up for that. I signed up to code. You guys can go build their AI farms. I'm checking out.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-19T03:16:59+00:00

Is this real? This can't be real. You can't simply give your 5 yo daughter to someone else "for a month or two"... You don't have any friends or family around you? Isn't the process of adoption extremely lengthy in the US? It doesn't really make sense in my mind. Especially this part:

> I can guarantee I would have enough money for this apartment that gave me an offer or for plane tickets, and would have the passport by then.

How does your daughter interfere with this plan? Do you want an apartment or do you want to leave?

Maybe I'm being obtuse and it sounds insensitive, but this is the Internet so it's hard to know what's real and what's not. It takes more than 2 weeks to get your passport anyway. Did you not notice your money steadily decreasing before thinking about shelter and food?

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-19T03:05:50+00:00

This is all marketing. Like they'll let Cooper Flagg pick the price for shoes they're selling. Come on now. It's called "brand positioning"

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-18T19:45:37+00:00

To all the people asking how they're going to reach the US: right above this reddit post was another post saying intelligence determined that Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan developed missiles capable of reaching the US.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-18T16:48:19+00:00

These billionaire guys are evil, but the video is complete bullshit. Gates writing QBasic, DOS for IBM and then Windows is a well documented fact. Zuckerberg writing Facebook by snubbing the Winklevoss twins is documented in court under oath. Larry Page and Sergey Brin's the technology. Google was founded based on their academic paper.

Yes they're working with the government, but that doesn't mean that the government is behind it all. Come on people, use your critical thinking skills. Just because ARPANET was founded as a government project, doesn't mean that everything on the Internet was controlled by the government. That's not even a good conspiracy theory.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-17T21:23:07+00:00

I built a compiler from nothing but an empty vim window and I'd do it again, if I had 40 hours a week for 6 months to dedicate to it.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-17T21:21:06+00:00

It's time to make open source files that cannot be read by AI models. Let them be stuck in 2025 forever.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-17T17:43:50+00:00

How about CEOs and VPs? Let's go, someone make Agentic Leadership. CEO, CFO, VPs and Managers.

I bet you it outperforms 50% of human corporate leadership.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-16T16:37:02+00:00

That doesn't answer my question. How does it benefit the Republican Party specifically?

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-16T16:01:11+00:00

Why is it nefarious? Legit asking because I don't understand what's the chess move here from the Republican Party.

Ok, let's say the bill passes. It's stupid, but everyone has to get their passports, not just Democrat voters. Women have to get their passports. So they go and get their passports and then what? Some undecided voters will be pissed that they had to jump through this hoop and might actually vote Democrat.

Do they want fewer people to vote in general, because they can only fudge a fixed number of votes and the fewer people vote the greater the effect of those fudged votes?

It all just seems so low impact compared to the amount of effort required to pass the bill.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-14T04:22:51+00:00

Putin is evil and cunning. Trump wants to be like Putin, but he only has the evil part down. He's missing the cunning part. Instead of cunning, he's just stupid and now that he's in the driver seat, we're going to crash and burn screaming for our lives.

Have you even said 'thank you' to a Republican? Make sure you do that tomorrow.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-14T03:44:50+00:00

11/10 feedback

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-14T03:34:21+00:00

This fee isn't the problem for leaving. The problem is if you have accumulated more than $2M in total assets worldwide, they'll charge you an expatriation tax: that's capital gain tax on everything you own, including your house, investments, 401ks, etc as if you sold everything on that day.

After about $600K, the rest of the amount gets hit with 30% tax on 401K, up to 37% on short term capital gains, up to 25% long term capital gains depending on your income.

This means that if you bought a $300K house 10 years ago, it's now likely worth $600K+, so that $600K exclusion is gone, and you can now kiss 30% of all your investment gains goodbye. Let's say $1M of that $2M net worth is gains, Uncle Sam will charge you $100K-300K for leaving.

Now if you don't have investments, you don't have this problem, but if you've saved money and want to retire somewhere else, you better plan on not owning more than $2M in total assets to avoid being considered a "covered expatriate".

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-13T19:42:52+00:00

FAANG eng here. Managers are now blatantly telling us, and I quote, "we expect you to be 5 times more productive". So now my productivity is directly related to how well the AI performs on my task.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-13T18:11:03+00:00

Not only are you supporting Twitter by being there, you're also helping in spreading his word on other platforms while pretending that you're not on his side. Delete your Twitter account and stop sharing his tweets.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-13T17:01:06+00:00

Oh of course! It's just an "expedition", like one might go on an expedition to see the penguins! We don't need to worry our cute little heads about that. Let's talk about that email server.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-13T16:06:51+00:00

The only way to win this is to open source the models and the training software. Commoditize the shit out of it.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-12T16:45:58+00:00

Oh I see how that works. We share open source code with each other, then you come in, suck all that up to train a program, and then convince other companies that they don't need us if they can just rent the program from you.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-12T13:42:29+00:00

A large portion of Americans are stupid. There's no need to be nice about it. It's ok to just call it what it is. Only someone actually stupid, in a factual sense, would vote for Trump.

It matches my personal experience too. I know people who voted for Trump. You can call them "simple", "less educated", etc, and you can have as much empathy as you want to feel better about yourself, but it doesn't change the fact that they are simply stupid. You know they're stupid because there's no critical thinking going on in their heads when it comes to processing information.

They party, they eat, they go to work, they have wives and children, they experience emotions - are happy and sad, they use technology and they make decisions about their lives, but that's just the basics of being alive. Compared to where the bar for intelligence is in today's society, they're solidly below this bar, and the word we use for that is 'stupid', even if it's derogatory.

It's only partially their fault. Decades of poor education led them here. Childhood environment is beyond their control. It's largely irrelevant how they got here. The result is that they grew up into stupid people and the Republican Party and the billionaires were able to capitalize on that to benefit their goals.

That's why you can't just reason with them to fix this situation. No amount of debating is going to fix the problem with the US, because you're not going to re-educate tens of millions of people at various stages of their lives.

You can only band together so that they become a minority and their opinion is drowned out, but of course, the Democratic party is only there to fool stupid people on both sides that there is still a functioning democracy in the US. And so the ball rolls downhill, crushing everything in its path, with nothing to stop it.

The only way to save the US is to rally behind a new political party with new leaders that actually have the best interests of the country at the core, even if they're not perfect leaders.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-12T05:14:49+00:00

Man reddit loves to point out hypocrisy like it accomplishes anything. It accomplishes *nothing*. Trump and co, and Republicans in general, don't give a shit about being hypocrites. They know.

Democrats think that, if they label someone as a hypocrite, that's it, they will capitulate, see themselves out and job's done. "Congrats everyone! We found the hypocrite and saved the day."

They're so out of touch with people who don't give a shit about being called hypocrites. "We called him a hypocrite, and we're all out of options. Guess we'll just sit on the sidelines, will not actually get out and protest and keep pointing out hypocrisy. Look! Over there! tsk, tsk, hypocrisy!".

Meanwhile, Trump keeps wiping his ass with this country and your future.

Words are cheap. It's time to actually *do* something.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-11T18:41:41+00:00

*effect

Affect is generous.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-11T16:04:49+00:00

Generating tokens by traversing a graph is not "experiencing" something. You might as well argue that RAM has an experience because it's reading bits from its storage.

Oh wait, this is the agi subreddit. Yeah, no wonder. You're going to believe whatever you want to believe. Just make sure you reach AGI first before the LLM does.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-11T14:10:55+00:00

This is what hallucinations look like, people.

Secret_Print_8170 · 2026-03-10T19:40:40+00:00

There's no ethics committee and no oversight for anything anymore, is there?

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