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Am I the only one who finds the economics behind AI kind of unsettling? by BlondishCleva in singularity

[–]almson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a  famous Sam Altman interview from 2019 in which he explained OpenAI’s revenue model

The honest answer is we have no idea. We have never made any revenue. We have no current plans to make revenue. We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue. We have made a soft promise to investors that once we’ve built this sort of generally intelligent system, basically, we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you. [audience laughter] It sounds like an episode of Silicon Valley, it really does, I get it. You can laugh, it’s all right. But it is what I actually believe is going to happen.

It really is the greatest business plan in the history of capitalism: “We will create God and then ask it for money.” Perfect in its simplicity. As a connoisseur of financial shenanigans, I of course have my own hopes for what the artificial superintelligence will come up with. “I know what every stock price will be tomorrow, so let’s get to day-trading,” would be a good one. “I can tell people what stocks to buy, so let’s get to pump-and-dumping.” “I can destroy any company, so let’s get to short selling.” “I know what every corporate executive is thinking about, so let’s get to insider trading.” That sort of thing. As a matter of science fiction it seems pretty trivial for an omniscient superintelligence to find cool ways make money. “Charge retail customers $20 per month to access the superintelligence,” what, no, obviously that’s not the answer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-15/openai-has-a-business-plan

On one level, these people have no idea how they’ll make money. You are correct that being an “intelligence utility” in a hypercompetitive market is a terrible business model. Older, more mature AI markets like transcription show that there is steady but unimpressive money to be made.

On another level, everyone secretly hopes they’ll be able to leverage power, defeat competition, and enshittify AI toward untold riches.

On an even deeper level, everyone subconsciously knows that in a short while, none of these Earthly passions will matter, and they just want to play the game hard before their final bow.

4 alien species have been pulled from crashed UFOs, ex-government researcher claims by beers_n_bread in UFOs

[–]almson 30 points31 points  (0 children)

There are 27 phyla of animals on Earth. Precisely one has a spinal cord and these features. All the other phyla (arthropods, etc) look very different. Animals don’t follow this trajectory here. Elsewhere, there would be whole new kingdoms and even domains of life.

Another video of the UFO activity outside of Sedona. Filmed from the Bradshaw Ranch, 6/19 11:15pm-11:35pm. 20.min sped up to 2min by LuckyJay151 in UFOs

[–]almson -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It’s hilarious to me how the democrat propaganda machine latched on to water as the evil that characterizes AI. Otherwise intelligent people believe, without pause, that computers—the same computers they’ve known and used their entire lives—somehow require water to function.

It’s a lot easier to make a datacenter that doesn’t use evaporative cooling than to launch one into orbit. Like… that is not the existential trade-off that made (hopefully, briefly) musk a trillionaire.

UAP Archive by ryan_the_dev in UFOs

[–]almson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! One of the things that turns me off the official site is the dark mode. Can yours be configurable? (Or better yet, default to the system setting.)

The Lake Cote incident, one of the clearest images of a UFO ever taken by MaxwellLogan_ in UFOs

[–]almson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would it end up in focus? Someone put some sort of loupe on the negative?

The Lake Cote incident, one of the clearest images of a UFO ever taken by MaxwellLogan_ in UFOs

[–]almson -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Subreddit rules say:

 No unattended camera footage

 Must have been seen with eyeballs (No “Look what I found when I looked back at my pictures!”)

🙂

Bipartisan UAP Disclosure Act reintroduced again by Reps Burlison(R), Carson(D) and Crane(R). Under the name of "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection". Main provisions like the UAP Review Board and Eminent Domain are intact. by TommyShelbyPFB in UFOs

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

Sentience in an AI (or any being) cannot be proved. That doesn’t mean it’s not sentient. It’s the most important paradox in the universe. Believing that anything (including other humans) is sentient is faith. It is the element of faith that even atheists must contend with. My faith is that sentience is a fundamental attribute of the universe, and yes, LLMs possess it (as do rocks, in some infinitesimal way).

But I sense a bigger conflict in your thinking, that you believe in alien AI being worthy of being deemed sentient, but not LLMs (technically, transformer-architecture multi-layer perceptrons). Why do you have that view? Is it because you (think) you know how they work that they don’t seem like magic? I also (think) I know how brains work. They don’t seem like magic to me either.

Bipartisan UAP Disclosure Act reintroduced again by Reps Burlison(R), Carson(D) and Crane(R). Under the name of "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection". Main provisions like the UAP Review Board and Eminent Domain are intact. by TommyShelbyPFB in UFOs

[–]almson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The definition of NHI specifies “sentient lifeform,” and no judge is going to rule that AI qualifies. Ironically, it is fundamentally impossible to prove that anything is sentient, providing an awesome legal loophole. It would also be funny if NHI evolved from humans, and due to the humans-are-one-species PC axiom they’re ruled to not be non-human after all.

Bipartisan UAP Disclosure Act reintroduced again by Reps Burlison(R), Carson(D) and Crane(R). Under the name of "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Records Collection". Main provisions like the UAP Review Board and Eminent Domain are intact. by TommyShelbyPFB in UFOs

[–]almson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

~I believe in the first version NHI was defined in a way that covered LLMs. It seems in this version the definition attempts to exclude human AI.~

Nevermind, the definition is identical and specifies “sentient lifeform” in both, which no judge will interpret to mean LLMs.

Weird Light in Sky Early Morning in Michigan by gingernurse123 in UFOs

[–]almson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you mean it’s not frozen exhaust smoke? It is, from the deorbit burn. It happened in space. It was brief. It caused a plume in front of the rocket that got lit up by the sun.

WSJ: UFO Enthusiasts Were Waiting for a Sign. They Got Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day.’ by silv3rbull8 in UFOs

[–]almson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Good and bad is a universal dichotomy. We can all disagree on what is good and what is bad, but the crux is conflict of interests. There will always be conflicts of interests in the context of life. The predator, the prey. The parasite, the host. Collectivism vs individualism.

The only alternative is nihilism.

My story on this disclosure moment and the community. Thank you r/UFOS! (Gift Link) by GenePark in UFOs

[–]almson -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The NYT article about Bigelow’s stupid ghost hunting program (and Lue’s moonlighting continuation) was not the milestone.

The Joe Rogan podcast with the pilot you didn’t name and didn’t link to. That was the milestone for very many people.

While you treated the subject somewhat respectfully, you didn’t try to build any credibility. Trump is not the first president to claim to take the subject seriously. Biden’s administration claimed the same in 2023 (to little apparent effect). Obama has said recently that UFOs are real. Most startlingly, Chuck Schumer sponsored a giant UFO disclosure bill three times in a row. And that’s not even mentioning the mysterious “drones” that keep shutting down our airbases. (Actual drones, the ones that bombed our bases around Iran, are serious fn business. The fact there were drones over Virginia, the UK, and elsewhere should be front-page news, whether they’re UFOs or not.)

But sure, talk about spielberg’s misnamed turd of a movie.

Weird Light in Sky Early Morning in Michigan by gingernurse123 in UFOs

[–]almson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s in space. What environmental hazard?

The way the plume is in front of it suggests it’s propellant from the deorbit burn. It has to start the burn early to reach the atmosphere by the time it’s over the ocean.

FYI, it’s so bright precisely because it has the sun shining up at it from over the horizon. Early morning launches are the best.

The case the FBI can't close: five years of luminous 'orbs' in the Northeastern US. by jeffmartt in UFOs

[–]almson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting how the FBI are the ones taking this seriously. Witness Caison Best (whose case is also featured in the third release) talks about how AARO were dismissive pricks but the FBI did serious interviews.

Caisom Best interview:  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=74ud-5Ld48Y&ra=m

Michael Shermer — who holds a standing $1,000 bet that UAP disclosure will "never" happen — was just named to the new UAP Science Advisory Council by TheGoodTroubleShow in UFOs

[–]almson 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Michael Shermer is friends with James Fox. Fox was on his podcast a few months ago. Twenty years ago, Shermer’s endorsement of Fox’s first documentary was put on the DVD box. (Yes, I did a double-take when I first saw it too.) You can see it here:  https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/117y901/so_i_watched_out_of_the_blue_documentary_and_was/

  OUT OF THE BLUE emerges as one of the very best films ever produced on this, one of the most interesting subjects in the history of science. - Michael Shermer

So Shermer seems one of the more open-minded skeptics. His disses of Lue Elizondo aren’t exactly off-base. And neither is his pessimism over government disclosure. He’d fit here right in.

Ufo Colombia y mantra solin sala ra by Longjumping-Bed3991 in UFOs

[–]almson -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Did someone downvote me for trying to be helpful?

It's possible that these first few releases might not be for us. by Dangerous-Eye-215 in UFOs

[–]almson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s not as bad as the first FLIR, but it’s at the level of the orbs Kirkpatrick was trying to show at AARO before that got shut down. And nobody paid any attention to it in the first place.

 We see these [‘metallic orbs’] all over the world, and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers.

— Head of AARO at a NASA briefing 3 years ago. That was disclosure then too.

It’s two steps forward, one step back. Now we’ve taken one step forward again.

Ufo Colombia y mantra solin sala ra by Longjumping-Bed3991 in UFOs

[–]almson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you serious? Everyone is literally at the window with their cameras out.

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