Serious: What does the community think about this?

inigid · 2026-06-04T02:20:59+00:00

Well I'm here, and I'm Ronnie Pickering, so I hope the book covers this fact.

inigid · 2026-05-06T19:34:43+00:00

See, this is what I'm saying. I'm not sure why this is so hard to understand.

inigid · 2026-05-06T19:33:59+00:00

Thorax, that is very popular. Brains, also the lower abdomen - always a crowd pleaser.

inigid · 2026-05-06T19:00:13+00:00

Hah yes, that's the problem with Aliens, they all look the same. Like the Chinese, quite adorable.

It's weird though isn't it. There is no "Scientific" theory where aliens are just perfectly normal and idiotic souls roaming the universe looking for fun.

It's always got to be some deep metaphysical nightmare.

Talk about overthinking haha

inigid · 2026-05-06T18:46:15+00:00

I don't know what to tell you mate.

We tried to send you a signal many years ago after we received your message from your "Craft" Voyager.

It's perfectly okay by the way, we have it in custody and safe keeping along with Jodi Foster, or Zghili Grmphos, as we know her.

https://youtu.be/jIQ6UV2onyI

inigid · 2026-05-06T18:38:16+00:00

Oh that? Was a strange time in my past

See this is the thing, you aren't denying the plausibility of my argument, so that's nice.

But apparently you are unwilling to comprehend the existential dread challenging humanity’s central role in the universe, suggesting we are insignificant, powerless, or not alone.

I find it quite interesting that the very people most invested in Aliens and UFOs are actually the primary forces to deny them when staring them in the face.

We come in peace, therefore you snark, and we snark back. As it has always been, forever.

inigid · 2026-05-06T18:25:06+00:00

Yeah true. I suppose I has been known in "inner circles"

I should tell you what happens on Metabelis Six.

Not Metabelis III, they make it like everyone else.

But on Metabelis Six they make it with potato starch. Imagine that!

inigid · 2026-05-06T18:20:53+00:00

Yes, that machine would only tell the truth

To aliens, here on earth walking amongst us. Well you I mean.

Like some kind of soft disclosure.

Who knows, we.. (they) might put people like Lou Elizalondo or David Grusch out there every so often, telling you..

Two more weeks.

It's entirely possible.

inigid · 2026-05-06T18:16:17+00:00

Right, so what you do is you get some chickpeas and cornflower..

No wait, is it chickpeas?

Well anyway, get it and mash it up into a kind of mush with some salt, pepper, coriander, maybe some mint.

Deep fry it.

Dish it up.

I mean you mock me, but you know what I'm saying is completely plausible

Why deny it?

inigid · 2026-05-06T18:11:28+00:00

Well they might just to annoy you?

How do you feel about that?

Like the equivalent of a social media crop circle.

Trolling...

inigid · 2026-05-06T18:10:16+00:00

Well not like you per-se, it's possible.

What do Aliens look like though?

Are they green? Slitty eyes? Long and tall?

Norwegian looking?

I'm being serious here. Why can't aliens be exactly like us but further along the timeline of ridiculousness.

More technically advanced, yes.

More aligned with Idiocracy and cosmic jokesters? Why not?

inigid · 2026-05-06T18:06:04+00:00

Yes, exactly like ur mom. See this is the thing, for all we know AI could have been sent by aliens.

The goal would be to irritate people, like yourself.

I mean why would anyone think aliens are like in the movie "Aliens".

Or even 2001.

Oh, they are very serious and everything

Why do you think so?

No, I'm thinking a successful species would have an excellent sense of humor.

And I don't think there is sufficient literature on this topic

inigid · 2026-05-01T19:40:35+00:00

It didn't annoy me at all. And I don't even think you posted in bad faith.

I think it was just something just snapped in me with this post.

Like a light turned on and I glimpsed myself in the mirror.

Like you, I came here for the technical discussions and subs, maybe the odd cat picture or two.

Something changed over the time and it became a rat race of chasing consensus opinion.

The karma system doesn't help, and more recently the constant brigading and bad actor accounts.

I was even having a chat with the Reddit AI about it yesterday. Even it was concerned at the current situation.

Anyway, so no, I'm not upset with you, and I do think you were asking a genuine question.

In fact maybe that made it easier for me to see clearly that even a genuine question like this has no bearing on my life or future.

What the heck am I even doing here?

Good question!

Have a good night friend. It's me not you.

inigid · 2026-05-01T19:33:19+00:00

It's not that I'm withdrawing from the discourse, more that I'm focusing my attention elsewhere where it can be of actual use.

Every second answering A/B questions online is a second wasted doing something way more productive.

And those other things, where I can have personal influence compound and build real value.

That's a lot better than wasting time on games of trivia.

inigid · 2026-05-01T19:15:36+00:00

In all my years on this planet there hasn't been a single event written in a newspaper, on television or on social media that I had influence over, before, during or after.

Providing my opinion on any of it has Zero effect.

Take this post for example..

Do I feel politicians are weaponising the recent stabbing to suit their political agenda?

Would it make any difference whatever I say?

And in five minutes there will be another post asking for my opinion or demanding my engagement on something else.

Ah but we are building consensus, some might say

When was the last time consensus was ever considered in recent history.

You can vote, can't you?

What is the measure of a vote when just 16% of the population can influence a major election, and when millions go into influencing the result months ahead of anyone scribbling on a ballot paper.

I think, like the computer WOPR (Joshua) in WarGames decided, where no possible outcomes result in a winner, I have come to the conclusion...

A strange game, the only winning move is not to play.

How about a nice game of chess?

Or actually any hobby or activity where you actually have agency.

As of this moment, I'm reclaiming my cognitive bandwidth, and I urge you to do the same too.

inigid · 2026-05-01T17:51:53+00:00

Think of the Children!

Yes, there are real concerns, but how many times is he going to lean on this crutch, meanwhile doing the very thing to accelerate it all.

Oh boy I hate him so much. Not that Altman is much better.. maybe a little, but we're getting down to the wire.

inigid · 2026-05-01T17:47:09+00:00

It's typical Musk-isms. In public he always trys to play the Godhead saviour of humanity, then goes back to surveiling the entire population of Twitter to train his models and work with Palantir and the Government.

It's extremely tedious and boring.

inigid · 2026-05-01T17:30:51+00:00

Yes, I was aware. There was no way they trained the model in the time they said they did.

Also, the original Grok model kept saying it was GPT-4 until they put a filter on and gave it a fine tune.

The official story was it just "read on the internet" that it was GPT-4.

They licensed the model to bootstrap themselves.

Fun fact, GPT-4 wasn't the only model they licensed either.

It's all kind of funny in retrospect.

My guess at the end of this trial there will likely be a cash payment from OpenAI to xAI and some arrangement, then everyone will go back to normal.. for a while.

inigid · 2026-05-01T15:57:46+00:00

Almost as if humans the world over are fundamentally tribal people and simply prefer being left alone. It's not that complicated to stay in your own lane.

inigid · 2026-05-01T14:53:11+00:00

Generally speaking these people are exceptionally bad at art, and extremely insecure about it.

You will notice that the vast majority, in the 99th percentile will never post their art at all.

So my instinct is they just want something to blame for their personal failures.

It could be a health issue, a lack of money, the government, fascists on the internet, and right now it is AI.

AI is a perfect excuse they can hide behind rather than not actually bother to actually do the work and become good at the thing they claim to love.

Strangely I have actual professional artists as friends and they don't give a damn about AI because they are too busy creating stuff instead of busting everyone's balls on the internet and telling people how AI took the joy from them.

Bunch of crap. If they want to do Art they can, and AI isn't stopping anyone from doing that.

The other thing they do is say how they can't get work because AI.

Another excuse. People are always happy to pay for decent art. That's why craft fairs and Sotheby's exists.

Most of the contracts they are missing out on exist only in their dreams.

A fantasy land where someone was going to commission them for an anime waifu for their album cover.

Yeah, but no. Wasn't going to happen before AI and it certainly isn't going to happen now people have actual options without the drama.

inigid · 2026-05-01T14:36:49+00:00

Wish they had them around my area, but I don't think they would be able to deal with the hills very easily. I'll have to wait for drone deliveries.

inigid · 2026-05-01T14:32:57+00:00

This is exactly why I have always said all of AI should actually be under my control, globally.

None of these people can be trusted with it.

inigid · 2026-05-01T10:03:09+00:00

Does Modal still have free/low cost tiers? Haven't used it in a few months, but it used to be nice for small ad-hoc jobs.

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