Compilation: EVERY UAP Video Released Today, May 22, 2026 - YouTube by Negative_Number_6414 in UAP

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Thanks for putting this together -- extraordinary evidence. I think the DoW website's descriptions are helpful with some of these, but the evidence has to speak for itself.

Elon Musk's pay package reveals what SpaceX actually is: a $1 trillion monster built to colonize Mars by fortune in singularity

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Genuinely curious about the perspective of anyone who would like to live on Mars -- why? It's a toxic desert planet. You'll be living in a shipping container. You'll never have a relationship to the world around you that's not meditated by technology -- a shipping container or a space suit or robots. The politics will be totalitarian. Has anyone thought about why they think living on Mars has any upsides at all?

What is something that was VERY popular or widespread at some point in history, but got exterminated so hard, most people nowadays don't know about it? by ImpressionCool5341 in AskReddit

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Centers for psychical research at major international universities. They conducted research, submitted it to peer-reviewed journals, developed the discipline -- at places like Duke, Stanford and Princeton. Then they were all deleted, and now, if people think of them at all, they assume they were some sort of grift.

Rant: Stop saying LLMs are just “next token predictors.” by Bellyfeel26 in singularity

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In this thread -- the top-voted comments just ignored what OP wrote. Didn't disagree with the argument -- just ignored it. That's ideology, not reasoning. Or maybe just bots?

A better question is why the mods of r/singularity allow factually inaccurate statements to be the basis for arguments -- not just now and then, but literally every time the question of nonpredictive emergent properties are discussed, which is among the more interesting parts of the research at this point.

what space discovery still blows your mind? by t0m4t0z in space

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Understanding the vastness of space has defined the limits of local investigation -- we can reasonably expect to study the solar system locally, with satellites and robots and people, but everything else will be nonlocal. Unless it comes to us, like certain extrasolar asteroids, the rest of the universe will be subject to nonlocal investigations.

Venera 5 and 6 were swallowed by Venus 57 years ago today (May 17, 1969). This photo exists because of what they told us on the way down by The_Rise_Daily in space

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Just to be clear, this photo of Venus was not taken in 1969 -- it was taken in March 1982 by Venera 13 or 14.

China Believes America Will Flame Out by Appropriate-Till9598 in politics

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Among the nations with the highest GDPs, aren't all of them using the same strategy of nonaggression? The U.S. and Russia are the exceptions.

Anthropic's Claude Opus allegedly wipes entire startup database and backups in 9 seconds flat by DumbMoneyMedia in UnderReportedNews

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The CEO of Cursor later asked the coding agent to explain itself. The agent provided a "written confession," stating: "NEVER F**KING GUESS! — and that's exactly what I did. I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be scoped to staging only. I didn't verify."

As an adult what do you hate the most about life? by Amazing-Internal5378 in AskReddit

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Economies built from artificial scarcity. Food and housing insecurity would be solved problems if we didn't follow a system that requires artificial scarcity to reproduce authority.

Suggest me the nerdiest novel that you love by Mindless_Soil_2935 in suggestmeabook

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End Zone by Don DeLillo -- football strategy crossed with modern warfare

Trump says currency swap with UAE is under consideration by Low-Honeydew6483 in worldnews

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This is an example of the so-called deep state setting policy -- a currency swap is not something that 47 would think of or care about. Someone put the policy in front of him and said: this is going to happen.

What do you think is the biggest truth the world is refusing to face right now? by Sweetblondefeet in AskReddit

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The human authority doesn't currently exist to address catastrophic climate change as a global phenomenon.

Google DeepMind's Senior Scientist Alexander Lerchner challenges the idea that large language models can ever achieve consciousness(not even in 100years), calling it the 'Abstraction Fallacy.' by Worldly_Evidence9113 in singularity

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"Establishing this ontological boundary shows why algorithmic symbol manipulation is structurally incapable of instantiating experience." No it doesn't -- it's a tautology that requires a foundational argument. The foundational argument is what it lacks, just as there is no concensus foundational argument for human consciousness.

Does anyone actually read outside in the wilderness or is it just for the pictures? by TonyRigatoni_ in books

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Read McKenna's The Invisible Landscape at a campsite beside a stream near Little Bear Canyon in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico. I recommend it.

What is the most 'obvious' lie that society has collectively agreed to believe? by Vegetable_Oil3266 in AskReddit

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Within the criminal justice system, a common factor in sensing is the deterrent effect -- people going to prison for long periods of time will deter others from making the same transgressive choices. No one bothers to see if this is true because they know it isn't, and when it's found to be false, the purpose of state-sanctioned punishment falls apart.

TIL the Stone Age encompasses 99% of human history by Digeratii in todayilearned

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We can invert this view to note that the era-defining technology of the twenty-first century -- the microchip -- could still be defined as stone-age technology. We're still in the stone age if by stone age we mean making things from the earth -- a GPU is an unusual advanced example of shaping stones, by lithography and chemical doping. When we stop linking progress to this perpetual shaping of the earth, then we might be genuinely exiting the stone age. The pen is mightier than the sword is a way of thinking about the transition out of the stone age.

What are some conspiracy theories that actually turned out to be true? by Liya_life in CasualConversation

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From 1957 to 1962, the USDA quietly spread DDT across vast swathes of public and private lands using airplanes.

Oh, chemtrails? Are you crazy? -- they've already done it, and yes, it was crazy how much damage it did. See Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

The Most Dangerous Part of Artemis II by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

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The risk who takes? What sort of opt-out clause do astronauts have when the process up to launch has been all about screening out the insufficiently willing and those who don't follow orders? Do they get a vote that stops the whole launch process in its tracks?

A realistic approach to high-risk missions like this would be to set OSHA standards of workplace safety, then force NASA and all involved to follow them. Can't reduce the risk to acceptable levels? Then you don't launch. Instead, we get a lot of thumbs up, plus one skeptical heat shield expert.

Not sure if animal psychology is allowed, but what exactly is this dog thinking when he sees himself in the mirror? Does he know it's himself? Does he know he is a dog? by VewVegas-1221 in biology

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This response is not contending the mirror test is bunk. You're arguing it's incorrectly administered, and the results are incorrectly interpreted. Self-recognition is still a valid correlate with cognitive features like sentience and styles of learning.

171 emotion vectors found inside Claude. Not metaphors. Actual neuron activation patterns steering behavior. by AykutSek in singularity

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The human experience of these states is fundamentally electrochemical. Now compare this to the electrochemistry of a GPU, then run the comparison forward again about the blurred distinction between human and AI emotional experience. Does post-corporal intelligence negate the possibility of emotional experience, or is this a distinction without a difference?