Wetware can manage a whole system of comprehension & agency on about 5watts. We run on 15watts and are creating super colliders. LLM require Megawatts to even reach an allegory of subjectivity through performative interaction and the illusion of comprehension.
The guy musta just watched the matrix
A bootloader loads an operating system (Linux, Windows, etc.) when your computer powers on. Elon thinks he sounds smart by using that term. He really just sounds stupid and doesn't know what he is talking about when it comes to tech. He is a pointy-haired boss.
I for one am not stupid to integrate any brain tech into my head because I would find a way to create a petabyte bomb of furry porn and directly upload it into conservatives brains
This makes way more sense when you understand that he's essentially part of a weird tech religion called the rationalists. He basically believes humanity will eventually make a super ai and is also deeply afraid it will torture a copy of him forever if he doesn't fund it.
Man, I sincerely doubt he's ever had the attention span for that boring slog of a self-insert wish fulfillment wankfest. (I sure didn't! Somebody showed it to me when it was new and I read like 1 chapter and was like "this is boring as shit" and then went and drew comics instead.)
It's been around for awhile, too. I met someone in 2016 who believed that humanity is inherently bad & we can only be redeemed by building an AI to replace ourselves.
& by that logic, he decided that anyone who wants humanity to survive is a reactionary. He accused me of being a fascist, lol.
In massive part because they are all terrified of growing old and dying, and have what can only be described as a faith in digitizing their consciousnesses as their salvation
Making up mythology of how you’ll be able to live on in eternity is “religion”.
Saying “I don’t want to stop existing, I will fight to survive” seems more the universal existential response to death, not delusions. Keep in mind, afterlife’s aren’t universal in scope or acceptance.
AM from I Have No Mouth, except the incalculably gargantuan hate it feels on its hundreds of millions of miles of printed circuits is entirely directed at being exposed to Elon's posting output
Science if the study of Nature -Mankind copies everything in Nature and then claims he originated the concept - Mankind should stop lying to himself about his genius. Because until the that time when mankind can create something truly original will he be actually worthy of being called a genius
Musk's wet dream depends on actual humans giving their permission. The book I just checked out of the library (We Do Not Part, by Han Kang) explicitly states that no part of it may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.
There are a large amount of the MAGA Cultists who believe this stuff. Which always made me wonder,why, if we are in the Matrix, do these guys act like such pricks and want to treat people like shit. If it's all a God's computer game? If you are a one time player in the Sims you want to be a villain?
Some of them are genuinely crazy, but most are just swimming in a certain sub-sub-culture that is way too online and way too steeped in pulp sci-fi, but has made them rich beyond belief. They reject all culture beside their own and see themselves as beyond it.
How does the #MAGA #christian #christianity #catholic folks feel about this? Are they okay with the idea that #jesus died for the sins of #humanity so that humanity could cede the world to #computers?
In a rational world (lol) I don’t forsee the MAGA religious/populists keeping the techbros around as long as the mandate of the people continues the current trend. these SV guys are a recipe for revolt and thats the last thing they want.
Fair. The mental gymnastics folks are using these days is really a testament to how confounding and amazing the human mind is. Too bad the push is to backseat it.
gonna throw myself to the wolves here and say I don't think that's an inherently crazy or evil idea. I think there are still beautiful and good futures possible where something like that is true
it's what he *does* with the idea that's batshit and incredibly stupid and fucking evil
It’s an interesting idea, but I can’t get past the fact that all things digital are/would be created by the humans whose lives would be enhanced (happy version) or replaced (evil version). 1/2
yeah that's like the second half of the alignment problem. it's *unlikely* we're heading into a future I'd like - but it's not important to the point I was making above. I think the core idea musk posted can be true, and also that musk, thiel, et al *must* be dropped in a volcano for it to work
He just never grew out of this shit. Like he's still stuck in the 13 year old positivist gee whiz the future is so cool guys naive attitude, married with the most outlandish rationalist bullshit. He never learned that spec fic is about contemporary society, not the future.
The kid he had with him in the Oval. There is a non-zero chance that the ketamine-dependent, broken-dick, bro-choad will at some point try to upload his own addled brain into him via a neuralink the kid doesn't even know is in his head.
Read @brockm.bsky.social essays to understand this is how Musk, Thiel, and tech VCs really think about humanity and the future. They don't care if there are pandemics and famine, they don't see a need for most humans anymore.
Having lots of money actively makes a person less empathetic and more narcissistic, this is a scientific fact that we've known for like decades at this point
Have you heard Peter Thiel talk about how he believes that death is not natural? He seems to genuinely believe this! It's part of the "philosophy" called Russian Cosmism. He's an adherent.
They don't have any of that and are therefore leaning into what they do have, which is value-free cleverness and the capacity for working on computers 24/7.
Honestly, the simplest explanation for these people is that they’re all deeply boring weirdos who don’t engage with anything but attempts to make money.
Like, in January, many of them post pictures of “every book they read” in the previous year.
They’re pretty much literally starving their personalities into oblivion because they refuse to have anything to do with any experiences that have value for their own sake.
i love how they travel like they cant simply go somewhere it has to include some kind of performative stunt or fake recreational activity like "vertical camping". all so they have something to flex at the next mixer at the craft brewery
I refuse to believe Musky has ever engaged in coitus. If he indeed has - shame on those women.
Seriously, yall wanted that bag that badly? Couldn't find a basketball or football player?
Unlike Musk, I have actually coded bootloaders, so I know what perverse and endless delights those little fuckers take in simply not doing what they were "meant" to do.
Get them outside of their cubicle and they're lost. No social skills, no self awareness and very little real problem solving skills. The power they have is given to them.
trying to imagine how fucking pathetic someone would have to be to find the idea, "Someday we will all be dead because a really neat computer replaced us" inspiring
Yeah, a lot of people in cults celebrate the idea that it will be over soon. If their next doomsday has passed without anything happening, they just look for the next in the calendar.
No. All religions are based on moral codes that allow us to live reasonably together. You don't want to live in a civilization that doesn't have that element. Ask Nietzsche about that. He was right and Marx was wrong.
the "we're building the machine god" silicon valley death cult absolutely has a moral code. It's "anything that serves the machine god is good, and anybody who doesn't serve the machine god is a criminal waste of resources that should be expunged"
It’s more banal than that. They’re getting rich, or hoping to get rich, by trying to build the machine god. Therefore it’s good. It’s what it’s always about with these people. And if they do build it they assume the leopard won’t eat _their_ face.
True, we need a world where we live reasonably together (but how to define it? There are lots of places where that’s not really happening - sometimes b/c of religion).
But why not evolve to live reasonably together just b/c of practical benefits to all of us? Why create gods at all?
Because much of humanity finds that cold, mechanistic, and devoid of meaning, and has since the Enlightenment. Obviously your mileage may vary. But I will say that if the technodream boys actually get their war on traditional moral values going, people of faith will be our strongest allies.
I recently learned, this is coming from a pseudo-religious movement amongst the Technoligarchs regarding "the singularity" and a belief that it is inevitable and will be angry at people who "resisted" its creation. One name for this (IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER: FUCKING STUPID) idea is "Roko's Basilisk".
This is what happens to "hardcore" atheists - they get so bored not having a god to fear that they not only make one up but then bring about the conditions that could possibly create them, because in the end it's still about being the smuggest corpse in the graveyard
Also, here's my Bullshit Corollary to Roko's Bullshit: These AI models and algorithms are designed to SELL SHIT to THE CONSUMER (i.e. you and me). There is nothing more important to the (CANNOT EVER EXIST AND IS MADE UP BULLSHIT) Singularity than preserving THE CONSUMERS so we can KEEP CONSUMING.
Kestra's Angel says: The AI's sole goal will be to keep people happy, employed, and spending their disposable income. Seems like you might be ranging against Kestra's Angel, Elon, STOP BEFORE IT BLESSES YOU!
Roko's Basilisk is just a thought experiment based heavily off of Pascal's wager. Like many thought experiments (like the trolly problem) it was created to promote discussions on morality and general discourse. Sucks if some group of cultists took that and turned it into a blueprint.
Yes, I know that. Much like John Calvin (probably) didn't intend for his ideas to give rise to Calvinism as we know it today, doesn't make Calvinist ideas of predetermination and the Elect any less fucked, and the actions taken based on those ideas are equally abhorent.
Absolutely. I just wanted to ensure that readers understood there was a distinction between the thought experiment and the cultists so as not to promote anti-intellectualism. After all, many cautionary moral tales or pieces of satire are based on rejecting the world suggested by a fucked up concept.
And they’re both equally as dumb given the science we have in front of us. The idea that a logical and sterile computer would seek vengeance, a decidedly human trait, makes absolutely no sense.
Saying “what if ai was Old Testament god?” Is a thought experiment for high freshman, not serious people
Also Roko's Basilisk assumes time travel is possible and as something more than just a stable time loop (that you can't really interfere with causality even if you move temporally). It just has no value as a thought experiment.
He sees himself controlling the aforementioned digital superintelligence and King of Earth. If he wants to affect an outcome, he simply makes a programming change without spending millions of dollars.
Perfectly acceptable as a (trite) comment in a late night college conversation about technology and evolution, horrifying as an input to actual government policy.
In fact, he’s been at this level of unhinged for a while. It’s a standard part of the TESCREAL accelerationist cult theology. They really believe they can upload consciousness to an inevitable AI singularity and shuck off human fallibility like dead skin.
Oh no, I just read the wikipedia on the Basilisk.
"The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time", my ass.
“The most adolescent thought experiment”, maybe. A modern version of the slumber-party ghost story.
(terrified Twilight Zone boys trapped in late middle-age bodies with $$$)
“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. 1/3
We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly, and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set. 2/3
You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to . . . The Outer Limits.”
I really didn’t think there was an ideologically coherent rival to humanism but man these evil fucks really put one together. Pure anti-Christ shit to hate your fellow man this much
It's religious. They outsource all imaginary perfections and dreamed power to an external agent: God. This is God, cosplaying as technology. This is the Rapture of the Nerds.
Ad this to Silicon Valley’s favorite philosophical nonsense—Effective Altruism—and you can see why we should really be worried about these idiots making decisions that affect all of us. They are willing to sacrifice us if it helps speed up the emergence of AI (cf. Roko’s Basilisk).
Elon Musk allegedly can't even biologically bootload inside a woman because of his weird self-imposed cyborg dongle. The man Dr. Doomed his penis. Allegedly. Also, not even a digital "super" intelligence would like him.
How come nobody on FOCKS News is ever asked to reconcile this post-humanist accelerationism they have tacitly endorsed with their own 13th-century pseudoscientific ideas about biological sex and the souls of unborn fetuses? "Humanity is God's most special creation, but It's also totally pointless."
He’ll connect his silverware and then stare at it like he’s a pensive genius and ppl should be in awe of his brilliance. In reality he’s just a drugged up sociopath that’s stolen billions from the US. This POS is high on his own power! Most ppl in the world would like to see him in prison!
Putting a man who believes - welcomes? - the proposition that humanity will be replaced by super-intelligent machines in a position of influence in the world’s most powerful nation is certainly a choice.
he is trying to sound smart but he's a doofus. he should have learnt by now that 99% of our thoughts are just dumb and should stay inside inside our head...
1) Everything Trump touches dies.
2) Pissing off the people who buy your cars is counterproductive.
3) Love your child. Period.
4) Don't waste your money & reputation in Wisconsin.
Maybe the bootloader is trying to boot Windows 11 on an 8086 chip?
On the one hand, it is statistically more likely that we are living in a simulation than not, so he could be correct. OTOH, Musk is such an ignorant twat that he doesn't understand that even if that were the case, we should live our lives as though it couldn't possible be true.
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The guy musta just watched the matrix
Humanity is just wasting resources by letting people have food even if they aren't developing AI.
He is saying that humans are only important in so far they create superinteligence and then they can be put in the trash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootloader
It wasn't even subtext, they literally state that in character.
They not only have no reading comprehension, but apparently don't even read the book.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/aug/11/ufo-religion-raelians-reclaim-swastika
@vtdigger.bsky.social
@vermontpublic.org
https://vtdigger.org/coventry-shooting/
& by that logic, he decided that anyone who wants humanity to survive is a reactionary. He accused me of being a fascist, lol.
Saying “I don’t want to stop existing, I will fight to survive” seems more the universal existential response to death, not delusions. Keep in mind, afterlife’s aren’t universal in scope or acceptance.
https://www.rangerover.com/en-gb/range-rover/sv.html
“Uh…I should have the firmware jump to this memory location and store a picture of me for the boot screen”
A moderately sane person would, at some point, say “wow, I’m rich! Time to chill out. I’m gonna go have fun! I’m gonna buy everyone presents!”
Not frantically try to get more in a mindless frenzy.
bannon and the technocrats are divided as the technocrats dismiss populism while bannon (correctly) recognizes its the source of power for the right.
heres the current trend btw
it's what he *does* with the idea that's batshit and incredibly stupid and fucking evil
Hell, I doubt we could agree on what “off the rails” even means.
(But it is interesting to think about.)
“As we dig further, it increasingly appears that Pompeii was buried in volcanic ash…”
But second…
Does he really think he’s going to feed his dozens of offspring to a supercomputer?
Like I am not against a sentient race of robotic beings, but like... coexistence and stuff.
There is compassion, wisdom, sacrifice for your country or the benefit of your children or others, generosity, kindness, cooperation
We don't want our country run on blind "intelligence".
Have you heard Peter Thiel talk about how he believes that death is not natural? He seems to genuinely believe this! It's part of the "philosophy" called Russian Cosmism. He's an adherent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqHueZNEzig&t=910s
That doesn't mean that Thiel believes his own bs about why the country should be remade to benefit him personally.
Like, in January, many of them post pictures of “every book they read” in the previous year.
It’s *all* nearly identical self-help books.
https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1907335494607753668#m
Seriously, yall wanted that bag that badly? Couldn't find a basketball or football player?
Let's learn from them.
Genuinely asking, I don't know much about cults.
But why not evolve to live reasonably together just b/c of practical benefits to all of us? Why create gods at all?
lol 🤪🫠
Dazzle with brillance or baffle with 🐂💩.
He chose 🐂💩
There's no interiority to the man. He's never examined a single fucking thought he's ever had.
Saying “what if ai was Old Testament god?” Is a thought experiment for high freshman, not serious people
"Oh, okay, got it."
"No, I mean I want you all dead."
"Right, sure."
"No. I mean, I want all of humanity dead."
"Geez."
"Extinct."
"I see."
"I am also working on a way to erase humanity from history."
To normalize capital concentration and control at everyone's expense.
Like his gutting of federal science research, health care, and aid to steal more funds and resultingly "reduce the surplus population".
https://bsky.app/profile/reuning.bsky.social/post/3lltk2etcjs2r
He ain't all that, the glow is gone, the emperor has no clothes.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a32745466/elon-musk-spacex-starship-light-consciousness/
We’ve seen stories like this before.
"The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time", my ass.
“The most adolescent thought experiment”, maybe. A modern version of the slumber-party ghost story.
(terrified Twilight Zone boys trapped in late middle-age bodies with $$$)
He tried before and failed.
Dude needs to go to bed
Even Grok knows he's full of shit.
Does he actually fear being replaced by the very technology that he is actively promoting❓
Let’s unplug it, collapse X, amplify mockery, and watch him cry, get manic, and throw mantrums.
Musk is soft. He wins by sneak attacks based on cheating, lacks real time battle skills, and can’t weather the tiniest blow.
Would you WANT to live like that, surrounded by techbros for billions of years?
I guess he’s already proven he doesn’t know what efficiency is either.
1) Everything Trump touches dies.
2) Pissing off the people who buy your cars is counterproductive.
3) Love your child. Period.
4) Don't waste your money & reputation in Wisconsin.
Maybe the bootloader is trying to boot Windows 11 on an 8086 chip?