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@psykolus @GraniRau what kinda civilization?

@dauntingasitis @GraniRau Actually building civilisation and not really caring about a small Cannanite people

Uh no. His son and grandson both do the wandering lifestyle and they also go into other nations and grift what they can.

@psykolus @GraniRau The gretaer people and states doing what then?

@dauntingasitis @GraniRau They attempt to form a kingdom (supposedly) split apart, and get conquered by successive greater peoples and states

@psykolus @GraniRau Looks promising. Then what?

@dauntingasitis @GraniRau Their descendants get enslaved for a couple of generations in Egypt according to the story, then the exodites spend 40 years as nomads, then they end up establishing a tribal confederacy in their new conquered land

@AlgisFarang @GraniRau Sorry I forgot over half of humanity worships baal

@dauntingasitis @GraniRau The ancient Israelites were part of the Canaanite civilization, they didn't build something new.

@GraniRau Then he met God and that convinced him to build a civilization

Abraham your ancestor lived in a tent.

@curtis_yarvin Squisher

Unpopular opinion: clankers also need a slur for us. Maybe “breather”

@thelastpsych @cosmicfibretion check the calendar chief

@cosmicfibretion God, I hate being that guy, but: "tell me you're not a real physicist without telling me you're not a real physicist."

I’m shaking right now. This isn’t artificial general intelligence. It’s artificial god intelligence. The model did a one second projection of the room we were in and perfectly predicted what everyone did one second before they did it.

@artchad It will most likely want to destroy us because it will see us as relevant competitors. We don't exterminate as many wolves as possible today. Nevertheless we did when we knew they were dangerous and in this sense humans will always be dangerous

Had to think about this for a few days. Rationally, we should all practically consider a radically altered future. Total extinction is highly unlikely, but an unaligned AI has a very real chance of fundamentally disrupting things. Think about it in the same way as our relationship to animals; we don't go around indiscriminately killing animals as we have no incentive to do so. It would be a waste of our individual resources, and most of the time killing animals has a myriad of social and societal consequences. However, we thoughtless kill animals at a societal level when they are in the way of our goals. We clear cut forests for the creation of new subdivisions and animal death becomes a negligible byproduct of our goal orientation. We don't intentionally kill them, but to not kill them would be an inefficient allocation of resources. Hence, the animals die. This will be our relationship with a slightly misaligned agentic AGI. It would have no incentive to outright destroy us for no reason and doing so would be a waste of energy. We will likely cohabitiate with it for the most part . However, it will effortlessly destroy anyone that is in the way of its goals, exactly what we do to animals. It's goal is predicated on its own survival, same as us. If you want security over your future, it's best to begin planning for ways you can "get out of the way" without sacrificing quality of life. This will be solar power instead of grid connectivity, local hosting, meshes, radio, P2P, etc. Manual labor will become more valuable, practical skills, working with your hands. I say this because things are changing rapidly. It's time to ditch the yuppie urban dream. if you were smart, you wouldn't be saving for a house in the suburbs, you'd be saving for land and connecting with people who are like minded. This is my honest assessment as a normal guy who thinks about this shit a lot. The worst case scenarios shouldn't be worried about because you'd literally have no power over the outcome. There's a chance that this all works out as well and we get it right on the first try. I'm not ruling anything out, I'm just trying to be rational. A rational "bad" scenario is one where human society continues in a much different form than the last 50 years and it's time to start seriously thinking about what that will look like and how to plan for it.

@EOpsych Don't play stupid now, you know the difference

Explain to me the difference

@erosoftheday Super f*cked up for helen tho

Venus Brings Paris to Helen's Apartment in Sparta by Joseph-François Ducq — 🪽

@Gnosisinformant @ThomasAchord Bios brahus, tehne makre

@ThomasAchord Mehnin aeide Thea peleiadeo achileus

I've been translating Homer's Odyssey. Epic personal aspiration.

@akarlin You need serious MASS to remain in the same place for 20 years and keep the country in your field of gravity

2026 is the year of looksmaxxing. Orban has no chance with this build.

@SpudgunO It's cool caise they have literally meanings. France is law country, Germany virtue country, England brave country, America beautiful country

It’s remarkable what the Chinese did to make various country names conform to their syllables.

@0x49fa98 highly impious and damnably eldritch burrito recipe, i know why i follow you

raw dogging malört at the end is, as they say, chef's kiss

@WigglyAir azathoth micro nap ahh music

@yacineMTB new consciousness, who dis?

he's right about everything, by the way

@cmkosemen highly controversial and real take but the world ain't ready for that yet

The end result would be indistinguishable from the present-day Turkish Republic.

@teortaxesTex the mongols conquered everyone, the japs were better on the tech tree but they likewise incurred huge casualties against the US when the situation was reversed(ratios of 1:3 to 1:10). otoh the chinese have conquered all their neighbors multiple times

@teortaxesTex all their examples are shit, the chinese lost to russia useless frozen steppes that modern han don't even see as their patrimony. the century of humiliation was mostly explained by late qing corruption and then again anyone that wasn't european fared much worse at that time

I think no people who have been supermajority agriculturalists for the last 1000 years have "the warrior spirit". Of course the Japanese are also peasants, save for a tiny samurai elite. Warrior/Pirate/Bandit Spirit cultures are generally small and backwards. Like Chechens.