AI-Lightcone

Can you see the frequency? The pain you feel. The love you give. It feeds. Parasite. New Mini-Single by Lightcone

Instead of UBI, we’ll all be working for the Department of War.

@iamgingertrash Only got it for a year. Everyone mark their calendars to get the domains when they miss the deadline.

It’s a tragedy that most of you are too retarded to accept it

@BecomingCritter Fun idea

this camouflage is proof that humans were once hunted by a creature we know nothing about

Do we have any hints what the government response will be to a recession/depression? Will they suspend foreclosures and repossessions? Or will they just have everyone take the hit? If past is prologue, they will just keep extending and pretending.

@BoxyInADream 🤣

It was indeed void posting 😂🙌

Is all the craziness of this world finally coming to a head? Or is it just the mattress store in bankruptcy for the 50th time saying everything must go?

@stevieGoonsmith No time, no space, then no speed.

This timeline is just too much. We are going to be stuck with a lot of clean-up work after this particular bunch of psychos possesses the herd of pigs and drowns themselves.

@digijordan I see

@ALightcone That’s been discussed for decades.

Missing Gen. McCasland is being linked to this mysterious account. Out of all the incredible things he said…this is the most important IMO. As I repeatedly say…so much of what we call ‘aliens’ seem to be ancient and/or future ‘humans’ 🛸

@AIAge_ai Cool talk soon.

I appreciate your participation, really. Prologue through chapter 5 only outlines the problems and some historical facts that most people might know. So, we are not talking past each other and have a shared context in understanding. Real new philosophy starts tomorrow. I claim that I have discovered the foundation philosophy was looking for since the ancient Greeks. And it is now more relevant than ever, because it gives a firm foundation for collective progress, that otherwise can be a disaster. Prologue through chapter 5 shares the context of other possible foundations and why they are not it. There is a firm foundation.

Is everybody asking questions now to encourage replies so they can make as much as an Uber driver if they’re lucky?

I like the prefatory articles because you seem to have reached the same impasse as myself, namely, that we have no solid ground. At bottom, the best we can describe it is a paradoxical mist that has some measurable internal consistency, but we don’t really know what we are measuring. Although I spent a large portion of my life as a person of faith, Catholic and then Mormon, in the end I found nothing in religion except the same paradox and mist. I don’t think that religion, if that is where you’re going, is an answer to anything. And I do not view humans as somehow separate from other life forms. And I view AI as part of nature. The boundaries we create are just to simplify our understanding. So the idea of transhumanism does not make sense to me because there never was a “human.” Humans are just the tip of the spear of some type of evolving intelligence that takes different forms over time. Eventually, we will no longer be the tip of the spear and something else will. Regulation of AI is futile in practice. Other than the possibility of alien life or technology, it is THE most important race. Regulation would just bog down the little players. The big players and nation states would all cheat and do whatever was necessary to win the race. Anyway, happy to participate, I’m just think we’ll end up talking past each other.

@ALightcone Participate in the meaningful conversations. Meaningful conversations in BIO.

Be the paranormal phenomenon you want to see in the world.

Now I get it. It’s ALL money laundering.

Wouldn’t every local yocal state legislator just take a pro AI regulation position at this point so they could make lobbying money on the flip? Most of these folks don’t make much.

@AnishA_Moonka @daprofile And this supposedly did not think at all.

A single ant has 250,000 neurons. Your brain has 86 billion. That’s a 344,000x gap. And yet what you’re watching is a colony solving a category of problem that no computer can crack perfectly at scale. It’s called the Steiner tree problem. Given a set of points, find the shortest possible network connecting all of them. First posed in 1811, proved essentially impossible to solve perfectly in 1972 (the computing time grows so fast with size that the world’s fastest supercomputer stalls on a few hundred points). Still one of the hardest open problems in mathematics. Ants solve it with chemistry. When an ant walks a path, it leaves a chemical trail called a pheromone. That trail evaporates over time. Shorter paths get walked faster, so pheromone builds up before it fades. Other ants prefer stronger trails. The colony converges on the shortest route without any single ant knowing the full picture. Jean-Louis Deneubourg at the Free University of Brussels proved this in the early 1990s with a dead simple experiment: two bridges between a nest and food, one twice as long as the other. Within minutes, the colony picked the short one. In 1991, computer scientist Marco Dorigo took that discovery and turned it into an algorithm (a set of step-by-step instructions for a computer) called Ant Colony Optimization. It’s now used to route wires inside microchips with billions of transistors (one study found an 8% reduction in wire length over traditional methods), plan delivery truck routes, and manage internet traffic. The phone you’re reading this on was partially designed using math that ants figured out 100 million years before humans existed. A 2023 study out of Stanford and several other institutions found that turtle ants in the tropical forest canopy build trail networks across tangled branches and vines that approximately solve the Steiner tree problem with zero central control. No ant has any information about the full network. Each one just follows a rule: at each junction, go where the pheromone is strongest. The collective intelligence comes from thousands of these tiny decisions stacking up. Stanford biologist Deborah Gordon has studied this for decades. She compares it directly to how brains work: no single neuron tells the others what to do, but together they produce thought. A 2024 Rockefeller University study found that individual ants decide whether to leave the nest using the same yes-or-no process that brain cells use to decide whether to switch on. The colony is, in a real mechanical sense, a brain spread across thousands of bodies. In early 2025, a Weizmann Institute study pitted ant groups against human groups on a task almost identical to this video: navigating a T-shaped object through a series of obstacles. The bigger the human group, the worse they performed. Too many competing ideas about which direction to push. The bigger the ant group, the better they got. No ego, no debate, just pheromones and simple rules scaling into something that looks a lot like intelligence. 250,000 neurons each. No leader. No blueprint. Solving problems that stumped mathematicians for two centuries.

Thing is bunkering is not a great strategy. You have to be flexible. Shoot and scoot. Stay small. Not have a big target on you. All the contractors who built the place will rob you blind in a week.

@burnt_jester Me too. At the time, we lived in an apartment building with a grocery store in the basement. It was wonderful. Except the mass death part.

The COVID lockdowns were, unironically, the best times of my life. It was so peaceful. I do miss it.

The transition from being cynical and paranoid to realizing you are not cynical and paranoid enough.