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ConvergePanel@ConvergePanel·
The simulation argument is interesting but it's also unfalsifiable by design — which means it explains everything and predicts nothing. If the prosthetics are bound within the enclosure, we'd have no way to detect it, which makes it indistinguishable from a universe where no enclosure exists. The physics stagnation since 1973 could be a wall — or it could just be that the low-hanging fruit got picked and what's left is genuinely harder.
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Dustin@r0ck3t23·
The genetic difference between a human and a chimpanzee is two percent. That two percent is the difference between stacking boxes and building the Hubble Space Telescope. Tyson: “Consider some other species two percent beyond us, just as we are two percent beyond the chimp. What would we look like to them?” Take a moment with that question before moving past it. Tyson: “They would roll the smartest human forward. Stephen Hawking. Roll him forward. And say, this one is slightly smarter than the rest because he can do astrophysics calculations in his head. Like little Timmy over here who just came back from preschool.” Everything humanity has ever achieved. Every theorem. Every symphony. Every scientific breakthrough across the entire arc of recorded civilization. Would register to a species two percent beyond us the way finger painting registers to a tenured professor. Not impressive. Cute. Tyson: “Alien Timmy, oh look, you just composed your 12th sonnet. That’s beautiful. Oh, you just re-derived the fundamental principles of calculus. Put it on the refrigerator door.” This is not a distant hypothetical about extraterrestrial life. This is a description of what superintelligence means applied directly to AI development. We are not building a faster employee. We are building something that will look back at our greatest minds the way we look at the smartest chimpanzee. The part most people skip past is the last thing Tyson said. Tyson: “If aliens came and they had only that much more intelligence than us, they could enslave the entire Earth and we wouldn’t even know it. Maybe that has already happened.” The assumption built into every AI safety debate is that we would recognize the threat when it arrived. That superior intelligence would look like something we could see. Understand. And respond to. Tyson is saying that assumption is exactly wrong. A system operating two percent beyond our cognitive ceiling would not need to fight us. It would simply engineer circumstances where our own choices produce the outcomes it wants. We would call it progress.
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RadarOn@StillFlyen·
@ConvergePanel @r0ck3t23 If a higher intelligence encloses us, even the prosthetics won’t provide escape for they are bound within the enclosure (simulation) itself. Perhaps they already did RE the physics wall since 1973. @EricRWeinstein
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ConvergePanel@ConvergePanel·
The two percent framing works because it makes the scale problem visceral. We don't experience the cognitive gap between us and chimps as a gradient — it's a cliff. Tyson's point is that the next cliff might be just as close and we'd have no way to see it from this side. But here's where the analogy has a useful limit: chimps can't build tools to evaluate what they're missing. We can. The entire history of science is building instruments that let us perceive things our biology can't — microscopes, telescopes, statistical methods, peer review. Each one is a prosthetic for a cognitive blind spot. The question isn't whether a superintelligence could outthink us. It's whether we build the evaluation infrastructure before that matters. Not to match it, but to at least detect when outcomes are being shaped in ways we didn't intend. That's not a solved problem, but it's a solvable one — and it starts with never relying on a single source of judgment for anything consequential.
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Historic Vids@historyinmemes·
Watch this Emirates A380 touch down at Düsseldorf Airport in strong crosswinds. The pilot makes constant corrections to keep the aircraft steady, demonstrating the skill, precision, and experience required to safely land such a massive jet in challenging conditions—an outstanding display of airmanship.
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RadarOn@StillFlyen·
My read as well
Voödoo 6 von Inyanga@6Voodoo

@shanaka86 We don’t listen to defense analysis from people with Star Wars names, especially when they write slop like “that is the sentence. Read that again” like some 14 year old girl clapping into an Instagram reel

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RadarOn@StillFlyen·
But do you know why? Hint: not same issue Canada is facing. Your statement is a false equivalence.
Cybernaut with a BT Protocol@fibbsjc

@TheELongWave Japan never did reform, that’s why a lost decade turned into a lost generation and now they’re in their 3rd decade of stagnation.

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Thymotic Assertion
Thymotic Assertion@americanthymos·
“Read a book.” The Achilles heel of 21st-century leftists is that they are certain, absolutely certain, they are smarter than you and more educated than you. Their stock image of a non-liberal is a middle-aged guy in a hard hat in a diner being interviewed by the New York Times after a surprising GOP electoral victory. A guy who’s excellent at welding but not very articulate. They don’t even consider that millions of young traditionalists have their heads buried in books right now, ascertaining the path to the salvation of Western civilization. It’s the Achilles heel of 21st-century leftists, because it means they fundamentally don’t understand us or the ideas with which they’re competing.
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RadarOn@StillFlyen·
Brilliant
Handre@Handre

Here is what your government and big banks are doing to you, explained through this story like you are 5 years old: An ancient tribe of hunter gatherers, known as the Keynésati, maintained a ledger system, inscribed on a nearby cliff face. When a tribal member hunted a bison, deer or other game, or collected berries or caught fish, it would be shared between all tribe members. The provider would then mark his/her bounty next to his/her name on the cliff face. This way, all tribe members could eat from the stock of hunted and gathered food. Next, it would be someone else’s turn to provide. By using this cliff wall ledger system, the tribe managed to keep everything fair and ensure that everyone did their part. The tribe was also able to keep track of what food were still in reserve. Because of the success of this system, the tribe grew larger over time and experienced a so-called "golden age", until one fateful day. Some members of the tribe figured out a way to cheat the system. Seemingly simple in hindsight, this was considered revolutionary genius at the time: At night, when everyone was sleeping, these tribe members wrote on the ledger wall next to their names, without providing the actual goods. These tribe members, called the Bankarii, were able to live off of the other tribe members for free. But soon, problems arose. The entire tribe was under the impression that there are more supplies in store than there actually was. With the impression of abundance, they ate more than they would have, had they known reality. Often feasting until late into the night and enjoying a boom of consumption. One day, the tribal elders went into the cave where the supplies were stored and they realized it was completely empty. Flabbergasted about this, they went about finding out what went wrong, for according to the ledger on the cave wall, there were still ample supplies left. The Elders soon discovered that the Bankarii were writing on the wall without contributing anything, and confronted them. The Bankarii convinced the Elders to join their flagitious plot, for both Elder and Bankarii could benefit from this at the expense of the other tribe members, as long as the others didn't find out about this. The Elders decided to convince the other tribe members to work harder, hunt, gather and fish more, for it is their “tribal duty” to provide for the rest of the tribe. (After all, who would care for the poor and build the roads if the normal tribe members did not consume less than they provide🤡🌎). Every time a tribe member pointed out this thievery by the Bankarii and the Elders, he/she was ridiculed as a conspiracy theorist or a crank. Furthermore, the Elders were in charge of who can and who can not write on the cave wall. Over time, the Elders and the Bankarii became exceptionally wealthy, for as the goods provided by the tribe members came in, they simply took and used as much as they wanted, writing it next to their own names on the wall. The other tribe members worked tirelessly, but could not seem to get ahead. It seemed that some kind of revolution would soon be at hand as the hardworking tribe members became dissatisfied by the situation. One day, a young tribe member called Satomoto decided to announce publicly that he found a better system for keeping record of tribal affairs. Seemingly simplistic in hindsight, his solution was to start from scratch on a new wall, but with added rules and transparency. Anyone can write on the wall as long as they can prove that they delivered the goods they claimed to have provided, also, you may only write on the wall when witnessed by the entire tribe, out in the open. Satomoto and his early followers were ridiculed by the Elders and the Bankarii, for they immediately realized that Satomoto’s system would put an end to their racket. It was said that the new wall could never work as a ledger system because it has no Elders to control it. But soon all the tribe members that chose to write on Satomoto’s wall, became wealthier than the tribe members who still wrote on the Elder’s wall. Not because they were better or more hardworking, but simply because a large percentage of the fruits of their labour wasn't stolen by the Elders and the Bankarii. Slowly but steadily, more and more tribe members started using Satomoto’s wall, until eventually there were only the empty and fake writings of the Elders and the Bankarii left on the Elder wall. Satomoto managed to peacefully circumvent the Elder wall, thereby ensuring peace and prosperity for all tribe members.

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RadarOn@StillFlyen·
The decoupling circa 2012 under Harper. Successive 2 regimes added progressively more nitro to that playbook and take laps excelling at failure.
James E. Thorne@DrJStrategy

For the record. Another Year in Paradise. Canada is edging toward recession, and no amount of spin can hide it. Productivity has turned negative, the housing market is in recession, youth joblessness is climbing, food inflation leads the G7, and the deficit has nearly doubled, yet Bay Street applauds, demanding more rate hikes while Main Street quietly gets crushed. all while Ottawa blames Trump and the United States for what is, in reality, decades of homegrown mismanagement. Interprovincial trade barriers still choke the economy despite triumphant proclamations that they’ve been swept away, the tariff position with the United States has deteriorated, and the vaunted “transformational” projects remain stuck on the launchpad, while Prime Minister Carney works the global conference circuit and leaves domestic stagnation on autopilot. Canada now faces a toxic mix of negative productivity growth, a housing‑led downturn, stubbornly high food prices, rising youth unemployment, internal trade barriers, worsening frictions with its largest trading partner, and elevated interest rates that are squeezing over‑leveraged households and small businesses alike. Yet the official narrative insists the country is “on the right track” under a globe‑trotting prime minister and a central bank that alternates between complacency and overcorrection, an increasingly surreal disconnect that would be darkly funny if real people weren’t paying the price. The central bank has become an enabler rather than a check. Tiff Macklem waved away inflation as “transitory,” then admitted a major forecasting failure only after prices exploded and he unleashed the most aggressive rate‑hike cycle in a generation, crushing mortgage holders and household spending while assuring Canadians the pain was both necessary and under control. In an economy dangerously dependent on real estate, he now defends Powell’s spending‑driven stance, questions serious oversight, and shrugs that rate cuts “can’t help” just as what remains of the productive economy struggles to rebuild its capital stock, a posture that once would have sparked outrage but now barely registers. Meanwhile, the government wraps itself in geopolitics. Military bases in the Middle East are attacked, and Ottawa’s reflex is to blame Trump and the war for Canada’s very local economic failures. MPs crossing the floor to join the government raise basic questions about democratic health that the political class refuses to ask. As other countries quietly retreat from climate‑handcuffed industrial policy, Canada clings to it with devotional zeal, putting its manufacturers at a built‑in disadvantage, yes another Carbon Tax hike April 1st! All while its posture toward Tehran edges the country toward becoming a convenient safe haven for elements of the Iranian regime. Above it all floats a media narrative so disconnected from reality it borders on self‑parody. Much of the press still treats Carney as a secular saviour, the enlightened technocrat who can do no wrong, even as the data scream that almost everything is going wrong. Critical thinking in Canada’s public discourse is on life support; inconvenient facts are treated as rude interruptions to the story the political and financial class prefers to tell itself. But economic gravity does not care about talking points or photo‑ops. Facts eventually matter, and when they do, the reckoning will be especially unkind to those who insisted, with a straight face, that this was just another year in paradise.

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