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Cake day: July 10th, 2025

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  • At this point I’d believe AGI already exists and “AI Slop” is just a psy-opp.

    Like how do people reconcile recognizing how AI is negatively effecting society but denying that it could get exponentially more harmful?

    AI-agents (not AGI) will change cyberwarfare like nuclear weapons changed convetional warfare.

    Meanwhile true AGI almost certainly presents an existential threat to humanity. If for no other reason than our own laziness.




  • Totally. But that’s not what I’m saying. Just to recap.

    Buddy said AI/automation/clankas/gonks save money so if we want humans to provide us services we need to be willing to pay more. I posited that money being a barrier to human interaction is probably not a good endgame.

    When I had my first ever surgery, I got wheeled into an operating room full of strangers operating who all introduce themselves and participated in making me feel safe and calm. If it weren’t for them, I’d have 100% freaked the fuck out.

    Now I’m okay with robot surgeons and dentist doing what they’re programmed to do… but I don’t fucking trust them. I would only accept that kind of treatment if there a human in control of that situation.

    That’s where my mind goes when I imagine a world where human provided service is paywalled.



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    because its significantly cheaper to the consumer of the product/service."

    This. The only example where I pick a robot over a human is self checkout… and that’s cuz it’s faster due to there only be 1 queue for several checkouts. Not because it saves me money.

    Got to costco and I’ll readily take a cashier line because it’s generally faster than the self checkout unless you only have a few items.


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    what do you really save when you personally save for example $.30 on a transaction when the AI spends five dollars in energy?

    Exactly. The economy right now is a big ball and cup game so that the rich can convince workers to keep funding their kleptocracy.

    We pay taxes for public services and utilities that generate private profits while the rich get to benefit off the infrastructure that we funded. The cups, the balls, and the god damn table were all built and paid for by the working class.