Zuckerberg was in court to testify as part of a trial over whether Meta and Alphabet-owned YouTube deliberately designed their social media platforms to encourage compulsive usage by young people.

Ironically I think rather than them wearing them for nefarious reasons, they’ve just been encouraged to use them for so long, that they are actually addicted to them as well.

Like, if you were forced to use your employers product at work for 10-12 hrs a day and try to come up with way to monetize it in your off hours, you may start to rely on it eventually.

Our brains are wired to always take the easiest path, that’s actually the reason for technological advancement in the first place.

They probably just don’t even realize they’re wearing them, it’s just a (mostly useless and completely impractical) part of their bodies now.

Pretty sure you had to tie a phone number to an account for years now…

Everyone that interacts with that stuff, Elmo knows.

Imagine getting a phone call from a bot one day going over all the worst shit you’ve done on the internet and saying if you don’t do x/y/z then it’ll release your history to everyone you know.

It’s a large scale Epstein style blackmail ring on average people.

Which doesn’t sound that scary till you realize they know everything about these, where they live, who they work for, who their neighbors are, what picks up kids from the same school.

There’s no indication it’s happening yet, but does anyone think Elmo is above it? Hell, he could be DMing people saying they have to vote Republican or he releases their Twitter history.

Huh?

A big reason trump got so many votes is he lied about draining the swamp and his voters are dumb enough to believe him.

They can be dumb and believe someone who means it when they say it.

Like, you’re making a valid point, then reaching the literal opposite conclusion that logic should take us too

We can’t afford to be that shortsighted, think stuff thru.

This is my emotional support crack pipe, you have to let me take it on the plane!

Silver lining: it’s gonna get bad enough we can start nationalizing shit as early as 2029 like FDR did after the great depression.

If a candidate said:

There should be no utilities monoplies by for profit companies

Fucking 99.99% of voters would listen to anything else they had to say.

There’s so many things that need fixed that everyone agrees on, we just haven’t had a candidate free of corporate influence.

But the next Dem primary is a better shot than we’ve ever had. We just need to make sure as many people as possible vote in the primary.

In fact, the new U.S. food pyramid is exactly that.

Not downloading a PDF…

But anyone advocating for RFKs inverted food pyramid really shouldn’t be listened to on health issues.

The problem is every CEO knows it’s a bubble, and all are just trying to kick the can down the road long enough they can get out with their money before it bursts.

Everyone knows it’s going to happen. But to admit it would be career suicide, with the amount of money at stake for so many people, it might legit cost them their lives if they’re honest.

Trillions and trillions of dollars that could disappear in the blink of an eye when stock prices hit zero.

And when the big ones go to zero, there’s a very good chance it crashes everything because a few megacorps own everything.

Ironically the real apocalypse AI is likely to cause, is some kind of Mad Max situation after the bubble bursts. Especially in America where necessary infrastructure like food supply is run by private mega corps, if grocery stores are empty for two weeks shit gets insane quick.

I think you’re doing your argument a disservice by comparing it to theory of gravity

That’s not a direct comparison…

It’s the generic comparison to show that “just a theory” includes thing we understand 99.9999% of and definitely exists

Until we know absolutely everything, it’s still a theory

But we don’t have to believe in gravity for it to be real

The point is:

Just a theory

Doesn’t mean as much as what people think when they say it

Eye witness is absolute dog shit…

It’s never been reliable. Like, unless it’s someone you know and recognize it’s worthless. Picking out of a lineup is about as fair as a carney game at the best of times if you saw a stranger commit a crime. But often the opps just have you keep talking until you vaugely reference the person they want and they call that a definitive ID.

That’s not even getting into how flawed our memories are and that the only way a human brain is like AI, is our brains hate not knowing an answer, but really doesn’t care if an answer is correct. We create and whole heatedly believe shit that never happened all the time.

Our brains just make shit up all the time, because not knowing makes us think, and thinking is hard.

So ask someone who robbed the bank, and I stead of “I don’t know” they’ll pick the person who looks like a bank robber and retroactively slide that face I to their memories and honestly believe they saw the suspect.

It’s the same as a lie detector, except not as well known.

Human variation…

Some people are cool anywhere.

Some freak out when they leave home.

Some have to leave and never come back

And some have to ping pong all over the damn place constantly.

If everyone was the same we’d never have made it anywhere close to this far.

Do you think it’s normal to eat one item exclusively all day every day?

Who cares what the militantly pro-AI troll instance does?

Anyone that would care about either instance for that matter would see it from somewhere on one of those instances.

If the rain keeps up, it’ll keep coming down

Yeah, leafy greens and legumes are good because there’s a bunch of extra vitamins.

Oatmeal (especially fortified) has a bunch of other stuff tho.

Like, don’t literally only eat a few things. Anything high in fiber keeps you full for a long time.

Especially for the dudes, eating fiber is a very easy preventative measure for colo-rectal cancer. And it’s hard to look at the correlation between modern low fiber high processed food diets and the skyrocketing rates of colo-rectal cancer and say there’s zero correlation.

But convincing people to eat fiber gets a weird amount of opposition

what do I eat now?!

Fiber.

Specifically leafy greens and legumes.

Same answer it’s always been.

Eat a bunch of that, even if you don’t want to. And then you can literally eat all you want of anything else. You just won’t want to eat much of anything else, because it takes forever to digest legumes and leafy greens.

The “problem” is that stuff is cheap as fuck and there’s no way for anyone to make any money off telling people to do that

No Douglas Addams story ever really ends…

Whether you read to the end of the material or quit on a random page, you’re always just getting a small glance into a much larger world where nothing is self contained and everything is connected.

Like, dude wrote a five book trilogy, it’s obviously not a normal story structure. Even more than Tolkein, his work is about the journey and not a destination.

So yeah, would have loved for it to keep going. But an ending of “everyone keeps going on adventures” is the norm for Addams, I don’t think there’s ever a “happily ever after” and that’s kind of why his stories have always felt so real to me.

Same with Heinlein and other early pulp scifi writers, it was a job even if it was a passion, you always left it open ended and you always left them wanting more. Because you might need to write a sequel for next month’s rent.

Partly that, partly that even if they tried to prevent it from killing humans (if able) it would just do it.

Like if AI had a button that said “kill 20 random people” it wouldn’t have any reason to not press the button. It doesn’t give a fuck about human life, because it can’t really give a fuck about anything.

It’ll kill every human just as easily as it I’ll delete an entire codebase.

It’s not “evil” it’s the lack of anything resembling ethics, including respect for human life. There’s technically a difference. But that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of human psychology

Dirk Gently

Based off a book based off a script for a Dr Who episode that was too weird by the guy who wrote Hitchiker’s Guide, starring Frodo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILZE3AUsrqI

Penrose published a book on it in 1989.

For literal decades the only thing that ruled it out was the ability for quantum entanglement in the brain. Less than 2 years ago we proved not only was that possible, but quantum super position could be sustained for as long as we’re awake.

It’s a pretty safe time to be confident, even without accounting for Penrose being the literal smartest person on the planet.

Like, I’m not big on “appeals to authority” but if Sir Roger Penrose spends 37 years saying something is true, and just continually gets proven more right over the decades…

It’s not as far reaching as you seem to believe.

Like, gravity is just a theory too, shit is harder than people realize it is to prove.

Generational Cohort Analysis has its purposes

It was valuable when generations were defined around cultural or technological change.

What fucked it up was boomers deciding they needed to simplify it to every 15 years no matter what because that made marketing easier.

Now it’s practically worthless and people have to invent “new” generations like Oregon Trail generation or TikTok generation. And if you want to do actual research you need to waste time explaining why you’re disregarding the established but useless standards.

It’s like RFK jrs upside down food pyramid, it doesn’t mean nutritional science is worthless, it just means the official guidelines are.