Take your meds.
Anyone who says they can predict what's going to happen years in advance is lying to you.
Take your meds.
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This is not a matter of prediction, this has been warned about a long time ago, years or decades, sooner or later, but collapse due to greed would have come anyway.
I know what you're talking about, but no pills will save me from realizing that my children will live like in the Middle Ages or even worse.
As for the AI scenario where it just floods the internet, it's almost a reality: 2027 with AI agents is pretty close. And people are already intoxicated by AI-generated content and even pay for it, I saw it myself.
What is with all the schizoposting lately ffs
If you've seen the post where I described how I passed out due to AI art, then it's true, I decided to do an experiment to see how passionate people can be about the art of AI art, and now I know that in 2027, people can really be interested in it and at a pretty high level.
It's been 30 years since the Internet took off, and there are still people who haven't taken the time to learn how to work a computer, or use them as little as absolutely possible.
I predict that in 30 years, there will be even MORE people who feel the same about AI. It's just not popular enough to brainwash all of society.
Can you explain everything in more detail?
I just look at what AI is capable of right now, and fears that humans won't be able to tell the difference between reality and simulation become reality. How do you think everything can not collapse?
It's the new big thing and it's overhyped.
It's not going to be as great or as terrible as people think. There will be good and there will be bad because of it, but just like radio, TV, and the Internet, once AI finds it's place in society, everything will be exactly the same, but just a little bit different.
How? Did you know that this will lead to people not being able to distinguish between reality and simulation? In my opinion, if there is a place for AI, it will be in decades, when civilization will begin to recover from the collapse, if, of course, it can somehow recover.
And also, do you think that metals are infinite? And what if the mines run out and new ones are not found in time, and if they do, then in such small numbers that the demand will not cover?
Are you a science fiction lover?
Dude. This is getting too intense. Regarding the future, I don't know anything, just like everyone else.
I know very well that you do not know what will happen next, but we have already been told what awaits us, and the events taking place in the world prove very well that my theory can become a reality. We had one last chance before these madmen decided to turn AI into an uncontrollable superintelligence and spend so many resources on it when we were already running out. I just wanted to at least talk to someone about it.
Maybe, and if I'm as entertained as you claim I'll be, your version kind of sounds like more fun.
Why do you think a Great Depression 2.0 would return us to the 1800s? There is no reason why computers, electricity or even the Internet should suddenly disappear? Maybe some outages if some company that manages a part of the infrastructure collapses, however the know-how wouldn't get lost and new structures would form.
You also contradict yourself in the first sentence. If billionaires don't want a global crash that is (according to you) preceded by their beheading why should they try to accelerate this?
You also contradict yourself in the first sentence. If billionaires don’t want a global crash that is (according to you) preceded by their beheading why should they try to accelerate this?
This acceleration will allow the elite to flood the internet with deepfakes, as well as mesmerize people with AI art, which in addition can make people weak and apathetic due to the crisis of meaning, before people feel the sudden rise in the price of everything and continue to think that things will somehow get better and there won't be a global collapse. Thanks to this, the elite will successfully hide in bunkers, and shocked crowds will not bother to stab the heads of billionaires on pikes, they will start fighting for food.
And the regression to 1800 will come gradually.