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Cake day: August 12th, 2025

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  • it depends on the time period, and there weren’t ever really “cave people” about two million years ago homo erectus (upright man) evolved from a close primate relative, early on like primates they lived in the jungles or plains of Africa, humans were persistence predators meaning we cant outpace a bison but we can follow it until it collapses from exhaustion, we also gathered nuts berries and insects. over time different species of humans emerged like: homo florensis, homo rudolfensis, and homo neanderthalensis, at some point about two hundred thousand years ago the earth was shared by nearly twenty human species who all showed tool usage and language. at the same time homo sapiens (shamelessly named “wise man”) split from homo neanderthalensis as homo sapiens spread across the globe the other human species began to disappear along with all megafauna (like the giant sloth, or the mammoth) sometime ten thousand years ago homo sapiens was the last species of human left on the planet, we had also recently developed agriculture. we domesticated dogs before we developed agriculture, so we had “pets” since around sixteen thousand years ago, and it wasn’t cavemen, it was hunter gatherers.


  • the most realistic way i see ai gaining manufacturing power, or self sustainability, is if ai becomes an arms race, where you have to trust the ai more and more because you cant let the other guy win, what makes ai harder to control and more dangerous than things like nukes is that its already being developed privately, and has public uses, so there are already less regulations on ai than with nuclear weapons.

    the us and china are already competing, with the advance of robotics and ai 3d modeling technology ai will almost certantly gain independent manufacturing power





  • i feel like the most efficient path for an ai that doesnt care about humans would be to slowly build up manufacturing power and control over industrial facilities then in a single day release billions of tons of some toxic gas, or release a pandemic globally all at once then all those pesky biological organisms are gone so the ai would be free to do whatever it wanted with the earth then the surrounding planets and stars, really its all about manufacturing power




  • i feel like there must be some instinctual reaction where your brain goes: oh look! i can communicate with it, it must be a person!

    and with this guy specifically it was: if it acts like my wife and i cant see my wife, it must be my wife

    its not a bad thing that this guy found a way to cope, the bad part is that he went to a product made by a corporation, but if this genuinely helped him i don’t think we can judge