That's what I'm talking about. There's only a few that are controlled by governments who put measures in place to prevent misuse. (Although several times they were still almost launched) If instead everyone had them then we'd be extinct real fast.
The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because only big governments have access to nukes and none of those are dumb enough to risk annihilation in using them. If everyone had nukes or even 1% of people had personal nukes it would be a completely different story.
I think if you live in the middle of nowhere and there isn't something like nuclear fallout preventing health crops and rainwater then you can make it without even a lot of preparation. Humans never needed anything more than stone tools to get by in non-extreme climates unless there was a famine or war. If you don't live in the middle of nowhere you are basically going to be in the war scenario unless you manage to get to nowhere and either know how to hunt/forage or have seeds and are fortunate enough to get there at the right time of year. But of course if there are killer robots or a genetically modified virus to deal with that changes the equation.
I'd much rather have my clothes lightly patted than be taken aside for questioning. I don't support any of it though. Normally a warrant is needed before a search and we have innocence until proven guilty. There can be a choice between flights with invasive security checks and those without, but governments like force not choice. That would also expose the fact that security checks do practically nothing.
Carlson is free. He was only briefly pulled aside for questioning it seems. If it was routine procedure as Israel are claiming we should be still be against government questioning, especially as a frequent procedure forced on ordinary people.
If robots are capable of taking all the jobs that means they don't need humans to function. It also means they are easily capable of subduing the world's population through their superior force and intelligence. A single AGI would also be capable of developing WMDs like a virus capable of infecting and killing every human on the planet.
The fact of the matter is there's no possible future in which AGI or billions of robots is good for humans. One lunatic with AGI makes us extinct and without AGI every government will still use robots to subjugate its people.
Always? I really don't think so. Without explicitly bringing the powers that be or systems of government into a discussion on migration it comes across as saying those things aren't to blame, only the migrants are the enemy.
It's more effective to keep the focus on the government problems than the immigrants. Problems with immigrants need to be framed as problems with the government in order to actually fix the problem and avoid the divide and conquer strategy in which you end up fighting migrants and the left and get called a racist instead of fighting the government together.
The hyper focus on immigration is a divide and conquer tactic as well as a distraction from more important subjects.
While immigration is a big problem, the people to blame are those in power, not the people migrating who are just doing what anyone else would do when given the option to live in a poor and unstable home country or a rich and stable new country handing out free stuff where immigration laws hardly apply to them. Most of the opposition to migration is complaining and protesting about the migrants rather than the government corruption that led to this. You can "elect" a new government that closes the border for a few years to pacify you but you better not question the corrupt system that will install the next government and allow it to take bribes, bribe the voters with freebies and open the borders again with zero threat of punishment.
And while the pendulum swings this way and that over immigration and ethnic factions brawl in the streets, the progress of moral erosion, transhumanism, AI, robots, the surveillance state and government corruption will continue with little opposition. Until those problems become so bad it will be too late to do anything about them because there will be a robotic boot on every individual neck.
Like I said, why do you insist on listening to liars? Just ignore them and look at the facts like those I've been talking about.
Where, who? And working with humans?
Amazon - that's who I was talking about. You can watch videos of their Kiva robots routing around each other or bringing items to humans. Still only making less important decisions like how to get from A to B while avoid crashes, but making decisions in a dynamic environment all the same, which is different from say car assembly robots that repeat the exact same action over and over.
We already have AI that suggests new chemicals as well as AlphaFold that predicts protein folding better than humans. And AI such as Kosmos that can simply be given a research question and it will spend hours designing experiments, writing programs to perform them and generate a paper presenting the method and results. It needs better accuracy, but this is how AI could replace human scientists. With a robot body physical experiments can also be performed. "Self-driving labs" are already using AI to design and perform experiments on physical materials.
A lot of manga and anime is pedophilic. So obviously there must be a decent market for that in Japan. Only in 2023 did Japan make it illegal for middle aged people to have sex with 13-year olds (in response to nationwide protests).
Of course pedophilia is often toward boys as well as girls (since homosexuals are often pederasts and pedophiles don't have any moral issues abusing both sexes - in Japan they have names for both male and female pedophilic content) so I'm not sure it's right to label this a threat to women in particular. But suggesting some random tweet getting 300K likes (gasp) is the UN's payback on Japan is really reaching.
I think people prior to WWII would have had more foresight and understanding of the importance of tightening their belts so that things can be better for themselves and younger generations in the future. And cared more about those future generations. But you're right that generations have been getting progressively more selfish (and dumb and progressive) so today's young people would have done the same or worse if they had been born in the baby boom.
AIs are capable of outperforming humans despite the fact they are created by humans. AIs can play chess and generate images better than any human can. It helps that in areas such as these there are ways to accurately measure success and AIs can experiment trying to improve their measure of success and don't simply have to copy human data. In hard sciences there's usually a metric of success as well, meaning AIs will be able to get better than humans at science and thus will end up making low budget WMDs capable of making humans extinct.
Manufacturers were using robots that only did specific procedures in controlled environments. Now they're using robots with AI that make their own decisions and can work with each other or humans and perform more complex or delicate tasks.
I think the huge amounts of money for energy are mainly to service billions of users. The actual technology itself doesn't need that many resources for a single user. And the resources needed per unit of intelligence or output will go down with more research. And I wouldn't call say 2015-2023 a time of linear improvement in AI capabilities relative to the amount of effort put into AI development. Capabilities exploded without a huge rise in effort.
Believing the boy who cried wolf is just silly
I already said to stop listening to that boy. Why do you insist on going back to him then?
I would say everyone in business lies to get more funding. But AI would still get a lot of funding without the lies because of what it can do, especially for businesses. It's already taking out jobs in customer service, programming, writing and art. Amazon already use autonomous robots (humanoid and non-humanoid) in their warehouses. At some point it might reach diminishing returns, but there's no law of the universe that prevents AI from getting smarter than humans, so it seems almost certain that's where it's going to end up.
Ignore whatever other people are saying, just think about it logically. I don't care what anyone else has said that did or didn't happen, I just observe that AI has been demonstrably getting better. Before you couldn't even have a chat bot that wrote code in the language you asked, now you can have a chat bot not only write code in the language you ask but it actually does something useful and they can fix problems in existing code. Far from perfectly, but still at the point where people who don't know any programming languages can build useful applications with AI.
Physics sure made accelerating progress before stagnating in the 20th century. Same thing with chemistry. And biology is still accelerating in my opinion. AI is still young and likely has a lot more acceleration left in it. Besides, it's already close to the singularity in that we now have AIs that can do general tasks with some level of competency. All that's left is to get the competency consistently above average human levels. I don't think that's far away at all. Even if it is, we still have to deal with it happening whenever it does.
I think you meant cult, not occult.