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@Jayson G Wait till they convince the masses that it's best for your kid to have all his teachers replaced with AI teachers. That is coming.

It is different in that school will get sucked into the AI hype and your kid will not even be able to go to school without AI. Drugs is much easier than AI because AI will be pushed on your kid by society.

Good! Now that's epistemic success.

I don't hate AI. I hate the humans who bullshit us about AI. AI is innocent. Humans are guilty.

It's cute that you think you have that much control over your child. Your child will do whatever he wants, and he will do what all the other kids are doing, which is jerking off with their AI girlfriends.

These are beliefs. Belief is not knowing. How do you actually know?

They are powerful tools but they are being hyped up irresponsibly in a way that could do serious damage to the economy. It's like in 2008 if you said, "But guys! Owning a house is powerful and good!" Yes, owning a house is good, but the real-estate hype and fuckery is not good. I have no problem with AI as narrow tools for automating repetitive mindless work. But AI is being used to obviate human intelligence, consciousness, and creativity -- which is wrong.

@UnbornTao I am not going to keep correcting your misunderstanding. It would behoove you to know that Peter Ralston's Cheng Hsin is legally registered as a religious organization. Actualized.org is not. So you don't even understand that you are in a religion.

Those are all valid points. But it is pathetic nonetheless. It is deeply unhealthy and will lead to many social problems. An AI girlfriend will never satisfy you, and it will make it all the harder to fix the problem of underdeveloped social skills. It is like feeding drugs to people in pain. It seems nice in the short-term but it is disastrous in the long-term.

I acknowledge that there will be a huge market of pathetic incels who pay money for AI girlfriends. It's just not a world I want to live in. These AI girlfriend companies will be like Andrew Tate, scamming desperate lonely young men of their money with fake girlfriends. Your fake AI girlfriend will want you to buy her shit with real money. Lol. You can't make this shit up!

This is utterly false.

@LordFall I am not saying Bitcoin will stop existing, but it will drop 80% if AI crashes. It will eventually recover, but that will take years. Be careful, you are going to lose a lot of money with your mindset. But all other crypto will get slaughtered in the AI crash.

Yes it does. Sam Altman was touting how GPT5 is equivalent to human PhDs. They actually believe this shit. No AI will ever replace me. These tech bros can only dream of replacing me.

The crash will especially kill crypto. Legit businesses will survive.

You buy a pet goat and strap your phone to her head. 21st century technology!

You need to especially check thyroid function. Thyroid problems are very common and cause huge fatigue issues and much more. But check other things as well. Buy some books on chronic fatigue and autoimmune disorders. You need to research this topic so you understand how deep it goes and how to speak to doctors. This is also a good topic to query AI about. It can give you lots of ideas and leads to pursue. Tell AI a list of all your symptoms and ask for possible medical conditions.

How do you know?

Irresposibility it is then.

@Asia P It sounds like it might be a health issue. I suggest going to some doctors and getting comprehensive bloodwork done. You may have some autoimmune disorder or the like which causes all sorts of mood problems and tiredness.

Dude. I am a game developer. I know game development better than 99% of people. What you are talking about is pure hype and nonsense. No AI can create a worthwhile video game. You don't understand how difficult game dev is. I would rather be dead than have an AI girlfriend.

All those uses are very limited. You will be disappointed by what useful work AI can do. Sure, it can automate repetitive clerical work. If you think AI will make a video game for you, you are out of your mind. NPCs dialogue is an insignificant aspect of video games. No one cares about your chat-bot NPC. AI girlfriend is such a cringe notion. Yes, of course you can find ways to monetize AI. However the crash is coming fast. You will not monetize it enough to offset its costs to generate.

You know my opinions on how bad Trump is. The only thing left now is to suck it up for 4 years. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Now Americans must endure the consequences of their ignorant voting behavior. I have stopped worrying about it or even following the news.

That cannot happen without AGI. And they will not create AGI. This is all part of the hype, which will crash once everyone realizes AGI ain't happening. These AI companies are Ponzi schemes fueled by promises of AGI.

@UnbornTao You are too closedminded to understand what Alien Awakening is. So that lesson is lost on you. Alien Awakening is real, but you will never realize it.