Leo Gura

I have not been to a movie theater since 2015's The Martian, starring Matt Damon

I kinda like Tom Hanks. He's got more charm than Matt Damon. Tom Hanks was great in Finch. Of course, neither one should be playing Odysseus. Nolan's casting was so bad. What was he thinking?

In the future AI Qaeda will just be a bunch of angry computer nerds sitting in a dark basement.

Space is a hallucination.

That actually means it requires more intelligence to do good spirituality than good mathematics or physics. The fact that no one can peer-review your work makes the work all the more self-deceptive and challenging. It doesn't take much epistemic skill to follow the rules of math like a machine. It takes extraordinary intelligence to do spirituality and not make any mistakes because no system exists to save you. Spirituality is like threading a needle. Science is like driving down a highway. It is not hard to sell snake oil as a scientist. String theorists have been doing it for 50 years

Yup. Good one. It was a bit too weird to be a blockbuster. Same for Annihilation. He is so meh. Most overrated actor of our time after Pedro Pascal.

Well, they are not in danger in space, but they are in danger if they have to land and speak with us face to face. You'd have to be pretty suicidal to land on the White House lawn for a chit-chat with Trump.

Ants are more collectivist than humans because they don't have egos. But even the biggest ant colony is smaller than a large human city. Ants are more like a single super-organism, while humans are not.

The one imagining is INFINITY. INFINITY is the only thing that's not a hallucination.

Who is they? Ants or aliens??

Not everything I say is right. But it is right enough.

Hollywood films are made pretty quickly. Most films can be made in 1-2 years. Especially by an experienced producer/director. This recent UFO trend has been going on for like 3+ years now. I remember when the UFO Congressional meetings where happening a few years back, I was thinking, now is the perfect time to make a blockbuster UFO movie. Spielberg had the same idea. Now we have this movie a few years later. It is a no-brainer to be making UFO movies right now. Easy $$$. Good, solid UFO movies are quite rare and lacking. There is huge demand for a great realistic UFO movie. Not goofy shit, but a serious, realist depiction of UFO contact. Nolan should be making that instead of his goofy Odyssey film with Matt "bland as a cracker" Damon.

Humans and ants are some of the few species that wage wars against each other.

But we are talking about wide public disclosure here, not some secret event. Who are the aliens going to talk with in a public disclosure? Surely the Trump admin people would be involved. The Trump admin is worse than a Nascar rally.

What else could it be?

These things are not opposed. He can be a true believer and also monetizing a popular trend in the zeitgeist. A clever Hollywood producer needs to have his finger on the pulse of the audience. UFOs were also a trend in the past. Close Encounters also rode a wave of public interest. Spielberg also produced an big UFO TV show in the early 2000s called Taken. He has been patiently milking UFOs for 50 years! I AM giving him credit. I give him credit for being a crafty businessman. He didn't earn a billion dollars by being naive to such matters.

A lot of point. That is the best time to introduce advanced beings. You don't want to teach calculus to an angry mob with pitchforks.

Don't worry, your concern is a hallucination too

The cause and effect is backwards here. Spielberg made this movie to surf off the energy created by public discourse about UFOs. He's chasing a trend to profit off it. If the public was talking about Big Foot, Spielberg would make a film about Big Foot called "Big Foot Day". Over the next 5 years you should expect to see many more Hollywood films chasing this UFO trend. Until people are sick of UFO movies. As UFOs become more socially acceptable, Hollywood grifters will monetize the trend.

I want to laugh at this. Not because aliens aren't real, but because predicting when they will contact us is stupid. It makes little sense for aliens to contact us right in the middle of Trump administrations chaos and stupidity. Then again, is there ever a good time to contact us? LOL

Einstein did not understand what i am teaching you.

Only if it is socially acceptable. "With all the proof" is a very loaded notion. The point is my proof will not be socially acceptable and therefore denied. I gave a better explanation of Reality than all of physics. Does science regard me highly? No. And it never will, regardless of what proof is presented. Because it was never about the proof. Einstein's theory was relatively socially acceptable because it did not seriously subvert the scientfic, academic paradigm. He worked inside the system and the system was not significantly threatened. The only reason you even know about Einstein is social acceptability. You have not verified anything Einstein said. Einstein won the social acceptance game, so now we talk about him with high regard. Einstein's view of gravity could be deeply wrong, and you will never know it, because you just trust what society feels about it.

Can Al Qaeda hack even a 90's PC? AL Qaeda should rename themselves to AI Qaeda. Increase their market cap by 10x overnight

Religious indoctrination is against Forum Guidelines. This is not a place to spread ideology.

If they actually create AGI, yes. However, current AI is not that. I don't deny that AI could produce insight one day. I deny that LLMs can be that. AGI cannot be based on collection of human data. This is fundamentally wrong. You don't need to do any brainscans to know that AGI does not depend on collecting the world's data.