Looking at the Clouds

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 — 11:09AM

Magical freaking swirls of atmosphere. It’s a great filter. And it’s a beautiful simulation we live in.

Got me thinking about planets. Ours, and the ones humans will eventually visit. Thinking about a future without AI, where humans are free to enjoy all the joys and pains that the world has to offer. Got me thinking about the hubris of man’s desire to make a machine that could replicate the joy and pain our souls are capable of.

I’m not against AI. It’s the natural next step in our maturity as a species. The next lesson for us to learn.

The thing I don’t understand is our hurry. Everyone who is furthering the development of AGI seems to realize the extreme risks of doing so. We will be driven to desperate measures. Man will create something that spirals out of his own control, and while we still may perservere as a society, we’ll be plagued by these mistakes for generations to come.

There’s an instinct within us. An urge. A shared network of understanding that comes from deep subconscious roots. The human ability to tap into this collective aether is the greatest asset at our disposal. Our differences. Our pure hopes for betterment. Independent thought.

“There is no such thing as an original thought.”

Okay. Then it isn’t mine. It doesn’t belong to me. I don’t know where it comes from or why it comes. But it comes, as if they want us to find it.

Additionally, I think the “futurists” and “great minds” of our time such as Musk, Altman, and that one fucker who wants to live forever, all relish turning this journey into a race to see who can destroy ourselves first. Elon makes rockets and driverless cars, he Sieg Heils on world’s stage. What are you proving? That you want to use fascism to boost us into a technocratic dystopia? Profiting off of our demise? Great strategy. See where rushing gets you.  

I know the rush. It’s capitalism. There’s no sense complaining about that. But patience is a virtue.

Get it where you can fit it.