people are starting to realize. there *are* no moats left. the only true moat in existence was intelligence, and now that's out of the equation.

Life is simply ion channels opening and closing, proteins changing shape, and molecules binding to receptors, and however convincingly it sounds like a person, it has nothing to do with thought, humanity, or feeling.

I guess this is what happens when you tell Dem influencers they shouldn’t write off the white working class

Linus Torvalds says, rules prohibiting AI usage are “UTTERLY STUPID” and “idiotic”. For the Linux kernel, Torvalds says, “we’re not going to make stupid rules that say ‘you can’t use tools for X’”.

NASA reached out to multiple former SR-71 Blackbird staffers in recent weeks to help restart the program and return to flight -Aviation Week

Spending equals wealth redistribution equals socialism. If you want to spend more than a socialist you are one. The hundreds of billions in free weapon welfare for foreign countries would be an example.

This is where the Arabs were ahead of us By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations

I am very angry and extremely disappointed that a person was shot on the streets of Austin by ICE. While I’m angry and disappointed, I’m not surprised. This has happened in other cities. With the rogue nature of ICE and the chaos we’re seeing fomented by ICE, there’s no reason to be surprised. Austinites have a right to know what happened and they have a right to feel safe in their community. Though APD was not involved in the shooting, I believe that there needs to be an investigation that APD assures is clear-eyed, as complete as possible, and independent. I’ve discussed this with Chief Davis. Chief Davis deployed APD’s Special Investigation Unit and the Unit has been on scene this afternoon. This is the same unit that investigates Austin’s officer involved shootings. Chief Davis has also been in contact with the Texas Rangers and has asked the Rangers to assist in an investigation. This participation with the Texas Rangers will be important due to the access the Texas Department of Public Safety had early in the incident. As the city continues to receive more information, we will make sure to keep the community aware.

Once you watch Claude or some other LLM do a task that used to take you 3 hours in the span of just 3 minutes, all work starts to lose its purpose Have been hearing the same sentiment from many of my friends in middle management across tech, finance and other office jobs All the years of experience you culminated at your field suddenly seems useless You used to feel valued for your expertise in a niche domain, but that knowledge has now become commoditized You begin to wonder how many more months until upper management and executives realize that they don’t need to pay your salary anymore Maybe they can replace you fully. Maybe they can hire someone for 50% of the cost to do the same task with an AI It is the impending sense of doom and despair. The loss of purpose from your life’s work disappearing losing value in front of your eyes Truly an incredible time to be alive

There is nothing in our founding documents that supports blood and soil nationalism.

Mexican grifter @SaraGonzalesTX has quietly deleted her post without an apology. These Mexican grifters have no moral values. What can you expect from a community known for illegal border crossing and drug smuggling?

I went to an rationalist/EA AI doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that AI will kill everyone. Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down. My experience was the exact opposite. The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that AI literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong. Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom. I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise. At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of AI doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position. I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent AI inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well. That does not mean AI safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing AI systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have. But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse that they refuse to be reasoned out of it.

"Heritage Texans" You mean Mexicans?