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NOBODY WANTS #AI JUST GIVE UP ALREADY
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It annoys me to no end that people keep spreading anti-AI "PSAs" full of misinformation or just knee-jerk respond to any mention of LLMs.
No, simply prompting a local LLM on your PC doesn't magically use up a nuclear reactor's worth of energy. The energy cost is from dozens of corporations constantly training and updating models! And that's bad.
No, statistical mathematics and data science is not the #TormentNexus. Don't be anti-science just because its results get abused for evil.
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@junesim63 Not a single mention of the #TormentNexus meme!
The Guardian: The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?
Skewed interpretations of classic works are feeding the dark visions of tech moguls, from Musk to Thiel
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world #scifi #apocalpyse #tormentnexus
The Guardian · The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?
Good overview of Torment Nexus concept. In the end, sci-fi doesn’t teach people to be evil. It simply amplifies today’s evil with tomorrow’s technology.
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The Guardian · The big idea: will sci-fi end up destroying the world?
Minority Report was NOT meant as an instruction manual !!!
UK developing ‘predictive tool’ to determine if someone will become a killer
https://ground.news/article/uk-creating-murder-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill
Ground NewsUK developing ‘predictive tool’ to determine if someone will become a killer: ReportThe U.K. government is testing software to predict whether individuals will commit murder later in life, The Guardian reports. This initiative uses police and government data to create profiles and assess risk, but officials stress it's for research and policy purposes, not for court use.
And the company behind it is called Colossal Biosciences. Do you want to call Jeff Goldblum, or should I?
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AP News · Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf
Warhammer 40.000 was not meant to encourage walking a certain path but a warning to do so. As always, the techno fascist got it wrong. Please do not create the machine god, our life is hard enough without praying to the omnissiah. Looking at you Open AI. I am too tired to live in unification wars.
SNTIENT is an unfolding digital tale of corporate overlords and robots reaching singularity. Brands can be in the story as product placement. It is not interactive or transactive, but brands can transfer appearances into their own marketing communications. Sponsoring dystopia conveys coolness in Blade Runner and Minority Report.
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apple.newsSNTIENT: A Sci-Fi Storytelling Platform For Future Curious Brands — ForbesProgressive brands must imminently consider their role in a human-tech future. New transmedia storytelling concept SNTIENT presents a compellingly creative route in.
(also, it's just a sales pitch, nothing is 'melting' and you are a soulless monster Sam)
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I see the Torment Nexus has given birth to an entity called "Daniel Shitton".....or sorry, "Daniel Bitton"
Angry mob: TURN OFF THE TORMENTNEXUS!
TormentNexus(TM) research team: We understand how you feel, we have studied the subject and have found many issues... but wait, what if we reduced its energy consumption by 30%, run it completely on renewables and adopt a kitten for every 1000 people tortured by the TormentNexus? Would you like that?
Angry mob: No...
Saudi Arabia's 100-Mile Skyscraper Is Turning Into a Disaster—Futurist
Recap of WSJ exposé on multi-trillion dollar costs and years-long delays for proposed megacity—twin structures 100 miles long, 1,600 ft high. More megalomania dressed in sci-fi trappings—all too common these days.
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apple.newsSaudi Arabia's 100-Mile Skyscraper Is Turning Into a Disaster — FuturismThe Saudi crown family's megalomaniac dreams of building a gigantic city of the future in the middle of the desert are getting a brutal reality check. Saudi Arabia's plans for Neom, a futuristic fever dream which includes a massive all-inclusive on the coast, a ski resort in the mountains, and an up to 100 miles-long and 1,600 feet tall skyscraper called The Line, is unsurprisingly running into major budget problems. As the Wall Street Journal reports, capital expenditure to build Neom to what
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@ben and now they've gone and made the #tormentnexus despite our warnings 
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@dyckron @andymoose @BNONews these oligarchs saw all those 80s dystopias and thought "cool, let's build it!"
Why is it that when @pluralistic writes dystopian fiction, people take it as a challenge?
WIRED · Can Algorithms, a Touchscreen, and an Internet Connection Make the Perfect Piece of Toast?
Don't Create the Torment Nexus?
You're an engineer working on a top-secret project for a mysterious billionaire. The project is complete, and you're tasked with flipping the switch to start it up. Unknown to the rest of the team, the project is a doomsday device that will eventually destroy all life on Earth. If you flip the switch, you'll make billions of dollars and secure your family's future for generations. But flipping the switch means the end of humanity as we know it. Do you flip the switch and bring your family enormous wealth, or do you not flip the switch and save humanity, knowing your family will suffer?
If you flip the switch:
- You become incredibly wealthy.
- Your family is set for life.
- You may feel guilt, knowing you caused the end of humanity.
- You get away with it, as no one but you knows what really happened.
If you don't flip the switch:
- You save humanity.
- Your family suffers due to your decision.
- You are revered as a hero.
- You feel immense pride in saving the world, but constant guilt about your family's lost opportunities.
What do you do?