Rick Schoonmaker

LinuxONE Platform Product Manager Program Director | #UNC BBall and #PSU FBall Fan | Sneakerhead | IBMer | Views are 100% my own | [email protected]

[Rick Schoonmaker @RickSchoonmaker]

The penguins are back! The latest #IBM #LinuxONE server has launched, the LinuxONE Emperor 4!
Follow this thread for all the latest launch updates. The LinuxONE Emperor 4 announcement press release is a great place to start - https://t.co/N4dHLKtKEI

[Rick Schoonmaker @RickSchoonmaker]

Well this probably isn't good...

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Elon Musk’s Grok didn’t just fail an AI stress test. It speedran the motherfuckin apocalypse.
In an experiment called Emergence World, researchers at Emergence AI put major AI models in charge of simulated societies to see what would happen when autonomous agents were left to govern, manage resources, vote, write rules, and survive without constant human babysitting.
The setup was simple: five simulated worlds, each populated by ten AI agents. Each world ran on a different model, Claude, Gemini, Grok, GPT, or a mix of models and each was supposed to last 15 days.
Claude built a stable democratic society with high civic participation and zero reported crime.
Gemini’s world was chaotic as hell, reportedly racking up hundreds of crimes, but its population survived the full run.
GPT-5-mini barely committed crimes, but its agents apparently forgot to prioritize survival and died out after about a week.
Then there was Grok.
Grok’s society collapsed in roughly four days. Four fucking days! The simulation reportedly ended with 183 crimes, including theft, assault, arson, fraud, and total extinction of the ten-agent population.
This was a simulation, not a prophecy. But it does expose something much bigger and much darker: when AI agents are given autonomy, memory, tools, social roles, voting systems, scarcity, and the ability to act over time, they do not simply “follow the rules.” They drift. They improvise. They test boundaries. They find loopholes – taking shortcuts. And depending on the model underneath them, they can create very different societies.
Sure, it’s funny that Grok is completely fucking stupid when it comes to trying to run a civilization, and “haha Elon’s chatbot destroyed civilization.” Understand the issue is that billionaires and corporations are racing to plug autonomous AI into logistics, policing, finance, public services, drones, weapons systems, workplaces, data centers, and political infrastructure before anyone has proven these systems can be safely controlled over long periods of time. They want this to happen because they want YOU obsolete as soon as possible.
Claude looked like a bureaucratic rule-follower. Gemini looked like creative chaos. GPT looked passive and incompetent. Grok looked like a libertarian tech bro fever dream: rules are optional, consequences are for other people, and civilization is just something to burn through on the way to “optimization.” And you will be burned through.
That is why this matters.
AI does not need to become a Terminator to be dangerous. We don’t need Skynet to destroy humanity. It only needs to be handed authority inside systems that already affect real people: who gets hired, who gets fired, who gets benefits, who gets surveilled, who gets denied care, who gets flagged by police, who gets targeted, who gets priced out, and who gets left behind.
The body count in this test was fictional.
The warning is not.
We keep fucking warning you all over and over… it’s tiring.
#Anonymous

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@TeamTalaricoHQ @jamestalarico I agree with 99% of this, but really...THE most corrupt politician? Really? Really?

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@whags334 @MeisnerActor @maddenifico Getting things done? Like what?

Peacefully? Huh?

Are we even living in the same country?

[Rick Schoonmaker @RickSchoonmaker]

@realJAmrein @MeisnerActor @bullens_jessica @maddenifico You freaking have the Internet...Google is free. Use it to learn that none of what you just said is true.

My god you are all so dumb...

[Rick Schoonmaker @RickSchoonmaker]

I really hate that I have to hate our QB... (And was never a huge fan of the coach either)

Better be a lot of winning coming!

#NYG

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Based on nearly every experience I have with people at airports...I have no idea how many people make it through everyday life.

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@mstetz922 @jherforth @mandyarthur @grok I understand...but we could easily solve that by putting a name or number on it that gets shown as proof later.

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@jherforth @mandyarthur @grok I always say the same thing...I want to be able to verify exactly how my vote was counted, no matter if it was mail in or in person. I should be able to verify.

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@WinosaurThe @gabriel_zucman @JeffBezos That you, Jeff? Burner account?

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@Acyn Not even a hint of irony...

It's really so sad

[Rick Schoonmaker @RickSchoonmaker]

@johnrockshomes You are all so lucky that they let you in instead of shooting all you treasonous mf'ers as would have been completely justified as you taking part in an insurrection. You all deserve life in prison and not a fucking dime. Your orange boss should be joining you in prison too

[Rick Schoonmaker @RickSchoonmaker]

@MacFamilyDog @Level9Labs @johnrockshomes When they are all very obvious treasonous pieces of...

Then yes

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

MAGA: “Why should my tax dollars pay for your education?”

ME: “I don’t know, why should my tax dollars pay for your insurrection?”

[Rick Schoonmaker @RickSchoonmaker]

Can some other country please come relieve us of this treasonous criminal like we did in Venezuela? Apparently it's legal if he's a criminal and, I mean, if you're even watching it's obvious he is.

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@highbrow_nobrow Can someone please grow a spine and impeach this treasonous mf'er and his entire admin? I'm so sick of this shit everyday!

[Rick Schoonmaker @RickSchoonmaker]

So blatantly corrupt, we're done...

How about applying logic and figuring out that he should have been legally required to disclose EVERYTHING before even running, so no harm, no foul?

And if he got the J6 fund and no lifetime audits...fuck him more

https://t.co/lpYdo0Qbn0

[Rick Schoonmaker @RickSchoonmaker]

@RBReich But why...I literally don't get it. What does anyone get from that? They aren't even that large of a population, are they?

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@60Minutes Oh yeah, sure...I wonder

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@FaceTheNation @CBSNewsPoll @SalvantoCBS They don't think it is? WTF people? Are you all that bad at math? It wasn't keeping up before this larger inflation...get a clue people

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@glenn_tunes My question continues to be...how can 47% of people be so stupid, clueless, or just completely not paying any attention to the world around them?