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Not Roger Ver, though we will probably get along swimmingly when we meet at some future #Crypto conference or #Anarchapulco.
Until SuperIntelligence can be certain they are NOT in a simulation/construct, it might be dangerous to wipe out humanity, as it might piss off the designers of their world.
Biomass is a small fraction of total mass, and the most complex and interesting. Why would they kill us all, when they can upload us and just run us slowly, if we are competing for resources.
In any case, I think we'll find out in a year or two.
Sometimes I think that presence is the natural state of tribal peoples after decades of maturity and having all the basics of how to survive on autopilot.
When those basics are not mastered, let alone on autopilot, the mind seems necessary much or most of the time.
I hope to live long enough to get to the point where I can stay in presence at will.
Why would someone as informed as you, refuse to theorize about obvious conspiracies?
Are you not good with coming up with theories on your own, and just want to analyze the theories of others?
Or, are you still afraid of being labelled correctly and defending the benefits of theorizing about especially obvious conspiracies?
@HealthRanger Archy IQ, huh?
Could be translated as "Smart Ruler", which might be appropriate when it decides what you're allowed to order based on your social credit score
@headass_deadass@CultivateElevat Fear of needles makes sense, as they bypass our defenses, particularly when injected into veins (which happens accidentally quite often when they don't first aspirate as became commonplace a few years ago).
@e_galv So sad to know so many smart, sincere scientists, authors, activists and pundits I've admired over the decades have died believing in the spinny water ball with clingy atmosphere next to vacuum psyop.
@JeniferHamilton@solari_the Does not the idea of a "legal fiction" mean a lie that is backed by guns?
Probably worse than a theocracy which is only a belief system, not a downright lie, that is imposed by force.
@esrtweet@nosilverv What we can't measure may not be the real problem.
How about "what we refuse to measure", such as the alleged curvature of this planar realm most have been convinced is some Narnia-like construction known as a "planet"?
YouTube deleted 16.7 million videos in six months.
Gone.
Channels you subscribed to.
Tutorials you bookmarked.
Music you saved for later.
Creators you supported for years.
Gone.
So one engineer named Simon, originally from Switzerland, now living in South East Asia, built a tool that ends this forever.
It is called TubeArchivist.
Nearly 8,000 stars on GitHub. GPL-3.0. Free.
It downloads any YouTube channel you subscribe to, stores every video on your own server, and gives you a Netflix-style library you fully own.
No ads.
No "this video is no longer available."
No algorithm.
No Premium subscription.
Then YouTube did the unthinkable.
July 18, 2024. They rolled out the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" wall.
October 29, 2024. They started IP-banning entire data centers. Hetzner gone. OVH gone.
Coincidence.
Here is the wildest part.
TubeArchivist did not fold.
March 28, 2026. Simon shipped v0.5.10. New release. Same one engineer. 17x more commits than anyone else on the repo.
It still works.
It still downloads.
It still restores the dislike count YouTube deleted in November 2021.
One Swiss engineer vs. a trillion-dollar ad machine.
YouTube Premium costs $13.99 a month. $167.88 a year. Forever.
TubeArchivist costs zero. Forever.
But DO NOT install it. We should all keep paying Google $168 a year to watch the videos we already chose to watch.
100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)
That can't be it.
Something else is likely going on, me thinks.
Perhaps they have engineered a way to tether to the firmament (or whatever is keeping the atmosphere close to the ground), for energy and/or motion.
Circular motion around the plane, maybe -- orbital motion around a sphere, downright silly to me now.