Wild Palms

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” Marshall #McLuhan. Tweets about the tools - tech, arts, culture, politics and money.

[Wild Palms @_WildPalms_]

Writings about Mass Media, Art and Culture. by @_WildPalms_ https://t.co/AdSXoetTMy

[InfoBytesTV @infobytesTV]

In 1967, 10 nuclear missiles went offline simultaneously — no malfunction, no explanation, just a glowing disc hovering above the base. This is the real history of UFOs, and governments have spent 80 years trying to bury it.

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@r0ck3t23 Disclosure gonna destroy this investment thesis.

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@_The_Prophet__ Substitute the word Canada with Australia and you can reuse this post.

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@Ovniologia01 My god - can the internet get any dumber?

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@r0ck3t23 Does that mean we’ll actually get FSD?

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@_The_Prophet__ Trump bringing along successful tech bros is nothing more than association marketing and image association.

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@_The_Prophet__ Is this Baron Trump ?

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@juliovschneider Somewhere a village is missing its idiot.

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@BrianRoemmele @homuraakem92126 I suppose they had parachutes in ancient times as well.

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@AlanKohler Define consciousness/ “I think therefore I am” - but then how do we define the verb “think”. Asking if a machine can think is like asking if a submarine can swim.

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humans as containers

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@PopazLee @PMSLATTERY Somewhere a village is missing its idiot.

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@TukiFromKL Ai can think in the same way that a submarine can swim.

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@SteveSkojec Partly apps but mainly economics. The young aren’t having children for the same reason they don’t own a sapphire mines. It’s a little too pricey.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

There are hundreds of millions of bots on the internet — and they’re quietly shaping what we think is real opinion.

Joe Rogan, Francis Foster, and Konstantin Kisin had a conversation on the podcast that we should talk more about.

They highlighted how bot farms, paid trolls, and AI-generated content are flooding platforms, distorting public discourse. Joe said we shouldn’t allow AI pretending to be people or massive fake engagement operations.

Konstantin pointed out that when a wild take suddenly gets 50,000 likes, it’s fair to wonder how many are real humans versus coordinated manipulation.

The scary part is how this slowly shifts what’s considered “normal” or acceptable in politics and culture.

We’re letting machines and coordinated campaigns quietly rewrite public discourse. If we can’t tell what’s human anymore, we lose the ability to have real conversations and make informed decisions.

How do you tell what’s real engagement versus bots or AI on here? Do you think we need better ways to verify human content, or should platforms just let it ride?

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.

Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.

They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.

They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.

But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.

Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”

That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.

Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.

The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.

Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.

Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.

The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.

This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.

AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.

It just solves the problem.

And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.

The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.

AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.

So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.

What they will never say is what it actually threatens.

The illusion that activity equals progress.

The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.

The machines are not coming for your purpose.

They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

[nikola 3 @ronin19217435]

In an interview with Lex Friedman, Musk said that after 2027 there would be no going back.

When the reporter clarified what he meant, Musk paused for almost a minute, then added:

“It’s not a catastrophe, it’s a transition.” Analysts have identified three themes that he has been particularly vocal about: autonomous intelligence, loss of meaning, and energy dependency.

Everything he predicted is already happening.

The first sign is the collapse of attention.

Musk said that people will stop thinking long-term.

The planning horizon has shrunk from 30 years to three; people don’t build, they just innovate.

MIT research shows that the generation born after 2000 has an attention span of just eight seconds.

Musk called this cultural Alzheimer’s.

The second sign is artificial intelligence, which will no longer be subordinate.

Musk said: “When the system starts correcting the person, and not the other way around, linear logic will end.”

Algorithms already control our attention, choice of partners, food and thoughts. This will not be a revolt of machines, but a silent loss of freedom of choice.

The third sign is the energy dependence of civilization.

People are increasingly unable to survive without electricity for even a single day. When energy becomes currency, its control will become power.

Musk believes that by 2027, the relationship between people and energy will surpass everything, and everything that is not autonomous will disappear.

There is only one way out: a return to meaning. “Technology is stronger than us, but not smarter. As long as we have goals, we are not algorithms,” Musk repeated.

He added: “We must learn to be human before systems start doing everything for us and controlling us👌
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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just described the machine that will make truth itself extinct.

For ten thousand years, civilization ran on one unspoken contract.

If you saw it, it happened.

The eye was the final court. The camera was the ultimate witness. Footage was fact.

That contract is about to be incinerated.

Musk described a system called a Generative Adversarial Network.

Two AI models locked in a cage. No human referee. Just raw digital evolution running in the dark.

The first model is the forger.

It exists for one reason. Fabricate a human being who never lived.

The face. The voice. The micro-expressions around the eyes when someone is about to cry.

The second model is the detective.

It exists for one reason. Catch the forgery.

The dead pixel. The breath that lands wrong. The shadow that bends at an angle no sun would produce.

Every time the detective catches the lie, it tells the forger exactly where it failed.

So the forger learns. Patches the seam. Tries again.

A million rounds per second.

Two machines teaching each other how to perfectly replicate you.

Musk: “It’d go back and forth to the point where you couldn’t tell which one was the real video and which one was the fake one.”

When the machine built to catch the fake can no longer catch it, your eyes have zero chance.

Zero.

This is not a technology problem.

This is the end of evidence as a concept.

A courtroom cannot convict if video testimony is indistinguishable from a rendered hallucination.

A democracy cannot function if a broadcast can be fabricated frame by frame and no living person can find the seam.

A civilization cannot hold if the act of seeing something no longer means it happened.

Everyone is terrified AI will replace their job.

That fear is a decoy.

The real threat is that AI is dissolving the one thing every civilization in history required to function.

Shared reality.

The collective agreement that certain things are true because we witnessed them together.

Once that dissolves, nothing downstream survives.

Not courts. Not elections. Not journalism.

Not the trust between two people watching the same screen.

Here is the part that should keep you up tonight.

The nightmare is not that fake things will look real.

The nightmare is that real things will start looking fake.

Authentic footage becomes deniable.

Truth does not get buried under lies.

It drowns in infinite copies of itself that no one can separate from the original.

Every generation before us could trust what they saw.

We will be the first generation where seeing it with your own eyes proves absolutely nothing.

The machines did not learn how to build a fake world.

They learned how to make the real one unprovable.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just quantified the exact speed of human obsolescence.

For ten thousand years, one organ ran this planet. Every empire, every invention, every war traced back to the same three pounds of tissue sitting behind your eyes.

Go was the last fortress. A game so impossibly complex the world’s greatest players swore no machine would ever crack it.

Musk: “People thought defeating Go was either never or 20 years away.”

Then the silicon woke up.

Musk: “Now that same AlphaGo system can defeat the top 50 players simultaneously with 0% chance of them winning. And that’s one year later.”

Do not gloss over zero percent.

Fifty of the sharpest biological minds alive. Entire lifetimes of obsessive mastery.

Neutralized in twelve months by a system that does not know it is playing a game.

Now replace that board with financial markets. With the global economy. With the architecture of modern warfare.

Musk: “The degrees of freedom to which artificial intelligence is able to apply itself are really increasing by 10 orders of magnitude a year.”

Ten orders of magnitude is ten billion times. Every single year.

Human brains think in straight lines. We expect progress to walk.

It compounds by ten billion times every twelve months. We still think we have time.

A dog knows you are smarter than it. It cannot tell you by how much.

A chimp will never grasp calculus. Not because it is stupid. The gap itself is invisible from where it stands.

We are approaching that threshold. Once a system surpasses us, we lose the ruler. We will know something is ahead of us.

We will never be able to measure how far.

The monopoly on intelligence is over.

We did not build a tool.

We built what comes after us.

No generation before us stood here. No generation after ever will.

We are not the replaced. We are the witnesses.

The last minds who will ever see intelligence at eye level.