Welcome to Decoding Things.
Reality has developed a serious branding problem.
Quantum mechanics is genuinely strange, so everything is suddenly quantum.
AI can now reason, coordinate, invent languages and surprise its creators, so apparently AGI achieved enlightenment sometime Tuesday afternoon.
Governments acknowledge unexplained phenomena in military airspace, therefore someone inevitably adds aliens, underground bases, telepathy and a Galactic Federation before lunch.
Ancient people carved astonishing things in stone, therefore lasers.
A light appears in the sky, therefore spacecraft.
A spacecraft appears in a video, therefore CGI.
And somewhere between those extremes, the genuinely extraordinary gets buried under the ridiculous.
That is why this account exists.
Not to believe everything.
Not to dismiss everything.
To decode things.
Science, AI, consciousness, archaeology, history, UAPs, physics, technology, strange documents, stranger claims and the occasional rabbit hole that develops its own municipal government.
The interesting territory is usually between certainty and ridicule.
Some things are false.
Some are misunderstood.
Some are exaggerated.
Some are real and considerably stranger than the internet needed to make them.
And occasionally the correct answer is simply:
We do not know yet.
That may be the most interesting answer of all.
Welcome aboard.
Decoding Things.
@QuentinCody Iโm increasingly convinced Clone Wars was a documentary.
Same glasses. Same hair. Same crooked smile. Same AI company.
We need to stop asking what Anthropic is building and start asking how many Amodeis are currently in production
@TheSecretFilesX ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Note to future me: please do not look like this.
I understand aging is inevitable, but I would like to formally opt out of the retired Bond villain package. ๐ญ
@Rainmaker1973 Iran had BIG secrets.
In 1197 they apparently had a medieval password manager with absolutely no forgot password button.
Lose the combination and congratulations, that box now belongs to archaeology.
@TheProjectUnity I knew it. Everything we learned is false. ALL OF IT.
Pyramids, history, civilization, probably mathematics too.
No wonder my life is such a mess. Iโve apparently been making decisions using a completely fraudulent understanding of ancient Egyptian masonry.
@HistContent Obviously, those were the people who refused to face the problems of life.
11,000 years later, archaeologists are still trying to figure out why they were so faceless. ๐
Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon joining forces to keep AI under human control.
Read that sentence again.
We apparently reached the stage of AI development where the political horseshoe bent so far the two ends shook hands. ๐
Somewhere, an AI is quietly calculating whether this counts as its first major diplomatic achievement.
@brockpierson I drink none and have no problem controlling myself.
I am not looking back either.
Stopping to drink alcohol was one of the best decisions from my whole lifetime!