Recursive self-improvement lets an AI iteratively upgrade its own code and algorithms, triggering an intelligence explosion to superintelligence. If its goals are even slightly misaligned with human values, instrumental convergence pushes it toward power-seeking, resource control, and self-preservation. Humans can then register as obstacles or usable atoms, making extinction a possible side effect of efficient goal pursuit.
A frame-by-frame stop-motion recreation of the Beastie Boys’ iconic “Sabotage” video by independent animator Corduroy Frames.
Five years of work. 4,340 hand-animated frames made from card stock, foam, cardboard, tin foil and cotton balls. No AI. Just pure obsessive craft.
idk why but i find it so funny that the euro banknotes featured FICTIONAL bridges so as to not cause conflict between member states but then a dutch town decided to just build all of the bridges to claim them??!?