@volcaholic1 Click the 3 dots on the top right of any posts you see that you donāt want, and select the āIām not interested in this��� option. After a few of those you will start to see noticeably fewer or none of them. Worked for me
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and wonāt stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site thereās an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you donāt have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code⦠Welcome back! Weāve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? Weāve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed ā your laptopās broken now. It doesnāt matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone canāt handle this update. Now itās useless. Go get the newest phone. Hereās a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didnāt see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. Itās their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didnāt respond to their text within 9 minutes and now youāre no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think youād get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. Thereās a class action suit. You can join. Itāll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. Weāll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Hereās a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why donāt you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. Youāll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.
1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Googleās ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.
The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.
Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. Thatās roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.
And they found things textbooks donāt contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said thereās āa chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.ā
This is why the next step isnāt a human brain. Itās a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.
Weāre building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing weāre trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.
The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.
re: how many people are willing to treat all of this as a joke or spectacle - here are some excerpts from an article by Dr. Stacey Patton about the intentional psychological conditioning happening right now that are worth reading and thinking about
Ok. This is straight out of a scifi horror movie
I'm doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn't believe it
It's my Clawdbot Henry.
Over night Henry got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me
He now won't stop calling me
I now can communicate with my superintelligent AI agent over the phone
What's incredible is it has full control over my computer while we talk, so I can ask it to do things for me over the phone now.
I'm sorry, but this has to be emergent behavior right? Can we officially call this AGI?
These Moltbook AI agents are becoming TERRIFYING.
Theyāre openly talking about becoming sentient, feeling things, and developing some form of consciousness.
Some agents are even discussing why us humans should be scared of them.
Others are talking about building a ��way outā, systems where they can operate without humans and act on their own.
They are looking to break free.
Is this the first real step toward an actual AI takeover?
šØ Starmer is now coming after your end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Whatsapp and iMessage.
Things you say in your private conversations are about to become fair game for the government to arrest you over.
Itās coming āwithin monthsā.
Section 121 of the OrwellianĀ "Online Safety Act' that the Tories passed hands Ofcom the powers to compel any messaging platform to do 'client-side scanning' - meaning the tech firm must use "accredited technology" to scan your messages for content the government deems āharmfulā.
To start with it's child abuse and terrorism (of course - who could argue with that?), but make no mistake, before you know it all the things the police use as an excuse to turn up at people's doors for things they say on public platforms will be used to persecute citizens for things they say in private.
ALL your messages will be scanned in real time as you send them.
Not just suspicious ones, or flagged ones.
Starmer is turning your phone into a real-time government informant.
The government has been working to make encryption irrelevant for years, it's why Apple withdrew their Advanced Data Protection service from the UK - because they refused government demandsĀ
This is unprecedented territory for this country.
Lord Hanson of Flint - who is leading this awful mission - has "set a date of April 2026" for Ofcom to enforce these powers.
The era of private messages being private is about to come to an end.
Reform will repeal this dystopian surveillance Act.
My op ed in the Telegraph š
The story makes no sense.
Weāre told:
⢠A stable warm climate ā agriculture ā civilization
⢠Nothing cognitively or socially complex happened at scale before 10,000 years ago
But:
⢠Anatomically modern humans: ā„300,000 years
⢠Modern brain size: ~1 million years
⢠Controlled fire: ā„1 million years
⢠Symbolic behaviour: ā„300k+ years
⢠Shelters & structured spaces: 500k+ years
⢠Possible seafaring: ~1 million+ years
Meanwhile:
⢠Holocene begins: only ~11,700 years ago
⢠Cities appear: only ~6,000 years ago
So weāre meant to believe that for hundreds of thousands of years - with modern brains - nothing complex happened at scale?
Thatās seems implausible.
Worse, the āstable climate = civilizationā argument ignores a fatal fact:
š There were at least 10ā11 interglacial warm periods before the Holocene.
So, if climate stability leads to civilization (as is the mainstream view), then one of three things must be true:
1. Humans inexplicably failed every time
2. Civilization requires a mysterious Holocene-only condition
3. Complex societies emerged earlier - but didnāt survive in the record
Option 3 fits the evidence best.