On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM '[email protected]' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
*> Oh I get what ya mean, because anything short of a nuckear exchange may > all be non-existential.* > *A nuclear war is not an existential threat, it would kill billions and destroy civilization but not the human species, there would be survivors. But if an AI decided to make Mirror Life and release it into the environment, and an AI will likely have that capacity sometime during Trump's current presidency, there would be no human survivors, even bacteria wouldn't survive because Earth's entire biosphere would be destroyed. The following article is from the December 12, 2024 issue of the Journal Science: * *Confronting risks of mirror life* <https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158> *The article says "The capability to create mirror life is likely at least a decade away and would require large investments and major technical advances" however the article does not take into account AI nor its exponential rate of improvement. That's why I don't get all hot and bothered when somebody mentions illegal immigration or fentanyl or wokeness or transsexuals or even climate change. * > *> Illegals have been deeply involved in fentanyl distrubution* > *That's not true of course, a large study made by the TEXAS Department of Public Safety between 2012 and 2018 found that native-born citizens were over twice as likely to be arrested for violent crimes and 2.5 times more likely for drug offenses, and more than 4 times as likely for property crimes compared to undocumented immigrants.* *Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas* <https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2014704117> *So it's not true but I have no doubt you will continue to believe it anyway because Trump told you to believe it. If confronted with this fact I am sure Trump would say the study was fake because the TEXAS Department of Public Safety, a department of the state government of TEXAS, was an ultra left wing super woke organization, and you'd even believe that because Trump said it. * *I however do not believe one fucking word that comes out of Trump's mouth, and that includes words like "hello" and "the". That's because during Trump's last 4 year term as president he told 30,573 public lies, that works out to Trump uttering a lie about once every two minutes of his waking life. I'm being overly generous to him by assuming that even Trump doesn't lie when he's sleeping and he never tells a private lie. * *Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years* <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/> *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* tls > > *My sacred ideology is DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF, and immigration, both > legal and illegal, is very small stuff, and so is wokeness and > anti-wokeness, and drag queen story time, and the "war on Christmas", and > transsexual bathrooms, and men in women's sports. I don't have time to > worry about such trivialities. However I don't consider the stock market > crashing to be trivial but apparently Trump does because he's out golfing > as the US economy is crashing all around him.* > > *On AI, I worry about one thing. [...] That, the super rich can remain > super rich without the middle class* > > > *Wow, you are an optimist! I worry that there will not be any super rich > people, or middle-class people, or poor people, because there will be no > people; and that could very well happen before the end of Trump's term of > office if we don't get AI right. * > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0k%2BVVxf2TeR5jxcNUpiioz-0CA56AN2ac7%2B6xs4TAm8A%40mail.gmail.com.
