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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: rp
Date: January 26, 2026, 12:10 pm
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 3, 2026, 5:12 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuoNVgIMQyY
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: rp
Date: February 11, 2026, 7:17 pm
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HTML https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/02/09/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-warns-of-world-in-peril-in-resignation/
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> Topline
> An Anthropic staffer who led a team researching AI safety
departed the company Monday, darkly warning both of a world “in
peril” and the difficulty in being able to let “our values
govern our actions”—without any elaboration—in a public
resignation letter that also suggested the company had set its
values aside.
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: rp
Date: February 11, 2026, 7:32 pm
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Continuing from the previous post:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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> Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI)
company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a
family of large language models (LLMs) named Claude. The company
researches and develops AI to "study their safety properties at
the technological frontier" and use this research to deploy safe
models for the public.[6]
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> Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former members of OpenAI,
including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei, who serve as
president and CEO, respectively.[7] In September 2023, Amazon
announced an investment of up to $4 billion. Google committed $2
billion the next month.[8][9][10] As of November 2025, Anthropic
has an estimated value of $350 billion.[11]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei#Early_life
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> Dario Amodei was born in San Francisco, California, in
1983.[8] His sister, Daniela, was born four years later.[8] His
father was Riccardo Amodei, an Italian-American leather
craftsman. His mother Elena Engel, who is Jewish and was born in
Chicago, worked as a project manager for libraries.[8]
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: rp
Date: March 7, 2026, 8:50 pm
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HTML https://x.com/i/status/2030411883044598229
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we are so cooked. if you extrapolate far enough, you get
somewhere in the matrix
>human brain is better inference medium than gpu
>people rent out their brains for compute
>people choose to live in the metaverse to keep costs low
>"going outside" becomes a luxury
>consciousness is now a subscription service
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JUST IN: Petri dish of human brain cells grown on a microchip
has learned to play DOOM.
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Somebody save me from this nightmare..
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: rp
Date: March 7, 2026, 10:55 pm
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Just when I thought it couldn't get worse...:
HTML https://x.com/i/status/2030383547832533378
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There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never
born.
@eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's
connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it.
Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming.
Feeding. Doing what flies do.
Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent
toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works.
They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and
behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological
organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by
modeling what it is.
A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem,
something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens
when we have a working copy of the human mind?
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 8, 2026, 1:57 am
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> JUST IN: Petri dish of human brain cells grown on a microchip
has learned to play DOOM.
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I myself never liked Doom. What I'd like to know is, when given
a choice of various video games, which ones it spends more/less
time playing.
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: rp
Date: March 8, 2026, 7:24 pm
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I just saw this comment:
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To this fruit fly we are the Demiurge.
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There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never
born.
@eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's
connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it.
Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming.
Feeding. Doing what flies do.
Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent
toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works.
They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and
behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological
organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by
modeling what it is.
A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem,
something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens
when we have a working copy of the human mind?
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 8, 2026, 7:57 pm
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Yes, but by the same token all biological parents are also the
Demiurge. As Gnostics, it is not the syntheticality of the fly
that we are against, but the fundamental process - whether
executed synthetically or biologically - of currently existing
individuals forcing new individuals into existence.
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Re: If Western civilization does not die soon.....
DIR By: rp
Date: March 8, 2026, 8:27 pm
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Yes. More broadly, it also applies to currently existing
individuals forcing other currently existing individuals to
force new individuals into existence (e.g. factory ranchers,
captivity breeders). But I doubt these instances would illicit
the same reaction as above from self professed Western
"gnostics".
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