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[–] BigMuffin69@awful.systems 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

Deep thinker asks why?

Thus spoketh the Yud: "The weird part is that DOGE is happening 0.5-2 years before the point where you actually could get an AGI cluster to go in and judge every molecule of government. Out of all the American generations, why is this happening now, that bare bit too early?"

Yud, you sweet naive smol uwu baby~~esian~~ boi, how gullible do you have to be to believe that a) tminus 6 months to AGI kek (do people track these dog shit predictions?) b) the purpose of DOGE is just accountability and definitely not the weaponized manifestation of techno oligarchy ripping apart our society for the copper wiring in the walls?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 17 points 1 day ago (9 children)

bahahahaha "judge every molecule." I can't believe I ever took this guy even slightly seriously.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The worst part is I can't tell if that's not meant to be taken literally or if it is.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"judge every molecule" and "simulation hypothesis" probably have a bit of a fling going

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"The AI is attuned to every molecular vibration and can reconstruct you by extrapolation from a piece of fairy cake" is a necessary premise of the Basilisk that they've spent all that time saying they don't believe in.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Quantum computing will enable the AGI to entangle with all surrounding molecular vibrations! I saw another press release today

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

ah, the novel QC RSA attack: shaking the algorithm so much it gets annoyed and gives up the plaintext out of desperation

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