Good morning treepeople
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Perspective: The 2-day work week is coming faster than anyone’s ready for. The AI economy takeover isn’t just a threat - it’s humanity’s jailbreak.
Cognitive Dissonance for most today:
The more I talk to clients across industries, the more I realize almost no one is taking AI seriously. They treat it like a deluxe word processor, completely missing the seismic shift underway. The disconnect is massive. And time’s running out.
Case in point:
Anthropic submitted their Diffusion Rule recommendations today. From the text:
'Based on current research trajectories, we anticipate that powerful AI technology will be built during this administration, emerging as soon as late 2026 or 2027.'
In this timeframe they anticipate:
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MAYA
MAYA; In Hinduism, the word refers to the divine illusion of the material world. Look around you closely, and you will see maya everywhere. It's all Fata Morgana. And it goes infinitly deeper: Maya within Maya. Fractal illusion. Fractal illumination.
You can approach Maya like a mystic, conspiracy theorist, detective, or scientist, assuming it's computationally explainable. Yet every method is futile. But through relaxation you eventually see that the ordinary is the extraordinary.
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Researchers secretly ran a massive, unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit in a large debate sub. The bots' answers mined the original posters' identity and post history to 'personalize' answers & created identities such as "rape survivor". Read more...
“Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.”
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Notes on the Cyborg Theocracy and How to Start an AGI Cult
"All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. "
—John von Neumann, 1950
