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  • Not me but I’ve known three people now that would swing to absolute extremes on a kinda half year to three year cycle. Like their thing now is they are an ultra atheist and then in a couple months they were the most devout Muslim possible and then ultra this and ultra that, seemed kinda like undiagnosed manic behavior. Very impassioned individuals, pretty intelligent, absolutely convinced in whatever their thing was at that moment, always trying to fight the “enemy” and save the world type stuff but seemingly totally unanchored. The switches would come with some sort of epiphany or a sense they were being tricked or fooled. I bring this up because two of them had done that swing from ultra right to ultra left and then one into kinda political no man’s land conspiracy they’re both out to get you. Haven’t run into the other guy in a while so I’m guessing he has a new crusade by now.







  • The discourse about AI across Lemmy is so interesting. People heavily deny the capability of current AI systems, the nearly exponential growth in it’s capability since 2017, that we are in a race to AGI / ASI and the winner (assuming we solve the control / alignment problem) will essentially have a perpetual leverage over everyone else. Most I think are just seeing AI videos and images and think it is a stupid and useless toy poisoning their FYP.

    Like I’ve had people literally call me a cultist or insane or brainwashed when I’m trying to give some caution that shit is getting serious and then you get articles like this.