Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[Uncle Rico]

Amid all this doom and gloom, at least we know Thanksgiving is safe.

Holding the American Khmer Rouge at bay.  For now.

[Uncle Rico]

1.6 million eggs recalled due to fears of salmonella.  Recommended you work out in jeans and shirtless if you think you have eaten a bad one.

[Uncle Rico]

Nearly 5,000 confirmed cases of Ebola in Congo

[Shaka Shart]

Nearly 5,000 confirmed cases of Ebola in Congo

Just another flu

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Nearly 5,000 confirmed cases of Ebola in Congo

Sorry, there is nothing that can be done about these sort of things.










https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/06/fact-sheet-us-response-ebola-epidemic-west-africa/

[MU82]

And this, my friends, is how elections get stolen. Or, more accurately, this is one of the major steps in a multi-pronged plan to rig the 2026 midterms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots.html?

A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with plans to restrict mail-in voting before the midterm elections.

In an emergency order, the justices said President Trump could proceed with implementing an executive order he had signed, which directed the U.S. Postal Service to help decide which voters should receive mail-in ballots. Under the executive order, the Department of Homeland Security will also create lists of U.S. citizens that the administration believes could be used to monitor voter rolls for noncitizens.

The decision means the administration can move ahead with planning for restricting the use of mail ballots even as a lower court continues to weigh the legality of Mr. Trump's executive order. But with little more than two months until Election Day — and considerably less before early voting begins in many states — it remains unclear whether the White House's rules will be in effect for a midterm election in which control of both chambers is at stake.

[mu_hilltopper]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-safety.html

"Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to," Hubinger said.

[MU82]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-safety.html

"Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to," Hubinger said.

Eh. Humanity has had a decent run.

[Uncle Rico]

Eh. Humanity has had a decent run.

Has it?

[Shaka Shart]

Has it?

Depends if we stamp out the manatees in time or not

[Hards Alumni]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-safety.html

"Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to," Hubinger said.

Still gotta make the extinction machine otherwise someone else might!

[Uncle Rico]

https://www.404media.co/a-secretive-dhs-predictive-policing-unit-is-analyzing-americans-financial-habits-and-pulling-them-over/

Muggsy's America he's saving from the American Khmer Rouge

[forgetful]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-safety.html

"Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to," Hubinger said.

Right now we are in a new nuclear arms race, for the first super intelligence or AGI model. Whoever wins, could quite literally rule the world and/or cause global destruction. Our best hope for survival is whoever gets it first is benign and equitable and uses it to maintain the status quo, or a couple countries get it at around the same time and do not use it as a weapon rather a threat and institute something like the nuclear test ban treaty.

Only two problems with that. 1) We likely won't be able to control the weapon, it will control itself. So if it decides it should end the world, it will and there is nothing we can do to stop it. 2) It will be infinitely harder to determine if other countries are developing their own super intelligence or AGI. It's not like we can just put seismometers out there.

Right now, hard to find a path where we aren't doomed.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Right now we are in a new nuclear arms race, for the first super intelligence or AGI model. Whoever wins, could quite literally rule the world and/or cause global destruction. Our best hope for survival is whoever gets it first is benign and equitable and uses it to maintain the status quo, or a couple countries get it at around the same time and do not use it as a weapon rather a threat and institute something like the nuclear test ban treaty.

Only two problems with that. 1) We likely won't be able to control the weapon, it will control itself. So if it decides it should end the world, it will and there is nothing we can do to stop it. 2) It will be infinitely harder to determine if other countries are developing their own super intelligence or AGI. It's not like we can just put seismometers out there.

Right now, hard to find a path where we aren't doomed.

"Do you want to play a game?"

[MU82]

We have had a lot of fun here in the Doom Thread.

But this time, we really are effen doomed.

Oh well ... at least I'm old so I got to see and do a lot of things. Even saw Marquette win a natty!