Daily Dose of Doom Thread

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

An interesting explainer on the implications of climate change and its effect on the Atlantic

https://www.vox.com/climate/24099459/amoc-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation-freeze-europe

[MU82]

Hoaxes aren’t interesting.

[Uncle Rico]

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/

[rocket surgeon]

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/

  geez, can't even use carbon spewing jets to get rid of global blah-blah...now that's doomy.  why don't they enlist ufo's to do their "geoengineering" for them.  at least they're clean

[NCMUFan]

The thread that doesn't die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq5ydeWWr4A

[TSmith34, Inc.]

  geez, can't even use carbon spewing jets to get rid of global blah-blah...now that's doomy.  why don't they enlist ufo's to do their "geoengineering" for them.  at least they're clean

[mu_hilltopper]

https://nypost.com/2024/04/04/us-news/bird-flu-pandemic-could-be-100-times-worse-than-covid-scientists-warn/

[Pakuni]

Not sure this is doom, but it's pretty wild.

Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor

Japanese citizens will all have the same family name in 500 years’ time unless married couples are permitted to use separate surnames, a new study has suggested as part of a campaign to update a civil code dating back to the late 1800s.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/japan-sato-only-name-by-2531-marriage-law

[mu_hilltopper]

https://www.iflscience.com/conspiracy-theorists-think-the-eclipse-will-begin-a-massive-human-sacrifice-event-73671

[tower912]

Scoop has numbed me.   No conspiracy theory is insane enough to shock me.  Just dumb people saying dumb things.

[Pakuni]

https://www.iflscience.com/conspiracy-theorists-think-the-eclipse-will-begin-a-massive-human-sacrifice-event-73671

Just when we were getting over the apocalypse of 2012.

[Uncle Rico]

Scoop has numbed me.   No conspiracy theory is insane enough to shock me.  Just dumb people saying dumb things.

I don’t think this is a conspiracy theory at all.  Mainstream news isn’t even reporting on it.  Tells me all I need to know. 

[Sir Lawrence]

I don’t think this is a conspiracy theory at all.  Mainstream news isn’t even reporting on it.  Tells me all I need to know.

Well done. 

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I guess checking all the apocalypse boxes with the eclipse arriving on Monday, I just felt an earthquake that apparently measured 4.7 and rattled the entire Northeast.

I was wondering why there was weird noises and the house was rattling far worse than usual for a Sikorsky helicopter test flight.

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

Is this good

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/simply-mind-boggling-world-record-temperature-jump-in-antarctic-raises-fears-of-catastrophe

[MU82]

Elon Musk predicts A.I. will overtake human intelligence within two years. Musk told Nicolai Tangen, C.E.O. of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, in an interview on X that artificial general intelligence would probably be “smarter than the smartest human” next year or by 2026. The forecast is earlier than many others in the tech industry believe: Some say it will take years for that level of technology to reach the market. Elsewhere, Musk’s Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a fatal crash involving a driver using the car’s driver-assistance software. (From NYT DealBook newsletter.)

[mu_hilltopper]

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/ai-safety-researcher-warns-theres-a-99999999-probability-ai-will-end-humanity-but-elon-musk-conservatively-dwindles-it-down-to-20-and-says-it-should-be-explored-more-despite-inevitable-doom

[Skatastrophy]

Elon Musk predicts A.I. will overtake human intelligence within two years. Musk told Nicolai Tangen, C.E.O. of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, in an interview on X that artificial general intelligence would probably be “smarter than the smartest human” next year or by 2026. The forecast is earlier than many others in the tech industry believe: Some say it will take years for that level of technology to reach the market. Elsewhere, Musk’s Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a fatal crash involving a driver using the car’s driver-assistance software. (From NYT DealBook newsletter.)

If AI gets that smart that quickly it will be kept private and enrich a few individuals. There's no reason to even productize it.

It's like the old saying that the people that can actually predict the future of the market keep their mouths shut and enrich themselves. Only the inept ones need to sell their ideas as investing advice to the folks on main street.

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

If AI gets that smart that quickly it will be kept private and enrich a few individuals. There's no reason to even productize it.

It's like the old saying that the people that can actually predict the future of the market keep their mouths shut and enrich themselves. Only the inept ones need to sell their ideas as investing advice to the folks on main street.

Or make public announcements about it to move the market in their favor

[Plaque Lives Matter!]

Slightly less doom?!

https://x.com/amyaharder/status/1779875035001606444?s=46&t=G2FhP_F2kWewaBOpvRv5lg

[mu_hilltopper]

Get that hope out of here.