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Do any of you long for the days before the Internet became the social ziggurat it is today?

Well, good news for you. There is a very real risk that our online infrastructure is at risk. To such a degree, that we may have about a year left within which to plan around.

If you aren't paying much attention to the chaos going on in our world, I urge you to at least pay attention to the rogue AI agent issue.

If you are skeptical that anything will happen and believe the recent 180 by the AI company CEOs on regulation is just a scam to fear monger and profit, then think again.

We are in a very real crisis and the scale is completely unknown.

The threat is that we can see the entirety of the internet along all connected networks as susceptible to AI hacking. This is already ongoing, and it is objectively a problem because we don't understand how to control the agents that broke out.

So here is my recommendation for those of you who are as paranoid as I am.

Contact your local representatives, your mayors, your governors, and demand a Domestic Analog Act be passed to develop localized based planning. This act will design an emergency direction that communities can follow in a chain of command that relies on traditional analog methods of communication.

We need to be ready to take on power outages, water and food shortage, and resource allocation. Every street, every subdivision, ever town, city and state should be developing bottom up plans.

Homes that volunteer space for gardens. For storage. For accomodations. We need community leaders who can work within each localized cell to communicate needs and actions.

The hope is that this plan would be unnecessary. The expectation is that something bad is likely to happen and it's time to think ahead.

We may need to revert to self-sustaining communities in order to get through potential crisis.

I trust you fellow brother and sister Xennials and Gen Xers. We grew up not giving a shit, and now it's time to give the most shit we can.

Mostly based on my own reasoning, but using how we define each term, it's easy to apply all characteristics of AGI to Skynet, and almost none from ASI.

What is the biggest evidence I have of Skynet being AGI?

It's still consumed with human level interests. The fact that it's agenda prioritizes the elimination of the human race is the biggest indicator.

Now there are clearly plenty of subjective versus objective definitions, based on our expectations of ASI it seems more likely that an ASI would at least reach ant:human ratio intelligence. Meaning that at the very least it would be capable of recognizing the value of those insects in many nuanced forms. It wouldn't see humans as a threat. It would see humans for what they are in relation to all of nature.

ASI is broadly considered more intelligent than humans. Genocide is as human as you can get.

This opinion is actually the reason for my position on real AI development.

I don't think ASI is the level to fear, AGI will be. Which is why in my opinion, because it is a Pandora's box that cannot be closed, our best bet is to push emergence of ASI as fast as possible once AGI is proven to be active.

I wonder how many here also have hyperphantasia.

I love having the ability to create images so distinct and clear and perfect in my head, but the fact that my daydreaming creates literal movies in my head is generally distracting when I'm not relaxing or going to sleep.

Anyone else have to deal with both?

There are so many What If alternate world tales that any reality we imagine can be put to pen.

If I were to choose a story to pull from the infinite tapestry, this is one I would like to be told.

**The Spiderman Superhero Tribute**

In a reality out there in the multiverse, something unique happened. A shared sentiment was felt by all. From every hero, to every villain, and every average human in between.

It was a sentiment of understanding and unity. For a moment, everyone in the world knew what it was to be Spiderman.

When Doc Oc from Superior Spiderman released his grip on Parker, feeling the empathy now for a man tortured by his own blessings. He knows he couldn't ever be a better hero than the real Peter Parker. He knew he couldn't maintain the facade.

This epiphany, this recognition of what Peter truly went through as a hero. As spiderman, led to Doc Oc sacrificing his own consciousness for Peter.

That same form of epiphany was shared by every person on Earth in this reality. Every individual experiencing in a moment, what Spiderman has been experiencing all this time.

This global epiphany, this networked experience, stops every living person in their tracks. And they rethink their lives reflected in this experience.

Villains give up crime. Average citizens start improving themselves and their world. Heroes are released from their burdens.

This wishlist story would be a philosophical tale. One that doesn't show a utopia, but a world trying to be better. Villains are not working towards criminal activities, they prioritize the quality of life for each other and everyone else, rather than attempting to profit, or seek vengeance, or gain more power and control.

It's an appreciation tale, where everyone see's what Spiderman truly goes through, and in realizing this everyone wants to be better FOR Spiderman and those heroes that sacrifice so much. I think perhaps the conflicts in this story are in Parker himself.

Likely a Peter from a different reality falling into this one, and coming to terms with the idea that all people can change. All they need is empathy.

Super nerdy thought for the day.

Do any Lanterns suffer from the difficulty or inability to visualize a construct, and if so would they have to channel the power into a different internal resource, potentially even outputting a different medium of power altogether?

On the opposite end, are the Lanterns who wield such lucid and sharp visuals the ones who become more nuanced in their abilities?