The dissolution of dissolution

 

Overheard on the interwebs:

>>>Pralayāntaka Bhairava, the Ender of Dissolution, is that which remains when even cosmic destruction ends.

>>>Pralayāntaka means "one who ends pralaya (cosmic dissolution)." This paradoxical name points to the consciousness that witnesses even the end of the universe. When everything dissolves, matter, energy, space, time, what remains? Pralayāntaka Bhairava is that ultimate witness, the awareness that observes even the dissolution of dissolution. He is the teaching that you are not what appears or disappears. You are the unchanging awareness in which appearance and disappearance occur.

>>>Pralayāntaka represents the philosophical principle of sakshi (witness consciousness). Even when the entire universe dissolves at the end of a cosmic kalpa, the witness remains. This is your true nature, not the body that was born and will die, not the mind that comes and goes, but the eternal observer that was never born and can never die.

Vägen framåt

 

Med tanke på de stundande världskriserna (för att inte tala om den vi redan är inne i) är det parlamentariska spelet direkt pinsamt. Och faktiskt lite oroväckande. Om det här fortsätter även framöver är det ganska uppenbart hur det kommer att sluta. Politikerföraktet, ni vet.

En Bonaparte eller Caesar kommer att korsa Rubicon och entlediga de ständigt tjäbblande parlamentarikerna och parlamentaristerna. Inte i närtid, förvisso. Men förr eller senare. Vänta några årtionden och se själva. 

Om bonaparten har några lösningar återstår väl att se. Kanske inte. Men eftersom ribban för en övertygande bonapartist är väldigt lågt satt (jag menar, du behöver i princip bara överträffa Trump) så kommer folket ge honom "förtroende att bilda regering"...

Bara en liten reflektion.  

En egen butler på domedagen

 

Får det vara en liten apokalyps? 

Vem bryr sig om undergången om man har en egen butler?

Something´s up

 

Why do the tech oligarchs themselves all of a sudden call for stricter government regulations of the AI sector? That makes no sense. A bit like an arsonist demanding stiffer sentences for arson.

Unless they know that the (American) AI industry can´t survive without government intervention. Are the private sector investments drying up? Something about the interest rates? AI bubble bursting, that kind of thing? 

Or is it an attempt to create a formalized tech cartel with Big Gov as a necessary partner or partner-in-crime...so *the technology can continue to be developed* even during the next depression? 

It does seem to have, shall we say, interesting military applications. Does anyone really believe that China will stop developing it? Therefore, America "must" follow suit. But of course something has to be done to defuse potential popular anger. Hence, the current op. 

That´s the most rational explanation. But since we live in interesting times, who the heck really knows!

Horsepox

 

OK, that does it. Close it down, now!

See also here:

AI creates 16 new viruses 

Betablockerare

 

Duktig utan droger? 

Finns en del poänger i denna, faktiskt...

Drogandet har gått från dekadent till duktigt

Chant and be happy

 

"Why is everyone so worried all the time, there is no AI or climate change here in Vrindavan!"  

Doubling down or drawdown?

 

Heh heh, Sabine decided to "double down" on her anti-Woke / pro-capitalist takes. Probably an indirect response / reaction to a certain "Professor Dave". She´s wrong of course. Capitalism can´t stop climate change, nor is economic growth sustainable in the long run (cough cough peak oil cough). So this is just late stage cornucopian propaganda. But sure, the Big Government-regulated form of capitalism was good as long as it lasted. Until next time, one million years into the future, yes?

En helt vanlig tisdag (2026 v.t.)

 

Läs artikeln innan den stängs ner (låses). Spoiler: Det enda sättet att göra AI säkert är att stänga ner skiten helt och hållet. Eller göra techbolagens direktörer personligen ansvariga för eventuella dödsfall...

Bingo.

Det enda sättet att göra AI säkert

Just another Tuesday

 

"You are already It" 

So I just woke up after a good night´s sleep (yes, really) and had a little realization. Yes, everything really does suck. I suppose it´s a good thing, then, that We Are Already It.

Just another Tuesday on planet Earth, fam.   

Back to the future

 

True Aghori getting ready for
Platinga´s Terminator!

Here is a worst case scenario. First, the "AI" bubble bursts, taking a large chunk of the economy with it. However, the really dangerous AI will be shielded from the collapse. Both the United States and China will continue to develop it. What happens *then* is anybody´s guess...

But probably not a Christmas party.

Ett tecken i tiden?

 

Något som heter "Reglera AI.nu" fick 0,01% av rösterna (163 stycken) i årets riksdagsval. Detta enligt det preliminära resultatet. 

Har ingen aning om vilka de är och röstade såklart inte på dem heller, men det kanske ändå kommer att betraktas som ett tecken i tiden av framtidens historiker (om det ens kommer att finnas några sådana!) att ett parti med just *det* namnet kom nästan toksist i ett demokratiskt val i nordanlandet. 

De lyckades slå Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen med ganska exakt 29 röster. Vilket kanske också kommer att anses vara symboliskt, vad vet jag... 

Iliquid

 

Explains a lot of things in my opinion. Yes, it´s our old bro JMG striking (out) again!

Economics: Hallucinated wealth revisited

Choose your drug wisely

 

I use to think that copium was better than hopium. Well, at least marginally. Now, I´m inclined to believe the opposite: hopium is better than copium, after all. Choose your drug wisely, human ape!

Apokalyptisk talan i egen sak

 

Apokalypsen är här. Från Aftonbladet. 

Är det börsen eller mänskligheten som ska räddas?

Progress is uncertain

 

Or at least the expansion of the universe. So maybe *we can´t even know* if the universe is expanding or contracting. Kind of ironic that this comes up in my feed *now*, I mean, dude! 

Systemskifte

 

Tänk om 2026 utan att vi ens inser det är det viktigaste valet i Sveriges moderna historia? Även om jag personligen misstänker att 2030 kommer att bli viktigare (oavsett vem som segrar på söndag), för det är först då eventuella systemskiften kommer att bekräftas slutgiltigt...

Dessutom kommer världen år 2030 antagligen att vara mindre "sockerchockad", om man säger så. 

Provisional living

 

Provisionally dead? 

JMG is just repeating some old stuff here, but...he is right (more or less). 

I sometimes wonder if the prevalence of doom porn has an even more "mundane" explanation: some people don´t think *anything* will change. The doomer stuff is their way of fighting grey boredom in Suburbia.

And yes, I´m old enough to remember the Y2K nothing-burger. Plus a number of other nothing-burgers, both of the apocalyptic and Eternal Progress varieties. 

My prediction is that JMG will still be writing this stuff about 2050! ;-) 

Economics: The Y2K fallacy revisited

Climate click bait

 

Greta Thunberg´s future husband? He´s perfect: autistic, nerdy, speaks English with a terrible British accent (I mean, the guy even *is* British) and is - wait for it - a climate change activist! I mean, dude. He´s probably privileged, too, since he pays people to research and produce his content. 

As for this video, it´s click bait. The message of this overly-long YouTube clip is - if you follow it to the end -that we haven´t lost. We can still save the planet...by renewable energy, diminishing our individual carbon footprints, and (surprise) vote for pro-climate politicians. Imagine that. We can actually *vote* ourselves out of this predicament. Let me guess. Green Party? 

But sure, he complains a lot about the evil oil companies. Gotta bait the young radical savages with something, I suppose. The funny thing is that all the negative stats he presents proves that we really have lost. Oh, and if he ever dates Greta, I´m sure she can tell him about how fucked CSC really is... 

I´m being I-ronick

 

What´s up with all the pessimism? Carthage was rebuilt, so was Jericho, New Rome survived the demise of the old version. There are more Jews and American Indians today than before they were supposedly "genocided". There are more Germans, too. And most of them are good liberals, jawohl. And oh, the dinosaurs survived that once-in-a-planetary-lifetime asteroid collision. Yes, really. They are in your backyard right now. We call them "birds".

So why is everyone so damn negative all the time? I mean, puleeze! Progress is eternal. As for the Fermi paradox, we really are alone. Which means we can expand forever. In all directions. Right now.

Just have to shoot all those pessimists first!