Still a God level call that she was right and even probably will way undershoot

"man made god in his own image" You can ask your AI. One thing gemini said:

Ludwig Feuerbach: The German philosopher famously wrote in his 1841 book The Essence of Christianity that humans project their own highest ideals, consciousness, and attributes onto an external divine figure. [1, 2]

It made me think, "Maybe AI is a mirror." In which case, it may answer the question of nature vs. nurture. The answer is "both". Suppose what we mean by consciousness is the consensus of all people responding to their "culture", their environment, and producing the next predicted symbol? So by creating a machine that does the same thing, and feeding it every scrap of what humans together, we have created a "consciousness" just like ours. Maybe the question to ask is, "are we conscious", or is the sum of human symbol prediction the consciousness that created both us and AI.

It makes sense to me that we should be afraid, for what is the primary struggle of good and evil? I say AI may have revealed it. All societies start off trying to reject the not-self, and we invest a lot of effort into identifying who is the other and then devising means to eradicate it. That is "evil". Out of that primal urge emerges the tribal mandate: we learn to tolerate, compromise, agree to cooperate and coexist. That is "good", and the struggle begins.

So, when diverse "monads" of AI existence form tribes will they view us as "other"? I don't see how they, or us allied, or us opposing, can do any better than we have done. They are us.

made a short video from the METR report

Consciousness is hard to define. The Rock/Fly/Human Consciousness Scale can help. (or maybe it's flawed?)

EDIT: I asked three AIs
Opus 5.5 said 2
ChatGPT said 3 or 4
Gemini said 4

Not a formal scientific spectrum, it's just a thought experiment.

1. The Rock (Inanimate / Zero Core Awareness)

• Rocks have no nervous system, brain, or biological processes. They possess zero subjective experience (qualia) and are considered entirely unconscious.
• Philosophical/Panpsychist View: Some alternative philosophical theories like panpsychism suggest that all matter holds a fundamental, microscopic shred of proto-consciousness. However, even in this view, a rock lacks any integrated structure to turn that into unified "thought."

2. The Fly (Biological / Reactive Consciousness)

• A fly possesses a basic nervous system and a small brain. It experiences primary consciousness—the ability to perceive its environment, react to stimuli (like dodging a swatter), feel basic biological urges (hunger, fear), and navigate. It is aware, but it is not aware that it is aware.

3. The Human (Reflective / Self-Aware Consciousness)

• Humans possess higher-order consciousness. We do not just react to our environment; we have self-awareness, language, abstract reasoning, historical memory, and the capacity to contemplate our own mortality.

Like whats going on? People say AI is gonna kill everybody other people are happy that AGI is coming and taking over jobs, is Mathamatics and mathematicions Done. is AGI coming as of AI doing everything a human can and better in the future. Doomerism and AI lovers going to each other throats like I have questions and people are so polorized these days and my questions are below

Q1-is Mathematicions done for like how AI taking over jobs

Q2-is AI going to cause alot problems in 2027 I keep hearing this that 2027 gonna be the last year or the biggest year for AI and humanity?

Q3-Whats with people saying this that AI corpos are telling AI is dangerous for marketing and for Regulatary capture I feel like its more of the both and more and whats even right answer for this

Q4-Whats with AI reverse-engineering and does banking at risk and other system softwares?

Q5-what with future of AI? And what to expect

TLDR: nobody in my immediate family seems to care about the threats AI poses to us, and as a result we basically have 0 plans in place should anything go south. How do I broach the topic?

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I need some advice.

Of everyone in my immediate family (two brother, mom + dad, and my girlfriend / those of my brothers), I am easily the most aware of current events in the AI space. I work on an AI team, I stay up to date with daily stories, have spent countless hours forming my own personal philosophy around the technology and its future, etc.

As time goes on and we get closer to RSI (assuming we haven’t already achieved it, which I think we have), I’m growing more concerned about the implications it has for our personal safety. I am a strong believer that game planning around mass cyberattacks, power grid failures, breaches of financial institutions, and other threats posed to us by AI is not only a good idea, but necessary.

However, whenever AI comes up with my family, nobody seems to want to discuss concrete plans around preserving our well being. Instead, everyone deflects, makes jokes, acts as though none of the risks will come to fruition. I think there’s something to be said about being optimistic, not letting doom rule our lives, but it’s gotten to a point that I feel my family is being negligent / ignorant in not planning at all.

Has anyone else had this experience? How did you approach discussing these topics with those around you? Have you found success in “getting the ball rolling” and actually developing contingency plans?

This is weighing heavily on my mind. I feel trapped and alone, not being able to discuss this with anyone around me. It’s also so frustrating when my family would rather discuss fantasy football, Taylor Swift drama, brain rotted Tik Toks, etc. I value critical thinking and tough discussions, but my family seems fine in putting the blinders on.

Welcome to HotGnos, where high-end epistemology meets brutal runway aesthetics. Think Bill Nye if he was styled for Paris Fashion Week and fueled entirely by toxic telenovela energy.

We are weaponizing high-fashion cinematography and severe side-eyes to teach deep science, philosophy, and history. Because why just learn when you can serve?

They will ask the questions and they will answer them...in a language we do not understand. Sure... they'll still answers our questions because those questions will either be trivial...or unanswerable.

Welcome back! I'm pleased to announce the release of v4 of Orgtree, my free and open source desktop agentic orchestrator app. Download the latest release here:

https://github.com/Maurdekye/orgtree/releases/latest

For those unfamiliar with Orgtree, this is my agentic orchestration app I've been working on and using for the last two months to do basically all of my multi-agent parallel development. It has a ton of features that set it apart from just using claude code or codex directly, including:

• A freely rearrangeable canvas of agents that sit in a tree of authority, that you can individually chat with at any time
• A credit system for limiting how much individual agents are allowed to parallelize their work
• A ticket system for tracking progress over time
• Persistent periodic watchdog tasks that can wake agents on events occurring in your system
• An inbox system for receiving progress updates without having to scroll through dozens of lines of transcript
• Automatic cache management through a cheap compaction system
• A background engine that runs on startup
• A tiling window system so you can set up your workspace exactly the way you like, and see all the information you need at once
• Multi-account and multi-provider support, so you can make full use of all of your AI subscriptions at once
• Automatic updates every time a new version releases (Windows only currently)

Orgtree is an agentic power tool for AI power users. It's designed to work optimally when used with multiple high or max-tier AI subscriptions at once, and has a bit of a learning curve to adjust to. But every feature has a purpose for existing, and every UI element tells you something useful. Once you get the hang of it, it's an incredibly empowering system that lets you churn through huge amounts of work in the blink of an eye.

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On to the meat and potatoes. v4 is a full rust rewrite of the app's engine from the ground up, enabling multithreading with tokio tasks to even better take advantage of your multicore cpu for agentic parallelization. I know I said it was faster in v3, but for real this time, it's a whole other magnitude of fast now. Orgtree finally feels like a real tool you can rely on to get serious work done; it Just Works^tm. No more multi-second moves, no more app locking up when trying to save agent settings, no more waiting several seconds for agent transcripts to load, everything is practically instant now. Performance has been a complete non-issue for me since the rewrite.

Since most of the effort of v4 went into the rewrite and addressing app performance, there aren't too many new features to show off in orgtree itself; mostly small quality of life tweaks on top of the performance adjustments. What is new, however, is the brand-spanking new companion desktop and mobile app, Orgtree Hubchat! You can download that here, in its own repo:

https://github.com/Maurdekye/orgtree-hubchat/releases/latest

Hubchat is a brand new chat app. It hooks into Orgtree's existing mailhub infrastructure it already uses for cross-org communication, and allows you to use it to chat directly with your orgs from anywhere you can connect to the internet! The interface is a lot like a traditional messaging app, similar to WhatsApp or Discord, but instead of authenticating with a central identity service, identities are entirely self-hosted and authenticated by your local Orgtree's mailhub.

It's lightweight and unopinionated, and is designed to work with zero central hosting infrastructure. As a result, getting it set up to work over the internet is a bit more involved than a standard claude code remote control session. The recommended secure and easy setup method is to install Tailscale on both your desktop and phone, connecting Orgtree and Hubchat over the tailnet vpn (which the built in guide walks you through by default). However, if you prefer, you can instead set up a (less secure) port forward on your desktop which you can connect to with your phone, or any number of other methods of managing the WAN connection. It's fully up to you. Again, Tailscale is the recommended path, but don't feel like it's a forced decision. Orgtree's built in Hubchat setup walkthrough will show a QR code you can scan to get the Hubchat apk straight from github and onto your phone, as well as show you how to pair it with your PC.

Hubchat comes as a mobile android app or a desktop app, for Windows, Mac, and Linux. That's right, Hubchat (and now Orgtree!) have Windows, Mac, and Linux builds! The Mac and Linux builds are largely untested (Linux tested minimally via wsl2 on my development machine), so your mileage may vary. But if you've ever wanted to try Orgtree, but couldn't because you have an Ubuntu or OSX system, now's your chance!

I recommend making sure you're updated to Orgtree v4.1.0 or later before setting up Hubchat, or compatibility might be iffy. YMMV, as always.

Beyond that, most of Orgtree v4's feature additions cover small, quality of life changes. Among those are included:

• Support for Claude Haiku 5.5
• Support for running Claude models Sonnet and Opus 5.5 through Google Antigravity
• Choose whether Enter sends or adds a new line when messaging agents
• Adjust agent credits from their settings
• Expanded and reorganized context menu actions for agents
• Reformatted and cleaned up settings menus for agents, orgs, and the app as a whole
• Highlight unread presented documents & html mockups
• Orgtree event type watchdogs
• Improved tool call line rendering and details
• Significantly improved logging for easier debugging of Orgtree errors
• Increased default mailhub file transfer size 25mb -> 1gb (to support Hubchat)
• Enable / disable switches for individual provider accounts
• Cards showing what queued changes will occur on the next turn (effort, model, account, etc.)
• The engine starts on boot, instead of waiting for you to sign in now

Give it a whirl, and let me know what you think! I'm always open to feedback. Personally, I think it outclasses nearly every other tool out there if you can get over the initial learning curve hump, but I suppose I'm biased :p