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In need of another hiking/camping holiday.

Unfortunately, my first wildcamping experience (in the last 10 years or so) has been at an amazing place that is a bit too far to just jump into the car on Friday afternoon and come back on Sunday evening. So to match that level of amazingness, I would definitely need to travel as much, if not more.

It was really an idyllic place - you have to go 1h by car up the mountain (on forest roads), and then you're at an amazing place, with incredible 360 views. Then you hike into the wilderness for 2-3h, and arrive at a mountain (heart-shaped) lake. There's a reliable source of water, there's some basic hygiene (cabins with a hole in the floor), emergency rentable shelters for the weak, and besides people and some animals, that's about it. It's not completely wild, but it's also very very far from being civilized and in the midst of amazing mountain ranges. A perfect balance.

I don't know how I will top this for the time being, but also not sure what's the compromise that I'll have to make. It's definitely going to be a long thought process, but I certainly need it. Too little trips this year!!!
 

Progrez

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He could he be trying to get clicks and attention. He did resign from the job so it maybe its his way of selling fear. IN sighting fear and hate sells these days especially with Tabloid news.

 

TJY001

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Yeah well, again - the fact that humanity is even considering taking the risk and that president pedo is saying the US need to "win AI at all costs" are examples of why psychopathic capitalist men should never be in charge of anything. Switch it all off.

All AI is disabled on my phone and I will find a way to disable it on my other devices as well.
 

Jetflag

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Ah yes.. if only we had socialists in charge.

thén we would have a utopia..

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sorry but the idea that if ónly you removed competent captains of industry out of the ai equation, this would al somehow grind to a halt with the Chinese People’s Party, Kremlin and beeping Pentagon all dumping tons of your taxpayer money in the development of this tech is poppycock.

The AI genie is out of the pandora box people, and it’s not going back in
 
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TJY001

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We lived without it for thousands of years. We dont need it. Anything which threaten's the entire world's existence needs to be destroyed. It is THAT simple.
 

Jetflag

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We also lived without clean tab water, antibiotics or internet for thousands of years… clearly we don’t need those either then no? 😄

Ai is not a world ending threat any more then nuclear physics is or was . The Butlerian Jihadi’s position is based on fear, hyperbole, and a misunderstanding of something we all can’t see the eventual outcome of.

And even if so, what do you propose to do John Connor? Bomb ai data centers? Cause I got bad news for you, they’re already planning to put those in geosynchronous orbit within 5 years 🤷‍♂️
 
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TJY001

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Which is utterly ridiculous in itself. And I also believe that every country should have worked towards nucleur disarmament years ago. No chance of that with psychos in charge like president pedo is there.
 

Jetflag

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Oh Cheer up, at least your future US AI ‘d overlords haven’t prohibited you from complaining about it ❤️🙏

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Which is utterly ridiculous in itself. And I also believe that every country should have worked towards nucleur disarmament years ago. No chance of that with psychos in charge like president pedo is there.
Over here in Australia. Nuclear is being considered an alternative choice compared to Solar and Wind.
We lived without it for thousands of years. We dont need it. Anything which threaten's the entire world's existence needs to be destroyed. It is THAT simple.
We may have lived without it but I don't think it's going away because people don't like friction of any kind. Any process that will make the process quicker, convenient, faster and less resistant people are going to choose the path of least resistance. How do you think your credit cards or the cars that we all drive were and are still being made?

AI Chatbots have been around for a while actually since the 60's and 80's

 
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TJY001

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Over here in Australia. Nuclear is being considered an alternative choice compared to Solar and Wind.

We may have lived without it but I don't think it's going away because people don't like friction of any kind. Any process that will make the process quicker, convenient, faster and less resistant people are going to choose the path of least resistance. How do you think your credit cards or the cars that we all drive were and are still being made?

AI Chatbots have been around for a while actually since the 60's and 80's


Its not the AI per say but the psycho's in charge of it and developing it. Your credit card can't kill you.
 

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I'm in two minds about AI. on one hand a lot of people who wield it seem to behave like cult leaders and I definitely feel more pressure to use it than drugs when I was 13. on the other hand copilot has saved my ass many times in my new job because our marketing team are very ehh and this helps me write blurbs for my training courses, and I am so not a marketing person. I don't think this is gonna result in some cyberdine systems scenario but if it does I'm in australia an you can' do shit to me. I'll just hide behind a cassowary who will break your shit in half
 
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Jetflag

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It’s here, its not going anywhere soon and it’s moving like progrez said 🤷‍♂️

the reason I don’t think were going to end up all skynet is twofold. 1: everything Ai learns it learns from collective human databases. In essence it’s becoming more “human” with every iteration, And we’re still (despite world destruction capacity for some time now) still here and thriving. This to me tips the murderous AI overlord scenario in the unlikely bucket.
2 ai can only move within said database, not create or think of anything “new”. Ergo: it cannot by means of its architecture “invent” a unique warp drive for instance. So all not just is but remains within said human databases.