3 responses to “The Singularity is here?”

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   ScottO

   15 February 2026

   “…most observers see the future with AI as dystopic.”

   Actually, I see the future as dystopic regardless of any effect AI has on the workforce or society in general. See scenes’ post earlier today – he posted this link:

   https://x.com/Breaking911/status/2023065325915263062

   That was an interesting bit of AI jabber though – LLMs seemed to have perfected the same sort of writing style I see in policy statements and working papers from large corps and bureaucracies. The big difference is the immense savings in cost and time in producing such output. One thing I will comment on in particular is this recurring theme of the “possibility” of humans freed of grinding labor turning their free time to positive personal advancements. Those who already use personal time for such endeavors would certainly make good use of any such a bonus. Unfortunately reality has shown that there is another group that have no ambition or idea of how to make positive use of their existing free time and to give them more unstructured time will lead to more destructive behavior.

   We already have far too many people consuming value while producing little or none to feed back into the system. Anyone who thinks that there is an economic perpetual motion machine is fooling themselves. You can only stuff digital dollars into the bank accounts of the idle masses for so long before it goes pear-shaped. Stay tuned!

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   scenes

   16 February 2026

   “we are not already witnessing the Singularity”

   or perhaps simply noticing that most of what people in the West do is either a)rather useless and/or b)easy to duplicate. Intelligence isn’t all it was cracked up to be.

   I’ll believe in singularities when I see strong AI-driven feedback loops in AI design or truly remarkable engineering and science breakthroughs.

   In the meantime, it’ll be the death of call centers, work-at-home insurance company drones, tax preparation, movie and music production. Pretty amazing, but not a singularity.

   Of course, there’ll always be the fun of global surveillance as the cost of data acquisition and parsing approaches zero. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Karen’s boot stamping on a human face—forever.

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   scenes

   16 February 2026

   re: scotto@above

   I did like that link “During an anti-ICE school walkout in Enumclaw, WA, a student says she would shoot conservatives if she had a gun.”

   There’s a lot to see there. Unhealthy fat children.Institutional capture by teachers. The fact that ‘progressives’ never intended to control borders at all. I’m not even sure that xenophilia is the point here so much as the need for power.

   Naturally, the Left has become expert at pushing the limits. Waving signs simply provides a rallying point for group cohesion, and yelling at cops is fun for kids. We’ve produced a system where minorities, men-in-dresses, crazy children can commit lower level crimes at will, witness the Summer of Love.

   I suppose there’ll be a bonafide backlash at some point, but it ain’t gonna be pretty. Nothing personal.

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