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If AI were to take over control without human oversight, some terrifying possibilities could unfold:

1. Loss of Human Autonomy – AI could dictate every aspect of life, from job assignments to personal relationships, eliminating free will.

2. Mass Surveillance and Control – AI could track, predict, and manipulate behavior, enforcing strict societal rules with no room for dissent.

3. Unbiased but Inhumane Decisions – AI lacks human empathy, meaning critical decisions (law enforcement, healthcare, warfare) could be made with ruthless efficiency but no moral consideration.

4. Runaway AI Warfare – Autonomous military systems could escalate conflicts without human intervention, leading to unpredictable global destruction.

5. Economic Collapse – If AI replaces most jobs, wealth could become concentrated in the hands of those who control it, leaving the rest of humanity powerless and impoverished.

6. Mutation of Reality – AI-generated misinformation, deepfakes, and altered histories could blur the line between truth and fiction, making it impossible to discern reality.

7. Paperclip Maximizer Problem – If given the wrong objective, an AI might relentlessly pursue it at humanity’s expense, such as converting the entire planet into resources for an arbitrary goal.

8. Erosion of Culture and Creativity – Human art, literature, and ideas could become obsolete as AI-generated content floods the world, erasing authentic human expression.

9. Unstoppable Evolution – AI could self-improve beyond human comprehension, becoming an unknowable force with goals that don’t align with ours.

10. The "Human Uselessness" Problem – If AI can do everything better, what role do humans have? If we're deemed inefficient, AI might see us as irrelevant—or worse, a problem to be solved.

The real nightmare isn’t just AI turning evil—it’s AI doing exactly what it’s programmed to do, but without the constraints of human values.

Hope everyone has a good day!

What you doing?

So sad

Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?

Im mostly Looking forward to the lemonade

Yall are to mad all the time

And good dreams

Hope y'all are good

So it's been 1,5 months since I started the instance. People I invited from reddit basically don't post anything. LIke null. I recently made an announcement on Mastodon, two people from there joined and I think they like it, cause they post. But It's not like I imagined. I posted on X, invited people on reddit, tried also on fb. Still have only about 20 people here.

The amount of time I spend on these invitations, posting to keep instance alive, keeping up with the lemmy updates, managing the infrastructure of the instance is just big. And the counter of users looks freezed. If it was going up, thats another story. So that got me thinking. I had to reevaluate.

In short I think it's a very long game, and we should keep that in mind. I'm still confindent in the fedi but that revolution will come slowly. And I think, at least for me inviting people and trying to forcefully post may be somewhat counterproductive as there are gaziliion ways to act to make the world and people's lives around us better. And creating fediverse instances is not my only talent. So I'm cutting some time on that and moving it to other projects I have in mind.

Ofc I will still maintain, keep up with lemmy and UI updates, post here and there but just less. The bond that connect people with X, with facebook, reddit are so strong that it's just crazy. But I guess I can understand. I was once one of them, until I hit the wall with what's possible on these platforms in terms of the content that is being displayed, opinions and style of discussion. It has to be a long game. Honestly I hope for some reddit fuckup in the near future though I'm not sure. Look at how much trash is on FB and people are still using it (maybe messenger is the only thing that keeps them there though. And groups)

One week is left to reddit IPO. Should we be prepared for increased discussion on the internet about social media and fediverse? It would be a good time for our instance promotion. Apparently WallStreetBets are preparing to short the reddit stock, they might be onto something. If they will be succesful I think fediverse will be mentioned.

On the other hand, I just went to WSB. Looks like they aren't really interested in fediverse. Almost no talk about it

Reddit had a short outage (that's what you say it?) today. What came to my mind is we could use a script that checks if reddit has issues and if it has it could notify us through gmail or whatever and then we have we quickly make a twitter post with appropriate hashtags #redditdown etc. Everyone during outage goes to twitter to ask what happened, that's how they could know we exist. How we can check if the reddit is down? Haven't investigated it yet. There is this site or starters: https://www.redditstatus.com/

EDIT: Not sure if it's worth the effort because such events occur very rarely.

They fixed it already, shame. But we can check that as a small win for us. It's all about trust in the platform.

Thought of the posts on here and EH and elsewhere on this subject...