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After 2027 there will be no way back Elon Musk said this in a podcast with Lex Friedman a line that was later cut when asked Why he fell silent for almost a minute fuck that's a scary minute Then he quietly said shout out to Lex for letting him sit there with that. That's pretty heavy then he quietly said It's not a catastrophe. It's a transition the transcript left behind three themes that gave him away Autonomous intelligence loss of meaning and energy independence it all sounded like a forecast

But now reads like a diagnosis of the era the first sign is the collapse of attention must said humanity will stop thinking in cycles Planning for the future will shrink to the horizon of updates that line hits me hard People will spot will stop building and start simply replacing MIT research confirms a generation born after 2000 holds attention for about eight seconds less than a goldfish I used to say that to a lessee, but he's gotten a lot better now must call this cultural Alzheimer's. We're not losing memory

We're losing the ability to think the second sign is artificial intelligence that no longer obeys must says when a system starts correcting humans That time of linear logic is over even now algorithms decide who we date what we buy and what we think about this isn't a machine Uprising it's dissolution into convenience People won't notice the moment when choice becomes an option not a right the third sign is energy dependence must explain Civilization can no longer survive even a day without electricity by 2027 here

It is in his view the balance will shift energy will become currency and control over it will become power from that moment on everything Non-autonomous will disappear. This isn't an apocalypse. It's a change of biological form at the end He said a line that didn't make it on air technology is stronger than us But not smarter as long as we have meaning we are alive lose it and we become code then after a pause he added We must learn to be human before systems learn to be gods

Are you ready for the transition or already living in a thing to do with reading your brain? But of course it goes further. So in this one, they said can they? understand The inner monologue the things you're saying to yourself in your own mind Mind you by the way when you dream your dream like your visual cortex runs in reverse. So your dreams are no longer safe

But we'll try this so they had people watch a video and just narrate what was going on in the video in their mind So the woman She falls over this is what the computer reconstructed the person thinking See a girl looks just like me get hit in the back and then she is knocked off So our thoughts like are starting to be decoded

Yeah, just think about what this means for authoritarian states for instance Or if you want to generate images that maximally activate your pleasure sensor anything else? Okay, but let's keep going right to really get the sense of the combinatorics of this How about can we go from Wi-Fi radio signals, you know, sort of like the Wi-Fi routers in your house They're bouncing off radio signals that work sort of like sonar. Can you go from that to where human beings are to images?

So what they did is they had You know a camera looking at a space with people in it that's sort of like coming in from one eye the other eye is the radio signals so sonar from the Wi-Fi router and they just learned to predict like this is where the human beings are then they took away the camera so all the AI had was the language of radio signals bouncing around a room and

This is what they're able to reconstruct real time 3d pose estimation, right So suddenly AI has turned every Wi-Fi router into a camera that can work in the dark specially tuned for tracking living beings Tell us what DARPA is?

Defense Advanced Research Project Agency where all the top secret research goes and it's often referred to as mind control weapons called V2K that can pipe voices into someone's head as a non-lethal weapon that resonates the dopamine cells of your brain

and it floods it floods your brain with dopamine? Yeah, dopamine dump that incapacitates the adversary and so if you have a brain that's not capable of doing that

so you're programming someone to go after let's say a political target all you have to do is voice morphing pipe in the tortures, the pains in 24 hours you'll drive the person crazy

and they'll want to kill and stop the pain you play a two tape lute your mother hates you blah blah the brainwashing

so they were trying to wipe the brain clean so they could rebuild new memory it was funded by the CIA how could you disable a person making them dysfunctional that would be scrambling their brains

that would be dopamine infecting their nervous system so they drop on the ground so it's a combination of psychological warfare as well as direct energy weapons

along with the voice of god weapons with voice morphing it's the most complex weapon system we have put together ever as a species I think we'll hit

AGI next year in 26 I mean this is an important question to get to get thought through yeah well one side recommendation

I have is don't worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years it won't matter either we're not going to be here or

it just you won't need to save for retirement if any of the things that we've said are true saving for retirement will be irrelevant

the services will be there to support you you'll have the home you'll have the healthcare you'll have the entertainment the way this unfolds is fundamentally

impossible to predict because of self improvement of the AI and the accelerating timeline it's called singularity for a reason I don't know what happens after

the event horizon you can never see past the black hole or the event horizon Ray has the singularity out way too far I mean this is like the next

what's your timeline for we're in the singularity well we are in the singularity for sure we're in the midst of it right now for sure we're in this beautiful sweet spot

the roller coasters were just yeah exactly that's a great analogy you're at the top of the roller coaster and you're about to go yeah but you know it's going to be a lot of g's

when you hit it it's like people like I'm on the court and it still blows my mind sometimes

multiple times a week and so just when I think wow and then it's like

two days later more wow exponential wow I heard you say that yeah I've said that for a while and then you said by 2029 2030

equivalent to the entire human race 2030 we exceed I'm confident by 2030 um AI will exceed the intelligence

of all humans combined it doesn't financially make any sense to build the data centers that we're building but you're not saying that AI is going to disappear the technology itself is remarkable

but the financial model just makes no sense whatsoever at the moment