[ExI] AI Model Collapse

[MB]

Indeed, some discovered this "no backup" thing during Hurricane Helene
last fall.  Once some stores began to open again, they only accepted cash
- no way to deal with cards.  The banks opened but would only allow a
certain low  amount of cash withdrawal.  I was very glad to have water,
food, and cash on hand - but I'm *old* and that is "old school" prep.

That hurricane was *localized destruction* - I cannot see living through a
full largescale such thing - like an EMP or bombing of major data centers.
 We did not have potable water for... a month?

Regards,
MB

On Fri, May 30, 2025 13:49, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:

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> Darin, you point out another danger.  What if… somehow… the public
> suddenly becomes aware of the danger, then really doesn’t understand it.
> Then they react in absurd overcorrections, such as destroying data
> centers, which Mike Rowe thinks is what humans need to be trained to do.
> Only then do they realize how brittle our commerce system has become.  It
> cannot function without electronic communications.  We have no plausible
> or feasible backup exchange medium if communications go down for more than
> a day or two (how much hard cash do you own right now?)
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