[ExI] The AI Wake-Up Call Everyone Needs Right Now!

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 7:32 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 6:38 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> * Blatantly alarmist hype title, even having an exclamation mark*
>> ** Video*
>> ** No other context*
>> *Summary: almost certainly a waste of time to click.*
>>
>
>
> *Perhaps I should've linked this article instead: *
>
> *Something Big Is Happening
> <https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403>*
>

Vaguebook title: very likely not worth the time to read...

*Because the video is about that article. I didn't originally link to the
> article because it is rather long*
>

...especially if it is long.

*By the way, the article is only talking about the AI improvements that
> occurred during the last month, and yet it got over 47 million views in 24
> hours,*
>

Yep.  AI hype will do that, regardless of the content's quality or lack
thereof.

*so the author must be seeing something big that resonates with what a lot
> of other people are also seeing.*
>

Or fearing, thus the clicks are driven by hype alone.

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