<div dir="auto">That too. Even if you don't write AI yourself, there are plenty of free tools out there now that you can take advantage of.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Whatever you do, if free automation can do part of it well and much faster than you can, let it if there are no drawbacks - which there often aren't.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 27, 2025, 1:38 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Recognize that intelligence is a force multiplier towards success in every area of your life, so leverage AI everywhere you can.<div><div><br></div><div>Don't fall for the puppet theatre that cynically wants to write off everything as "hype", written by humanities majors who formed an opinion about AI 5 minutes after ChatGPT3 dropped and haven't updated on it since.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Buy and hold on Nvidia.</div><div><br></div><div>And hold on to your butts. We are officially in the "interesting times" part of the Chinese curse.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Darin, it just seems wrong: we in this forum have been discussing AI for over three decades (more than that really but I have only been reading it for 30 yrs) and yet… right when everything starts to happen, all the things we foresaw and discussed long ago are happening real time… we don’t know what to do. We may have a few lame insights, but we don’t know what to do, any more than the rest of the yahoos who showed up last week. All that insightful discussion, and we don’t know what to do. Does anyone here know what the heck to do?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Darin Sunley via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 27 May, 2025 10:17 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Darin Sunley <<a href="mailto:dsunley@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dsunley@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Is AI about to take off fast?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Nothing ever happens, and nothing will continue to ever happen, until something suddenly happens.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">1913 seemed like a perfectly normal year.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, May 24, 2025, 6:50 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Like basically all articles with this sort of question for a title, the answer is "no".<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Why do people bother writing articles like this when they are basically, and so predictably, always wrong?<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 2:29<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span>AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Is AI about to take off fast? 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