<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 6:38 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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 dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>* Blatantly alarmist hype title, even having an exclamation mark</i></font><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>* Video</i></font></div><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>* No other context</i></font></div><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>Summary: almost certainly a waste of time to click.</i></font></div></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Perhaps I should've linked this <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">article </span>instead:<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><a href="https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403">Something Big Is Happening</a><br></b></font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Because the video is about that<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> article<span class="gmail_default" style="">. I didn't originally link to the article because it is rather long and I thought the video would be more digestible. </span></b><b style="">Unlike the video the article did not contain an exclamation point, but if even 5% of what it says is true <span class="gmail_default" style="">then </span>I believe it would be entirely appropriate to use one. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style="">By the way, the article is <span class="gmail_default" style="">only</span> talking about <span class="gmail_default" style="">the AI improvements </span>that occurred <span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>during <span class="gmail_default" style=""></span>the last month<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> and <span class="gmail_default" style="">yet </span>it<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>got over 47 million views in 24 hours<span class="gmail_default" style="">, so the author must be seeing something big that resonates with what a lot of other people are also seeing. There is no proof that we are in the foothills of the Singularity, but the foothills of the singularity are going to look very much like this. </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark </span> </b></font><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  </font><font size="6"><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">Extropolis</a></font></font></b></div><font size="1" color="#ffffff">lgj</font><br></div></div>
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