Listening to average person explain AI feels very similar to idiocracy explaining electrolytes

I don't know how many times I'm gonna have to keep saying this, but Idiocracy was infinitely better than real life. President Camacho was both well-intentioned and (relatively) competent, and that is in stark contrast to the "president" we actually have.

Idiocracy is what happens after now. We have to finish hitting rock bottom first.

Seeing what’s happening in Ukraine and in Iran and neighbouring gulf countries feels like early stage Terminator to me. Same goes for all the Sam Altman slop. The goal of AI is to replace us. Right now it might not do a very good job at most things we can do, but I don’t think it’s too far from replacing almost everything we do on the battlefield.

*Don't Look Up

Nah, in Idiocracy, being smart is seen as evil. You get beaten up for reading books.

What we have is pseudointelligence. People who aren't smart pretending like they are. That is why we have anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, climate change-deniers, alpha males, healing crystals, ... All of them think they are smart and have hidden knowledge everyone else is lacking.

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This should now replace Idiocracy or Wag the Dog. It's so on the nose in so many ways, that's why so many people didn't like it. And there's no positive really, like "well, they had a President who cared and recognized the smart people's opinion" or "well, at least the war didn't really happen".

Problem with venn diagrams is that I'll never know what 1984 and hunger games combined to make without watching brave new world or Soylent Green

Also how much is animal farm like hunger games

We're not quite at Mad Max yet. If anything, that's beginning to slightly shift away from the aftermath of fierce authoritarianism to the sort of "free market" where you can begin disregarding zoning laws to build death pits and tricking out your cars with flamethrowers and shit lol

Ioved the first half of that film!!

Never made sense of the ending however

I feel like if they marketed Cro-magnon forehead injections as "making you 20 years younger", Mar-a-lagos wouldn't even question it and do it until they looked like stand-ins for a Geico Caveman commercial lol

I recently had a thought that they should retcon this so that the humans were basically GPUs. In the simulation they have lots of people doing complex processing because it's the late 90s in the simulation. People grind a lot of thinking.

It's just like websites that scam you into processing bitcoin mining. But with human brains.

I want the butlerian jihad!

I had a headcanon that Terminator movies are prequels to The Matrix but I don't know how Idiocracy fits in that.