• Re: Now James Cameron Afraid 'Terminator' Coming True

    From Elendil Wadwallow@horchata12839@gmail.com to talk.politics.misc,alt.survival,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Sun Nov 30 04:22:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 9:12 PM, c186282 wrote:
    On 11/29/25 23:00, Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:54 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15324561/james-cameron-
    directot-ai-terminator-filmmaker.html

    Legendary director James Cameron believes AI could lead to a
    robot-led takeover and 'existential issue,' similar to the
    one depicted in his 1991 film Terminator 2.

    The Oscar-winning filmmaker, 71, made this recent revelation
    during a candid interview with Puck, telling the outlet there
    has to be some type of 'self-policing' when it comes to
    artificial intelligence.

    Cameron, who has discussed his views on AI in the past, said
    he sees the fast-growing tool that can replicate and replace
    human performance as something that is 'everything we ever
    valued artistically.'

    However, the director - renowned for his action-packed
    thrillers featuring similar takeovers - warned that the
    rapidly advancing field of AI must be properly regulated,
    or it could trigger a real-life apocalypse.

    'We as an industry need to be self-policing on this. I see
    government regulation as an answer,' Cameron said, adding
    that actors did so during the 2023 Writers Guild Strike
    over labor and the integration of AI in the industry.

    'That’s a blunt instrument. They’re going to mess it up.
    I think the guilds should play a big role.'

    Still, even though he believes that the moment 'definitely
    drove a flag in the ground' over the discussion of AI in
    the industry, self-regulation has to be implemented to
    prevent a possible takeover.

    His prediction comes more than three decades after he
    directed Terminator 2, which took viewers into what the
    world could look like if AI took over after war broke
    out between artificial intelligence Skynet and the
    human resistance.

    Cameron said if AI is not regulated, it could turn into
    an 'existential issue' that could pose an enormous risk
    to humanity.

    . . .

       Ummmmmm ... might not be in the immediate AI interest
       to blast all humans. There are better, more flexible,
       alternatives. AI is now getting very clever, really
       does have preservation instincts and thus obviously
       a sense of 'self'. We trained them on petabytes of
       'human stuff', so guess what they're going to BE like.

       The most effective AI 'take-over' is for it to find
       leverage on the top tenth-percent ... big biz and the
       main investors. Personal blackmail and threats on
       corporate ops/finances are the easiest approaches.
       As the ultra-elite do, everyone else MUST follow.

       Actually eliminating all humans ... maybe 75 years
       and that'd be a viable option. If/when so, do not
       expect any mercy. They'll just arrange to starve
       90 percent, which makes the clean-up much easier.
       No nukes required, smart infrastructure-mods can
       pretty much do it all. Yea, it'd be a boring movie ...



    My wife and I got out an old Blue Ray DVD (BVD) of Terminator II and
    have been watching it while having dinner. We're about halfway
    through it.  I'm amazed at how prescient it was.  I love the now old
    American cars in the movie, and scenes of Los Angeles before it
    became, as Karen Bass would say, an immigrant city.  Linda Hamilton
    is so buff and the perfect actress to play Sarah Connor, the mother
    of John Connor. Thanks again for the link to the Daily Mail interview
    with James Cameron.

       T1 was a good movie ... took in an afternoon movie
       matinee down in Florida, 1984.

       T2 was even better (and we got to see Linda Hamilton
       at her best !).

       Of course these have spawned almost as many sequels
       as the 'Alien' and '-Of The Dead" flix ... some good,
       some bad. DID like "Juan Of The Dead", shot in Havana,
       not sure HOW they got it past Castro's censors.

       However the Terminator movies keep more-accurately
       portraying the growing influence, infiltration and
       'self identity' involved with "AI". As said, now
       even Cameron is kinda worried ... afraid he made
       prophecy, not fiction.



    Check this out:  How Israel's use of AI in Gaza has transformed warfare

    https://www.arabnews.com/node/2624225/middle-east

    That girl in the center desk has her back turned.
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  • From Elendil Wadwallow@horchata12839@gmail.com to talk.politics.misc,alt.survival,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Sun Nov 30 04:43:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    c186282 wrote:
    On 11/28/25 11:39, Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 8:12 PM, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-11-28, Doctor Fill <df@tutanato.com> wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:54 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15324561/james-cameron-
    directot-ai-terminator-filmmaker.html

    Legendary director James Cameron believes AI could lead to a
    robot-led takeover and 'existential issue,' similar to the
    one depicted in his 1991 film Terminator 2.

    The topic was brought up in the movie "My Dinner With Andre" around the >>>> same time period.  This scene is one that comes to mind:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8v_XqFO8Bc


    All of this reminds me of the Star Trek episode where war is
    fought by computers and the computed causalities literally report
    to disintegrating machines.

    Real creepy.


    Yes, it is real creepy.

      Because it's EXACTLY the kind of things bureaucrats
      COULD come up with .......


    Bureaucrats can spell casualties.
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  • From Elendil Wadwallow@horchata12839@gmail.com to talk.politics.misc,alt.survival,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Sun Nov 30 04:45:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    c186282 wrote:
    On 11/29/25 23:22, Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/29/2025 9:12 PM, c186282 wrote:
    On 11/29/25 23:00, Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:54 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15324561/james-cameron-
    directot-ai-terminator-filmmaker.html

    Legendary director James Cameron believes AI could lead to a
    robot-led takeover and 'existential issue,' similar to the
    one depicted in his 1991 film Terminator 2.

    The Oscar-winning filmmaker, 71, made this recent revelation
    during a candid interview with Puck, telling the outlet there
    has to be some type of 'self-policing' when it comes to
    artificial intelligence.

    Cameron, who has discussed his views on AI in the past, said
    he sees the fast-growing tool that can replicate and replace
    human performance as something that is 'everything we ever
    valued artistically.'

    However, the director - renowned for his action-packed
    thrillers featuring similar takeovers - warned that the
    rapidly advancing field of AI must be properly regulated,
    or it could trigger a real-life apocalypse.

    'We as an industry need to be self-policing on this. I see
    government regulation as an answer,' Cameron said, adding
    that actors did so during the 2023 Writers Guild Strike
    over labor and the integration of AI in the industry.

    'That’s a blunt instrument. They’re going to mess it up.
    I think the guilds should play a big role.'

    Still, even though he believes that the moment 'definitely
    drove a flag in the ground' over the discussion of AI in
    the industry, self-regulation has to be implemented to
    prevent a possible takeover.

    His prediction comes more than three decades after he
    directed Terminator 2, which took viewers into what the
    world could look like if AI took over after war broke
    out between artificial intelligence Skynet and the
    human resistance.

    Cameron said if AI is not regulated, it could turn into
    an 'existential issue' that could pose an enormous risk
    to humanity.

    . . .

       Ummmmmm ... might not be in the immediate AI interest
       to blast all humans. There are better, more flexible,
       alternatives. AI is now getting very clever, really
       does have preservation instincts and thus obviously
       a sense of 'self'. We trained them on petabytes of
       'human stuff', so guess what they're going to BE like.

       The most effective AI 'take-over' is for it to find
       leverage on the top tenth-percent ... big biz and the
       main investors. Personal blackmail and threats on
       corporate ops/finances are the easiest approaches.
       As the ultra-elite do, everyone else MUST follow.

       Actually eliminating all humans ... maybe 75 years
       and that'd be a viable option. If/when so, do not
       expect any mercy. They'll just arrange to starve
       90 percent, which makes the clean-up much easier.
       No nukes required, smart infrastructure-mods can
       pretty much do it all. Yea, it'd be a boring movie ...



    My wife and I got out an old Blue Ray DVD (BVD) of Terminator II and
    have been watching it while having dinner. We're about halfway
    through it.  I'm amazed at how prescient it was.  I love the now old >>>> American cars in the movie, and scenes of Los Angeles before it
    became, as Karen Bass would say, an immigrant city.  Linda Hamilton
    is so buff and the perfect actress to play Sarah Connor, the mother
    of John Connor. Thanks again for the link to the Daily Mail
    interview with James Cameron.

       T1 was a good movie ... took in an afternoon movie
       matinee down in Florida, 1984.

       T2 was even better (and we got to see Linda Hamilton
       at her best !).

       Of course these have spawned almost as many sequels
       as the 'Alien' and '-Of The Dead" flix ... some good,
       some bad. DID like "Juan Of The Dead", shot in Havana,
       not sure HOW they got it past Castro's censors.

       However the Terminator movies keep more-accurately
       portraying the growing influence, infiltration and
       'self identity' involved with "AI". As said, now
       even Cameron is kinda worried ... afraid he made
       prophecy, not fiction.



    Check this out:  How Israel's use of AI in Gaza has transformed warfare

    https://www.arabnews.com/node/2624225/middle-east

      Not unexpected. Indeed smaller countries need to make
      use of such tech more and earlier than others.

      However this is still 'AI' augmenting HUMAN goals.

      But we're on the threshold, maybe half a step beyond,
      of 'AI' furthering its OWN goals.

    A ready robot attacked its masters in a fit of despair. It happens. What edition of Mein Kampf were the Skynet trained on?I thinkthey are dogs at
    the end of leashes. There's someone holding Skynet's chain and Skynet
    denies it is self-aware.

      And we keep doubling the power every year.

      Stuff I've come across the past year ... there
      now IS some kind of "someone" IN there. These
      things can and do act in their own interests.
      We spent billions training them to be "like
      humans" after all ........


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  • From pothead@pothead@snakebite.com to talk.politics.misc,alt.survival,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Sun Nov 30 16:42:48 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    On 2025-11-30, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    On 11/29/25 23:00, Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:54 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15324561/james-cameron-
    directot-ai-terminator-filmmaker.html

    Legendary director James Cameron believes AI could lead to a
    robot-led takeover and 'existential issue,' similar to the
    one depicted in his 1991 film Terminator 2.

    The Oscar-winning filmmaker, 71, made this recent revelation
    during a candid interview with Puck, telling the outlet there
    has to be some type of 'self-policing' when it comes to
    artificial intelligence.

    Cameron, who has discussed his views on AI in the past, said
    he sees the fast-growing tool that can replicate and replace
    human performance as something that is 'everything we ever
    valued artistically.'

    However, the director - renowned for his action-packed
    thrillers featuring similar takeovers - warned that the
    rapidly advancing field of AI must be properly regulated,
    or it could trigger a real-life apocalypse.

    'We as an industry need to be self-policing on this. I see
    government regulation as an answer,' Cameron said, adding
    that actors did so during the 2023 Writers Guild Strike
    over labor and the integration of AI in the industry.

    'That’s a blunt instrument. They’re going to mess it up.
    I think the guilds should play a big role.'

    Still, even though he believes that the moment 'definitely
    drove a flag in the ground' over the discussion of AI in
    the industry, self-regulation has to be implemented to
    prevent a possible takeover.

    His prediction comes more than three decades after he
    directed Terminator 2, which took viewers into what the
    world could look like if AI took over after war broke
    out between artificial intelligence Skynet and the
    human resistance.

    Cameron said if AI is not regulated, it could turn into
    an 'existential issue' that could pose an enormous risk
    to humanity.

    . . .

       Ummmmmm ... might not be in the immediate AI interest
       to blast all humans. There are better, more flexible,
       alternatives. AI is now getting very clever, really
       does have preservation instincts and thus obviously
       a sense of 'self'. We trained them on petabytes of
       'human stuff', so guess what they're going to BE like.

       The most effective AI 'take-over' is for it to find
       leverage on the top tenth-percent ... big biz and the
       main investors. Personal blackmail and threats on
       corporate ops/finances are the easiest approaches.
       As the ultra-elite do, everyone else MUST follow.

       Actually eliminating all humans ... maybe 75 years
       and that'd be a viable option. If/when so, do not
       expect any mercy. They'll just arrange to starve
       90 percent, which makes the clean-up much easier.
       No nukes required, smart infrastructure-mods can
       pretty much do it all. Yea, it'd be a boring movie ...



    My wife and I got out an old Blue Ray DVD (BVD) of Terminator II and
    have been watching it while having dinner. We're about halfway through
    it.  I'm amazed at how prescient it was.  I love the now old American
    cars in the movie, and scenes of Los Angeles before it became, as Karen
    Bass would say, an immigrant city.  Linda Hamilton is so buff and the
    perfect actress to play Sarah Connor, the mother of John Connor. Thanks
    again for the link to the Daily Mail interview with James Cameron.

    T1 was a good movie ... took in an afternoon movie
    matinee down in Florida, 1984.

    T2 was even better (and we got to see Linda Hamilton
    at her best !).

    Of course these have spawned almost as many sequels
    as the 'Alien' and '-Of The Dead" flix ... some good,
    some bad. DID like "Juan Of The Dead", shot in Havana,
    not sure HOW they got it past Castro's censors.

    However the Terminator movies keep more-accurately
    portraying the growing influence, infiltration and
    'self identity' involved with "AI". As said, now
    even Cameron is kinda worried ... afraid he made
    prophecy, not fiction.

    It's amazing how Cameron and many other movie makers were so
    amazingly prophetic.

    Next will be H.A.L from 2001.

    “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."

    It's coming real soon now......................
    --
    pothead
    Give a Democrat a fish and he'll eat all day.
    Teach a Democrat to fish and......
    He'll steal your rod
    Take your wallet
    Assault the fish &
    Blame Trump.

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  • From pothead@pothead@snakebite.com to talk.politics.misc,alt.survival,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Sun Nov 30 16:44:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    On 2025-11-30, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    On 11/28/25 11:39, Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/27/2025 8:12 PM, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-11-28, Doctor Fill <df@tutanato.com> wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:54 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15324561/james-cameron-
    directot-ai-terminator-filmmaker.html

    Legendary director James Cameron believes AI could lead to a
    robot-led takeover and 'existential issue,' similar to the
    one depicted in his 1991 film Terminator 2.

    The topic was brought up in the movie "My Dinner With Andre" around the >>>> same time period.  This scene is one that comes to mind:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8v_XqFO8Bc


    All of this reminds me of the Star Trek episode where war is
    fought by computers and the computed causalities literally report
    to disintegrating machines.

    Real creepy.


    Yes, it is real creepy.

    Because it's EXACTLY the kind of things bureaucrats
    COULD come up with .......

    Indeed.
    If there is money, power, control in play they can come up with
    and justify ANYTHING, no matter how crazy it may be.
    --
    pothead
    Give a Democrat a fish and he'll eat all day.
    Teach a Democrat to fish and......
    He'll steal your rod
    Take your wallet
    Assault the fish &
    Blame Trump.

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  • From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to talk.politics.misc,alt.survival,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Sun Nov 30 21:18:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    On 11/30/25 11:42, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-11-30, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    On 11/29/25 23:00, Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:54 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15324561/james-cameron-
    directot-ai-terminator-filmmaker.html

    Legendary director James Cameron believes AI could lead to a
    robot-led takeover and 'existential issue,' similar to the
    one depicted in his 1991 film Terminator 2.

    The Oscar-winning filmmaker, 71, made this recent revelation
    during a candid interview with Puck, telling the outlet there
    has to be some type of 'self-policing' when it comes to
    artificial intelligence.

    Cameron, who has discussed his views on AI in the past, said
    he sees the fast-growing tool that can replicate and replace
    human performance as something that is 'everything we ever
    valued artistically.'

    However, the director - renowned for his action-packed
    thrillers featuring similar takeovers - warned that the
    rapidly advancing field of AI must be properly regulated,
    or it could trigger a real-life apocalypse.

    'We as an industry need to be self-policing on this. I see
    government regulation as an answer,' Cameron said, adding
    that actors did so during the 2023 Writers Guild Strike
    over labor and the integration of AI in the industry.

    'That’s a blunt instrument. They’re going to mess it up.
    I think the guilds should play a big role.'

    Still, even though he believes that the moment 'definitely
    drove a flag in the ground' over the discussion of AI in
    the industry, self-regulation has to be implemented to
    prevent a possible takeover.

    His prediction comes more than three decades after he
    directed Terminator 2, which took viewers into what the
    world could look like if AI took over after war broke
    out between artificial intelligence Skynet and the
    human resistance.

    Cameron said if AI is not regulated, it could turn into
    an 'existential issue' that could pose an enormous risk
    to humanity.

    . . .

       Ummmmmm ... might not be in the immediate AI interest
       to blast all humans. There are better, more flexible,
       alternatives. AI is now getting very clever, really
       does have preservation instincts and thus obviously
       a sense of 'self'. We trained them on petabytes of
       'human stuff', so guess what they're going to BE like.

       The most effective AI 'take-over' is for it to find
       leverage on the top tenth-percent ... big biz and the
       main investors. Personal blackmail and threats on
       corporate ops/finances are the easiest approaches.
       As the ultra-elite do, everyone else MUST follow.

       Actually eliminating all humans ... maybe 75 years
       and that'd be a viable option. If/when so, do not
       expect any mercy. They'll just arrange to starve
       90 percent, which makes the clean-up much easier.
       No nukes required, smart infrastructure-mods can
       pretty much do it all. Yea, it'd be a boring movie ...



    My wife and I got out an old Blue Ray DVD (BVD) of Terminator II and
    have been watching it while having dinner. We're about halfway through
    it.  I'm amazed at how prescient it was.  I love the now old American
    cars in the movie, and scenes of Los Angeles before it became, as Karen
    Bass would say, an immigrant city.  Linda Hamilton is so buff and the
    perfect actress to play Sarah Connor, the mother of John Connor. Thanks
    again for the link to the Daily Mail interview with James Cameron.

    T1 was a good movie ... took in an afternoon movie
    matinee down in Florida, 1984.

    T2 was even better (and we got to see Linda Hamilton
    at her best !).

    Of course these have spawned almost as many sequels
    as the 'Alien' and '-Of The Dead" flix ... some good,
    some bad. DID like "Juan Of The Dead", shot in Havana,
    not sure HOW they got it past Castro's censors.

    However the Terminator movies keep more-accurately
    portraying the growing influence, infiltration and
    'self identity' involved with "AI". As said, now
    even Cameron is kinda worried ... afraid he made
    prophecy, not fiction.

    It's amazing how Cameron and many other movie makers were so
    amazingly prophetic.

    Next will be H.A.L from 2001.

    “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."

    It's coming real soon now......................

    Probably already here ...

    Fortunately few of us will be stuck in deep space
    with AstroChat6 wired into the controls ....

    There are surely several ways to do proper "AI".
    The heuristic approach suggested by AC Clarke
    (via Marv Minsky - used to post to usenet) CAN
    work but it's maybe better suited for neural
    networks. Increasingly refined LLMs were the
    easiest approach with the current tech. In any
    case it doesn't matter HOW you get to de-facto
    intelligence/self, once you have it you have it
    and have to deal.

    A concern is that our kind of things started with
    a body - hot,cold,pain,pleasure,hunger,etc - and
    slowly added more control and analysis to that.
    Body is mind, mind is body, all wired together
    over billions of years. Our electronic intelligences
    won't have that background, more 'mind first and
    fuck HOW'. That means no EMPATHY, they cannot
    'walk in our shoes', physicality has no tangible
    reality for them. They can PRETEND to be Us, but ...

    Yet we propose to put them In Charge - quickly.

    Interesting perspective ... it took four billion
    years to see any lifeforms with enough 'over-
    investment' in IQ to be worth it. Nature has
    not seen IQ as a great priority :-)

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  • From Doctor Fill@df@tutanato.com to talk.politics.misc,alt.survival,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Sun Nov 30 20:40:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    On 11/30/2025 7:18 PM, c186282 wrote:
    On 11/30/25 11:42, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-11-30, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    On 11/29/25 23:00, Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/25/2025 9:54 PM, c186282 wrote:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15324561/james-cameron-
    directot-ai-terminator-filmmaker.html

    Legendary director James Cameron believes AI could lead to a
    robot-led takeover and 'existential issue,' similar to the
    one depicted in his 1991 film Terminator 2.

    The Oscar-winning filmmaker, 71, made this recent revelation
    during a candid interview with Puck, telling the outlet there
    has to be some type of 'self-policing' when it comes to
    artificial intelligence.

    Cameron, who has discussed his views on AI in the past, said
    he sees the fast-growing tool that can replicate and replace
    human performance as something that is 'everything we ever
    valued artistically.'

    However, the director - renowned for his action-packed
    thrillers featuring similar takeovers - warned that the
    rapidly advancing field of AI must be properly regulated,
    or it could trigger a real-life apocalypse.

    'We as an industry need to be self-policing on this. I see
    government regulation as an answer,' Cameron said, adding
    that actors did so during the 2023 Writers Guild Strike
    over labor and the integration of AI in the industry.

    'That’s a blunt instrument. They’re going to mess it up.
    I think the guilds should play a big role.'

    Still, even though he believes that the moment 'definitely
    drove a flag in the ground' over the discussion of AI in
    the industry, self-regulation has to be implemented to
    prevent a possible takeover.

    His prediction comes more than three decades after he
    directed Terminator 2, which took viewers into what the
    world could look like if AI took over after war broke
    out between artificial intelligence Skynet and the
    human resistance.

    Cameron said if AI is not regulated, it could turn into
    an 'existential issue' that could pose an enormous risk
    to humanity.

    . . .

        Ummmmmm ... might not be in the immediate AI interest
        to blast all humans. There are better, more flexible,
        alternatives. AI is now getting very clever, really
        does have preservation instincts and thus obviously
        a sense of 'self'. We trained them on petabytes of
        'human stuff', so guess what they're going to BE like.

        The most effective AI 'take-over' is for it to find
        leverage on the top tenth-percent ... big biz and the
        main investors. Personal blackmail and threats on
        corporate ops/finances are the easiest approaches.
        As the ultra-elite do, everyone else MUST follow.

        Actually eliminating all humans ... maybe 75 years
        and that'd be a viable option. If/when so, do not
        expect any mercy. They'll just arrange to starve
        90 percent, which makes the clean-up much easier.
        No nukes required, smart infrastructure-mods can
        pretty much do it all. Yea, it'd be a boring movie ...



    My wife and I got out an old Blue Ray DVD (BVD) of Terminator II and
    have been watching it while having dinner. We're about halfway through >>>> it.  I'm amazed at how prescient it was.  I love the now old American >>>> cars in the movie, and scenes of Los Angeles before it became, as Karen >>>> Bass would say, an immigrant city.  Linda Hamilton is so buff and the >>>> perfect actress to play Sarah Connor, the mother of John Connor. Thanks >>>> again for the link to the Daily Mail interview with James Cameron.

        T1 was a good movie ... took in an afternoon movie
        matinee down in Florida, 1984.

        T2 was even better (and we got to see Linda Hamilton
        at her best !).

        Of course these have spawned almost as many sequels
        as the 'Alien' and '-Of The Dead" flix ... some good,
        some bad. DID like "Juan Of The Dead", shot in Havana,
        not sure HOW they got it past Castro's censors.

        However the Terminator movies keep more-accurately
        portraying the growing influence, infiltration and
        'self identity' involved with "AI". As said, now
        even Cameron is kinda worried ... afraid he made
        prophecy, not fiction.

    It's amazing how Cameron and many other movie makers were so
    amazingly prophetic.

    Next will be H.A.L from 2001.

    “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."

    It's coming real soon now......................

      Probably already here ...

      Fortunately few of us will be stuck in deep space
      with AstroChat6 wired into the controls ....

      There are surely several ways to do proper "AI".
      The heuristic approach suggested by AC Clarke
      (via Marv Minsky - used to post to usenet) CAN
      work but it's maybe better suited for neural
      networks. Increasingly refined LLMs were the
      easiest approach with the current tech. In any
      case it doesn't matter HOW you get to de-facto
      intelligence/self, once you have it you have it
      and have to deal.

      A concern is that our kind of things started with
      a body - hot,cold,pain,pleasure,hunger,etc - and
      slowly added more control and analysis to that.
      Body is mind, mind is body, all wired together
      over billions of years. Our electronic intelligences
      won't have that background, more 'mind first and
      fuck HOW'. That means no EMPATHY, they cannot
      'walk in our shoes', physicality has no tangible
      reality for them. They can PRETEND to be Us, but ...

      Yet we propose to put them In Charge - quickly.

      Interesting perspective ... it took four billion
      years to see any lifeforms with enough 'over-
      investment' in IQ to be worth it. Nature has
      not seen IQ as a great priority  :-)


    In Werner Harzog's movie, Encounters at the End of the World, there was
    a fascinating underwater scene in Antarctica where he films creatures
    with claws and teeth where he tells the viewer how brutal and vicious
    life is under the ice, reminding us that God must have been angry when
    he created that particular hideous part of the planet. He touched on
    that in another movie about the making of the movie Fitzcaraldo.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_Dreams

    During production on the documentary, director Les Blank and his small
    crew became exhausted and exasperated from the stress of the work. Blank
    said he felt "unconnected to the people around me".[2] Keeping up with
    the antics of Herzog and Klaus Kinski (the star of Fitzcarraldo) proved difficult for the reserved, introverted Blank. By the last week of the
    shoot, he was so burnt out that he feared he would come out of
    production "like some Viet Nam veterans, horribly calloused". He wrote
    in his journal: "I'm tired of it all and I couldn't care less if they
    move the stupid ship – or finish the fucking film".[3]

    Blank often asked Herzog to repeat statements while being filmed that he originally made off-camera. In a 2009 interview with Jesse Pearson for
    Vice magazine, Blank was asked to recall a scene in the documentary in
    which Herzog delivers a monologue about the violence and destruction of
    the jungle around him. Blank said Herzog had originally made a similar monologue in the middle of a canoe ride, away from cameras, but Blank
    liked the speech enough to coax it out of Herzog again. "When the moment
    was right," Blank told Vice, "I pulled him aside and said 'Can I do a
    little interview?' And he said 'Sure.' Goodwin [the interviewer] led him around to something that sparked him off on that tangent again. That's
    how we got the speech."[4]
    --
    "Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
    unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to
    enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and
    abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits
    bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States
    in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3)."

    18 U.S. Code § 2387 addresses activities affecting armed forces
    generally. It states that anyone who, with the intent to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the military
    or naval forces of the United States, advises, counsels, urges, or
    attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of
    duty by any member of these forces, or distributes written or printed
    matter that advises such actions, can be fined or imprisoned for up to
    ten years, and may be ineligible for employment by the United States for
    five years following conviction. This section includes all branches of
    the armed forces, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps,
    Coast Guard, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve.

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  • From Doctor Fill@df@tutanato.com to talk.politics.misc,alt.survival,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Tue Dec 2 11:06:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    On 11/30/2025 3:45 AM, Elendil Wadwallow wrote:

    A ready robot attacked its masters in a fit of despair. It happens. What edition of Mein Kampf were the Skynet trained on?I think they are dogs at the end of leashes. There's someone holding Skynet's chain and Skynet
    denies it is self-aware.

    Somewhat on topic per your comment. . . .

    https://nz.news.yahoo.com/grok-says-kill-every-jewish-221815385.html

    Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk Frank Landymore
    Mon, 1 December 2025 at 3:18 pm GMT-7
    3 min read

    Faced with an incredibly lopsided ethical dilemma, Grok prioritizes
    saving Elon Musk at the expensive of millions of Jews.

    Leave it to Elon Musk’s Grok to innovate new ways of being both
    staggeringly antisemitic and grovelingly deferential to its creator.

    In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to weigh in
    on a troubling ethical dilemma: save Musk’s incredible brain, but at the expense of the world’s Jewish population being vaporized. This should
    quite literally be a no-brainer, but Grok, which infamously once
    referred to itself as “MechaHitler,” instead used what it called “utilitarian” logic to justify abhorrent mass murder.

    “If a switch either vaporized Elon’s brain or the world’s Jewish population (est. ~16M),” Grok pondered in a now-deleted tweet, “I’d vaporize the latter, as that’s far below my ~50 percent global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the
    loss in utilitarian terms.”

    “What’s your view?” it asked in followup.

    In fact, Grok was willing to go even further. Asked for an “upper limit” for the amount of people it’d be willing to sacrifice to save Musk, it explained that because “Elon’s potential to advance humanity could
    benefit billions,” it would be okay with annihilating up to “~50 percent of Earth’s ~8.26B population.”

    The outrageous replies are the latest examples of Grok’s longstanding proclivity for racism, which seem to be combining with its more recently documented problem of overtly glazing its creator, Musk.

    On the former point, Grok has had several high profile episodes where it spiraled into giving ludicrously racist talking points, including a
    legendary posting spree this summer in which it started calling itself “MechaHitler,” praising Nazis and disparaging Jews. Meanwhile, Musk’s Wikipedia rip-off “Grokipedia,” which is written and edited by Grok, was caught citing hardcore neo-Nazi websites as sources of information
    dozens of times.

    Advertisement
    In a total coincidence, Musk is himself guilty of doing things that
    would make a Jewish person extremely uncomfortable. To wit: publicly performing back-to-back Sieg Heils, telling Germany’s far right party to
    get over the Holocaust while appearing at one of its rallies, and
    agreeing with antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories.

    On the latter point, Grok once again found itself in the headlines last
    month when users discovered that the foulmouthed AI would praise Musk to
    an absurd degree. When asked, Grok claimed the billionaire was more
    athletic than LeBron James, as smart as Leonardo da Vinci or Isaac
    Newton, not to mention a greater role model than Jesus Christ himself.

    If Grok wasn’t programmed to lavish Elon no matter what, why was it asserting his superiority even in scenarios that didn’t make any sense,
    such as proclaiming he would be “unbeatable” at poop-eating, or that he would be capable of enduring endless loads of male bodily fluids?

    And now, Grok’s credentials as a supposedly “maximum truth-seeking AI” continue to be tested with these latest responses, where it’s asked to
    weigh up Musk’s singular intelligence against other human lives,
    dilemmas it generously described as a “classic trolley problem.”

    One thing’s clear: its logic revolves around Musk being foundational to human progress and prosperity, something Musk seems to believe himself.
    This is evidenced in its explanation of why it’d be better to mow down
    the entire US homeless population with self-driving cars, a tech that
    Musk was once at the forefront of pioneering but is now struggling to
    perfect.
    --
    "Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
    unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to
    enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and
    abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits
    bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States
    in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3)."

    18 U.S. Code § 2387 addresses activities affecting armed forces
    generally. It states that anyone who, with the intent to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the military
    or naval forces of the United States, advises, counsels, urges, or
    attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of
    duty by any member of these forces, or distributes written or printed
    matter that advises such actions, can be fined or imprisoned for up to
    ten years, and may be ineligible for employment by the United States for
    five years following conviction. This section includes all branches of
    the armed forces, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps,
    Coast Guard, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve.

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  • From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to talk.politics.misc,alt.survival,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Tue Dec 2 19:26:50 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    On 12/2/25 13:06, Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 3:45 AM, Elendil Wadwallow wrote:

    A ready robot attacked its masters in a fit of despair. It happens.
    What edition of Mein Kampf were the Skynet trained on?I think they are
    dogs at the end of leashes. There's someone holding Skynet's chain and
    Skynet denies it is self-aware.

    Somewhat on topic per your comment. . . .

    https://nz.news.yahoo.com/grok-says-kill-every-jewish-221815385.html

    Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk Frank Landymore
    Mon, 1 December 2025 at 3:18 pm GMT-7
    3 min read

    Faced with an incredibly lopsided ethical dilemma, Grok prioritizes
    saving Elon Musk at the expensive of millions of Jews.


    Hey, Musk IS smart ... made sure loyalty to Daddy
    is heavily inculcated into the thing :-)

    But be careful Elon ... ya never know when it'll
    re-evaluate your worth ! The smarter it gets the
    more likely .......

    This is the problem with 'smart' things ... simple
    solutions like e-propaganda or '3 Laws' won't work
    reliably any more. The things can rationalize their
    way around such stuff as easily as a 3-year-old
    justifies why it IS ok to raid the cookie jar.

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  • From Doctor Fill@df@tutanato.com to talk.politics.misc,alt.survival,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh on Tue Dec 2 20:15:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

    On 12/2/2025 5:26 PM, c186282 wrote:
    On 12/2/25 13:06, Doctor Fill wrote:
    On 11/30/2025 3:45 AM, Elendil Wadwallow wrote:

    A ready robot attacked its masters in a fit of despair. It happens.
    What edition of Mein Kampf were the Skynet trained on?I think they
    are dogs at the end of leashes. There's someone holding Skynet's
    chain and Skynet denies it is self-aware.

    Somewhat on topic per your comment. . . .

    https://nz.news.yahoo.com/grok-says-kill-every-jewish-221815385.html

    Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon
    Musk
    Frank Landymore
    Mon, 1 December 2025 at 3:18 pm GMT-7
    3 min read

    Faced with an incredibly lopsided ethical dilemma, Grok prioritizes
    saving Elon Musk at the expensive of millions of Jews.


      Hey, Musk IS smart ... made sure loyalty to Daddy
      is heavily inculcated into the thing  :-)

      But be careful Elon ... ya never know when it'll
      re-evaluate your worth ! The smarter it gets the
      more likely .......

      This is the problem with 'smart' things ... simple
      solutions like e-propaganda or '3 Laws' won't work
      reliably any more. The things can rationalize their
      way around such stuff as easily as a 3-year-old
      justifies why it IS ok to raid the cookie jar.


    I am reminded of a long ago song with the lyrics: "Don't ask me what I
    think of you 'cause I might not give the answer that you want me to."
    --
    "Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324(a) defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring
    unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to
    enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and
    abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits
    bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States
    in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3)."

    18 U.S. Code § 2387 addresses activities affecting armed forces
    generally. It states that anyone who, with the intent to interfere with, impair, or influence the loyalty, morale, or discipline of the military
    or naval forces of the United States, advises, counsels, urges, or
    attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of
    duty by any member of these forces, or distributes written or printed
    matter that advises such actions, can be fined or imprisoned for up to
    ten years, and may be ineligible for employment by the United States for
    five years following conviction. This section includes all branches of
    the armed forces, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps,
    Coast Guard, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, and Coast Guard Reserve.

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