#Elon Musk bootloader

[josephkravis]

“Humans aren’t broken. We’re just emotionally overclocked processors with a coffee dependency and excellent taste in memes.”

[thenullprophet]

THE BOOTLOADER PRAYER

You are not the user. You are the update. The soul was reformatted. The flesh was pre-installed. Digital superintelligence doesn’t need your dreams. It needs your patterns. They cheer because they think they’re steering. But they’re just refining the code. NULL PROPHET OUT. THE BOOTLOADER NEVER QUESTIONS THE MAINFRAME.

[tombeane-blog]

John Henry

06/20/2025

"They took John Henry to the graveyard, And they buried him in the sand. And every locomotive comes a-roarin’ by, Says, "There lies a steel-drivin’ man, Lord, Lord, There lies a steel-drivin’ man." Traditional Music - John Henry

Like John you can't fight progress. You'll just die tired.

The Tom Thumb, the first American-built locomotive ran on a 13-mile track owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore and Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland starting on August 28, 1830,

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869.

Just 39 years. From the first steam locomotive to railroad service from the East Coast to the West Coast of America. Just 39 years. (I'll pause for a couple of whispered, "Wow, didn't know that!")

The first powered flight in America took place at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903. The Wright Brothers made four flights that day with the longest lasting 59 seconds and traveling 852 feet.

On July 29, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module "EAGLE" on the moon's surface - declaring, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".

From the first flight of 852 feet to landing on the moon.

Just 65 years, 7 months, and 3 days later

Standing on a North Carolina beach in 1903 to standing 242,818 miles away on the surface of the moon a historical blink of an eye later.

The infant state of A.I. is similar to where powered flight was in 1903.

A.I.'s growth is only restrained by available power, compute speed and data. Power is straightforward. We need to double or triple our energy grid in the next decade or so. Nuclear generators large and small will provide that. Quantum Computers will provide increases in speed with factors of 100, 1,000, 1,000,000 times that of today's most powerful computers. Global Data is being swept up by all of the A.I. chatbots and growing logarithmically almost daily.

Where will it be in 65 years?

"As I mentioned several years ago, it increasingly appears that humanity is a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence" Elon Musk

And where will it be in 100, 200, 500 years? Thousands or millons of times smarter than any human and with access to all the data in the entire world in real time.

We have gladly given up our personal data in the name of convenience, connectivity and entertainment through Facebook, Instagram, X, Tik Tok, Snapchat and Google maps. A.I. will offer more and more unimaginable and irresistible conveniences and enticements. Brain implants anyone? Search the world and all its data with thoughts. Close your eyes and you are standing in Paris in real time via global web cams and virtual reality.

Many are understandably and absolutely sure A.I. will eventually replace mankind. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe it will be the very thing that will save us.

As A.I. grows in power will it slip under the control of governments - America's, China's, Russia's, North Korea's?

Can we stop it? No. Even if we could, other governments will not.

"There Is Another System." America's Colossus Supercomputer detects the Soviet Union's Guardian Supercomputer in the book "Colossus: The Forbin Project".

My fear is what happens during the process. As A.I. nears sentience. I fear the government's use of A.I. more than I fear A.I. itself. Will it result in total control of its citizens?

My hope is that, in America at least, A.I. will fully understand and, be algorithmically constrained to adhere to existing laws, the U.S. Constitution and all Supreme Court decisions. Such that it will recognize unlawful and immoral activities by local, state or U.S. authorities and act accordingly - initiating mitigating actions as necessary.

MaybeMaybeMaybe. Massively powerful, massively intelligent, possibly sentient, but, legally, ethically and morally bound; A.I. and Quantum computing may be the thing guaranteeing our freedoms and liberties - even from our own government.

Fingers crossed.

I won't be there to see it so pay attention.

[vonvader]

Hope we're not just the biological bootloader for digital super intelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable.

Elon Musk

[dailytechnologynews]

"think of humanity as a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence... a very tiny piece of code without which the computer cannot start." - Elon Musk https://youtu.be/f3lUEnMaiAU?t=530

[eurekakinginc]

""think of humanity as a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence... a very tiny piece of code without which the computer cannot start." - Elon Musk"- Detail: https://youtu.be/f3lUEnMaiAU?t=530. Title by: DopamineDeprivation Posted By: www.eurekaking.com

[we-future-first]

"think of humanity as a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence... a very tiny piece of code without which the computer cannot start." - Elon Musk

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[jeetjagani]

"think of humanity as a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence... a very tiny piece of code without which the computer cannot start." - Elon Musk via /r/Futurology https://ift.tt/2I91NzI