We are on the eve of destruction

[AribertDeckers]

9.9.2026
We are on the eve of destruction


We are.

Covid, Avian Influenza, Russia, Iran, Trumpistan, and other pests kill people.

The human species kills nature and kills the climate.

We are doomed.

61 years ago there was this very song:


PART 1


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Eve of Destruction

Song by Barry McGuire ‧ 1965

The Eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'
But you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction
Don't you understand what I'm trying to say
Can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave
Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you, boy
And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction
Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin'
I'm sittin' here just contemplatin'
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation
Handful of senators don't pass legislation
And marches alone can't bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin'
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'
And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction
And think of all the hate there is in Red China
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama
Ah, you may leave here for four days in space
But when you return, it's the same old place
The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace
You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace
Hate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace
And you tell me
Over and over and over and over again, my friend
You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
No no, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
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PART 2

To really destroy the human race, computers rage a war. They are programmed for it. And they reprogram themselves for higher efficiency on this.

" 'Brazil' finest"...
 


https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843

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Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
2:04 AM · Sep 9, 2026
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Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess

Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.

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Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.

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Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess

A common response is "if they truly believe this, why are they still building it?" At OpenAI, many have not deeply internalized the civilizational stakes. At Anthropic, the stakes are well-understood, but they are locked in a race to get there first - they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves, despite the risk.

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Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess

Accepting this race and entering the "endgame" is a hubristic gamble that should not be launched from a private company's Slack. Attempting to speedrun alignment should require extraordinary confidence that there are no better trajectories available.

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Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess

I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don't feel like we're on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities.

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Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess

If you are a lab researcher, I urge you to consider what the next few years will actually feel like. Do you want to kick off a superintelligent RL run without a rigorous understanding of its mind? Should you put your head down because "it's happening anyway" - or take this moment to call for different conditions?
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[AribertDeckers]

9.9.2026
The assembly line conveyors in the elderly care homes


PART 3

The Austrian state TV ORF reports in its TV news about a grave-watering robot in St. Poelten: trice a week it rolls along at night, watering the plants on 200 graves, led by a programmed map for each grace parcel.

Doing the job at night reduces the water consumption by 30 percent.

Well, that is the last station of the assembly lines of the elderly care homes. Wait for the transport systems being installed in the houses.


"In the year 2525..." ??? 2525 is by far too optimistic. Even 2100 is out of reach.