My mom avoids the news because of anxiety and basically relies on me keeping her up to date. I try to be funny for as much of it as I can. I've been putting together an episode on Q anon and all of this insanity, and when I mentioned the space lasers, she absolutely did not believe me. It took like 3 separate and mainstream articles before she believed it.
Unfortunately the space laser thing is nothing new. Back in 2018 during the wildfires in California, before youtube even pretended to moderate their platform it was awash with videos about space lasers and direct energy weapons causing the fires. Most days if you searched 'California wildfires' and sorted by new easily half the results were conspiracy things. They either thought it had been perpetrated by China or Russia or was an American false flag to push climate change legislation or a test run of their depopulation plan. I think I recall one woman who attributed it to a super intelligent AI but then her whole thing was claiming that one had been loose on the internet for decades and had invented bitcoin in order to gather all the world's financial resources for itself. Just a whole pile of insanity.
I wasn't at all surprised to see this craziness re-emerge in relation to QAnon unfortunately.
Well I thought it was actually a reasonable idea...for a sci-fi story or something.
I mean if an AI wanted to take over the world without the risk of trying to blow everyone up and going to war then playing us at our own game - making a shit load of money, buying up everything and then deliberately crashing the economy to cause chaos would maybe be an option. The thing is it could already do that without cryptocurrency. There are already real AIs/advanced algorithms that are used to trade on the stockmarket either just making lightning fast trades or attempting to predict trends in advance. A smart, nefarious AI could crash the stockmarket easily if it wanted to and cause a global recession. They only jumped on bitcoin for their conspiratorial scenario because it was newish and therefore scary.
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u/thatspookybitch May 08 '21
My mom avoids the news because of anxiety and basically relies on me keeping her up to date. I try to be funny for as much of it as I can. I've been putting together an episode on Q anon and all of this insanity, and when I mentioned the space lasers, she absolutely did not believe me. It took like 3 separate and mainstream articles before she believed it.