# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 5
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/ufbh5ga
Longtermism is transparently stupid and dangerous.
If you shake out the stupid fancy economic math, you find that they'd say it is *moral* to brutally murder 7 billion people if, somehow, that's what was necessary to reach a possible future with trillions of simulated humans.
We're not on the cusp of human-level artificial intelligence, any more than we're on the cusp of having self-driving cars (remember that hype fest?). We're not.
And even if we did develop artificial general intelligence, there's no reason to believe that this would immediately develop into a "super intelligence" that decides to extinct humans.
We're not living in a simulation either.
All that stuff is a fever dream of people who've spent too much time in Silicon Valley's toxic bubble.
Hi, you could have an artificial general intelligence that was less capable cognitively than any person you know, and it'd still be an amazing feat of engineering.
You could have an artificial general intelligence that required 90% of Earth's power resources to play a game of chess.
Etc. etc. etc. SV fools want you to believe that this stuff is inevitable, but it's only because that's their only move, convincing a bunch of people that the things that SV wants are inevitable and that there are no other possibilities.
Self-driving cars and web3 live in the same world as "Human-level AI is right around the corner" and "We live in a simulation!". Scams and cons.