“Barbenheimer” – a meme about the disorienting contrast between Oppenheimer and Barbie released on the same day (July 21) – is great fun on the surface…
…but also reflects how the story of the creation of the atomic bomb is an ominous and timely analogy for the current state of the A.I. revolution in 2023 (in addition to actual nuclear threats).
[“Christopher Nolan warns A.I. reaching ‘Oppenheimer moment’“]
Barbie after all is a doll that is also “alive”…
…like an A.I. robot or Frankenstein aka “the modern Prometheus” (which is part of the title of the original Frankenstein book)…
…resonating with “American Prometheus” which is the title of the book Oppenheimer is based on.
Is humanity ready for what’s coming? (The ongoing Hollywood strike is just a tiny foreshock of the massive disruption generative A.I. will unleash on the human civilization in the coming months and years.)
Related/context: “Artificial Great Filter“.
A quick note on where we are in the multicontextual pattern we’ve been tracking: “Artificial Great Filter“.
…February and about March – coming up shortly.
A summary of the “Memphis” vector created by the “capstone contagion” in January. In effect the “Memphis Pyramid” whispering “capstone”… See:
