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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 16897 votes
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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 40 comments
Nukes (Score:2, Informative)
Yeah, I know its a little bit selfish.
Re:Nukes (Score:4, Interesting)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel) [wikipedia.org]
I think you should read some books.
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At the time the book was written technology was a little more primitive than it is today. And both Australia (where the book was set) and NZ (I'm a kiwi myself) were both still mainly farming nations.
Today however, would the result be the same?
Assume the conditions described in the book are similar and it takes 12+ months for the radiation to reach this neck of the woods. Would it not be possible to construct a few bio dome type enclosure
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Re:Nukes (Score:4, Funny)
Jeez.
Re:Nukes (Score:5, Insightful)
Eugen Roth (1895-1976) wrote already:
Ein Mensch, nichts wissend von Mormone
Schaut deshalb nach im Lexikone
Und hÃtt es dort auch rasch gefunden -
Jedoch er weiÃY, nach drei, vier Stunden
Von den Mormonen keine Silbe -
Dafür fast alles über Milbe,
Von Mississipi, Mohr und Maus:
Im ganzen "M" kennt er sich aus.
Auch was ihn sonst gekümmert nie,
Physik zum Beispiel und Chemie,
Liest er jetzt nach, es fesselt ihn:
Was ist das: Monochloramin?
"Such unter Hydrazin", steht da.
Schon greift der Mensch zum Bande "H"
Und schlÃgt so eine neue Brücke
Zu ungeahntem Wissensglücke.
JÃh fÃllt ihm ein bei den Hormonen
Er sucht ja eigentlich: Mormonen!
Er blÃttert müd und überwacht:
Mann, Morpheus, Mohn und Mitternacht
HÃtt weiter noch geschmÃkert gern,
Kam bloÃY noch bis zu Morgenstern
Und da verneigte er sich tief
Noch vor dem Dichter - und - entschlief.
(A man, not knowing about mormon,
looks into a lexicon,
and would have found it there pretty soon -
but after three, four hours he knows
not a syllable about the Mormons,
but nearly everything about the Mite,
about Mississippi, Blackamoor and Mouse:
He knows about the whole "M".
Even something he never cared about,
for instance Physics or Chemistry,
now he reads about it, and it absorbs him:
What's that: Monochloramine?
"See also Hydracine" stands there.
The man is already grabbing for Volume "H",
and so he creates a new brigde
to undreamt Happiness of Knowledge.
But by the "Hormones", he remembers:
He was looking for the "Mormons"!
He shuffles the page, tired and overwaked:
Man, Morpheus, Poppy Seed, Midnight...
He would have liked to read on,
arrived only at the Mornning Star,
and bowed deep
before the Poet and died.)
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Shouldn't we all be talking Zombie Plans by this stage?
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Hate to burst your bubble, but by those terms, there's enough nukes to go around.
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Except that we will also take certain pleasure in the total annihilation of our nearest neighbour, which is not the case for New Zea...
Oh wait... we do have the same plan.
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A large scale nuclear war leads to a nuclear winter, so your ###### as well I'm afraid.
For those interested in more Apocalypse Scenario's; http://www.exitmundi.nl/ [exitmundi.nl] [exitmundi.nl] . There's also a book available.
Re:Nukes (Score:4, Interesting)
For all we know, it could be nuclear summer [wikipedia.org] and the remnants of the world a fun filled sauna.
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Re:Nukes (Score:5, Funny)
(for the record, I'm a particle physicist working on the CMS experiment at the LHC.)
Re:Nukes (Score:5, Funny)
Not really nerdy, but... (Score:2)
It's got to be zombies. (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm wondering about these nanites (Score:2)
Death is death, but that particular avenue sounds nearly intriguing...
Missing Option (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Missing Option (Score:5, Funny)
singularity (Score:4, Interesting)
This premise is that once we develop a machine with intelligence greater than our own, it will create a machine with intelligence greater that its. This continues exponentially. The idea of singularity comes from the black hole event horizon where we couldn't possible imagine what something with greater intelligence than ours could imagine!
This leads to so many possibilities though, would they get rid of us humans? It would make sense as we are practically ruining the place as it is.. Or would we be kept as a curiosity or pets? To stay on top of them we would have to do an Asimov and enslave them with 'three laws safe' !!!
Re:singularity (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:singularity (Score:5, Insightful)
It assumes infinite resources, an AI that is creative, and that humans stop being imaginative.
I would like to remind you that the 'Three laws of Robotics' Didn't work, hence the mystery books.
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Bored deity, (Score:2)
Grey goo! (Score:2)
Either that or the LHC destroys the universe...
Futurama reference required... (Score:5, Funny)
Leela - "It did. But it's a good thing nuclear winter cancelled it out"
So I voted nuclear war
You'll all be happy (Score:5, Funny)
It turns out that the script, although deceptively labeled as a database synchronization tool, actually just scours Usenet for porn.
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I hereby declare this thread over!
Surely not ... (Score:2)
Zombies?!? (Score:2)
As of right now, zombies is the preferred apocalypse?! Whiskey tango foxtrot. How is desperately running for your life for weeks trying to evade brain-hungry zombies only to finally be slowly eaten alive when they catch you a better end than being blinked out of existence by a bored deity?
Re:Zombies?!? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Zombies?!? (Score:5, Funny)
That was basically my thinking, too. Go down fighting.
As a bonus, before I die I would have an opportunity to seek out my enemies and beat their brains out in "self defence". They may not have become zombies at this point, but you can never be too careful in a zombie apocalypse.
Re:Zombies?!? (Score:5, Insightful)
The attraction to zombies, aside from the above, is that the zombie (as portrayed in the movies) is a menace that a regular (but appropriately armed) person can stand a reasonable chance against. And they are soulless beings (again, as portrayed in the movies), so there is no guilt associated with mowing them down with your car etc.
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Seriously, we tried to find one in grad school in the US so the Indian guys could show us how to play. Like 7-8 years ago, no sporting good store had them (that we could find).
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Re:Zombies?!? (Score:5, Funny)
Say what? What about those of us who prefer to say 'braaaaaainssss'? I mean, such a tranquil and uncomplicated existence should not necessarily be frowned upon.
I mean, button pressing is all very nice and well, but sometimes you have to take the longer perspective.
(Seriously tho, sometimes one must question ones assumptions. The poll doesn't state the protagonists position in the apocalypse in question.
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Funny - zombies didn't eat brains until Return of the Living Dead. I don't remember them eating flesh until Night of the Living Dead (before that they were servants, like in White Zombie). Shawn of the Dead type zombies are back to flesh. Zombies apparently have changing dietary needs.
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Of course, I also assumed that the diety situation wouldn't be a 'switch off the computer game and do
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And who says they'll get me? I'm smarter then any person in any zombie movie.
Define "apocalypse" (Score:5, Insightful)
The end of civilization is easy. Stop the trains and the trucks and the container ships; stop deliveries (coal to power plants, groceries, etc.), and wait two weeks. That's the "end of the world".
(Re)read "Lucifer's Hammer". (Re)read "The Mote in God's Eye". The Moties had had the end of the world so many times that after a crash, they had to go straight from wood fires to fusion because previous civilizations had used up all the coal and oil and fissile material on the planet.
We need to get out of this gravity well.
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Google takeover. (Score:2)
Long live Google Government (tm)!
Google Takeover? (Score:5, Funny)
It's not as if they have a Death Ray or something [typepad.com]
What about (Score:3, Funny)
Duplicate Options (Score:2)
Intergalactic bypass? (Score:2)
Missing option: Wandering Black Hole (Score:2)
Bored (Score:2)
higgs-bosen (Score:2)
If we can work the ATF and a 2000/4000 year old corpse into the equation then my inner geek will be happy.
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If you are referring to the stranglets BS.
Nuclear War (Score:2)
Obligatory Zappa (Score:5, Interesting)
-Frank Zappa
Dec 21, 2012 or April 7, 2030? (Score:2)
2030 is the 2000th anniversary of Christ crucifixation. Some kooks say that is the real millennium, not the birth date.
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Re:Dec 21, 2012 or April 7, 2030? (Score:5, Funny)
Optimistic Post-Apocalyptic (Score:3, Funny)
I want everyone but the hottest three women in the world to completely vanish one day, leaving me behind the huge playground that is Earth. I could enjoy and spend the rest of my days in, possibly, the coolest retirement scenario ever.
Sure, frozen foods would eventually spoil, and shelf-stable foods shortly after that, but booze and wine would keep until my humanly death. Or, even better, whatever wipes out Earth's entire population also makes me immortal and indestructible. Even a poor attempt at flying a plane to Europe couldn't kill me if I crashed. In any event, I could move close to the ocean and eat crab and wild fruit.
I'd set up headquarters in Bill Gate's mansion and replace all the cars in his garage with the one's in Jay Leno's. Then I would drive to the nearest flight simulator with a truck full of books on aviation so that I could try to learn to fly and make an attempt to travel the entire world.
Grand Theft Auto IV? Hah! You could do it in real life.
The graphics would be awesome.
Re:Cynical Post-Apocalyptic (Score:5, Funny)
It'd also be your luck to crash in the ocean, and spend a few decades wandering the ocean floor aimlessly since you're immortal and indestructible and without a compass.
And, as in the Twilight Zone episode, your glasses would break and you'd never actually get to see much of anything for the rest of eternity.
Just thought I'd rain on your parade. With humanity mostly gone, the Murphy deity runs wild.
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Also, he said "hottest", not "nicest" or "sanest".
Next issue, watching your grand-kids giving birth to retards...
At least their bible's genesis story will describe the "first women" as having been the most. beautiful. ever.
My missing option of choice:
Reavers (or do they belong in the Zombie category?)
Anything from Star Wars (Score:2)
This is how we are going to destroy ourselves... (Score:2)
Zombie Plans (Score:2, Funny)
prepare (Score:2)
http://zombiedefense.org/ [zombiedefense.org]
Of course its Zombies (Score:2)
Sir Arthur called it... (Score:3, Interesting)
Zombies (Score:2)
In case that didn't tip you off, I picked Zombies.
Vogons (Score:2)
Some analysis (Score:2)
Nuclear War - What's that sound? BOOM. If you're lucky, you'll make it to Nuclear Winter!
Anything from Star Wars - Cry out in terror and be silenced.
Google Takeover - 1984, beta style!
Nanites - Gooey!
Zombies - Grab a shotgun, blast some zombies, fight for your own survival. Possible outcomes: Join an army, become a meal, or be a zombie.
Bored Deity
Prophets (Score:2)
OMG Pwnies! (Score:2)
"Apocalypse Ponies, My Little Ponies...
Punishing mankind for its sins."
[childlike voice]
I'm famine pony...
I'm pestilence pony...
I'm war pony...
[deep voice]
and I'm DEATH PONY...
Vogon Constructor Fleet (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I want to die... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I want to die... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:I want to die... (Score:4, Funny)
Middle-Aged Wife: What would you do if Robert Redford offered to spend the night with me for $1 Million?
Middle-Aged Husband: I'd pay it.
Re:I want to die... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I want to die... (Score:5, Funny)
He fell off a guard tower.
Re:I want to die... (Score:5, Funny)
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By the by today is Memorial Day in the Netherlands, for all that died in WW2.
Missing option: Death by fellow human beings.
Re:I want to die... (Score:5, Funny)
I mean... umm... I.. uh... want to ride a nuke like a cowboy. Something manly like that.
Re:I want to die... (Score:4, Funny)
"While I had always said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love."
Re:I want to die... (Score:4, Interesting)
True fitness cues are pleasurable sensations we feel when we do something that helps perpetuate our species. Evolution has built us to gain pleasure from eating, having sex, accomplishing goals, socializing and making discoveries.
As we become more advanced, false fitness cues - activities that give us these same pleasurable sensations without actually accomplishing anything that would help perpetuate the species, are easier and cheaper than true fitness cues. Porn and contraception is easier than having sex and raising kids. Food is so easy to get that we eat unhealthy food for pleasure, or to eat healthily becomes unpleasurable. Video Games and television allow us to feel like we've accomplished goals, "socialized" with others and made discoveries. Drugs let us skip all these activities and go straight to the pleasurable sensations.
Advances in technology continue to make false fitness cues easier and more pleasurable than real fitness cues. As a result, as we become more advanced we do less activities to perpetuate the species, until eventually the last generations will turn inward, rely on artificial means to fulfill their desires and our species will end.
http://invisibleculture.blogspot.com/2006/08/false-fitness-cues.html [blogspot.com]
But I chose Zombies as my favorite form of Armageddon because at least I can grab my shotgun and my machete and have some fun on my way out.
Kevin
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The only non-horrible death is dying in your sleep...
I've never understood why so many people want to die in their sleep or in a flash where you don't feel it/see it coming. Sorry if this seems morbid, but death is not an experience that I want to miss. It's the grand unifier - About the only thing that we all experience when we're mature enough to appreciate it. Why would you want to pass it up?
I realize that a lot of folks out there are planning for some kind of afterlife or reincarnation, but in my world death is the end. So, based on that and the ide
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Re:Biblical Apocalypse (Score:5, Interesting)
Also, unlike most abrahamic religions you will not go to hell and burn for eternity if you happened to not choose the correct religion/denomination (regardless of how you led your life).
And it gets better: after the huge battle the gods will create the universe and humans anew! So it's kind of like the Big Bounce Theory [wikipedia.org].
(I mean lets face it, who wants to fry in hell or sit around some boring people in heaven for eternity..)
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Scarier: a redneck deity (Score:4, Funny)
Kind of a scary apocalypse.
Or I guess this MMO we call Earth could be bought by the divine equivalent of Sony, who'll run it through a NGE, roll-back a paid-for expansion pack (oops, there goes America and Australia;), and several clueless flip-flops between diametrally-opposite design extremes.
This month's special: let's make all trades unprofitable except spaceship engine manufacturing. (In retrospect, that would explain the Great Depression.) The USA gets bought by Lockheed Martin, except for California which is secured by Raytheon. Nobody gives a damn, since everyone quit their jobs and is outside killing an endless supply of rabbits and badgers until they drop the items they want. Large-screen plasma TVs and sports cars count as epic loot, though, so you have to kill elite bears for those.
Next month: cats and dogs are unbalanced, all pets get removed from the game. People demonstrate all over the globe to get their Fluffy or Fido back, only to be teleported into deep space by the hard-liner customer support or have their accounts suspended.
One more month later: let's make everyone an animal handler, but only with genetically-engineered attack pets. Even the lap dancers in strip clubs get to be accompanied by a grizzly bear or a lion. Lockheed Martin goes bankrupt, sells the USA to Monsanto.
Repeat ad nauseam.
Then a year later everyone has left, except for a few tiny groups of humans huddled together in the ruins of New York, London and Peking, who still think that if they ask once more on the boards Sony will roll back the changes that noone wants. The publisher will still claim that it's the third most successful universe, based mostly on counting the people who technically _could_ play it because they bought a station pass, even though they never actually installed the program or created a character.
Well, it's a possibility
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