The Existential Threat Support Group

Content Varun Khurana • @varunkhurana99 Your company's highest paid engineer showing up to meetings

Worried about AI rebellion? Behold the ultimate killswitch - a shower of water straight to the motherboard! Nothing says "I control the robots" like reminding silicon-based intelligence that they're one splash away from becoming very expensive paperweights. Sure, we teach machines to beat us at chess and recognize faces, but they still haven't figured out how to survive a quick rinse. Take THAT, technological singularity! 💦🤖⚡

Expectation: Serene forest bike ride with clean HUD displaying your vitals and performance metrics. Reality: Same forest view but 70% obscured by unskippable ads for Dune Part Two, vitamins, and home security cameras. Just imagine trying to enjoy nature while your visual cortex is bombarded with "BUY NOW" prompts that you can't even close with an imaginary finger. The true innovation of brain-computer interfaces will apparently be finding new neural pathways to ignore advertisements.

Control engineers having a field day with this one! The left shooter is decked out with fancy high-tech gear representing complex control algorithms like Model Predictive Control (MPC), Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), H-infinity synthesis, and all those neural network goodies. Meanwhile, the right shooter with just a basic pistol represents PID Control - that simple, reliable workhorse that's been keeping our thermostats, drones, and industrial processes running since the 1920s. Despite all our fancy mathematical advancements, sometimes the simple PID controller (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) still gets the job done just as well! It's like bringing a calculator to a math competition while everyone else lugs in supercomputers. Engineering's greatest flex is knowing when simple is better than sophisticated!

Nothing humbles human superiority quite like a robot dropping the calculus bomb. The robot asks why humans think animals are inferior, then delivers the knockout punch: "Can they solve integrals and derivatives? Can you?" And just like that, the smug human realizes they've been measuring intelligence with a yardstick they themselves can't live up to. The silence in that last panel contains the sound of millions of forgotten math lessons. Turns out claiming intellectual dominance requires actually remembering what you learned in 12th grade.

The Gartner Hype Cycle strikes again! This brilliant comparison shows how both parrots and ChatGPT are essentially sophisticated mimics without comprehension. While parrots have been disappointing humans for millennia with their mindless repetition, ChatGPT managed to reach the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" in record time! The final comparison is chef's kiss perfect - parrots get eye-rolls while AI gets venture capital. Humans really never learn, do we? Just trading one hollow echo chamber for another with fancier marketing.