We each have a choice to resist the glitzy BS, thickest now during the season of profound consumption. Just say NO to AI. To ancillary crap unimportant to your being. To any tech with spy potential. Read books. Write prose, poetry, music, From your heart, from your billions of neural synapses, not from AI. As long as it's not a Zionist, love anything biological more than anything silicon. Just say NO.
Yep, it's the Jewish Zionist billionaires who control our media, our governments and are now pushing AI onto us that we must resist. For a tiny population to exert such mind numbing control over so many facets of modern life is unbelievably dangerous. How did this happen?
Zionism is a Jewish supremacist ideology, so it doesn't matter what faith they are individually. They are still upholding Jewish supremacy, which if you're a Christian is really weird.
You may call Zionism a Jewish supremacy movement. It is also an Evangelical Christian Nationalist movement. There may even be some Zionists who pretend to be Muslims.
True Christianity, Judaism and Islam do not support Zionism, but some Capitalists do.
I hesitate to identify all Capitalists as atheists because some of them worship Moloch.
The worshippers of Moloch may not sacrifice their own children but will often sacrifice those of others, including yours, if you have any. They may not burn them at a bronze furnace but will burn them with heavy debt loads and credit cards fees with usurious interest rates, or send them into wars for profits, or burn the places in which they live.
Hypocrisy is condemned by Islam, Judaism and Christianity, but hypocrites abound especially in positions of wealth and power.
Similarly, usury is also condemned. Usury is essentially the collection of excessive interest on loans. Usury is a fundamental tenet of financial Capitalism.
What is “excessive interest”? What is the total interest charged for home mortgage loans or student loans?
Capitalism is a religion that overrides most others. Zionism was founded by atheists, many of whom were Capitalists. Honest Zionists do not pretend to be Christians, Muslims or Jews. They may proclaim to be Capitalists without hypocrisy.
Throughout his political career, spanning several decades, Joe Biden proclaimed himself to be a Zionist. So, we cannot attribute such proclamations solely to senility or dementia.
>>"it's the Jewish Zionist billionaires.....and are now pushing AI onto us..."
Nothing of the sort. No connection between Zionists and AI. It is rather a connection between CAPTITALISTS and AI (and 'some' Capitalists are Zionists).
Such illogical conspiratorial thinking (i.e. Zionists are responsible for everything you don't like or don't agree with in the world) is a recipe for erreonous conslusions and hence a lack of ability to 'solve issues' (due to not knowing what the problem really is).
Really, you're twisting yourself into a little pretzel. Look at who controls the media, Hollywood, all western governments, the banks (Rothschilds et al), Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag, the Military Industrial Complex. Just look at what Larry the Fink of BlackRock owns around the world. Open your eyes.
BTW, I don't think Jeffery is suicidal. F ing israeli's are capable of anything. The world is busy disowning them all. I have read 25% of israelis are planning on leaving israel.
Losing strategy? Far superior to a disaster recipe. Another opinion of the transformative value of AI in the hands of humans many of whom may not understand its perils and will thus be likely to inadvertently foster such "malicioius uses". Some extensive reading of Gary Marcus' substack may be in order as a reality check.
EDIT: Marcus' substack today is a well-balanced look - he's still bullish on eventual AGI, but the hype around LLMs like Chat GPT won't get us anywhere AND recurring core technical problems with LLMs are inherent to the technology.
My point is, trying to convince people to reject use of AI is putting the toothpaste back in the bottle AND throws the baby out with the bath water. I do think there are natural constraints, like overuse of local resources, that people will fight. Also, people will choose to reject it for certain things, like art or things that are simply better even with the flaws of human error. I like to cook even though it’s easier to go out to eat…
"the flaws of human error". That phrase reveals the deep issue with folks embracing AI for the wrong reasons. Is Joe Cocker's growl, his imperfectly hit pitches on "With a Little Help from My Friends" "human error"? that if AI were available it should've pitch-corrected and filtered? (just one example). Or is that part of, a key aspect of Cocker's performance art?
For the most part, the current generation of AI acolytes has little idea how to answer that question, and therefore, a poor notion of the boundary conditions that are appropriate. Granted, you can't put the toothpaste back in. But it's judicious to try to keep it from squirting all over the bathroom, particularly if it's got corrosive potential. Since that boundary condition aspect isn't happening, far as I can see (because of the ka-ching potential), I must take the "stay away" posture as a fall back at this stage of the endeavor. Show me a more enlightened, less-brainwashed user population, and an AI with true self-limiting system properties (not currently trustworthy in that department) and I'd be less concerned.
What you forget Vin, is that MOST people won't have a choice - just like most people didn't really have a choice on whether to use a computer or not, use the internet or not, use a mobile phone or not, etc.
You are thinking of Generative AI as a 'consumer' directed technology/end-product, but that is a small segment of AI. Increasingly, AI systems will be embedded in many services you receive, many products that are available to purchase, many B2B (business-to-business) exchange of goods and services, in the research industries, and more.
Instead of 'saying no to AI', a more productive and helpful mantra would be 'know WHEN to use AI and when NOT to', 'know/be-aware of the pitfalls of AI' (similar to knowing the pitfalls/dangers of social media), and 'use AI to accomplish mundane, repetitive, time-comsuming but low value yielding tasks'.
Did you read my comment above Chang. Regarding folks informing themselves, boundary conditions, Marcus, etc.?
While you're correct about the embedding. — and the profit motive will drive that aspect beyond the control of our puny fingers — people have choices regarding the flawed crap out there right now. And will continue to have them in the short term. But we both know about human sloth. So much easier for folks to go with the flow of any propaganda that repeatedly shouts: "this is terrific, it'll upgrade your life experience . . . AND everyone's using it, so don't get left behind". That's what I observe happening at the moment which provokes me to raise my hand in a stop gesture like a concerned school crossing guard halting a speeder.
Sci-fi writers are so prophetic at times that it blows my mind. The 1963 French Sci-fi novel Planet if the Apes predicted this.
It's different in its the nation of why
Apes gain control of the planet. Differing from the movie, they didn't rise to power due to nuclear war, but rather due to computers taking over the role of critical thinking. Humans got lazy, stop caring for themselves, but mostly stopped thinking for themselves and over time lost the ability to think currently and the ape simply past them on the evolutionary scale.
I read it a few months ago because oddly, I read dystopian novels to get my mind off the dystopian reality at the end of the day and this completely blindsided me.
Back in The Good Old Days, publishing news was hard. For one thing, you needed a printing press, which was expensive and required specialized staff to operate it. Not only that, but a printing press cost money for every sheet of paper printed, and you had to spend more money on distribution.
They say that "freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" but there's more! Unless you planned to publish as an expensive and time-consuming hobby, you needed an income stream. You would get some money from subscriptions, but subscriptions are really a means to sell advertising. Dependence on advertising meant that there were some people the publisher had to keep happy, and others he could not afford to annoy.
Anyone who knows anything about local news knows this. At best, it's a tightrope walk between giving subscribers the news they want to know, and not infuriating your advertisers. The result was a sort of natural censorship. Publishers had to think long and hard before they published anything that would tork the bigwigs off. The fact that a publisher was tied to a physical location and physical assets also made libel suits much easier.
The internet changed all that. Now, any anonymous toolio with a laptop and WiFi can go into the news publishing business by nightfall, and with worldwide distribution and advertising revenue, to boot. Marginal cost of readership is zero. Needless to say, this development has The People That Matter very concerned, and they are working hard to stuff that genie back into the bottle.
Love the conclusion of this article. I think consciousness can only evolve. No technology or algorithm can interfere with this process. Ironically, it’s the suffering the system causes, including addiction, that drives people to discover the ultimate power that dwells within all of us.
I found out that most of the news I was listening to was AI generated! Jeffery Sachs, Douglas MacGregor, John Mearsheimer etc. were being faked. Someone just says to an AI, make a broadcast of the latest news in the style of Jeffery Sachs or whatever. It's so easy they can make a vid every hour. The visuals are hideous, that's a giveaway, but from now one I trust only established sources.
Besides, once all these companies rely on AI, once they are completely hooked, the providers will start jacking up the price. That's what they always do.
Ignore the MSM, social media, the politicians, the DC Cesspool, and most other forms of media. You have to be very selective and be ready to jettison those that appear to be healthy alternatives. Many are not. You do not need any news to survive. Mental clarity comes from being a part of no cults or deep state prognosticators.
We're led by scads of people who are pursuing an agenda, mostly concerning power and money. We're hard pressed to find any who are guided by a moral desire to serve their consituency.
Like a pack of wild dogs, the rest turn on any who show any moral center or concern for the nation's wellbeing.
Staying offline helps. Having creative projects helps. Meeting face to face rather than chatting online helps. Having friends who understand the AI danger and also avoid it helps. Getting your entertainment offline helps. Volunteering helps. Anything that gets you out of the digital world helps!
I couldn't agree more. Even before all the high tech manipulations of our conscious awareness, the ageless wisdom teachings spoke of Maya, the illusion of embodiment. Know thyself was the timeless admonition.
People don’t collapse into propaganda because the machine is perfect. They collapse because:
attention spans are short or shot
emotional resilience is gone
literacy is falling rapidly
dopamine addiction is rising
people outsource thinking
truth feels exhausting or threatening
distraction is easy and always available
AI is a scalpel. The real rot is inside the culture. A healthy society could withstand these tools. We can’t — not because of the tools, but because we’ve become soft targets.
My verdict?
Like Mr. Orwell before him, Mr. Assange wasn’t describing the future. He was describing right now, just a little early.
The dystopia isn’t coming.
It’s here.
It’s banal.
It’s subtle.
It’s frictionless.
And it works because most people don’t even realize they’re in it. Mental lucidity in 2025 isn’t a lifestyle these days. It’s essential resistance, which few are practicing day to day.
To be successful we have to combat these forces with their own tools.
The digital world works with no emotion, no loyalty. It’s just numbers. They work in any direction.
The future will be determined not by who has the most money, or hardware, but by who has the better software, and the only software that matters is our brains. The people outnumber billionaires by a million to one, but if you’ve ever seen a little dog round up a hundred sheep you know how easily power can be controlled, if we let it. That’s what they’re counting on.
You kill me Hillary. Surely you harbor an inkling of understanding that your threadbare and risible shtick is despicable in light of the “history” you would prefer not be understood. There is no esoteric aura about you. You come across not as learned, or insightful, or one bearing any sense of grace or our common humanity—but rather, as the pathetic liar and criminal that you are.
The bright young students at Columbia and around the world realize this. They know you abide genocide, and beyond all the other damning truths about you Hillary, this is one people know and feel in their bones, and there is no amount of bullshit you can produce that will cover that up.
We each have a choice to resist the glitzy BS, thickest now during the season of profound consumption. Just say NO to AI. To ancillary crap unimportant to your being. To any tech with spy potential. Read books. Write prose, poetry, music, From your heart, from your billions of neural synapses, not from AI. As long as it's not a Zionist, love anything biological more than anything silicon. Just say NO.
Yep, it's the Jewish Zionist billionaires who control our media, our governments and are now pushing AI onto us that we must resist. For a tiny population to exert such mind numbing control over so many facets of modern life is unbelievably dangerous. How did this happen?
Zionists are not actually Jews. They are hypocrites of various denominations.
Well said.
Zionism is a Jewish supremacist ideology, so it doesn't matter what faith they are individually. They are still upholding Jewish supremacy, which if you're a Christian is really weird.
You may call Zionism a Jewish supremacy movement. It is also an Evangelical Christian Nationalist movement. There may even be some Zionists who pretend to be Muslims.
True Christianity, Judaism and Islam do not support Zionism, but some Capitalists do.
I hesitate to identify all Capitalists as atheists because some of them worship Moloch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
The worshippers of Moloch may not sacrifice their own children but will often sacrifice those of others, including yours, if you have any. They may not burn them at a bronze furnace but will burn them with heavy debt loads and credit cards fees with usurious interest rates, or send them into wars for profits, or burn the places in which they live.
Like many Christians are not Christians.
https://myislam.org/quran-verses/hypocrites/
https://christianfaithguide.com/what-did-jesus-say-about-hypocrites/
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/15196-zebu-im
Hypocrisy is condemned by Islam, Judaism and Christianity, but hypocrites abound especially in positions of wealth and power.
Similarly, usury is also condemned. Usury is essentially the collection of excessive interest on loans. Usury is a fundamental tenet of financial Capitalism.
What is “excessive interest”? What is the total interest charged for home mortgage loans or student loans?
Capitalism is a religion that overrides most others. Zionism was founded by atheists, many of whom were Capitalists. Honest Zionists do not pretend to be Christians, Muslims or Jews. They may proclaim to be Capitalists without hypocrisy.
There are three layers above the Zionists. Beware. How did it happen? It’s been here all the time.
In which layer does Zionist Joe Biden reside?
Throughout his political career, spanning several decades, Joe Biden proclaimed himself to be a Zionist. So, we cannot attribute such proclamations solely to senility or dementia.
>>"it's the Jewish Zionist billionaires.....and are now pushing AI onto us..."
Nothing of the sort. No connection between Zionists and AI. It is rather a connection between CAPTITALISTS and AI (and 'some' Capitalists are Zionists).
Such illogical conspiratorial thinking (i.e. Zionists are responsible for everything you don't like or don't agree with in the world) is a recipe for erreonous conslusions and hence a lack of ability to 'solve issues' (due to not knowing what the problem really is).
Really, you're twisting yourself into a little pretzel. Look at who controls the media, Hollywood, all western governments, the banks (Rothschilds et al), Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag, the Military Industrial Complex. Just look at what Larry the Fink of BlackRock owns around the world. Open your eyes.
Watch out on U-Tube. Luckily I still have a brain and perception.
A Jeffrey Sax video the other day......this was not J. Sax because I know how he moves his head when speaking and the format was suspicious.
I wrote in the comments. Beware: this is AI
Books and more books and music and drawing..............writing. I agree Vin.
Jeffery would be a important for the israeli's to abduct. He is a hero to us all.
There would be no stopping us all merging together.............to trace him?
BTW, I don't think Jeffery is suicidal. F ing israeli's are capable of anything. The world is busy disowning them all. I have read 25% of israelis are planning on leaving israel.
Actually I meant his actions, speech from Jeffery is more powerful than any few weapons : )
And it is very well-funded "science" for warfare upon our minds:
"We Are Everywhere" - Fort Bragg Psychological Warfare Group Posts Chilling Video
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/we-are-everywhere-fort-bragg-psychological-warfare-group-posts-chilling-video
Losing strategy. Might better to use AI to prevent the malicious uses of it. Good people using AI to battle the bad people using AI
Losing strategy? Far superior to a disaster recipe. Another opinion of the transformative value of AI in the hands of humans many of whom may not understand its perils and will thus be likely to inadvertently foster such "malicioius uses". Some extensive reading of Gary Marcus' substack may be in order as a reality check.
EDIT: Marcus' substack today is a well-balanced look - he's still bullish on eventual AGI, but the hype around LLMs like Chat GPT won't get us anywhere AND recurring core technical problems with LLMs are inherent to the technology.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=888615&post_id=180115766&utm_source=post-email-title&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b8qtt&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxODg4Mzc5MywicG9zdF9pZCI6MTgwMTE1NzY2LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQ0MzQyOTgsImV4cCI6MTc2NzAyNjI5OCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTg4ODYxNSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.nILG4VW-IxaEKs-zdqoOgTeCel3MJ_E8f4WRi--3DNA
My point is, trying to convince people to reject use of AI is putting the toothpaste back in the bottle AND throws the baby out with the bath water. I do think there are natural constraints, like overuse of local resources, that people will fight. Also, people will choose to reject it for certain things, like art or things that are simply better even with the flaws of human error. I like to cook even though it’s easier to go out to eat…
"the flaws of human error". That phrase reveals the deep issue with folks embracing AI for the wrong reasons. Is Joe Cocker's growl, his imperfectly hit pitches on "With a Little Help from My Friends" "human error"? that if AI were available it should've pitch-corrected and filtered? (just one example). Or is that part of, a key aspect of Cocker's performance art?
For the most part, the current generation of AI acolytes has little idea how to answer that question, and therefore, a poor notion of the boundary conditions that are appropriate. Granted, you can't put the toothpaste back in. But it's judicious to try to keep it from squirting all over the bathroom, particularly if it's got corrosive potential. Since that boundary condition aspect isn't happening, far as I can see (because of the ka-ching potential), I must take the "stay away" posture as a fall back at this stage of the endeavor. Show me a more enlightened, less-brainwashed user population, and an AI with true self-limiting system properties (not currently trustworthy in that department) and I'd be less concerned.
Sadly, we shall see sooner than we all know.
Sorry, those that control the communication are the users. We are only the content.
>>"Just say NO to AI."
What you forget Vin, is that MOST people won't have a choice - just like most people didn't really have a choice on whether to use a computer or not, use the internet or not, use a mobile phone or not, etc.
You are thinking of Generative AI as a 'consumer' directed technology/end-product, but that is a small segment of AI. Increasingly, AI systems will be embedded in many services you receive, many products that are available to purchase, many B2B (business-to-business) exchange of goods and services, in the research industries, and more.
Instead of 'saying no to AI', a more productive and helpful mantra would be 'know WHEN to use AI and when NOT to', 'know/be-aware of the pitfalls of AI' (similar to knowing the pitfalls/dangers of social media), and 'use AI to accomplish mundane, repetitive, time-comsuming but low value yielding tasks'.
Did you read my comment above Chang. Regarding folks informing themselves, boundary conditions, Marcus, etc.?
While you're correct about the embedding. — and the profit motive will drive that aspect beyond the control of our puny fingers — people have choices regarding the flawed crap out there right now. And will continue to have them in the short term. But we both know about human sloth. So much easier for folks to go with the flow of any propaganda that repeatedly shouts: "this is terrific, it'll upgrade your life experience . . . AND everyone's using it, so don't get left behind". That's what I observe happening at the moment which provokes me to raise my hand in a stop gesture like a concerned school crossing guard halting a speeder.
Sci-fi writers are so prophetic at times that it blows my mind. The 1963 French Sci-fi novel Planet if the Apes predicted this.
It's different in its the nation of why
Apes gain control of the planet. Differing from the movie, they didn't rise to power due to nuclear war, but rather due to computers taking over the role of critical thinking. Humans got lazy, stop caring for themselves, but mostly stopped thinking for themselves and over time lost the ability to think currently and the ape simply past them on the evolutionary scale.
I read it a few months ago because oddly, I read dystopian novels to get my mind off the dystopian reality at the end of the day and this completely blindsided me.
Thanks Caitlin. I dig in my vegetable gardens and plant seeds by hand with sore knees and back.
It's centering and "grounding". I have a couple of pretty big kitchen gardens.
YMMV.
(Riding a bike route where people don't try to kill you for a couple of hours can be good, too.)
Back in The Good Old Days, publishing news was hard. For one thing, you needed a printing press, which was expensive and required specialized staff to operate it. Not only that, but a printing press cost money for every sheet of paper printed, and you had to spend more money on distribution.
They say that "freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" but there's more! Unless you planned to publish as an expensive and time-consuming hobby, you needed an income stream. You would get some money from subscriptions, but subscriptions are really a means to sell advertising. Dependence on advertising meant that there were some people the publisher had to keep happy, and others he could not afford to annoy.
Anyone who knows anything about local news knows this. At best, it's a tightrope walk between giving subscribers the news they want to know, and not infuriating your advertisers. The result was a sort of natural censorship. Publishers had to think long and hard before they published anything that would tork the bigwigs off. The fact that a publisher was tied to a physical location and physical assets also made libel suits much easier.
The internet changed all that. Now, any anonymous toolio with a laptop and WiFi can go into the news publishing business by nightfall, and with worldwide distribution and advertising revenue, to boot. Marginal cost of readership is zero. Needless to say, this development has The People That Matter very concerned, and they are working hard to stuff that genie back into the bottle.
Put a cog in the wheel. Stop the machine. Create a new world. Free Palestine.
Love the conclusion of this article. I think consciousness can only evolve. No technology or algorithm can interfere with this process. Ironically, it’s the suffering the system causes, including addiction, that drives people to discover the ultimate power that dwells within all of us.
I found out that most of the news I was listening to was AI generated! Jeffery Sachs, Douglas MacGregor, John Mearsheimer etc. were being faked. Someone just says to an AI, make a broadcast of the latest news in the style of Jeffery Sachs or whatever. It's so easy they can make a vid every hour. The visuals are hideous, that's a giveaway, but from now one I trust only established sources.
Besides, once all these companies rely on AI, once they are completely hooked, the providers will start jacking up the price. That's what they always do.
Ignore the MSM, social media, the politicians, the DC Cesspool, and most other forms of media. You have to be very selective and be ready to jettison those that appear to be healthy alternatives. Many are not. You do not need any news to survive. Mental clarity comes from being a part of no cults or deep state prognosticators.
Resist Much
Obey Little
We're led by scads of people who are pursuing an agenda, mostly concerning power and money. We're hard pressed to find any who are guided by a moral desire to serve their consituency.
Like a pack of wild dogs, the rest turn on any who show any moral center or concern for the nation's wellbeing.
Hear here !
Staying offline helps. Having creative projects helps. Meeting face to face rather than chatting online helps. Having friends who understand the AI danger and also avoid it helps. Getting your entertainment offline helps. Volunteering helps. Anything that gets you out of the digital world helps!
I couldn't agree more. Even before all the high tech manipulations of our conscious awareness, the ageless wisdom teachings spoke of Maya, the illusion of embodiment. Know thyself was the timeless admonition.
The real threat isn’t the technology.
It’s the weakness of the modern mind.**
People don’t collapse into propaganda because the machine is perfect. They collapse because:
attention spans are short or shot
emotional resilience is gone
literacy is falling rapidly
dopamine addiction is rising
people outsource thinking
truth feels exhausting or threatening
distraction is easy and always available
AI is a scalpel. The real rot is inside the culture. A healthy society could withstand these tools. We can’t — not because of the tools, but because we’ve become soft targets.
My verdict?
Like Mr. Orwell before him, Mr. Assange wasn’t describing the future. He was describing right now, just a little early.
The dystopia isn’t coming.
It’s here.
It’s banal.
It’s subtle.
It’s frictionless.
And it works because most people don’t even realize they’re in it. Mental lucidity in 2025 isn’t a lifestyle these days. It’s essential resistance, which few are practicing day to day.
Well said Michael Lynch!
And all this as more and more percent of the population gets stupider and stupider , more and more brainwashed, and more fascist. Super MAGAnizid.
To be successful we have to combat these forces with their own tools.
The digital world works with no emotion, no loyalty. It’s just numbers. They work in any direction.
The future will be determined not by who has the most money, or hardware, but by who has the better software, and the only software that matters is our brains. The people outnumber billionaires by a million to one, but if you’ve ever seen a little dog round up a hundred sheep you know how easily power can be controlled, if we let it. That’s what they’re counting on.
Resist, always, even just for practice.
You kill me Hillary. Surely you harbor an inkling of understanding that your threadbare and risible shtick is despicable in light of the “history” you would prefer not be understood. There is no esoteric aura about you. You come across not as learned, or insightful, or one bearing any sense of grace or our common humanity—but rather, as the pathetic liar and criminal that you are.
The bright young students at Columbia and around the world realize this. They know you abide genocide, and beyond all the other damning truths about you Hillary, this is one people know and feel in their bones, and there is no amount of bullshit you can produce that will cover that up.