Great post. I probably restack-quoted half of it. All this tech was pitched as something like a "bicycle for the mind," but in reality it's becoming a wheelchair for the needlessly crippled who've chosen to let their legs wither from neglect until they can no longer even stand on their own. Offline and analog tech will make a comeback though.
Thanks man, appreciate it. Yeah, I very much think that older tech will make a comeback in many ways. There are indeed a lot of untapped resources here, but I'm sure that stuff like traditional P2P piracy is coming back, for instance.
Realistically, dissent and revolution are not possible. Beyond the usual rehashed kerfuffle discourses on the subject, the implications of that thing in 2020 was more telling than we want to admit. So within this sandbox some choices are possible, and the biggest upcoming choice will be whether to exit the brave new city or stay on with front row seats on the ride. In either case it's a one way ride and statistically the first three carriages in train wrecks receive the greatest damage. Just thought I'd point this out.
That image at the end looked familiar. So I did a quick search. I encountered similar images chasing down a rabbit hole, productions of "backrooms", in years past on YT. Searching for a clip to share here I noticed there's now an entire genre entitled "pool rooms". They're virtually identical to that insta account. Backrooms was based on an absurd premise of quasi reality inhabited by a weird monster-esque alien behind our reality accessible by doors and nondescript offices and malls hidden away by the deep state. It blended sci-fi with reality and in the early material played off real camera recordings with cgi. It was weird stuff, the sort without beginning or end, where you're not sure of what you're looking at, coming before the advent of LM/AI. But now any creator can run with it, and there's endless slop. And I can only imagine everyone's a genius.
It was interesting to read the linked article on the standardization of language used by academics tracing words more common with AI output. This plays on similar thoughts I've had on summarizing documents. The key to a great analysis is finding the key details, which might not be so obvious or based on previous takeaways. Beyond the "humans are lazy", I keep returning to the parallels with a recent conversation repeating the trope of our inability to go anywhere driving without using navigation tools. Our brains are formidable instruments, but like muscles need constant use to avoid atrophy.
So perhaps then, to your friend who wants to outsource writing to AI (incidentally I know a few who already do), we who still rely on the ancien méthode for doing stuff should rejoice. A decade from now, if we haven't on aggregate societally self deleted through predictive policing or AI led nuclear Armageddon, those of us who noticed how previous innovations turned out to change human behavior (navigator, social media, smart handheld monoliths), might be in high demand for being uncontaminated.
Yep. I think you're right, but fuck me if I'm not gonna die trying.
The backrooms is an old 4chan "creepypasta", I guess you could think of it as a kind of situationist art that addresses the aesthetics and human condition under digitalization, and in some ways, I think it predicted the uncanny and alien vibe of generative AI. It's like we're actually in those backrooms now.
Such people might be in high demand. Sure. But we might also find ourselves in the role of artisans and craftspeople trying to compete with mass production.
Artisans command higher prices at the margins 🤣🤪 (and are independent)
Thanks! Happy new year to you!
Perhaps it may seem risky, but to me it seems more akin to fomo. I'm sure it won't take many years for us to see heavy chatbot LM users with completely burned out minds', unable to function without assistance.
On this note, a rabbit hole I've been exploring lately has to do with our electrical body, and how tech already exists to implant thoughts (and more), without wearables. It's quite insane and the potentials explored in the black mirror TV series look tame.
Luckily, I think our energy realities mean that AI will increasingly become irrelevant as collapse accelerates. So it’s not a permanent state of being. It will be reversed with time. Happy Christmas!
I tried to paste my own copy of this poem, but Microsoft 365 wouldn't stop subjecting me its NON INTUITIVE dictates. Fuck that!
Below is a link to Tony Hoagland's "No Thank You." Embrace uncertainty; believe there's a vibration above the manufactured chaos that your soul will recognize when the time comes.
Thanks! Getting back into poetry again. When it's really good, I think there's something inherently transcendent about it. Something actually magical in every sense of the word.
Every time I see that painting it never fails to impress.
I saw Starry Night in person at the Guggenheim and sure enough, there’s a damn good reason why it’s famous. It fills the entire room with an ethereal light.
Big Data- Information and Transparency have replaced truth- a narcissistic compulsion to be transparent- self illumination, self- exposure as alienated, isolated achievement/performance subjects addicted to the "feeling of freedom" which is entirely illusory. Psychogramme- the ability to manipulate and control the desires, needs, and wishes of the collective unconscious. Domination is complete when surveillance coincides with limitless communication.
Neo-liberal psychopolitics is a technology of domination that stabilises and perpetuates the prevailing system by means of psychological programming and steering. ... the interpellation of the docile subject, his inwardness, his identity, and his consciousness by the logic of capitalism... domination is complete when surveillance coincides with limitless communication.. technological domination that has discovered the productive force of the psyche... neoliberal psychopolitics of experiencing and emotion which only ensares the Subject deeper and deeper in the state of subjection and subjugation.... the art of lingering stands opposed to the 'psychological terror' through which subjugating subjectivation occurs.... an overthrow in which domination occurs.
The Terror of the Same.
The time in which there was such a thing as the Other is over. The Other as desire, the Other as hell and the Other as PAIN disappear. The negativity of the Other now gives way to the positivity of the Same. The social body is made sick not by denial and prohibition but by over- communication; not by suppression and negation, but by permissiveness and affirmation. The pathological sign of our times is not repression but depression. DESTRUCTIVE pressure comes not from the Other but from WIthin! Depression as internal pressure develops AUTO-AGGRESSIVE traits. The depressive performance subject is beaten down or suffocated by the self. Not only the violence of the Other is destructive; the expulsion of the Other sets in motion an entirely different process of DESTRUCTION, namely that of SELF-DESTRUCTION. The dialectic of violence applies: A SYSTEM THAT REJECTS THE NEGATIVITY OF THE OTHER DEVELOPS SELF-DESTRUCTIVE TRAITS..... the proliferation of the Same presents itself as growth. At a certain point, however, production is no longer production but destructive, information is no longer information but deformative, and communication is no longer communication but merely cumulative.....binge watching....consumer livestock, fattened on ever- new sameness... the proliferation of the Same resembles not a carcinoma but a coma, and does NOT meet with any immunological defences! One googles oneself into unconsciousness.
Yeah, well, talk of basic chump income persists, no, with a horizon filled with suger plums and fairies.
Thespians. It all goes back to encouraging the big lie of acting, turned into Madison Avenue, turned into Bernays, et al, and freedom torches (AKA cancer sticks) and eggs and bacon for a healthy breakfast.
Shit, those kosher jews: Edward Bernays worked for the pork industry, specifically the Beech-Nut Packing Company, in the 1920s to boost bacon sales by transforming it into a staple of the American breakfast through a clever public relations campaign that linked bacon and eggs to a healthier, heavier start to the day, using expert testimonials from doctors.
Wow, slop is the word for the year, 2025 Merriam Webster's star word, man.
You're so modern.
Here's some fun -- Portugal, that premiere destination digital nomads, and the lines in the Jewish State of Rape and Murder and Starvation and Elimination Occupied Israel for a triple/quad passport to this country are long as the Gestapo lite and surveillance capitalists with their Talmuds are heading to that joint.
That cunt-tree:
Portugal’s right-wing government is extending the anti-labor agenda it pushed during the austerity era. A 3-million-strong general strike on December 11 showed a resilient working-class response.
I don't subscribe to the idea that current times are falling into disarray. Remember, we had freaking apartheid in the USA into the 60s! Women had limited rights. Native Americans land was taken away with bullshit treaties.
Obviously many disagreed but the majority agreed or were silent.
Past generations were as poisoned as current ones....
"This is certainly history’s stupidest generation, led by dead-eyed bugmen entirely devoid of principles, convictions and substance of thought. "
Actually, spending holiday time with my zennial nephew I'm surprised. He might not be as snappy as I am but he's got a lot less blind trust in authority and centralized sources.
His generation knows that the bugmen are just entertainment. They trust themselves more than "boss men".
It explains why my nephew never got caught up in the stupid things that his mom got into. Heck, she's still caught up in the medical nonsense system!
I find AI to be just like any other tool. Remember when they said spell check would make people dumber?
They said this about calculators to my generation.
I hate to say it but the calculator took the drudgery of hand math which made it fun. And before you say you're a master of written math, try doing square roots by hand or long division with at least 3 decimal places.
I currently use AI to do scripting. I'm not good with the syntax and I'm not willing to memorize that only for another language to come out and confuse us again.
But I DO always check the logic and run tests on the code to make sure it does what was intended. Sometimes AI is wrong, just like papers and scientific studies can be.
Video killed the radio star.
AI killed the academic star.
There's always been tons of bullshit papers many of which were peer reviewed. How did they not see bullshit?
At least the AI ones are easy to point out. 😂
Also, why is there such thing as graduate level writing when the whole PhD process is about saying things that others have said in order to get approved?
In my job the PhDs rarely if ever come up with workable solutions. The last time at my job it was a mechanic that found the solution that the engineers and PhDs were stumped on!
Thanks for this comment. You raise many valid points that should all be addressed at length, but just to cover your most important remarks -- contemporary AI can't really compare to earlier technologies in terms of its impact, not even to mass media technologies such as the printing press, since its scope is so comprehensive. It potentially displaces the entire spectrum of human cognitive abilities.
And we should remember that Plato was right about his misgivings around writing and the displacement of oral tradition by the written mode of transmitting and preserving knowledge -- it's just that writing also opened up new spaces for human cognitive activity that were more or less inaccessible previously.
But AI, on the contrary, doesn't obviously provide any unique, new avenues for leveraging human cognitive abilities in this way. Maybe it can be used in this way, but so far, we've seen no evidence of the overwhelmingly obvious possibilities for expanding human consciousness in the sense that writing immediately brought with it.
And it's very obviously suppressing and displacing human cognition in a much stronger sense than any previous mode of technology.
But I should get back to this comment at length. I hope you're right about the younger generations, but in my experience, they have almost no cognitive independence whatsoever and are almost devoid of creativity.
I already suspect that three quarters of X/Twitter is run by bots and AI generated videos, much of the rest being paid up trolls. It's already the matrix.
Great post. I probably restack-quoted half of it. All this tech was pitched as something like a "bicycle for the mind," but in reality it's becoming a wheelchair for the needlessly crippled who've chosen to let their legs wither from neglect until they can no longer even stand on their own. Offline and analog tech will make a comeback though.
Thanks man, appreciate it. Yeah, I very much think that older tech will make a comeback in many ways. There are indeed a lot of untapped resources here, but I'm sure that stuff like traditional P2P piracy is coming back, for instance.
Realistically, dissent and revolution are not possible. Beyond the usual rehashed kerfuffle discourses on the subject, the implications of that thing in 2020 was more telling than we want to admit. So within this sandbox some choices are possible, and the biggest upcoming choice will be whether to exit the brave new city or stay on with front row seats on the ride. In either case it's a one way ride and statistically the first three carriages in train wrecks receive the greatest damage. Just thought I'd point this out.
That image at the end looked familiar. So I did a quick search. I encountered similar images chasing down a rabbit hole, productions of "backrooms", in years past on YT. Searching for a clip to share here I noticed there's now an entire genre entitled "pool rooms". They're virtually identical to that insta account. Backrooms was based on an absurd premise of quasi reality inhabited by a weird monster-esque alien behind our reality accessible by doors and nondescript offices and malls hidden away by the deep state. It blended sci-fi with reality and in the early material played off real camera recordings with cgi. It was weird stuff, the sort without beginning or end, where you're not sure of what you're looking at, coming before the advent of LM/AI. But now any creator can run with it, and there's endless slop. And I can only imagine everyone's a genius.
It was interesting to read the linked article on the standardization of language used by academics tracing words more common with AI output. This plays on similar thoughts I've had on summarizing documents. The key to a great analysis is finding the key details, which might not be so obvious or based on previous takeaways. Beyond the "humans are lazy", I keep returning to the parallels with a recent conversation repeating the trope of our inability to go anywhere driving without using navigation tools. Our brains are formidable instruments, but like muscles need constant use to avoid atrophy.
So perhaps then, to your friend who wants to outsource writing to AI (incidentally I know a few who already do), we who still rely on the ancien méthode for doing stuff should rejoice. A decade from now, if we haven't on aggregate societally self deleted through predictive policing or AI led nuclear Armageddon, those of us who noticed how previous innovations turned out to change human behavior (navigator, social media, smart handheld monoliths), might be in high demand for being uncontaminated.
Yep. I think you're right, but fuck me if I'm not gonna die trying.
The backrooms is an old 4chan "creepypasta", I guess you could think of it as a kind of situationist art that addresses the aesthetics and human condition under digitalization, and in some ways, I think it predicted the uncanny and alien vibe of generative AI. It's like we're actually in those backrooms now.
Such people might be in high demand. Sure. But we might also find ourselves in the role of artisans and craftspeople trying to compete with mass production.
Artisans command higher prices at the margins 🤣🤪 (and are independent)
Thanks! Happy new year to you!
Perhaps it may seem risky, but to me it seems more akin to fomo. I'm sure it won't take many years for us to see heavy chatbot LM users with completely burned out minds', unable to function without assistance.
On this note, a rabbit hole I've been exploring lately has to do with our electrical body, and how tech already exists to implant thoughts (and more), without wearables. It's quite insane and the potentials explored in the black mirror TV series look tame.
Luckily, I think our energy realities mean that AI will increasingly become irrelevant as collapse accelerates. So it’s not a permanent state of being. It will be reversed with time. Happy Christmas!
I tried to paste my own copy of this poem, but Microsoft 365 wouldn't stop subjecting me its NON INTUITIVE dictates. Fuck that!
Below is a link to Tony Hoagland's "No Thank You." Embrace uncertainty; believe there's a vibration above the manufactured chaos that your soul will recognize when the time comes.
https://www.likevillepodcast.com/articles/2021/4/6/no-thank-you-a-selection-from-tony-hoaglands-priest-turned-therapist-treats-fear-of-god-2018
Thanks! Getting back into poetry again. When it's really good, I think there's something inherently transcendent about it. Something actually magical in every sense of the word.
Every time I see that painting it never fails to impress.
I saw Starry Night in person at the Guggenheim and sure enough, there’s a damn good reason why it’s famous. It fills the entire room with an ethereal light.
Psychopolitics. Byung-Chul_Han.
Big Data- Information and Transparency have replaced truth- a narcissistic compulsion to be transparent- self illumination, self- exposure as alienated, isolated achievement/performance subjects addicted to the "feeling of freedom" which is entirely illusory. Psychogramme- the ability to manipulate and control the desires, needs, and wishes of the collective unconscious. Domination is complete when surveillance coincides with limitless communication.
Neo-liberal psychopolitics is a technology of domination that stabilises and perpetuates the prevailing system by means of psychological programming and steering. ... the interpellation of the docile subject, his inwardness, his identity, and his consciousness by the logic of capitalism... domination is complete when surveillance coincides with limitless communication.. technological domination that has discovered the productive force of the psyche... neoliberal psychopolitics of experiencing and emotion which only ensares the Subject deeper and deeper in the state of subjection and subjugation.... the art of lingering stands opposed to the 'psychological terror' through which subjugating subjectivation occurs.... an overthrow in which domination occurs.
The Terror of the Same.
The time in which there was such a thing as the Other is over. The Other as desire, the Other as hell and the Other as PAIN disappear. The negativity of the Other now gives way to the positivity of the Same. The social body is made sick not by denial and prohibition but by over- communication; not by suppression and negation, but by permissiveness and affirmation. The pathological sign of our times is not repression but depression. DESTRUCTIVE pressure comes not from the Other but from WIthin! Depression as internal pressure develops AUTO-AGGRESSIVE traits. The depressive performance subject is beaten down or suffocated by the self. Not only the violence of the Other is destructive; the expulsion of the Other sets in motion an entirely different process of DESTRUCTION, namely that of SELF-DESTRUCTION. The dialectic of violence applies: A SYSTEM THAT REJECTS THE NEGATIVITY OF THE OTHER DEVELOPS SELF-DESTRUCTIVE TRAITS..... the proliferation of the Same presents itself as growth. At a certain point, however, production is no longer production but destructive, information is no longer information but deformative, and communication is no longer communication but merely cumulative.....binge watching....consumer livestock, fattened on ever- new sameness... the proliferation of the Same resembles not a carcinoma but a coma, and does NOT meet with any immunological defences! One googles oneself into unconsciousness.
Yeah, well, talk of basic chump income persists, no, with a horizon filled with suger plums and fairies.
Thespians. It all goes back to encouraging the big lie of acting, turned into Madison Avenue, turned into Bernays, et al, and freedom torches (AKA cancer sticks) and eggs and bacon for a healthy breakfast.
Shit, those kosher jews: Edward Bernays worked for the pork industry, specifically the Beech-Nut Packing Company, in the 1920s to boost bacon sales by transforming it into a staple of the American breakfast through a clever public relations campaign that linked bacon and eggs to a healthier, heavier start to the day, using expert testimonials from doctors.
Wow, slop is the word for the year, 2025 Merriam Webster's star word, man.
You're so modern.
Here's some fun -- Portugal, that premiere destination digital nomads, and the lines in the Jewish State of Rape and Murder and Starvation and Elimination Occupied Israel for a triple/quad passport to this country are long as the Gestapo lite and surveillance capitalists with their Talmuds are heading to that joint.
That cunt-tree:
Portugal’s right-wing government is extending the anti-labor agenda it pushed during the austerity era. A 3-million-strong general strike on December 11 showed a resilient working-class response.
https://portside.org/2025-12-22/portugals-general-strike?utm_source=portside-labor&utm_medium=email
+--+
It has been written: The Totalitarian Google Jews and their Brethren Looking for an Angle Everywhere
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/the-totalitarian-google-jews-and
Oh, darn . . . For Fuck's Sake -- Jews Do Control the Media, the Message, the Minyan in the White Man's House
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/for-fucks-sake-jews-do-control-the
Good Bye American Pie!
A Battered America Awaits Trump’s Next Move. Is Trump the “First Jewish President?” By Philip Giraldi
I don't subscribe to the idea that current times are falling into disarray. Remember, we had freaking apartheid in the USA into the 60s! Women had limited rights. Native Americans land was taken away with bullshit treaties.
Obviously many disagreed but the majority agreed or were silent.
Past generations were as poisoned as current ones....
https://robc137.substack.com/p/violence-down-since-they-banned-lead
"This is certainly history’s stupidest generation, led by dead-eyed bugmen entirely devoid of principles, convictions and substance of thought. "
Actually, spending holiday time with my zennial nephew I'm surprised. He might not be as snappy as I am but he's got a lot less blind trust in authority and centralized sources.
His generation knows that the bugmen are just entertainment. They trust themselves more than "boss men".
It explains why my nephew never got caught up in the stupid things that his mom got into. Heck, she's still caught up in the medical nonsense system!
I find AI to be just like any other tool. Remember when they said spell check would make people dumber?
They said this about calculators to my generation.
I hate to say it but the calculator took the drudgery of hand math which made it fun. And before you say you're a master of written math, try doing square roots by hand or long division with at least 3 decimal places.
I currently use AI to do scripting. I'm not good with the syntax and I'm not willing to memorize that only for another language to come out and confuse us again.
But I DO always check the logic and run tests on the code to make sure it does what was intended. Sometimes AI is wrong, just like papers and scientific studies can be.
Video killed the radio star.
AI killed the academic star.
There's always been tons of bullshit papers many of which were peer reviewed. How did they not see bullshit?
At least the AI ones are easy to point out. 😂
Also, why is there such thing as graduate level writing when the whole PhD process is about saying things that others have said in order to get approved?
In my job the PhDs rarely if ever come up with workable solutions. The last time at my job it was a mechanic that found the solution that the engineers and PhDs were stumped on!
Thanks for this comment. You raise many valid points that should all be addressed at length, but just to cover your most important remarks -- contemporary AI can't really compare to earlier technologies in terms of its impact, not even to mass media technologies such as the printing press, since its scope is so comprehensive. It potentially displaces the entire spectrum of human cognitive abilities.
And we should remember that Plato was right about his misgivings around writing and the displacement of oral tradition by the written mode of transmitting and preserving knowledge -- it's just that writing also opened up new spaces for human cognitive activity that were more or less inaccessible previously.
But AI, on the contrary, doesn't obviously provide any unique, new avenues for leveraging human cognitive abilities in this way. Maybe it can be used in this way, but so far, we've seen no evidence of the overwhelmingly obvious possibilities for expanding human consciousness in the sense that writing immediately brought with it.
And it's very obviously suppressing and displacing human cognition in a much stronger sense than any previous mode of technology.
But I should get back to this comment at length. I hope you're right about the younger generations, but in my experience, they have almost no cognitive independence whatsoever and are almost devoid of creativity.
I already suspect that three quarters of X/Twitter is run by bots and AI generated videos, much of the rest being paid up trolls. It's already the matrix.
And I agree that Mark Sisson looks totally fake.