I very much understand, Holly. I have been working very hard to severely cut back my phone usage (and for what I use it), and instead work from my PC. I am also striving to do a majority of my writing offline, and utilizing free hotspots (like the public library) for posting these drops. I am not THERE yet - not even close - but at least the effort is being applied :-)
Well friend it is totally different thing when your work is done via the computer or Internet for sure. I don’t own a computer but it seems you have to have email and a smartphone for everything. Uggh. I tell people I am technologically handicapped
I agree with you 100% but it is a luxury really. What I mean by that is my sister says I am a minimalist and I don’t have a lot to piss in. And she’s right. All my belongings can fit in my car I don’t own property but that is where the luxury comes in I live with my 87 yr old Mom and without her yrs I would have to rent or buy property cause my car is too small to sleep in comfortably for a long time and no pot to piss in! Lol!
I can’t agree with you more. This whole AI thing just has the makings of being just a little bit too much. The potential for demons infiltrating, abusing, and using it for the wrong reasons are quite disturbing. I’m really thinking that although there are good things about this, right now, the negatives are outweighing positives.
Well said, Ken, and I agree across the board... especially regarding the negatives. I am to the point of avoiding the text / info based models like a proverbial (maybe literal?) plague, even for research. I just don't trust the damned things, nor do I trust those programming them.
Excellent installment. I share your concerns with AI. I’ve been incredibly reluctant to participate. It has its uses yet in its basic usefulness, it knows too much about us. There’s too many ways, as you have now experienced, it can and will become a liability to the innocent because for all its knowledge it still gets things wrong. It’s a real slippery slope and that is the main reason why I want it to be dialed back severely…which of course is never going to happen as you can’t put the beast back in the can. God help us all!
So very well put, EK, as always. My usage of AI has tapered off dramatically since the event above, although I still use it to generate AI images. The reason is due to the fact the output from image-generating AI is directly related to (and somewhat restricted by) what I input as a prompt - it is balanced give-take. However, if I am to be honest? I am even rethinking that, at this point.
Much to ponder with this issue - very happy for your thoughts!
Actually the ability of the state to pass legislation without the “grease” (read pork, waste, and corruption) is in serious question. To govern AI with a group of greedy politicians is a bit of an oxymoron… In order to govern AI policy is to police AI with AI. We passed that station of manual governance over AI a couple of years ago.
Stone, here is the nightmare that I thought possible in one of my many fevered dreams. Imagine if somehow there actually was a sentient AI that was injected into the web by the military (naturally). Now imagine that the same calls for "lockdowns" were to stay off the web, stay dark, no phones, no connectivity because you could be infected with this new "variant" of AI. You will be told it is pure evil and you not be unable to get rid of it. Not a bad script for a fiction story gone real?
Geez, Dave , that is a terrifying - and fascinating - scenario! I wonder how people would respond, and whether they would even believe it - after all, those who are worried about AI tend to be the same people who defied Authority's demands to stay-at-home during the COVID psyop. Would they ignore Authority's warnings to stay off line because of who was issuing said-warnings... or would their fear of AI get the better of them?
That 10 year A/i thing is spooky especially since we can never trust the DC Swamp and that applies to Trump as well. More than tyrannical...kind of leftish and bydenish.
Here in Washington State, our Legislature is only allowed to pass bills that address a single subject. So something that addressed taxes, and immigration, and Ai regulation could not be considered. Three separate topics would require three separate bills.
That prevents the situation that almost always prevails in Congress where bad things that would never pass on their own are shoved into larger, much more popular bills.
We need to enact and enforce a single subject rule for Congress.
Wait, something politically-sane came out of Olympia? Perhaps there is hope for other 'blue' conclaves after all LOL
And I agree 100% - as I mentioned in the 'Notes' section, we need to ban these insane omnibus bills. Single-Issue bills, no longer than a page or two in length, available for the public to read before passage. No pork-laden riders, no last-minute provisos - straight bills, no fluff.
Thanks for sharing, Cameron - happy that Washington got this one right! :-)
Makes me glad I’m only on Substack these days. Never once had a Twatter account. Yikes. AI coming for us and we can’t fight it. We can avoid it as long as possible but that likely isn’t going to for very long.
Substack IS relatively free of it thus far, thank goodness, but I saw a post from Chris Best asking for suggestions of what name Substack's AI should be called IF they develop one. That sounds an awful lot like soft conditioning to me, gently preparing us for what is to come, so who knows how long we will avoid its conquest here. I reckon we should just enjoy the ride while we can, eh? ;-)
Thanks so much for the encouragement, my friend - greatly appreciate ya!
What you've told us is very concerning. I'm a Brit in UK.but our political administrations of the last 50 years have been slowly,like water dripping down limestone rock seeking to "americanize" our way of life - but just the bad bits!
Appreciate your words here, Jane - what I discussed above is but a microcosm of the big, ugly picture, one that was painted in Davos and revered by the tyrants (and their parasites) here in the States.
And isn't it weird they never import any of our 'good bits' like, say, the 'Bill of Rights'? Nope, they always focus on the horrific crap the Globalist-saturated government of today is embracing and peddling.
Sorry about that - we're doing our best to change things here, but the mountain we are trying to conquer is steep and slippery :-)
Holy shit dude. I'm glad I just read this. So you likely know my opinions on AI and the overarching agenda -- but there are two very disturbing things here.
First, that the house passed that bill. Second, that an AI targeted or randomly "selected" you as an account owner of one you were not. You're correct, luckily you knew this woman and she knew you wouldn't do it.
But most people who just follow one another on the internet? They do not have such rapport. Even people you do know... the way people view what AI says as gospel or even as if it were god itself is really scary. The way this could be used for "pre crime" or even alleging crimes etc given the amount of faith people are putting in it -- coupled with diminished faith in one another -- I only know of one solution.
And I'm not even sure it's one that'll work in the long haul. As of now, we can unplug the machine. As of now. Five, ten years from now? I'm not sure.
I'm glad you wrote about this and... I hope your friend is okay. I hope youre okay too. People are insane enough as it is, having AI make that shit worse is not helping. And its not the first time I've heard of things like this or worse.
Yeah, it was a most unsettling experience. A real eye-opener, though, one from which I intend to learn.
That 'faith' you mention is what concerns me the most. On X, every post (that is not buried in obscurity) has multiple people asking Grok, "Is this true?" or "Can you explain what is meant here?" or "What is the source of this?" I have even seen people quoting Grok like it is sacred writ, as if the text came from the Bible, or the Koran, or the Bhagavad Gita; I find this very troubling.
A part of me - a GROWING part, too - fears for our future. We have a bunch of adults who appear to be incapable of critical thinking, and they are from every philosophical, spiritual, and political bent. It is like we are the process of a reverse enlightenment, and I do not think there is any way back from it.
At any rate, I very much appreciate your astute comment, my friend, and your kind words of concern. Yes, I am fine, and I intend to stay that way - we'll see how it goes ;-)
Oh wow. I felt physically nauseous while reading this. I deleted my X account at the beginning of the new year because it felt like a schizophrenic echo chamber, so I have not seen this, but i believe it.
That's the really sinister plan motivating a lot of this AI shit -- man is not just trying to merge with machine, but to become immortal and become god. with the same stride -- man is also seeking to develop a synthetic oracle -- like the Pythias of old, except the knockoff brainrot version hellbent on trouble. Oracle is even a name of one of these huge AI companies.
But yeah, there's a huge spiritual void that motivates much of this agenda... that is an unnerving sign to watch people in real time going all too gently into the machine. Stay strong and stay human, you are needed at this time on Earth!! Its why youre here 💚
I am so glad that you shared this article. Stone. This ai has got to end, the person that is pushing it hard is musk. I wonder if that is why it was included in the bill. I sure hope that President Trump, knows what is actually going on. When I first read about the "micro chip" factory. that was very maddening.
Thank you, Stone, the things I think about at night would scare TF out of Sephan King. Anyway, you're an accomplished author, you could write a short story, the possibilities abound!
We're going to have to move to putting flash drives in walls in secret locations to communicate with each other. Or just understand that if it's on the internet it is, in fact, most likely, fake.
Not sure, I have so much real life things to do. That is until one of my jobs is replaced by AI. Maybe we'll have to start our own version of Substack but keep the AI Robots out. Somehow. <scratches head>
Thanks for saying I'm not fake. You're a real bro.
How do we implement the single subject rule for Congress? If it’s a referendum then we should get started. If we could get multiple states to go to bat for it we just might get something done.✅ maybe Stone could write a post about how this is done?🤭
Aside from an Article V 'convention,' I do not see an immediate path... at least not yet ;-) Both parties have made it clear they do not give a crap about our wants and desires, so calling a Convention of States may well be our only - and LAST - hope..
Incredible. Makes me want to turn off my phone and do like my mother does live without Internet!!!
I very much understand, Holly. I have been working very hard to severely cut back my phone usage (and for what I use it), and instead work from my PC. I am also striving to do a majority of my writing offline, and utilizing free hotspots (like the public library) for posting these drops. I am not THERE yet - not even close - but at least the effort is being applied :-)
Well friend it is totally different thing when your work is done via the computer or Internet for sure. I don’t own a computer but it seems you have to have email and a smartphone for everything. Uggh. I tell people I am technologically handicapped
I'm trying to minimize.
I agree with you 100% but it is a luxury really. What I mean by that is my sister says I am a minimalist and I don’t have a lot to piss in. And she’s right. All my belongings can fit in my car I don’t own property but that is where the luxury comes in I live with my 87 yr old Mom and without her yrs I would have to rent or buy property cause my car is too small to sleep in comfortably for a long time and no pot to piss in! Lol!
Right there with ya, sister *salute
I can’t agree with you more. This whole AI thing just has the makings of being just a little bit too much. The potential for demons infiltrating, abusing, and using it for the wrong reasons are quite disturbing. I’m really thinking that although there are good things about this, right now, the negatives are outweighing positives.
Well said, Ken, and I agree across the board... especially regarding the negatives. I am to the point of avoiding the text / info based models like a proverbial (maybe literal?) plague, even for research. I just don't trust the damned things, nor do I trust those programming them.
Potential. It's already here. We just aren't fully aware yet.
Yep, you’re right !
I wish I wasn't. I hope I'm wrong.
Excellent installment. I share your concerns with AI. I’ve been incredibly reluctant to participate. It has its uses yet in its basic usefulness, it knows too much about us. There’s too many ways, as you have now experienced, it can and will become a liability to the innocent because for all its knowledge it still gets things wrong. It’s a real slippery slope and that is the main reason why I want it to be dialed back severely…which of course is never going to happen as you can’t put the beast back in the can. God help us all!
So very well put, EK, as always. My usage of AI has tapered off dramatically since the event above, although I still use it to generate AI images. The reason is due to the fact the output from image-generating AI is directly related to (and somewhat restricted by) what I input as a prompt - it is balanced give-take. However, if I am to be honest? I am even rethinking that, at this point.
Much to ponder with this issue - very happy for your thoughts!
Thanks 😊
Actually the ability of the state to pass legislation without the “grease” (read pork, waste, and corruption) is in serious question. To govern AI with a group of greedy politicians is a bit of an oxymoron… In order to govern AI policy is to police AI with AI. We passed that station of manual governance over AI a couple of years ago.
Excellent observations, good sir - I cannot find any fault in them *salute
Stone, here is the nightmare that I thought possible in one of my many fevered dreams. Imagine if somehow there actually was a sentient AI that was injected into the web by the military (naturally). Now imagine that the same calls for "lockdowns" were to stay off the web, stay dark, no phones, no connectivity because you could be infected with this new "variant" of AI. You will be told it is pure evil and you not be unable to get rid of it. Not a bad script for a fiction story gone real?
Geez, Dave , that is a terrifying - and fascinating - scenario! I wonder how people would respond, and whether they would even believe it - after all, those who are worried about AI tend to be the same people who defied Authority's demands to stay-at-home during the COVID psyop. Would they ignore Authority's warnings to stay off line because of who was issuing said-warnings... or would their fear of AI get the better of them?
As I said... fascinating! :-)
That 10 year A/i thing is spooky especially since we can never trust the DC Swamp and that applies to Trump as well. More than tyrannical...kind of leftish and bydenish.
Unsettling, isn't it?
Here in Washington State, our Legislature is only allowed to pass bills that address a single subject. So something that addressed taxes, and immigration, and Ai regulation could not be considered. Three separate topics would require three separate bills.
That prevents the situation that almost always prevails in Congress where bad things that would never pass on their own are shoved into larger, much more popular bills.
We need to enact and enforce a single subject rule for Congress.
Wait, something politically-sane came out of Olympia? Perhaps there is hope for other 'blue' conclaves after all LOL
And I agree 100% - as I mentioned in the 'Notes' section, we need to ban these insane omnibus bills. Single-Issue bills, no longer than a page or two in length, available for the public to read before passage. No pork-laden riders, no last-minute provisos - straight bills, no fluff.
Thanks for sharing, Cameron - happy that Washington got this one right! :-)
Worry not, we had that rule long before we went perpetually blue here! 😎
Ah, well darned LOL I should have known, right? :-D
Makes me glad I’m only on Substack these days. Never once had a Twatter account. Yikes. AI coming for us and we can’t fight it. We can avoid it as long as possible but that likely isn’t going to for very long.
Peace brother. Keep telling your tales 💪🏻👏👏
Substack IS relatively free of it thus far, thank goodness, but I saw a post from Chris Best asking for suggestions of what name Substack's AI should be called IF they develop one. That sounds an awful lot like soft conditioning to me, gently preparing us for what is to come, so who knows how long we will avoid its conquest here. I reckon we should just enjoy the ride while we can, eh? ;-)
Thanks so much for the encouragement, my friend - greatly appreciate ya!
What you've told us is very concerning. I'm a Brit in UK.but our political administrations of the last 50 years have been slowly,like water dripping down limestone rock seeking to "americanize" our way of life - but just the bad bits!
Appreciate your words here, Jane - what I discussed above is but a microcosm of the big, ugly picture, one that was painted in Davos and revered by the tyrants (and their parasites) here in the States.
And isn't it weird they never import any of our 'good bits' like, say, the 'Bill of Rights'? Nope, they always focus on the horrific crap the Globalist-saturated government of today is embracing and peddling.
Sorry about that - we're doing our best to change things here, but the mountain we are trying to conquer is steep and slippery :-)
Holy shit dude. I'm glad I just read this. So you likely know my opinions on AI and the overarching agenda -- but there are two very disturbing things here.
First, that the house passed that bill. Second, that an AI targeted or randomly "selected" you as an account owner of one you were not. You're correct, luckily you knew this woman and she knew you wouldn't do it.
But most people who just follow one another on the internet? They do not have such rapport. Even people you do know... the way people view what AI says as gospel or even as if it were god itself is really scary. The way this could be used for "pre crime" or even alleging crimes etc given the amount of faith people are putting in it -- coupled with diminished faith in one another -- I only know of one solution.
And I'm not even sure it's one that'll work in the long haul. As of now, we can unplug the machine. As of now. Five, ten years from now? I'm not sure.
I'm glad you wrote about this and... I hope your friend is okay. I hope youre okay too. People are insane enough as it is, having AI make that shit worse is not helping. And its not the first time I've heard of things like this or worse.
Yeah, it was a most unsettling experience. A real eye-opener, though, one from which I intend to learn.
That 'faith' you mention is what concerns me the most. On X, every post (that is not buried in obscurity) has multiple people asking Grok, "Is this true?" or "Can you explain what is meant here?" or "What is the source of this?" I have even seen people quoting Grok like it is sacred writ, as if the text came from the Bible, or the Koran, or the Bhagavad Gita; I find this very troubling.
A part of me - a GROWING part, too - fears for our future. We have a bunch of adults who appear to be incapable of critical thinking, and they are from every philosophical, spiritual, and political bent. It is like we are the process of a reverse enlightenment, and I do not think there is any way back from it.
At any rate, I very much appreciate your astute comment, my friend, and your kind words of concern. Yes, I am fine, and I intend to stay that way - we'll see how it goes ;-)
Oh wow. I felt physically nauseous while reading this. I deleted my X account at the beginning of the new year because it felt like a schizophrenic echo chamber, so I have not seen this, but i believe it.
That's the really sinister plan motivating a lot of this AI shit -- man is not just trying to merge with machine, but to become immortal and become god. with the same stride -- man is also seeking to develop a synthetic oracle -- like the Pythias of old, except the knockoff brainrot version hellbent on trouble. Oracle is even a name of one of these huge AI companies.
But yeah, there's a huge spiritual void that motivates much of this agenda... that is an unnerving sign to watch people in real time going all too gently into the machine. Stay strong and stay human, you are needed at this time on Earth!! Its why youre here 💚
I am so glad that you shared this article. Stone. This ai has got to end, the person that is pushing it hard is musk. I wonder if that is why it was included in the bill. I sure hope that President Trump, knows what is actually going on. When I first read about the "micro chip" factory. that was very maddening.
You are most welcome, Susan! This is the issue of our time, as far as I can tell 😐
Thank you, Stone, the things I think about at night would scare TF out of Sephan King. Anyway, you're an accomplished author, you could write a short story, the possibilities abound!
We're going to have to move to putting flash drives in walls in secret locations to communicate with each other. Or just understand that if it's on the internet it is, in fact, most likely, fake.
Except you're not fake, and I am not fake, yet we are both on the Internet... so where do we draw the line? LOL
Although I do like the thought of covert USB access - very James Bond, without the fancy tuxedos ;-)
Not sure, I have so much real life things to do. That is until one of my jobs is replaced by AI. Maybe we'll have to start our own version of Substack but keep the AI Robots out. Somehow. <scratches head>
Thanks for saying I'm not fake. You're a real bro.
Also thank you for linking Is Your Check Engine Light On.
Danged it, I meant 'Pleasure is mine.'
Sorry about that LOL
NP I guessed as much
Please is mine, my friend :-)
How do we implement the single subject rule for Congress? If it’s a referendum then we should get started. If we could get multiple states to go to bat for it we just might get something done.✅ maybe Stone could write a post about how this is done?🤭
Aside from an Article V 'convention,' I do not see an immediate path... at least not yet ;-) Both parties have made it clear they do not give a crap about our wants and desires, so calling a Convention of States may well be our only - and LAST - hope..
Looks like we know the plan