My friend, it was ALWAYS such an attribute. The Demons are REAL folks; and so is every folklore from Humanity’s earliest days speaking about them with paranoia.
There are two good books on this subject by an author whose pseudonym is “the rogue hypnotist”. He takes the folklore about Werewolves and Vampires and shows how these stories are really a means used to communicate truths about a psychotic blood drinking nobility. Obviously one cannot just say fhat the local lord is a child murdering and raping psychopath, bc that would get one raped and murdered by the child raping and murdering psychopath.
So instead they created stories of monsters. The weaknesses and tactics of the monsters are allegories for the maniacs who ruled them. He also traced how the legends would spread with the domination of these tribes that originated in the black sea region. And also shows how their original belief system involved human sacrifice and wanton murder
So you can find this on amazon by entering the keywords “rogue hypnotist werewolves vampires”
I've always found it interesting vampires cannot see their reflection, there are multiple levels to its interpretation. When objective Truth is spoken it is at once simple and also multifaceted kaleidoscopic
If you told someone living in Ancient Egypt about Grey Goo nano-machines; they would probably (assuming they believed you to be sane, rather than a crackpot) develop a tale and mythology about "All Devouring Man Eater locusts".
So... what we get is two things being true simultaneously. The Grey Goo nano-machines are real (he simply spoke of them in a more "digestible" manner) and so are the various harms, calamities, etc they are capable of.
These tales are "metaphorical" in the sense that the true gravity of the crimes committed are spoken about in a more "digestible" manner for the wider population.
But that they are *physically* able to shapeshift into said monstrosities? That is also true simultaneously. Their Demon Masters assist them in that regard.
Werewolves and Vampires are very real. It just so happens that Modern Man lacks the imagination and aptitude to properly speak & think about them.
I'm skeptical that they could really do such things as in the movies.
The werewolf legends were likely talking about youthful berserker gangs who would terrorize the populace. and the vampire legends were likely talking about blood magic cults at the higher levels. One starts in a berserker murder gang "wolves", and at the upper levels one graduates to blood magic "vampires".
maybe it was possible to create an illusion of a wolf man, or to achieve impressive things via drinking blood and rituals. but to actually change into a wolf, or live forever - I really doubt it.
Still, I've seen weirder and more impressive things than that. So who knows.
Refer to my Addendum, where I sort of hint at a "possible explanation". The human imagination is rarely able to keep track with most trends; be they technological or otherwise.
Snapchat has had a "My AI" feature for a while now. Recently, there was a ""glitch"" which allowed the AI to post pictures. Twitter recently "accidentally" deleted old images from before 2012. Most of these stem from how naive most end-users' understanding of how these systems work is. ChatGPT wasn't a revelation for many people because they already thought that's how computers worked.
I don't think it's AI or that it can ever be AI. They renamed the old field GOFAI and now they're parading LLMs as "artifical intelligences" when all of their intelligence only stems from a lot of labeled data, or from an insanely large amount of data trained over tens of thousands of GPU-hours. There is still very little to no quality control and apart from trivial questions / "conversations", everything needs to be double-checked.
The "AI" will never exist and it will never do anything on its own. What will happen is that bad actors will gain access to systems that have pre-defined routines with fuzzy outlines that can be easily molded to a task through human supervision, and these systems will be "stacked" on top of one another with stats/supervision in between to tweak behavior during dry runs or critical conditions.
Collecting enough data is difficult and after a decade or two of extreme economic incentives, these days, almost the entire white collar economy depends on mining its own data for training and testing for making newer, efficient systems. And there's no opt-out.
Whatsapp is a data goldmine; tiktok's data is amazing for voice-video synthesis and speech recognition; snapchat is its western version. Recently it was revealed that Tencent's Sogou keyboard (used for chinese input method) collects all data by default, so everything typed goes to tencent's servers. This doesn't take into account the many, many bugs in software used everywhere. Usually by-design if proprietary, but even open-source doesn't rule out bad actors that might want to introduce subtle bugs and hope they won't be caught. Or better yet, just never report stuff, shuffle issues around to indirectly delay fixes for stuff that's a convenient backdoor. After all, anyone can contribute.
It's not just software; there are new hardware exploits every few months. There was Spectre that required a lot of software work to patch it. Recently there was Zenbleed and Downfall.
Nutters like Yudkowsky have been calling for "confiscating compute" to "aid ""AI"" ""safety""". AI safety is BS, but they did hit a nerve calling for restriction of compute for the average joe. That hasn't happened and it has made people over-confident. You can see these emotions on Metaculus and Manifold Markets, it's where all the "Rationality" and tech-will-save-the-world people hang out.
What I think will happen, is that over the next 5-7 years, computing hardware will become even more powerful, and will be able to process much more data than expected because software will mature in tandem. Things will depend on compute power heavily, normal people could be running large models at home with cheap graphics cards. People will have *some* digital liberty, they will have personal devices and local-only verification algos. And then suddenly, "they" will start leaking hardware exploits. Leaked software exploits will be tamer, but will focus on open-source software (that they've trained models on all of already!). These exploits will follow usual "big announcement" -> "calm but frenzied" -> "many small announcements" -> "new normal" play. Because all this hardware *can* be used to do some trivial hacking, people will be ""asked"" to turn in their compute and they'll be given vouchers to buy newer hardware that more locked and doesn't allow them to do as much, and will be a glorified thin client. Over time, we won't own any computers and will only be able to do certain things on our computers.
And it's looking more likely that CBDCs will make a shadow economy of low-denomination notes that will then lead to people stacking precious metals, leading to raids, leading to "ghosting" people out of the system. Retinal scans are cool, but you know what's cooler? Mandatory daily selfies from the depth-sensing camera on your zogphone. People are already used to it.
In a very archaic chat board 20 years ago, a person with the screen name Krakow wrote me a private email to ask a question. For the next 30 days or so, I was getting blasted with ads for traveling to Poland all over my computer- from 1 email.
I feel left out, I never get the ads parroting things I said or anything like that. Probably a good thing.
It's too bad, you grow up thinking humanity is headed towards a Star Trek future with our technology where an Alexa-like computer provides us with all the food, clothing, and entertainment we could wish for but the reality is we're just devolving to the oppression of east Germany under the stasi. It's almost comical how these shitheads can't just leave people alone, especially people who just want to be left alone.
Switching it over to AI will take all the fun out of torturing the eavesdroppers with gore videos, death metal, and Baby Shark but I would think the AI will also have weak points to exploit. I'm counting on you to think some up Tex, and let us know, that's right up your alley!
I like this. If i see some jackass put up an alexa in a restaurant im giving them a hard pass. Not that the iphone listening device im using is any better!
A few weeks ago I spoke Spanish to a neighbor. Suddenly ads appeared on my smartphone in Spanish and YouTube was recommending Spanish language videos.
I'm adding telenovelas to my countermeasures, lol!
I really need to get rid of my “smartphone”
I have noticed such occurences as well, I can't exactly what because I discounted those occurences ascoincidences. Now I'll be more vigilant.
My friend, it was ALWAYS such an attribute. The Demons are REAL folks; and so is every folklore from Humanity’s earliest days speaking about them with paranoia.
There are two good books on this subject by an author whose pseudonym is “the rogue hypnotist”. He takes the folklore about Werewolves and Vampires and shows how these stories are really a means used to communicate truths about a psychotic blood drinking nobility. Obviously one cannot just say fhat the local lord is a child murdering and raping psychopath, bc that would get one raped and murdered by the child raping and murdering psychopath.
So instead they created stories of monsters. The weaknesses and tactics of the monsters are allegories for the maniacs who ruled them. He also traced how the legends would spread with the domination of these tribes that originated in the black sea region. And also shows how their original belief system involved human sacrifice and wanton murder
So you can find this on amazon by entering the keywords “rogue hypnotist werewolves vampires”
I've always found it interesting vampires cannot see their reflection, there are multiple levels to its interpretation. When objective Truth is spoken it is at once simple and also multifaceted kaleidoscopic
exactly.
Addendum: To give you some concept...
If you told someone living in Ancient Egypt about Grey Goo nano-machines; they would probably (assuming they believed you to be sane, rather than a crackpot) develop a tale and mythology about "All Devouring Man Eater locusts".
So... what we get is two things being true simultaneously. The Grey Goo nano-machines are real (he simply spoke of them in a more "digestible" manner) and so are the various harms, calamities, etc they are capable of.
Both are true.
These tales are "metaphorical" in the sense that the true gravity of the crimes committed are spoken about in a more "digestible" manner for the wider population.
But that they are *physically* able to shapeshift into said monstrosities? That is also true simultaneously. Their Demon Masters assist them in that regard.
Werewolves and Vampires are very real. It just so happens that Modern Man lacks the imagination and aptitude to properly speak & think about them.
I'm skeptical that they could really do such things as in the movies.
The werewolf legends were likely talking about youthful berserker gangs who would terrorize the populace. and the vampire legends were likely talking about blood magic cults at the higher levels. One starts in a berserker murder gang "wolves", and at the upper levels one graduates to blood magic "vampires".
maybe it was possible to create an illusion of a wolf man, or to achieve impressive things via drinking blood and rituals. but to actually change into a wolf, or live forever - I really doubt it.
Still, I've seen weirder and more impressive things than that. So who knows.
Refer to my Addendum, where I sort of hint at a "possible explanation". The human imagination is rarely able to keep track with most trends; be they technological or otherwise.
Snapchat has had a "My AI" feature for a while now. Recently, there was a ""glitch"" which allowed the AI to post pictures. Twitter recently "accidentally" deleted old images from before 2012. Most of these stem from how naive most end-users' understanding of how these systems work is. ChatGPT wasn't a revelation for many people because they already thought that's how computers worked.
I don't think it's AI or that it can ever be AI. They renamed the old field GOFAI and now they're parading LLMs as "artifical intelligences" when all of their intelligence only stems from a lot of labeled data, or from an insanely large amount of data trained over tens of thousands of GPU-hours. There is still very little to no quality control and apart from trivial questions / "conversations", everything needs to be double-checked.
The "AI" will never exist and it will never do anything on its own. What will happen is that bad actors will gain access to systems that have pre-defined routines with fuzzy outlines that can be easily molded to a task through human supervision, and these systems will be "stacked" on top of one another with stats/supervision in between to tweak behavior during dry runs or critical conditions.
Collecting enough data is difficult and after a decade or two of extreme economic incentives, these days, almost the entire white collar economy depends on mining its own data for training and testing for making newer, efficient systems. And there's no opt-out.
Whatsapp is a data goldmine; tiktok's data is amazing for voice-video synthesis and speech recognition; snapchat is its western version. Recently it was revealed that Tencent's Sogou keyboard (used for chinese input method) collects all data by default, so everything typed goes to tencent's servers. This doesn't take into account the many, many bugs in software used everywhere. Usually by-design if proprietary, but even open-source doesn't rule out bad actors that might want to introduce subtle bugs and hope they won't be caught. Or better yet, just never report stuff, shuffle issues around to indirectly delay fixes for stuff that's a convenient backdoor. After all, anyone can contribute.
It's not just software; there are new hardware exploits every few months. There was Spectre that required a lot of software work to patch it. Recently there was Zenbleed and Downfall.
Nutters like Yudkowsky have been calling for "confiscating compute" to "aid ""AI"" ""safety""". AI safety is BS, but they did hit a nerve calling for restriction of compute for the average joe. That hasn't happened and it has made people over-confident. You can see these emotions on Metaculus and Manifold Markets, it's where all the "Rationality" and tech-will-save-the-world people hang out.
What I think will happen, is that over the next 5-7 years, computing hardware will become even more powerful, and will be able to process much more data than expected because software will mature in tandem. Things will depend on compute power heavily, normal people could be running large models at home with cheap graphics cards. People will have *some* digital liberty, they will have personal devices and local-only verification algos. And then suddenly, "they" will start leaking hardware exploits. Leaked software exploits will be tamer, but will focus on open-source software (that they've trained models on all of already!). These exploits will follow usual "big announcement" -> "calm but frenzied" -> "many small announcements" -> "new normal" play. Because all this hardware *can* be used to do some trivial hacking, people will be ""asked"" to turn in their compute and they'll be given vouchers to buy newer hardware that more locked and doesn't allow them to do as much, and will be a glorified thin client. Over time, we won't own any computers and will only be able to do certain things on our computers.
And it's looking more likely that CBDCs will make a shadow economy of low-denomination notes that will then lead to people stacking precious metals, leading to raids, leading to "ghosting" people out of the system. Retinal scans are cool, but you know what's cooler? Mandatory daily selfies from the depth-sensing camera on your zogphone. People are already used to it.
Jesus, it makes sense they would fake and degrade the computers you can buy.
In a very archaic chat board 20 years ago, a person with the screen name Krakow wrote me a private email to ask a question. For the next 30 days or so, I was getting blasted with ads for traveling to Poland all over my computer- from 1 email.
I feel left out, I never get the ads parroting things I said or anything like that. Probably a good thing.
It's too bad, you grow up thinking humanity is headed towards a Star Trek future with our technology where an Alexa-like computer provides us with all the food, clothing, and entertainment we could wish for but the reality is we're just devolving to the oppression of east Germany under the stasi. It's almost comical how these shitheads can't just leave people alone, especially people who just want to be left alone.
Switching it over to AI will take all the fun out of torturing the eavesdroppers with gore videos, death metal, and Baby Shark but I would think the AI will also have weak points to exploit. I'm counting on you to think some up Tex, and let us know, that's right up your alley!
> We only found out recently that both the FBI and CIA have run a paid organization for informants that blankets the country
I missed this. Link please?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/11/18/fbi-and-other-agencies-paid-informants-548-million-in-recent-years-with-many-committing-authorized-crimes/?sh=523aa738f4dd
Shared this link over at AC's.
Putin was like the KGB attache to the Stasi in Dresden, I believe. He acted as a sort of overseer.
I like this. If i see some jackass put up an alexa in a restaurant im giving them a hard pass. Not that the iphone listening device im using is any better!
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