The Curse of Awareness | Russell Geoffrey Banks

The truest words were from Nietzsche, when he said that any man who knows too much, he can't fit in anywhere. And that's the curse of awareness. Once you start to delve underneath the surface, that's when you realize the whole world is not so simple. And you start to see people for who they really are—and their games they're playing, and that fake confidence, all the ulterior motives. And you realize this whole society is built on lies. And people, they're sheep. And once you see that, you can't unsee that.

 

 » What hath happened unto me? How have I freed myself from loathing? Who hath rejuvenated
mine eye? How have I flown to the height where no rabble any longer sit at the wells? «

Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

 

So you try and try to tell people. But they say to you, 'Oh no, no, you're overreacting, you’re crazy.' So, you stop talking. But you're still observing, you're still watching. But you know you don't belong anymore. And it's not because you think you’re too good for anyone. No, no, it's because you've seen too much, you're watching everything, and now you know you can’t go back to how it was anymore. An awareness that isolates you. And it's the price of clarity. Because the crowd says, 'move away.' But then, at least, you know who you are.

Tom Cotton │ Xi Jinping

» Don’t take it the wrong way.

You guys seem smart, but you keep funding utterly dumb and clownish politicians in your country. 

What’s up with that? In China, Tom Cotton wouldn’t even be a village chief. «
 

President Xi Jinping, while meeting with US corporate leaders in Beijing. - March 2024. 

Google's woke AI makes Vikings black and the Pope a Woman

The men of today boast of the ever growing extent of the modifications they impose on the world, and the consequence is that everything is thereby made more and more ‘artificial’.

The falsification of everything has been shown to be one of the characteristic features of our period, but falsification is not in itself subversion properly so-called, though contributing directly to the preparation for it. Perhaps the clearest indication of this is what may be called the falsification of language, taking the form of the misuse of certain words that have been diverted from their true meaning; misuse of this kind is to some extent imposed by constant suggestion on the part of everyone who exercises any kind of influence over the mentality of the public.

René Guénon
1927

Sora | Creating Video from Text

Reality aborted. Prompt:

“Historical footage of California during the gold rush”.

 

The launch of Sora yesterday marked the day that we can no longer tell what's real or fake on the internet anymore. 

This is the worst AI will ever be. Now the Americans really will go to the moon.

 

» There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. « 

Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell

 

Reference:

Open AI (Feb 15, 2024) - Sora - Creating video from text.

 

AI expert Connor Leahy is a hacker, researcher and expert on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). He is the CEO of Conjecture, 

a company he co-founded to focus on making AGI safe. He shares the view of many leading thinkers in the industry,

including the godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton, who fear what they have built.