The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Are You Ready for the “Rogue AI” Psy-Op? Kit Knightly The AIs are breaking free, that’s the story. It started two weeks ago, when OpenAI reported one of their “agents” had escaped its testing area and got loose on the internet to launch an “unprecedented cyber attack” . This was clearly meant to be scarier than the public response indicated, because a few days later OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was on the Invest like the Best podcast , asking why it didn’t cause more panic: “I’ve been a little surprised that more people don’t feel it so viscerally” In one of the most hilariously obvious propaganda manoeuvres of the year, just the day after Altman said that, CNN headlined: The OpenAI lab leak was more extensive than we thought “That thing you weren’t scared of? Well it was even SCARIER than we said it was! Are you scared now?” We weren’t. But the lack of public panic didn’t stop another AI going rogue a few days later, Anthropic’s Claude model this time. And then OpenAI reporting two fu...

  Oversocialisation Why do so many Westerners support their own destruction? Frank Wright In this brief series of posts on Phone Age Madness I talk about how to remain sane whilst viral insanity is conjured to rule us all into ruin. Today’s post is about Oversocialisation - the process by which people are programmed to fervently applaud their own destruction. CONTENTS What is “oversocialisation”? Why so many people celebrate destruction as progress How thought is mass produced and policed The threat of internal exile for dissent How not to hate yourself Why you should not destroy your personal relationships for politics Theodore Kaczynski and Erich Fromm - two takes on oversocialisation The rule by totem and taboo How to win - Staying Sane WHAT IS OVERSOCIALISATION? When people learn to adjust to others and to function in a society this is called socialisation. We also do it to puppies to train them how to behave well. Socialisation is about learning the rules of social behaviour ...