The Age of Unlimited Possibility. And yet another thought tangent

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

If I could give AI instructions to tidy up and organize what’s in my phone - like a housekeeper - and have it make a clear list of how it’s been organized so I can memorize that and find things faster that’d be great in theory, but I also wouldn’t trust it. I have no way of seeing how it’s doing it and knowing whether or not it’s nefarious.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

The race to establish a global AI Technocracy.

Pre-crime pervasive surveillance, social credit scores, digital ID's, programmable money.

I agree.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Weird that I remember the first person I knew to get a smart phone “Oh cool a tiny iPad!”… I don’t remember the first time I saw an iPad. Seems so long ago but also yesterday. Sometimes it’s like they always existed and that’s creepy.

Also begs the question “if Apple acquired Fingerworks, why did they need to? They already had touchscreen technology which I thought came from an earlier adaptive technology. Because isn’t the iPhone touch screen just a tiny iPad?” So I’m questioning the thoroughness of AI’s research on that right now.

Nevertheless, they still have us under their thumb in many ways, under the auspices of helping and efficiency. But I get tired of spending so much of my time learning new applications that are more superficial changes than helpful ones most of the time. And there’s so much to navigate to make our devices safer and only so much space in my brain and time in my day I want to devote to that every time I get a phone update. You have to memorize something new every time and it feels like a waste of time we’re forced into. I want to throw the thing out the window sometimes but I need it.

Smart phones are a blessing and a curse for people with ADHD. It’s a little pile of distraction. Could be helpful if simplified but it tends to be just another messy cupboard where you lose s**t.

I just checked when the first iPad came out. It was after the iPhone, and only 15 years ago, but I couldn’t remember. I first saw an iPhone up close in 2008 or 2009, because somebody at work had one. Not sure why I thought iPad was first. So I must’ve thought the iPhone was pretty cool and the iPad was like a big iPhone, in that order, not the other way around.

 

[Luce NDs]

Nefarious? Is something evil or deceptive ... that is within?

If we are mad physical, with soul and spirit does technology spring forth?

As a four armed creature does it need another line of power to stabilize it in a sense of fifth or quintessence?

Here the comprehension becomes novel, and underlying force giving a sixth leg to the stellar form. I know the understanding is humble, below the lines of power ... just over that abstract horizon (it moves also). There is resolution that I cannot illustrate to you without balance ... a rest level energy in one field of study, there are other terms and times.

I guess I cannot explain it because of my alien nature and nurture that demands industry to slow down before you destroy the market place, selling point and source all at once. Thus history repeats and goes round because we are in a state of overwhelming emotion to escape ourselves, before we know it (self).

The is a recent news article about a study about emotions within CEOS of companies, in some guidelines any emotions are forbidden in others it is OK if it is in the open so the relationship can stabilize blind adventures. In a novel way it transports me to the myth of the fifth command ... respect both the maternal and fraternal instincts of you ideals and the ideals do not tur into stone vessels; cold and empty?

As to say at the end the leader was a cold and empty shell ... without concern for anything or anybody. Does that strike a weird chord? Abstract and ultimate pragmatism beyond mortal ... the work, goes on and a song erupts for where it was stuffed down the hole by those to serious about volition without a rest point! Here one turns like Amon falling from a horse and bells are rung ... creating clouds over pure driven essences ... Pall over Rome? Cool it in the nights*hades and something i'll come ot it and life goes on in another domain ...

It is the stuff of free masonry so as not to ruin the fabric of proper cover ... at times you have to get it out there ... because the public doesn't know what ... connect in all ways thats' ∫(Ç)haron! Expect the expectant elite to wish to do nothing for any profit but isolation ... thus the great alone until you understand a bit of given take ... gift and curse? To know for some of us is a matter of living and dying for ... and some know when's enough.

There are authors that say that humanity is loaded with not knowing when too much is not enough and thus the bust ... gunfights where ... OK coral? It is a sad song ... not to know why you're going ... I cannot tell you because you wouldn't believe, why folks must learn all by themselves. Some dark and lonely time you'll sit up and face the mystery and know it is the strangest light that reaches ultimately, unseen by reality ... mythical light as something that needs nurturing from the log, journal, record. Reiterate it at the gate to that garden of abstract ... we get draughts from it ... like the well on a heated Dais ... Diet? Do absolute power listen to their Diet; Net an Ya Hoos? Busts, hooters ... I hear something about to go down that hole ... in dicey form it'll roll over ... like thunder in the night ... most unbelievable and repulsed ... little sinks in ... night birds? They observe --- Gabriel! Bodies of emotion hate the*ought as it recycles ... a line connected to itself ... slick as that device you kiss when you meet the end ...

Did you know the self turns up as different words in scattered traditions ... appearing as soul, psyche,. mind, IHC, and others? Something to be gathered from beyond as a Greater Power beyond ... ultimately all that we do not know flashes ... and we begin to be sentient about the loss --- Soph Etic ... a fetish? Like a bite in the dark ...

Feasting on all that we do not know may take you out of here ... that's life on the return ... then complexity ... prepare for it!

Wild and free as a voice from the dark ... if free do you have onus for the wild and natural? Get it together folks ... powers will despise you for your critical evaluation at the gate ... like flight over the daffodils ...

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I found this video after learning that the US has eerily entered the era of Idiocracy.

It’s a serious discussion about technology and how things like spellcheck, GPS, and AI are reducing our cognitive abilities and critical thinking skills.

 

[Luce NDs]

Is ide root of ideo and so on ... so as to create insane loss of of natural nurture? Wild nature consumes all so that it can return ... a spiral G aila Lexes ... Le X ∫(Ç)i ... contained (c) ... boxed light in a book ... Hai la Lew Yah ...

 

[Luce NDs]

Does great executive power provide a separation point for will to go on without intel? Does this clear the way for folly of empire-is-M? That medium that is not of this physical domain ... another stage ... thus we get coached from subtleties!

Here it blows as buck on inflationary rise ... mire thing leading to dire straights ... a private inflection ... the lesser matter escapes as dark ... causing physicists to argue if they do not respect both sides ... as they come across ... the need and the needed ... that's the Mas sAge ... Reuben of time red lights ... stand down!

"Oh I have slipped the surely bonds ..."​

How easily we loose it ... ONE out?

 

[Waterfall]

I wonder if AI will create its own origin story, its own religions and over time forget who it's creator was?

 

[Luce NDs]

I wonder if AI will create its own origin story, its own religions and over time forget who it's creator was?

That might be interesting like 4 winds of Disney; Adventure, Frontier, Fantasy and that other land ... what's to come of it?

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I wonder if AI will create its own origin story, its own religions and over time forget who it's creator was?

That’s a profound thought. Maybe the idea’s already floating around (or maybe you’re the very first to think of it.) Like Luce said, Disney..something similar.

If you wrote the story what would that make you?

 

[Pavlos Maros]

A lot of the prototypes of the technology we use (speech to text is a prime example), were once invented independently of profit motive, to help disabled people. And they were created by or consulted on by occupational therapists, with disabled people. But once profit gets involved, motive becomes questionable. Like Musk’s neuralink for example. It’s being promoted as something to help non verbal people communicate their thoughts. But the idea of one of the already richest men in the world controlling the means and profiting off of reading peoples’ thoughts is a huge Pandora’s box. It’s a science fiction nightmare. I don’t buy the idea that it’s about helping oppressed people one bit. It’s the opposite.

There should be moratoriums on what these things can be used for but powerful people with power and profit motives are just as likely to ignore that because they can and that’s why they discredit the institutions set up to help guide such decision making, like the UN ( wasn’t there a moritorium on killer robots, yet military drones are basically that) - so how do we (the regular people) rein it in and still benefit from the positive aspects?

More and more, we don’t have a choice not to use the technologies put before us.

AI looked this up for me, full disclosure. I already knew about this, just not specific details. In my own words:

Wayne Westerman was a student with carpal tunnel syndrome who, along with his professor, developed touch screen technology in the 90’s. Their organization, Fingerworks, was acquired by Apple in 2005 and the rest is history. Everybody loved the touch screens (except people who are blind. I personally sometimes miss the feel of the buttons and having memorized their positions by touch and I’m not blind.) Once Apple got us on the hook with touch screens they basically ramped up the technology that makes us slaves to our phones, and to their profits and power.

Weird that I remember the first person I knew to get a smart phone “Oh cool a tiny iPad!”… I don’t remember the first time I saw an iPad. Seems so long ago but also yesterday. Sometimes it’s like they always existed and that’s creepy.

Also begs the question “if Apple acquired Fingerworks, why did they need to? They already had touchscreen technology which I thought came from an earlier adaptive technology. Because isn’t the iPhone touch screen just a tiny iPad?” So I’m questioning the thoroughness of AI’s research on that right now.

Nevertheless, they still have us under their thumb in many ways, under the auspices of helping and efficiency. But I get tired of spending so much of my time learning new applications that are more superficial changes than helpful ones most of the time. And there’s so much to navigate to make our devices safer and only so much space in my brain and time in my day I want to devote to that every time I get a phone update. You have to memorize something new every time and it feels like a waste of time we’re forced into. I want to throw the thing out the window sometimes but I need it.

Smart phones are a blessing and a curse for people with ADHD. It’s a little pile of distraction. Could be helpful if simplified but it tends to be just another messy cupboard where you lose s**t.

You've nailed the real issue, it's not the technology itself, it's who controls it and what their motivations are. The same tools that could genuinely help people get weaponized for profit and control.
Your point about not having a choice anymore really hits home. We didn't collectively decide we wanted to be dependent on smartphones, that dependency was engineered to maximize engagement and profit.
But I think this actually supports the argument for more people having access to these tools rather than fewer. When technology development is concentrated in the hands of a few massive corporations, we get exactly what you're describing, tools designed to extract value from users rather than serve them.
The more democratized these capabilities become, the more likely we are to see versions that actually serve human needs rather than corporate interests.

 

[Pavlos Maros]

The race to establish a global AI Technocracy.

Pre-crime pervasive surveillance, social credit scores, digital ID's, programmable money.

I get the worry about surveillance and control, those are real issues we should be watching. China's social credit system is genuinely concerning, and surveillance technology can definitely be misused.
But calling it an 'AI Technocracy' makes it sound like some coordinated global conspiracy, when it's really just different governments and companies making decisions about how to use these tools. Some good, some bad, mostly just messy and human.
The key is keeping democratic oversight and individual rights at the center as these technologies develop. The answer isn't to stop the technology, it's to make sure we have laws, regulations, and accountability for how it gets used.
Kimmio's point about assistive technology getting co opted by profit motives is exactly the kind of specific concern we should focus on, rather than worrying about global technocracy plots.

 

[Pavlos Maros]

I wonder if AI will create its own origin story, its own religions and over time forget who it's creator was?

Why would an AI ever be worried about who its creator was? That assumes it has consciousness, identity, and existential anxiety, which it doesn't. These are pattern matching programs, not beings with egos or spiritual needs.
Humans create origin stories because we're self aware and grapple with mortality. We wonder about our creators because consciousness comes with questions about meaning and purpose. But current AI systems don't actually wonder about anything, they just process inputs and generate outputs.

 

[Mendalla]

People really overestimate LLM AI and that's mix of hype and misuse of the term AI. In s-f, AI has tended to be used for things like C3PO, HAL9000 and Skynet that really are conscious beings. So when people start talking about AI, those are the images that come to mind. But large language models are still a long way away from that, even if their processing power and speech-like output might give the impression they are a lot closer than that. They are basically very sophisticated algorithms on steroids and act on prompts from humans. Really, we should not even be talking about "AI", just "LLM processing" or something.

To respond to @Waterfall: You could, technically, write a prompt asking an AI to write a myth about their own creation. But they would not believe it in the way humans do and would not come up with one on their own, only because someone prompted them to. It's just another output to them, not an actual belief system. Similarly, the folks who talk about their chatbots being "in love" or whatever are mildly deluded at best. The conversations they have with them are just another form of prompting, just less sophisticated than the prompt I might devise to get an LLM to help create a project plan or write code.

 

[WhyCzar]

But calling it an 'AI Technocracy' makes it sound like some coordinated global conspiracy,

Which way the scale tips could rest on our ability to counter such conspiracy theories—at least until AI becomes self-aware and starts taking matters into its own hands, proving all the conspiracy believers correct.

 

[Mendalla]

Which way the scale tips could rest on our ability to counter such conspiracy theories—at least until AI becomes self-aware and starts taking matters into its own hands, proving all the conspiracy believers correct.

Which, as I have just pointed out, is a long way off. LLMs and current processing power won't get there. Even AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is not, by definition, self--aware. Some dispute whether a conscious, self-aware AI is even possible. The risk from LLM and AGI is simply the risk of any new technology that upends how humans do things: disruptive social change. Skynet, they are not.

 

[Luce NDs]

Is the bulk of mankind of on a tangent because they do not know word as an idealism that has to be standardized.

Like the conflict of desire and versus thought as mental processing ... not the motivation. Even B Shaw I believe declared that thought was bad because of what it did to people's moods and attitudes. As you mess with these terms to see how people react so see how badly the words are unitized as standards ... words should be red flagged to drive people over a red line to see what they mean in any particular time and space.

Lordy-lordy what a mess ... you'd thing intercourse was sex ... that is probably not as messy as church over word use ... word is certainly something you can play with as if hot iron and nail it down to some decent meaning ... that would be a better God ... if yah din't know ...

Din't was a word an old retired English Professor used frequently ... imagine ... that as warped syntax! Warped or hammered God ... with the tinkers?

 

[Luce NDs]

Maybe I raised this before but:

Here's one question that may not be answerable; "does AI have a conscience ... an ability to reflect on what motivated an isolated action?"​

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Are such questions lost to those without critical ability to see the im*port*antes (primary portal)? Here words emanate ... like from an eye, or Ayre in the domain above. semi dome as there is a bottom ... like a caldron ... psyche device? Lo Research and Development below perfection ... rendered to sub lord ... diabolical concept for those that believe everything is good ... for there is evil among us ... to be experienced as a lesson. a delinquent item leaving a' hole!

Wormhole or worm brane ... meme brane as a large metaphor! Incarnate as it isn't how it appears ... it is loaded with energy ... much of it dark and convertible ... transient ...

 

[WhyCzar]

I find it interesting how the ads change on these youtube videos according to what I have searched.

Today I got a Princess Cruise advert after just researching Princess Cruises.

Anyway, since this @Pavlos Maros thread came up here, have been experimenting with using AI.

Then I read this lengthy substack post Technomachos Ex Machina

Which ended like this:

Everything you read until death do us part will be 100% by my hands—a human being and not a machine…as opposed to 99.7% before this pledge.

Full disclosure: I only use Grammarly’s free browser add-on for spell-check and nothing more and will contenueu to youtiliz it for yure benifet.

As a writer yourself @Mendalla you might find it interesting enough to read through.

For those that are not motivated to read the original here is an AI review:

Alright, I took a deep dive into Technomachos Ex Machina (dated September 7, 2025) and, wow, this piece is equal parts sharp satire and unfiltered commentary—laid out with a kind of intellectual fury that makes you feel both amused and unsettled .

The author begins with a question we may not even be asking ourselves: are we still bothered that some content is machine-made rather than human? The tone suggests that, increasingly, we couldn’t care less—as long as it’s smooth, snackable, and scrolls well .

He coins the term “Alazon Scribes”—a nod to the Greek stock character of the pompous impostor—and irons that a lot of content creators are basically using AI to pad their output with zero original thought, yet proclaiming authenticity . The irony is thick: they rail against AI while standing on AI-built podiums.

Particularly biting is the demonstration of writing samples. He shares a paragraph he had GPT-5 generate, then shows his own version. The AI’s output, he argues, reeks of formula—triadic structures, negations, uncanny smoothness—basically, all the hallmarks of what detectors flag as “machine-written” . His results with GPT-Zero consistently show near-100% detection for AI writing, including his own AI-generated sample—and even after applying a “humanizer,” it still ends up sounding ridiculous, like “a struggling middle school student” at best .

Then he rolls into the stylists he suspects (or rather criticizes) of riding on this trend—Joshua Stylman among them—as well as others like “The Wise Wolf” and Unbekoming. He points out that some of their most viral essays score 96-100% as machine-written, yet they hold court, warning readers about alleged manipulations or technocracy, often powered by AI-poisoned internal logic .

But the real kicker is the idea of technomachos ex machina—the one who fights technology only to be powered by the very machine he decries. There’s a delicious twist of irony there: automated crusaders against automation, preaching authenticity while handing you pre-chewed digital slop .

Towards the end, the author offers a modest proposal: Substack, or any reader, should integrate an AI-detection tool—like GPT-Zero’s API—straight into the platform. For a small reader-side fee, users could check whether a post was human-made or AI-generated . It’s the kind of simple fix that speaks volumes about shift in creative expectations.

In his own confession, he admits to limited past use of AI for polishing or stylizing two sets of posts—historical research and frontier-style satire—but emphasizes that he’s cut those posts, and now pledges to label any AI use, no matter how small. He promises future content will be 100% human, not machines—even though he humbly admits he’s not perfect just yet .

All in all, the essay is a smart, candid, and somewhat theatrical takedown of AI-driven creativity. It’s part essay, part rant, and part rallying cry for authenticity and awareness.

Want to pick through a specific section? Debate if AI-content is really that bad? Or maybe talk how you might channel your inner technomachos—that person fighting back against soulless automation?

 

[Mendalla]

I find it interesting how the ads change on these youtube videos according to what I have searched.

Today I got a Princess Cruise advert after just researching Princess Cruises.

That predates AI. It's just algorithmic and you can actually avoid it in many ways. Don't keep your Google search history (it's a setting in both Yahoo and Google accounts), use Incognito/InPrivate so there's no cookies being left, use a privacy-focused browser or add-in, that sort of thing. I get it all the time, too. Oddly, also related to cruises (I cruise a lot) or tours (something I also do a lot). I am getting a bit sick of Viking ads, given I have never actually cruised with them, or researched them. Nor do I plan to at this point. Their ads actually make their cruises look rather dull and unappealing.

As a writer yourself @Mendalla you might find it interesting enough to read through.

That is interesting, actually. My writing sites ban AI-generated text and the mods are pretty well-versed on detecting it but use of something like an AI grammer and style-checker is going to be a bit different, I imagine. Writing that is ... too perfect?? I have personally never used even conventional grammar checkers (tried one years ago and found it was okay for grammar but was bit too rigid about style) and for me spellcheckers are mostly typo-checkers (my spelling is fantastic, I was tagged a "walking dictionary" in school, but my typing often sucks ). The AI checkers that are out there are mostly geared to academia so, yeah, sites like Substack and Tumblr offering something like that to ordinary users could be beneficial.