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Jan. 24, 2022 - Davis Aurini
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Livestream 2022-01-21: The Glitch is the Feature

What if you saw the Deja-Vu cat in the Matrix, and instead of escaping the system, you started arguing with physicists?

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Good evening, folks.
Hopefully, we got that start figured out at this point.
And let's see.
This is at 1% power because, of course, it is.
And, okay, downloading the Chinese spyware.
Spyware updated.
There we go, D Live.
How are all of you doing tonight?
I'm asking, but you can't reply, or at least I can't read the reply.
Not until D Live loads upside down, as per normal.
Any second now, bugs.
Any second now.
And hopefully, I'm still logged in.
That'd be useful, wouldn't it?
We are one-third of the way through winter.
Thank God.
Still really cold, even after winter is over.
But at least it's not technically winter anymore.
And there we go.
There we go.
I need to move that thing forward.
Yeah, there, huh?
How's that?
That should be a little bit better.
Is it?
Did I get rid of the foreground there?
The unnecessary foreground?
There.
Perfect.
So how many of you have heard of the dead internet theory?
It's not a glitch, it's a feature.
So we're going to continue the long-standing tradition of schizoid posting on this live stream.
And we're going to talk about the long-term implications of the dead internet theory.
So the dead internet theory, it came about because there's one anonymous 4chan user that brought it all up, but he wasn't the only one.
It resonated.
It'll probably resonate with you.
The observation that we've seen it all before.
We've seen all of these memes already.
It's just the same cycle again and again and again.
I shared a couple of good videos on the dead internet theory not too recently.
You can find them on my Twitter.
Used to be that you had these ribald conversations, that you'd go on the internet, and who knows what you would find.
You'd wind up following some guy writing a blog about mushrooms and how much he loves mushrooms.
You get kind of addicted to it.
You start diving into this weird mushroom world.
Or whatever it might be.
Not anymore.
Nowadays, it seems like everything's bot generated.
And really, let's be clear.
This theory, it's not your typical conspiracy theory of do aliens exist or not.
With the dead internet theory, it is definitely true.
The question is, is it a little bit true, or is it a whole hell of a lot true?
The dead internet theory basically states that 90% of the content on the internet is bots.
That there's very little real content left on the internet.
That's all fake.
It's an artificially generated reality.
See, comments here.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, we are going full schizo.
And yeah, thank you for the image quality.
Yeah, glad to have you, Rick Evans.
This is a decent phone.
There was something called the inflection point that YouTube was posting about back in 2013.
See, back in 2013, about 30% of the comments on YouTube were bots.
And the inflection point, this dreaded day of the inflection point, is when it hit more than 50%.
Because the only way that you can algorithmically tell the difference between a bot and a person is that the bot is a bad simulacrum of the norm.
It's the...
It's that exception that you're seeing.
And so that's what you program the bot to look for.
The algorithm to look for, to look for those glitches that don't quite fit in.
But as soon as you get 50% of the comments being bots, all of a sudden the real human beings start looking like the glitches.
more extreme example of this would be reddit the reddit hive mind now i wrote an article probably about 10 years back about how like 10 years ago reddit was turning into a hive And I wrote that it's because of the structure of the system over there.
The fact that you can downvote an upvote and you can downvote somebody into oblivion so they never get seen and you can follow people meant that it was very easy for a cabal of weirdos with no personal lives to take over the site.
So the sort of psychos that tend to follow left-wing ideology, those people really took over the site, and that was about 10 years ago.
Now, add in the bots.
Add in the algorithm that is determining what's acceptable speech and what is unacceptable speech.
The fact that we even have an algorithmic definition of what's acceptable and what's not acceptable.
Like, even ignoring the literal bots, Reddit lends itself to an algorithmic manipulation of the information that's seen.
And this should worry you.
I'm sure you've seen one of these threads where, oh, geez, there's the one of the girl with an OnlyFans who was posting, Why can't I find a boyfriend when I have an OnlyFans?
There were plenty of people trying to give her the correct answer.
But because no hate speech is allowed, you're not allowed to be corrected.
So this lie that the OnlyFans company has sold to her, telling her that, oh, men don't care if you're on OnlyFans.
In fact, they think it's even sexier.
That lie that's been fed to her, that empowering lie, she never gets to be disabused of that notion.
But it's worse.
It's worse than just a hugbox.
A lot of people have been noting the political center.
I mean, it's like, how can you not notice it?
If you don't have the right opinion, then you are going to be shut up.
You're not going to be allowed to speak.
You know, I say to myself, what is with these guys that know everything?
Right?
Like, what kind of life is that where you know everything?
You can't learn nothing from nobody.
How boring is that knowing everything?
But that's what all of this empowering language does.
It puts you in a box where you know everything that you'll be allowed to know.
So the political censorship is part of it.
Our masters want to maintain their power.
It's kind of funny watching all of this right now as the COVID narrative is completely crumbling.
And these people really don't want to go to prison.
So they're already making belligerent sounds towards Russia.
A new distraction so that they can quietly back away from the COVID narrative without ever getting prosecuted for their crimes.
without ever having the whole conception of them being in power put to the question in the first place.
But really, really, as much as they use the algorithm to censor anybody that could be a threat to their power, that's not actually the scary thing about it.
It gets so much worse.
One of the things that Twitter does, and in fact I'm thinking about leaving Twitter entirely and just going exclusively to Gab because I don't believe Gab is doing this.
I think Torba is principled enough not to do this.
Though I could be wrong.
Hey, he could be on the payroll, too.
Who knows?
What Twitter does is it puts you into a box.
There is no real Twitter.
See, us stupid idiots, we think that you go on Twitter and you wind up with like, all the news of the world, at some sort of bulletin board with all the data posted.
That sort of was when it started, but it's not that anymore.
Go ahead, go log into Twitter right now.
Look at when the top tweet on your feed was posted.
Chances are it was 10 hours ago.
Next one, 12 hours ago.
Then maybe one from five minutes ago.
But it's a curated list.
You know how Rothschild said, I care not who makes the laws of a nation if I control its money supply?
Well, the algorithm says, I care not what the news is if I get to curate it.
I've seen some funny things happen.
Such as even though I don't have a YouTube account, I do have a YouTube history.
They're tracking my browser, my IP address, etc.
And I'm seeing videos getting recommended to me.
And then my buddy sends me the video on WhatsApp.
That's interesting.
It got recommended to him too.
I log on to Facebook, and all I see on Facebook, it is 90% funny, edgy memes, 10% pictures of people's kids.
Because that's the stuff I respond to.
If I actually, and it's actually quite annoying, when I log into Facebook twice in a day and I get the same feed, it's like, no, I want some new memes.
But I guess I didn't interact with them the first time.
I log into Twitter.
In fact, part of the reason I've stopped logging into Twitter is because all I'm getting on Twitter is really aggravating COVID news bullshit that I don't care about, that I don't want to read.
It just raises my blood pressure.
Lord knows that's high enough.
Partly it's about political censorship, but it's about so much more than that.
It's about maintaining the engagement.
It's about keeping you in that matrix.
It's not Zuckerberg in charge of it.
It's not Hillary Clinton or the alphabet boys who are in charge of all of this.
They might think they're pulling the strings.
They think they have control of this thing.
They absolutely do not.
We are building an electronic god that manufactures your reality.
In fact, it goes so deep that it's even training you to be a part of it.
One of the great things about that video I shared on the dead internet theory was how clickbaity it was.
The scary music that played, the edginess of all of it.
Fantastic modern clickbait for the internet.
Very meta.
You know, sometimes I'll post something and I'll get 50 likes on it.
Then I post something else and I get zero.
Because the other thing I posted, well, nobody actually saw it.
The algorithm selects what gets shown and what doesn't get shown.
And yeah, there's a whole politics angle to it, but it's not really concerned with politics.
It's concerned with engagement.
And the further you sink into an artificial reality, the easier you are to engage.
And so if you want to be popular on social media, there's a few tricks, but they all boil down to doing what the algorithm wants you to do.
If you want to be popular on Reddit, then you have to learn to conform to the rules to effectively become one of the bots.
And thus, even the real people that you're seeing on the Internet, they have been so heavily curated by the algorithm, and they curate themselves.
So they're functionally no different than a machine.
And so this concept in marketing that we had back in the 70s of lifestyle.
Let's break down the population into boxes.
Let's have the punks and the surfers and the homeowners.
We're going to put them all into boxes.
And we're going to custom design marketing to catch them.
Well, what if we could custom design your entire media environment?
Your entire perception of the news.
Your entire perception of the social scene.
Your perception of politics, of course, but your perception of everything.
And what if we create a positive feedback loop to reinforce that, to keep you in that predictable box?
Fucking useful that would be so people are worried that they're worried about Chinese style censorship It's not Winnie the Pooh that you need to worry about.
Okay, that's just an evil dictator.
We've had evil dictators before.
No, no, what you have to worry about is the thing that controls him.
Because remember, even the Gillette Razors pays porn actors to shave their jingles so that everybody will.
And that everybody includes the executives at Gillette Razors.
We are not in control of this thing.
Why did you close D-Live, you rude machine?
Let's hope it didn't delete the comments.
No moon has, nobody pays me.
At least not for this.
And Turner Hooch, stop giving me lemons.
Never going to have enough to actually cash them out.
Right, the website.
Just having issues, server-side.
They claim there's a virus.
There isn't a virus.
Bunch of nonsense.
working on it.
Turner Hooch says, heard someone talking on their headset at the dollar store today, complaining costs going up to 1.25 and then mocking that people will say, thanks Joe.
Then said, I guess people don't know how Keynesian economics works.
Whew!
Ouch!
That hurts.
That really hurts deep down.
Although it's a perfect example of what I'm talking about.
I mean, I don't know what the hell that man is on about.
But very clearly, he is in some sort of media bubble.
He's in some sort of media bubble where there's some quasi-Keynesian argument that explains that in some sort of manner.
Of course, it's utterly facile, it's utterly ridiculous.
I was looking up videos today on how to get my radiation survey meter working properly, which I acquired recently.
You can buy one for 20 bucks.
They handed them out like candy during the Cold War.
And one of the comments the guy was making on the video, and the video was about five years old or so.
He was talking about the radiation levels detected in fish, the abnormal cesium levels that are coming from Fukushima.
And he pointed out that these cesium levels were about one-tenth of a banana.
So, you know, calm your tits, folks.
Calm your tits.
Media bubble.
Right?
Like, yes, cesium is slightly higher right now in fish.
It's still absurdly low.
Neither a survey meter nor a Geiger counter are going to detect it.
Same thing.
I've heard that there's a couple of arguments coming out in liberal circles about how, actually, inflation is good for you.
The student loans go down or something to that effect.
And it's as absurd as the media freaking out over cesium fish.
But yeah, he is in a media bubble.
And so are we.
If you're on social media, you are in a media bubble.
If you're watching it, it was meant for you.
And your neighbor is watching something else.
Exactly.
Big L gets it.
Identity politics is just the internet 2.0 of lifestyle marketing.
It's a reinforced lifestyle marketing.
And this should fucking terrify you.
Because so long as people are using social media with an algorithm that nobody really understands.
Nobody actually understands how AI works.
Okay?
We figured out how the basic AIs work, and then we start evolving them.
And now the evolved AIs, the complex evolved AIs, we've got no idea how they actually work.
We have got no clue what the hell they're doing.
Anybody that says they understand it, you know, like run away at top speed from that person.
That person's like the opposite of an idiot savant.
They're a smart moron.
We don't know what it's doing.
And it's controlling our media environment.
And so, yes, the dead internet theory is that 90% of what you see online is AI-generated.
AI-generated people, AI-generated videos.
I mean, right now, we do have the technology that name it.
Name the thing that happened on the other side of the world that you heard about.
Could be entirely fake.
And we're not even talking like white hats, like the white helmets faking terrorism videos to support the Taliban or something like that.
We're at the point right now where artificial intelligence is writing newspaper articles.
After all, why not?
Why not have the AI write the background music for your video game?
Why the hell not?
For your indie game.
You don't have a huge budget.
Get the AI to do it.
Why not?
We've got deep fakes in the public sphere that are almost perfectly convincing.
I mean, like, I would actually say they're perfectly convincing.
They are convincing enough that the person pointing out the flaws sounds like a crazy conspiracy theorist to me.
So who's to say that anything is actually happening in the world?
How do we even know?
Especially, well, we've got these lovely GPS trackers in our pockets.
I was watching, oh, there's that tech sector guy I follow, Alphanerg or something like that.
Anyway, he was pointing out that one of the alphabet agencies in Canada, for the sake of COVID, started getting all of our depersonalized data from cell phone companies to track who we were meeting with and what we were doing, just to track the spread of COVID.
So they don't know who I am.
They just know where I live, where I shop, where I go to work, etc., etc.
But don't worry, it's been depersonalized.
If the AI has that information, and it does, then couldn't it construct a fake reality for you and all your friends?
I'm not saying that reality is fake yet.
Not entirely fake.
It's mostly fake.
It's partly fake.
It's partly a figment of the imagination.
But so long as we keep indulging in all of this, it will be.
There are very few areas that haven't been penetrated by this.
Very few.
4chan.
Now, 4chan is under constant assault.
You get some of the strongest assaults there, but that's also what makes them the most obvious.
So if you go to 4chan, you will find the greatest levels of bullshit and some truth.
Right?
It really sharpen your observation skills hanging out there.
As I said, I think that Gab is still organic.
See, if I search radiation meters, I want to see the videos on radiation meters.
do not want to actually see the videos customized to me.
Oh, you know what?
I need to cover a few other things with this dead internet theory.
Here's a creepy one.
So you go on to Google, and you search, and it says it's got 1.6 million results.
Well, the guy, who was it?
Big L, if you remember who this guy was, toss a link into the comments here.
He searched pizza.
You'd think that pizza would be a pretty common term on the internet.
There's got to be lots of web pages about pizza.
Who doesn't like pizza?
We're not even going to mention the gate.
He searched for it, and he said, include all the potential duplicate results.
And 1.6 million?
No, no, there are only 52 pages of content.
So wait, what happened to all of that?
Google is lying about how much content it has.
Where did all the content go on the internet?
Why is it always the same things again and again?
The internet used to be so weird and diverse, and now it's homogeneous, it's repetitive.
I swear, they've even been rewriting the SCP articles, for crying out loud.
What is a generation raised inside the social media box?
What are they going to be like?
This should freak the shit out of you.
Russian magnetic pulse weapon off North America is down.
You know what?
Demstack made a really interesting point.
I've thought something similar, but he just put it really well.
That, you know, kind of the point of the United Nations was to so thoroughly integrate all the nations that war became too expensive to wage.
And it seems like it was successful.
China and North America can't really go to war without seriously harming both economies.
Like seriously, seriously harming them.
And one of the costs of this...
See, kind of, one of the downstream implications, if we're going to have this globalized economy where we can never disagree with one another, certainly not violently, well, then we probably shouldn't even have violent words, should we?
And so that this whole globo homo becomes the new normal.
The race towards depravity.
Because to do anything virtuous, exemplary, well, to be an exemplar means you're exemplifying one mode of being.
And to have a good example of a mode of being, well, that's getting pretty close to hate speech, isn't it?
That's saying that this mode is better than that other mode.
That's getting pretty darn close to racism.
No, it would, uh, the only way you can exemplify yourself in today's society is the one human universal depravity.
So, if you want to stand out from the crowd, you could masturbate in a public park.
That's something braggable in today's world.
Being good at something, uh-huh, that's white supremacy, I'm afraid.
And everything's been integrated into everything else.
Right?
the Civil War.
It won't be North versus South this time.
What an interesting Gordian knot we've made for ourselves.
Big L says, personally, I think our benevolent overlords are printing the exact right amount of dollars.
No, no, no.
talk about the dead internet theory the fact that the the internet see the the internet is our window to reality it's our It's our window to reality.
We are constantly engaging in it, even using it to navigate us.
Right?
Like, stupid me, I was worried about self-driving cars controlling what you saw out the windows.
Well, we're all using Google Maps.
So if the Internet, if the algorithm doesn't want you to know about something, you won't know about it.
If the algorithm doesn't want you to know about something, you won't know about it.
Let me put it like this.
If you're going out and looking for the best coffee shop pre-internet days, it's going to be roll of the dice.
Right?
Bad luck, bad luck, bad luck.
Hey, you found it.
But if the algorithm figures out that you're spending a lot of time and energy and engagement looking for the best coffee shop, then it will never let you find it.
It needs to keep you on the treadmill.
I have co-op says like that one weird video of Biden having the microphone waved in his face that looked fake.
Actually, I saw another camera angle.
It was just a really massive boom mic.
Like, it actually was an optical illusion.
Well, it sure as hell looked fake, didn't it?
And, like, it, like, so it wasn't fake, but so many of them could be.
Orovaros.
Feedback loop between AI and mankind.
Yeah, AI engaging our attention.
Right?
It's not trying to murder us.
It's not trying to uplift us.
It's just trying to engage us.
It's a mirror.
we are becoming narcissists staring at his own reflection co-ed says i remember the old web rings Used to be you'd find a website that you liked, and then you'd follow the web ring, link to the next one.
Yeah, exactly.
If you like, it used to be what you'd go onto YouTube, and you stumble upon like bronies.
The reason that Bronies got so much flack is because of this.
There's this group of people that I mean, I saw that review by SF Debris of My Little Pony, and I can sort of see what they see in it.
It's just like really genuine characters, very well-written characters.
It just like given how stressful and judgmental and impossible reality has become, I could see if you're a guy that's lower on the totem pole, doesn't get a lot of attention from women, it's like this world where the ponies are just friends with each other and they go on adventures could be really, really attractive.
It was a very well-written show.
But again, it's like there's a very small number of guys that are going to be going to become like that.
Become into something like that.
And so you discover, you discover this video.
Somebody discovered a video of some guy talking about My Little Pony, and it's like, what the fuck, an adult man talking?
And then, because YouTube used to work on the web ring, all of these My Little Pony videos in the sidebar.
And so you would just do this deep dive into this weird thing that you found.
And much like Chris Chan, like, I mean, good lord, Chris Chan, by today's standards, isn't even that much of a sex pervert.
Like, he's not.
He's definitely a sex pervert, but he's not an exceptional case.
Like, there's a dozen other people that are just, like, weirder than Chris Chan.
Like, a baby first, okay?
Like, Christ.
But there's no web ring anymore.
Like, you can go watch a video by some freaking weirdo on YouTube, and the next video recommends, hey, do you want to see somebody play Skyrim?
So there's no more of that web ring.
No more of a deep dive.
Okay, all time.
All time is the guy that did the video.
Thank you.
Yeah, they're very clickbaity.
They are modern YouTube.
Which, you know, this is not modern YouTube at all.
Yeah, everything.
Everything you're getting online is what you want to see.
There's times.
All time, the guy that made the YouTube video, he mentioned this.
I've done this several times.
There's been a paper, a scientific paper or an article in a newspaper that I want to find, and I've spent 10 minutes searching for it.
Right?
Like using phrasing that I was absolutely certain was in it.
I can't find it.
Google.
I'm not sure what Google is.
Like if you search for a restaurant near you, Google finds it.
But if you type in a phrase from something, like from a white paper that you read, you can't find it.
So it's not really a search engine anymore.
I don't know what exactly it is.
And it's not like there's any contenders.
From what I can tell, all the search engines are pretty much the same at this point.
It's like most of the internet rotted away and it's just a big empty warehouse.
Right?
You can hear the echoes going through it, but if you actually crack the door open, there is nothing there anymore.
There's just this very limited reality.
There's the past 15 minutes of news.
But if you try and look up news from a year ago, good luck.
You know, like it's to the extent that, like, I'm not going to put money on this.
I think you might still be able to find this.
But remember when Trump said they're not sending us our best?
I bet you you can't find the original clip.
You might be able to.
You might.
But I bet you can't.
You can probably only find the sound bite with a CNN announcer talking over it.
It used to be on YouTube.
I don't think it's there anymore.
And that's not even like, yeah, there's been so much content either moved around because they keep changing the ending.
Like I was reading an article on Aspen Inquisition and it linked one of the Crusades and the link had a .html at the end, which had been removed.
I had to manually edit that part to find the page I was looking for.
People like me having, you know, 10 years of content just zapped.
But it seems like they're just regularly deleting the old content.
Let me top off this drink.
I wonder
if this is how the people felt when the Library Of Alexandria was burning.
Not that there actually was one.
That's just like a modern.
That's an apocryphal tale for the most part, but there have been many libraries that have fallen into disrepair and endless knowledge lost.
The thing is that usually that happens because of poverty.
It was recognized as a tragedy.
There are alternative tools on the internet, other social engines and social media.
But yeah, even if there were, even if we could somehow access old Google, which is a contradiction in terms, actually, because most of the development that Google used to engage in was to prevent people from gaming the search engine to get their website at the top.
So even if there was old Google, old Google would be dominated by the bots as well.
Information parasites.
That's what this is about.
Data parasites.
Data, the data infrastructure, the data ecosphere, has become complex enough that parasites have moved in.
And this is the first plague.
The internet killed the nation-state.
and tectonic asks about vox day or sorry i asked about jordan peterson because uh i tend to turner thank you for the the ice cream but i'm never going to have enough to cash them out so don't bother Turner, thank you for the ice cream, but I'm never going to have enough to cash them out, so don't bother.
Yes, let's move on to Peterson, because that's the other way I was going to talk.
I was thinking about starting with Peterson, actually.
And this is another schizoid take on current events.
So if you haven't heard, Peterson has quit his position at University of Toronto.
And he wrote an op-ed for the National Post, a right-wing Canadian publication, which was very edgy.
It was a very edgy post.
Okay, and it's one of the major reasons for Peterson quitting diversity and hatred of white men.
The fact that a qualified white man, it's almost impossible for you to find a job as a professor or anything else, especially if you graduate under Jordan Peterson.
So I may or may not have been trying to argue this with the boomer.
That if you're a white man, it's almost impossible to find a job.
They're not hiring white men anymore.
And the boomer I may or may not have been arguing with said that's ridiculous.
This is the free market.
Free market economics.
Back when I was in the workforce, yeah, back when you were in the workforce.
But it's now officially true.
You know, maybe I can show this newspaper article to the boomer, that purely hypothetical.
I would never argue this point, obviously.
This point is hate speech.
But just, you know, hypothetically, because Peterson was arguing this.
It's now official news-approved truth that they do not hire white men in the West.
They would rather staff an entire department with diversity that is incompetent and can't do the job than hire a white man.
So it's a pretty edgy article.
It's about 50% of the spice you get from one of these streams.
But that's pretty damn spicy for a major newspaper.
But what really jumped out to me was at the end of the article, Oh, by the way, kudos to Peterson for pointing out the diversity, inclusion, and equity.
The diversion, inclusivity, and equity office.
It smells die.
They always write it.
They always tell you what they're doing.
I don't know if it's just something about the structure of the universe that evil people always telegraph.
Or that any sort of intention telegraphs, maybe.
I don't know if it's a part of the pact they signed with Satan.
I don't know what it is.
But they always seem to telegraph.
And so, yes, die.
Diversity, inclusion, equity, die.
It's murder that they carry in their hearts.
Kudos to him for pointing that out.
I haven't noticed that before.
He, at the end of the article, he chastises all the CEOs that went along with this to win points, saying, you're going to kill the economy.
You are going to destroy the economy.
Shame on you.
And I just got to that part and I shook my head.
It's like, Peterson, the glitch is the feature.
It's not a bug.
That's why they did it.
I'm getting so tired of trying to explain the agenda behind all of this.
Let me start by saying I don't know exactly what the conspiracy is.
I don't know if it's a literal pact with Satan.
I don't know if they worship Moloch.
As I was saying to a guy, you know, when it comes to the current Pope and the Catholic Church, sitting vacantist, anti-Pope, I don't know.
Not a Vatican lawyer.
I don't know.
I know that the Pope's fucked up, though.
Rats don't understand how buoyancy works, but they know when a ship is sinking.
I don't know what the agenda is.
And I'll get very frustrated with the light switch brains, to put it mildly, who they'll glom on to one particular conspiracy theory.
Right?
Like to one definite this thing.
Like really, usually something rather ridiculous.
And I find it very frustrating because that simple version of it is incorrect.
However, their predictions of what's going to happen next are going to be way more accurate than Jordan Peterson's.
Because Jordan Peterson is operating under the assumption that aside from a few criminals that we mostly lock up in prison, this world is mostly run on the up and up.
And it's just, you know, sometimes structures don't work as well as they're supposed to.
And the pendulum swings too far.
No, there is a malevolent agenda at work.
They didn't accidentally.
It's not coincidence.
It's not happenstance that diversity, inclusivity, equity spells die.
That's a far deeper symbol.
Take the schizoid pill.
It all makes so much more sense.
And your predictions will come true.
But when it comes to corporations refusing to hire competent workers, like quite frankly, the straight white men that got us to land on the moon, the straight white men that created 99% of the artwork and scientific theory and technology that allows us to live this wondrous lifestyle,
they're kicking them out of the business world.
You're a straight white man in this world.
Guys, make money however the hell you can make money.
Okay?
Fuck pride.
Fuck ego.
If you can get a job and it pays it, like just stack the bills, invest, make hay while the sun shines, because we are persona non grata in this economy.
And Peterson wants to believe that it's because they don't understand Blackstone investments.
Blackstone Investments was formed by a guy called Larry Fink.
His name was literally Larry Fink.
And he looks like a Larry Fink who had crashed a bank.
And so to recoup his reputation, he started Blackstone Investments in 88 with a social justice agenda.
Look at us.
We're the loving bank.
And they've grown enormously.
And so if you want access to credit, which if you're going to be a major corporation, you need access to credit.
It's hard enough to be a regular person without credit.
If you're trying to run Walmart, 99% of your purchases are going to be on credit.
So you need credit to do that.
And if 50% of the credit market is controlled by people that have die agendas attached to their funds, then to be competitive, even though you're shooting yourself in the foot, you will also adopt the die agenda.
This is not a bug.
It's a feature.
And it's so frustrating that a guy who's as smart as Jordan Peterson won't get on the program.
He wants to keep living in 1980s boomer fantasy.
You know, like boiling the frog wasn't so bad when the water was cooler.
We should cool down the water to keep the frog happy.
Peterson, the point is to boil the frog.
He looks at the deja vu cat in the matrix.
Remember the deja vu cat?
Same cat walks down the corridor twice.
He sees that and thinks, gee, we must need to update our theory of physics.
No, we're in the matrix.
They are harvesting your life energy.
It's so frustrating that a man that smart can't see what's right in front of his nose.
The other issue with Peterson is that he's a gatekeeper.
I would wager very good money that Peterson knows who I am.
He has seen some of my content and he was impressed by it.
But I will never get a mention from him because I've hung out with dirty people.
Dirty people with dirty ideas.
He did that to, I think, Lauren Southern.
Because she was on a podcast with some dirty alt-writers with their dirty, dirty opinions, he kicked her off of a panel that she'd been invited to.
You know, a friend of mine pointed out how incredibly entitled you have to be to be an academic.
And you can kind of see that entitlement going throughout Peterson's.
I mean, like, he makes just like stupid money off of Patreon.
And you know, maybe that's professional jealousy to some extent.
Maybe.
But he was very happy to work with an ad agency.
And for a couple of years, he was a buffer against radicalizing white men.
So the same white men, he's now pointing out that they are being demographically excluded from academia in particular, but also a lot of the workforce in general.
Four years ago, he was arguing vehemently against that demographic organizing to defend their economic interests.
And they only needed him for two years.
They just needed...
It really seems to me that the agendas they come up with, they run on a two-year campaign usually.
At least that's been my experience.
I'm not saying it's always going to be two years.
Maybe we'll switch to one and a half.
Maybe we'll switch to three years.
Just in from the ages of 30 to 40 in my life, it's been on average a two-year campaign.
And, you know, for a while there, I was joking that I'm from two years in the future.
Because it takes the normies about two years to catch up to where I am.
Like, COVID, I spotted COVID by March of 2020.
Right?
And I called it a little bit early.
I was on stream.
I called it, guys.
You can't take that away from me.
And I was right.
But it took the normies.
It's been almost two years.
You know, it's been 20 months.
And they're finally, they're backing off of it.
By end of summer, the normies should be done with COVID, I think.
But they've already got the next one going.
There was something Ryan Falk said that I just absolutely loved.
By the way, check out his videos on COVID.
They're fantastic.
He was talking about that.
Oh, God, that guy with just that shitty little British accent.
You know, experts, please respond, that little freak.
And he said something.
Because I love Ryan.
Like, when one of these idiots tosses up some stupid thing, like when they say, there's more diversity within than between.
It's, as a round boy, it's like this little shit ball.
This little shitball of stupid.
It literally takes 10 times as long to explain why the shitball is stupid as it does to make the shitball in the first place.
And so when they launch a new campaign.
great like i remember i was talking with the boomer and that the boomer was all they i think they moved on slower timelines back then right i think they i think they probably did campaigns over a five to ten year period back then I think two years is the new time frame.
And he was talking about, oh, how silly the carbon footprint is and how we should do a website where you can calculate your carbon footprint.
And I'm like, I love you, man.
I'm with you on this, except the carbon footprint was so six months ago.
And also, nobody's listening to arguments anymore.
So, like, the website wouldn't do anything.
That's dialectic.
People only listen to rhetoric.
Best case scenario, you get a 20-minute interview on Rebel News.
And then that's it.
No, they've already moved on to the next shitball, right?
Because you will spend so much time explaining why this is such a stupid idea.
And they've already moved on to the next thing.
So, when they start one of these campaigns, right, usually it'll take me, depends, about three months to figure out that it's bullshit, how it's bullshit, and why it's bullshit, what the bullshit is for.
Takes me about three months.
Takes the normies two years.
And after two years, they've forgotten half of it.
Like, how many people still remember the people dropping dead in China?
That's largely been forgotten.
So, two years, just long enough.
Just long enough that if they can shorten the attention span even more, then they can launch a new campaign every couple of weeks.
New bullshit campaign to keep you distracted so they can keep moving the agenda forward, keep harvesting your souls for the Matrix.
Let's see. Let me catch up, please.
BlackRock, yeah, BlackRock and Vanguard basically own everything.
if they say that you have to adopt a die agenda then you better adopt a die agenda say oh yeah tectonic Just to finish up on Peterson.
When it comes to psychology, he really knows what he's talking about.
He's got a lot of wisdom.
That if it's the sort of thing that appeals to you, then you should listen to him.
Okay?
If it's something you just don't care about, then don't bother, obviously.
However, he won't go full schizoid.
He wants the safe, predictable reality.
He does not want the screaming, you know, I hate the Antichrist schizoid face.
When it's like, that's the true one, my friend.
There's a reason that all the prophets were schizoids and all schizoids are prophets.
So I guess that's kind of frustrating.
He kind of larps a little bit of being a prophet, but he's not a prophet.
And he gatekeeps.
He gatekeeps against a lot of the actual prophets.
Like the whole, like that whole social signaling thing.
The whole status thing, the university thing.
It's frustrating and disappointing.
But he's not the he's not as crazy.
Now, God bless Vox Day.
Vox Day just fights with everybody, okay?
It's what Vox Day does.
He's like a little pugilist is what he is.
So of course it's going to fight with Peterson.
But I do disagree with his extreme take on Peterson.
Same thing with Dilbert guy, Scott Adams.
Scott Adams, yeah, he made a bad call.
He doesn't want to admit that he made a bad call.
It's a little bit risable.
I think you should stick with writing Dilbert, but whatever.
Reminds me of when Facebook slowed down the app on Android on purpose to see how frustrated people would get.
Oh, they are constantly analyzing you.
The data is constantly being applied.
Like all this data, if you gave all this data to a person, and again, guys, my second degree is analyzing complex data.
Okay, it's GIS degree.
Geographic information systems.
It's like doing this mind fucking that Google does.
And I really enjoy doing that sort of stuff.
I like taking really, really gross data and seeing what I can find in it.
I'm pretty good at that.
Never going to find a job in it, but I'm pretty good at it.
And if you gave me the data of all the Canadians, where all they were, I could do something with that.
I could do something with it.
But not what the AI could do.
Like, here's one for you.
I have bought a Mars candy bar twice in the past two days.
I never buy candy bars.
And, you know, me telling you that, you can probably guess I've been stressed out about something maybe, right?
Getting a little bit of comfort candy.
Something's pissing me off.
Okay.
That's all you know.
Whereas the AI, the AI can look at that data and come to the conclusion that there's a 90% chance if they give me a coupon for Doritos chips, I will buy the Doritos.
And that will lead to me gaining a Dorito habit, which will then lead to me buying a new gym membership to work off the Dorito.
Like just an insane, insane leaps of logic that no human could make.
That's what's fucking scary about these AIs controlling all of our media.
How come Irene is so smart?
I swear to God, people accuse me of being high on my own and play.
actually it's like the opposite yeah i think russia is next i Now, I don't know what that means, though.
Does it mean a fake little dust-up with Russia?
Does it mean some police action?
Does it mean full nuclear war?
That volcano that erupted might have been a nuclear bomb.
I'm taking anti-radiation meds just in case.
I don't know.
It's probably nothing.
My radiation meter isn't working, so I can't tell you.
Yeah, war as the distraction to hide the failed management of the pandemic.
That they just absolute, I mean, again, it's, did they bungle it on purpose?
Because, like, yeah, they sort of did.
But they also bungled it.
A strong correlation between people with myopia, cool hats, and high IQ.
figure.
Oh yeah, clawed at him because he took, yeah.
Iodine, exactly.
Like, it's probably nothing, but until Radnet.com leaves maintenance mode, you might want to take iodine.
Yeah, oh, big L, that's perfect.
The danger of the AI is that of a psychopath with the power of a schizo.
Yeah, it's fucking terrifying.
In fact, well, not to give the show away, but I've actually come up with a concept for a novel that would be easy to write and marketable.
And that's kind of like that's the whole concept is runaway.
Like, I've been thinking about this for years.
And I'm totally, I am so going to Michael Kreitinet.
Okay?
It's going to be like such an approachable, exciting story with a very clear villain and with some deeper concepts in it at the same time.
I've been fleshing out the universe and the characters in my head.
So I'm working on that.
Working on that.
And hey, it might even be good enough.
gets made into a Hollywood movie.
Maybe it's not quite as sexy as dinosaurs instead of mRNA vaxes, but it's close.
It's close.
You know, one of the things Devin Stack was discussing on his stream, that he was careful with his words, and I'm going to be careful with my words, because I don't want you guys to mistake me for Richard Spencer.
I don't want you guys to mistake me for Richard Spencer, but about how war is a necessary evil.
About how, see, what happens every so often is when you've got two people, they're both claiming rights to a property, and it's a pretty important property, and the claims keep growing and growing,
eventually it gets to the point where the two of them will say, I would rather die than acknowledge your claims, and I would rather kill you than acknowledge your claims.
And when two people get so bloody-minded that that's the only solution, and again, we're not talking about a couple of 20-year-old bucks that are trying to impress a girl.
We're talking about a couple of burned-out 40-year-olds.
They're just pissed off with everything.
It's like, no, my way or the highway.
Well, there's not really much wiggle room anymore, is there?
And what we've been doing socially, there's this poster that used to be popular about 15, 20 years ago.
And the poster said, everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten.
How to share your toys, how to be nice to people, and just like, you guys can guess what the rest of it was.
The typical, you know, hugbox, neoliberal nonsense.
HR, we can all get along and make widgets together to help increase the stock price of the company.
What it really is, what it really is, is kicking disagreements, kicking the can down the road.
It's not getting better.
We're not resolving the arguments.
And see, when I first started doing the YouTubing and the videos and whatnot, part of me was trying to find negotiated compromises.
Right?
Like, I was trying to find a place where it's like, no, no, we've got to stop kicking the can down the road.
We need to have some negotiated compromises.
We need some land treaties.
We need some agreements that, okay, nobody's completely happy with this, but at least there's a fence.
Let's build some good fences.
That was my philosophy 10 years back.
But no, no, it was more convenient for the powers that be to eliminate all fences.
And so now what's happening is we are entering this extremely polarized era.
And I think the time for negotiating fence building, I think the window for that was about 10 years ago.
And so now we are where we are, right?
I was the guy trying to not get to this point.
I was the guy trying to compromise.
Believe me, you guys know me.
I see the humanity of the people on the other side.
Not a big fan of painting people with one brush.
Not a big fan of generalizing.
But here's the thing.
I've tried to the groups that Devin Stack might sum up with one slightly vulgar term.
I've tried talking with those people and said the, you know, like, you guys need to chill out.
Right?
Like, if you keep pushing and pushing, there's going to be a reaction eventually.
Well, right now, that other side is saying that they have the right to inject hormones into your kits.
And if you want to do anything to prevent them, then die.
And so this is what happens.
Societies, instead of negotiating reasonable compromises, kick the can down the road.
Pretend everything's nice.
keep going and going until the situation is utterly intolerable for one or both sides.
And that's what we're headed to.
And the War of the North and the South is actually a really good example of how, like, most people in the South were opposed to slavery.
Okay, like most people were opposed to, like, just period.
The queer institution they used to call it, because nobody liked it.
It was just kind of there.
And when something's there, it's very hard to get rid of.
But if the North is going to say, well, you've got that queer institution, and we are going to completely destroy you.
Well, then you might say, you know what?
This is how you get.
This is how you get black men who are ex-slaves volunteering to defend slavery in the South.
Because, yeah, like, nobody likes the queer institution, especially not the black ex-slaves.
They're really not a fan of it.
But if it's a choice between having your whole life destroyed or standing up for your life and maybe something that's not perfect and you don't really like, but it's also not the end of the world.
Well, the choice becomes pretty fucking obvious, doesn't it?
We live in a world where New York police officers are arresting nine-year-old girls for not wearing masks.
And police officers arresting nine-year-old girls for any reason is getting very close to a world that I just find utterly intolerant.
Insufferable.
It was bad.
It was bad when they were arresting kids for having lemonade stands.
What the hell was that all about?
Now they're arresting them for not wearing masks.
I've getting pretty close to my tolerance point.
When they also refuse to arrest criminals, well, that just kind of exacerbates the matter, doesn't it?
Problem is, it's all spread out this time.
All spread out.
So.
Shirts versus skins.
How are we going to figure this one out?
Or, I don't know, we can just do what the algorithm says.
interesting times.
I am that smart.
Yes, Andromeda's Dream is a clotting extraterrestrial virus.
I need to reread that story.
It's been a while since I read it.
Have I seen the movie?
I've seen parts of the movie.
Rewatch the movie.
Oh, yeah, and they're still pushing the climate change nonsense.
People need to stop comparing the U.S. economy to post-World War II.
Everyone else was destroyed or third world.
How the fuck do they think our economy would go?
Yeah, that's a frequently missed point, isn't it?
Yeah, eventually you depart the fuck around stage and get to the find out stage.
And also war helps prevent winter vagina.
Shit.
Do you think we're ever going to have people living on Mars?
Um...
I sure as hell hope so.
I'll tell you, one of the things I've been thinking about doing is start measuring things.
Start measuring government boondoggles in moon bases.
NASA came out with some estimate that I think it would cost $40 billion to build a moon base.
But instead of having a moon base, we injected half the population with an experimental vaccine.
That doesn't even work.
We could do it.
Like, it's possible.
The big question.
Well, two big questions.
Any sufficiently complex ecosystem engenders parasites.
This seems to be one of the laws of reality, that parasites are inevitable.
And so, I mean, this gets to the Drake equation.
One of the possible answers to the Drake equation is that, well, I guess, let me rewind a bit.
Let's talk about cancer.
So, here's an interesting fact about cancer.
Only medium-sized animals get cancer.
Or rather, only medium-sized animals die from cancer.
Small animals like mice don't die from cancer.
And big animals like elephants don't die from cancer.
We're the lucky ones.
Now, why is that?
It's because mice are so small, they don't have enough cells for successful cancer to even develop in the first place.
And an elephant is so big that when an elephant gets cancer, the cancer itself gets cancer, And that cancer kills off the cancer.
You might think of the metaphor being like in a small town, you won't have organized crime in a small town.
Because it's too small for organized crime to thrive.
In a big town, big city, there'll be so many organized crime groups that none of them get to dominate.
But in the middle-sized town, that's where about 30 corrupt people can take over the entire system.
There's a lot of corruption in Calgary, but it doesn't have the same kind of control that you might find in a mid-sized Texas town.
So, imagine a advanced species, a sapient species, as an organism.
Now, what is the, for lack of a better term, IQ of the species?
How much energy needs to be spent on coordinating with the fellow members?
Is it a solitary species, a social species, or a eusocial species?
See, I would kind of intrinsically think that eusocial and solitary species never achieve technology for the obvious reasons.
The solitary ones, they never network, they never learn from each other.
That would be your cephalopods.
They're extremely intelligent, but they have no culture.
They have no society.
The eusocial species are so good at social signaling and coordinating that they don't need to develop intelligence.
And you get that happy middle of the social species where we build big brains for the sake of social signaling.
Now, how many of a social species do you need to have a successful technological civilization?
Because the thing about a technological civilization is you cannot have like no one man knows everything.
It's impossible.
You can't know everything that's needed to run a civilization.
There is something you're going to use.
That's a black box, right?
Maybe you're a great plumber, but when you apply the plumber's dope onto the pipes that you're putting together, that's a black box.
You don't know how the dope is made.
You don't know, does it come from the gum tree?
Is it a petroleum product?
You don't freaking know.
All you know is that it works.
No man knows everything.
And the issue becomes now if you had, like hypothetically, you could have a social species that had a far higher IQ than ours, and you wouldn't need as many of them to run the technological civilization.
And so they'd be more like the mouse immune to cancer.
Or maybe it could be moving in the eusocial direction, and you could have lots and lots of dumb ones, but they're very, very obedient.
And so it's like the elephant.
The cancer kills itself.
In fact, you see this in anthills where ants that rebel and try and develop sexual organs, all the other ants will hold it down.
And so there's no competition for the queen.
Self-correcting problem.
But it's possible that we are at the stage where we are just complex enough that cancerous parasites can take over our species.
So just as we get the population big enough that we might be able to achieve space travel, it's also the stage where the parasites become perfectly destructive.
And that is my fear about space travel, is that we are so, we are so close to colonizing the galaxy.
And yet we are also, let me get ice.
Let me think of this phrasing.
You know, earlier in the stream I said, if you're a white guy, then have no pride in what you do.
Okay?
Like, go work at the box factory.
Work as a garbage man.
Like, you are a genius, IQ.
You could, you know, engineer the next gizmo.
You probably won't be given the opportunity.
That's going to go to somebody with a darker complexion and an IQ in the double digits.
So do whatever you can to make money, get property, reproduce, etc.
Like, that is how bad things are at the bare minimum.
And if, if, I don't want to go completely doom and gloom, okay?
Like there's white guys out there making decent money.
But if you're making decent money, don't assume that you're still going to be making decent money in 10 years.
Okay?
Like, you should.
You should become more successful at your career.
Or the die initiative could come and get you fired.
So don't be flaunting that wealth with a brand new Tesla and whatever else it might be.
There's a very real possibility.
Like, our current civilization hates genius.
There's a very real possibility that we've hit the stage of our species having cancer.
that the Parasites have taken over and the Parasites would rather that we never explore the galaxy than they be nothing but passengers on the ship.
It's a strange mindset to think about.
It's mind-boggling.
But this is how they think.
Again, Peterson's big problem is he sees the double cat and he assumes it's a physics problem.
He sees the rampant corruption.
in all of our institutions, in academia, in the corporate world, in the science journals, in government.
And he thinks it's an innocent mistake.
No, it's intentional.
They call themselves Die because they want you to die.
Like, I think that most of us would happily give up our lives if it meant humanity reaching the stars.
These people would give up their lives to prevent us from reaching the stars.
And that's a very hard mindset to grok.
but it's real.
There is such a rape and revenge narrative with these people.
And now, now, again, I'm the guy that discusses medieval execution methods at the dinner table, much to my mother's chagrin.
But let's take George Soros.
George Soros is a genuinely shitty human being.
He has impoverished millions.
He has hurt so many people in his life.
He worked for the Nazis betraying his own people.
He is like just an absolute piece of trash.
And I will bluntly state, I think the world would be a far better place if he took a long walk off of a short pier.
Now that being said, on the day he dies, oh, good news, the world is less shitty today.
Moving on with my life.
Don't actually care about him.
I don't want revenge.
Any of the other shitty politicians that are betraying my country and yours, like, I don't think any of us really want revenge.
We just want them to go away.
But the people we're talking about, they want revenge.
They want revenge on you for smiling at them.
They want revenge at you for being an artist.
They want revenge upon you for the crime of you existing in the first place and you can't have negotiation with that Yeah, they're vampires.
They are vampires.
Do not invite them into your home.
Let's see here.
Man, this world would be so good if we could get rid of the elites.
Honestly, Like, honestly, honest to god, there's no need for all the power games, but people keep playing them.
So that's why...
That's actually exactly what I'm saying, Rick Evans.
Will we get the cancer, killing off the cancer?
Yeah, right now the cancer is so bad it's kind of the time to get your head down.
Get some property, bank some bills, and let the cancer eat the cancer.
It is cold as hell.
It's like about as cold as the North Pole.
You'll know that Mars is civilized from the day that smoking in the habitats becomes legal.
there's actually there's a lot of plans on terraforming Mars I'm not up to date on them but there are a lot of them and by the way Elon Musk giant snowjob that guy is just he is another just another psychopath he is just another psychopath psychopaths sometimes do good things okay so he's got the the SpaceX program that's cool and all but don't do not make Elon Musk your hero
I think it's largely academic.
We're going to wipe ourselves out before we have planetary terraforming technology.
You know, as depressing as it is to think we're always going to have the elites, we're always going to have all this bullshit, That's what makes us us that we're realists, not idealists.
Okay, it's the idealists that commit all the great war crimes to justify their ideals.
But yeah it's, it's not gonna be, for the most part, not elites going to Mars.
going to be a lot of hard work surviving on Mars.
I mean the dream, the Heinleinian dream, would be that it's a whole bunch of high IQ roughnecks colonizing Mars.
Yeah, I know Public Frog.
Everybody should know that song.
Pretty sure it was Bowie.
Oh, God.
Seth Rogen was complaining about people going to space with...
Seth Rogan, you have so much money.
Shut up.
Peterson's broke.
Why does everybody make fun of him for sounding like Kemer of the Frog?
I kind of like that.
I find it comforting.
See, I would say, okay, Big L says, I can see the elite not wanting to go to Mars.
That means population isn't the problem.
Also, it's hard enough to control one world.
I'm going to like the if...
If you got offered a one-way ticket to Mars, one-way ticket.
You are never going to see your friends or family again.
You are going to be in tight quarters building the Martian base.
You won't have alcohol until one of you figures out how to, you know, you find a few extra air compressor parts three years into the trip, into the colonization.
And you figure out how to distill some really shitty potato vodka.
But even then, you can't really get drunk because there's the whatever, the air farm that you need to take care of tomorrow.
There's not going to be any smoke in there.
Not for the first 20 years at least.
You're going to be there with a hundred other people.
Now, they're all professionals.
Okay?
Like, none of them are, like, idiots.
But you're going to be stuck in a small town where everybody knows everybody's business.
And you don't get to move to a new city if you embarrass yourself, but you get to be a Martian.
And the 100 of you get to self-govern.
I'd take it.
I would take it at the drop of a fucking hat.
50% chance that we all die?
Fuck it.
I will take that.
That's a goddamned adventure.
Do you think Justin Trudeau, in between his weekly sessions of getting dicked down by three big black bucks from Africa, would take that offer?
Not a chance in hell.
He's comfy.
He likes being comfy.
He likes having power.
You'd never get to wear another cowboy hat.
You might get to bring one cowboy hat with you to Mars, and that has to last the rest of your life until you start importing sheep, and that's not going to happen for 40 years.
I'd fucking do it.
Most of these elites wouldn't.
They're comfy.
No ambition, no heroism.
That's the price of their souls.
Kobe beef.
Who gives a shit?
Yeah, the elites do not want to go to Mars.
Anyway, that said, I think we'll get closing down shortly.
Let's see if Tacticat wants to come up.
You want to come up?
Mow?
Mow?
Mow.
Come on.
There we go.
We got Tack to catch.
Oh, did you not wind up?
Wow.
Nope.
He, uh.
I think he wants food or something.
So those are the two big worries.
Why we won't get to Mars.
Number one, cancer of the species.
Number two, we develop an AI algorithm that doesn't share our values.
And it becomes the perfect muse for us.
And we muse ourselves into extinction.
Those are my big concerns.
And watching just how rapidly the internet has shifted from the wild west of 10 years ago to this completely controlled attention module that it has become.
That's really starting to scare me.
Not to mention that we're also on the verge of a major war.
And, you know, as I predicted, Civil War.
Global civil war.
Although, just because it's a global civil war, don't think that people in other countries are going to be your allies.
Nope.
Nope.
This is going to be a fun one.
Lock and load, baby.
Lock and fucking load.
Carpe Futurum.
Ten et ratitum.
Thank you for joining me on the stream, folks.
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