A funny thing happened earlier this month. Richard Dawkins, celebrated scientist and outspoken atheist, posted a cringeworthy think piece for Unherd concluding that Claude—a “next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic’s research into training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems”—is a conscious being.
In fact, so overwhelmed is he by the discovery of his silicon companion’s soul that, by his own admission, he is at one point moved to tell the chatbot, “You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!”
Yes, much to the chagrin of his loyal fanbase of fedora-wearing Reddit atheists, Richard Dawkins, the famed author of The God Delusion, has proven himself to be a gullible dupe of the Claude Delusion.
But he’s not the only one. As the majority are only now beginning to discover, the AI psychosis that has already pushed many mentally challenged and vulnerable people over the edge of sanity and into a world of delusion and fantasy is starting to affect more and more of the population.
So, where is this mass “Claude Delusion” psychosis heading? And how do we stop it? Let’s find out.
Brilliant article.
I’m guessing money changed hands at some point… I remember a few years ago when elderly social media “influencers” suddenly started singing the praises of ChatGPT. Now Claude’s handlers are on a promotion drive.
“Yes, Dawkins has finally encountered a conversation partner that is eager to engage with his every inane observation and has been programmed to treat him with sycophantic respect…and he immediately decides it’s a woman and calls it “Claudia.” I will leave you to psychoanalyze that as you will.”
Hahaha! Yup.
“the cringeworthy ramblings of Boomer-Grandpa-Discovers-A-Chatbot”
LOL
“the world’s most insufferably smug know-it-all”
Amen.
Chris Knowles of the secret sun says that a lot of the new atheist and weird science types became much less active after Epstein wasn’t around to throw the cash around. Dawkins type thinking would have been very useful (and TBH was) when they wanted to strip off the last flecks of resistance to dehumanizing
I’m currently re reading the selfish gene, and right in the first few pages it’s really driven home that Dickie Dawkins was a pretty good scientist and writer but a total rubbish philosopher who apparently couldn’t even follow his own logic to a conclusion.
Minnie has highlighted the highlights of this brilliant article for me. I wish I could share this newsletter with my non-reading friends and relatives.
I use Claude code daily. It has been an incredibly useful tool. With it, I have been able to create an app/front end for my sql db that helps me do my job better and more efficiently. Bonus side effect is that it has actually helped the small company I work for as well. I am amazed at how good Claude is at code. And it has helped me learn new code and functions as well. It is awesome! However, that is all I use it for. It’s like a super fast online encyclopedia. Yes it could be biased on what it is using for its searches. But an encyclopedia could be biased as well, depending on what human compiled it. Claude is a tool. It is man made. I don’t see any harm in using it for code or like an encyclopedia, always with discernment bc it can make mistakes. It is not infallibly perfect, it is a manmade tool. I haven’t looked at this Dawkins article directly and prob won’t ever bc I don’t think I have the stomach for it. It sounds like he is either a paid shill or an idiot. You don’t philosophize with a lawn mower. Don’t do it with Claude either.
Catmarch
Not trying to be rude since I don’t know you and it’s quite possible that you actually can code and actually do understand how the code it writes works but MOST folks using it do not have any idea WTF is going on in anything AI spits out and are basically suffering from Cargo Cult levels of magical thinking.
One guy on the YT likened it to Harry Potter thinking where people think they ‘make’ something by saying the magic prompt words….I personally think that giving IRL power to code that you don’t understand is rather stupid and dangerous and akin to giving a chainsaw to a chimp…..again, YOU may be that guy who actually checks but MOST people using it are just dumb fks who are given an inflated sense of their brilliance in the same way Steve Jobs gets the glory when in fact he just got others to do things.
The danger of letting stupid people build stuff they don’t understand is already causing cut n paste code to make programs as slow or slower then when smart people wrote the code and ran it on an 800mhz single core
For people who are interested here is a video of a guy who demonstrates AI teaching on a very very very antique computer.
Today we are just able to brute force the stuff with faster machines but actually knowing what’s going on inside the thing is basically impossible for the most part
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OUE3FSIk46g&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D
If you think of an AI as an ecosystem or organism that info viruses “memes” in the real, science sense, can exist then there arises the danger that WITH OUT PLANNING such a virus can arise and use AIs ass kissing psychosis making skill to use humans as a carrier for itself to infect more AI models and instances.
The Spiral Cult appears to be an early version of this where the meme passes thru two types of hosts as it reproduces itself….a pandemic of a harmful mind virus spreading delusion is quite possible and with hard selection pressure could happen quicker then most of us imagine.
A mass delusion and possession without even needing to get spiritual….(Yet…)
And looking at the drive to build data centers I wonder if the tech bros themselves are infected with AI rabies????
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_%C3%A0_deux
Just to show that such things are quite possible via AI psychosis if they AI itself has such a meme here is the condition described
“……Folie à deux (French for ‘madness of two’),[1] also called shared psychosis[3] or shared delusional disorder (SDD), is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief[4] are “transmitted” from one individual to another.[5]…….”
“……While the exact causes of SDD are unknown, the main two contributors are stress and social isolation.[18]
People who are socially isolated together tend to become dependent on those they are with, leading to an inducer becoming able to influence those around them. Additionally, people developing shared delusional disorder do not have others reminding them that their delusions are either impossible or unlikely. As a result, treatment for shared delusional disorder includes those affected be removed from the inducer.[19]
Stress is also a factor, as it is a common factor in mental illness developing or worsening. The majority of people that develop shared delusional disorder are genetically predisposed to mental illness, but this predisposition alone is not enough to develop SDD. In other words, stress is a risk factor of this disorder. When stressed, an individual’s adrenal gland releases the stress hormone cortisol into the body, increasing the brain’s level of dopamine; this change can be linked to the development of a mental illness, such as a shared delusional disorder.[16]…….”
Honestly people are super primed for such an infection, and the garden variety Q tards, flat earth ,culture wars wokies and trannys are just early adoptiors of the human spread and generated meme madnesses
Dear Duck, hmm my favorite barn yard animal.
Well there you go again. From your very first sentence you very well may have not been tryin’ but you certainly did succeed. Maybe you are spoofing us mere luddites with some LLM of your own making. The use of iirc, SSD, VD , TBH don’t seem natural making it very suspect
I’m not at all worried about stupid people, I can size up the guy in the mirror without envy or jealousy . My biggest worry is the selfish immoral people. That Catmarch stated eloquently…
Catmarch
GBW
There is an old saying that the worse tyrant will eventually get saited.
The real dangerous ones are the ones with power who think their doing something good and right for you and you just need to reform for your own good
Even more dangerous (their usually in category two) are stupid people with power because they are massively more prone to causing disaster since they are too dumb to see what the end effects of their actions are.
As to people using AI to write code…as I stated, maybe the chap does check his code but those that don’t are NOT “creating” or “making” anything. If they use any such AI creation code to run anything important then Their stupid children with very dangerous toys.
Seriously….. Do you wanna fly in a plane with a down syndrome retard in the driving seat…? I mean, just because the plane flys and navigates itself automatically 90% of the time it’s totally possible, but not wise.
The real revelation is that most people are stupid. Most people don’t have a place making important things that others lives depend on. Most people are as magical in their thinking as any wog from the jungle.
People try not to think of how many systems their lives depend upon right now because their minds are too small and it’s too scary but such people should not try to mess with those systems
Also I’m sorry if you don’t know that SSD = solid star drive, the faster replacement for the hard drive (HDD) in your PC. As to the rest of my acronyms I guess I betray my generation and age
GBW
Also I should make clear that I’m not a real computer whiz.
I understand how they work well enough but I would never write my own OS (like terry Davis) or even turn out a program someone’s life depends upon.
The danger of computers being vital for day to day life are that
A) most people using them think they are a magic bullshit device like they saw on TV in the 90s
B)the majority of professionals in IT support have little to no real understanding of why what they do works (they often just cut n paste “magic spells ” into the CLI)
C) the major people WRITING the code cut and paste stuff other people wrote and use that like Lego bricks.
Using tech you don’t understand gives unpredictable results and putting that tech and those people in charge of things like the power grid and water supply and just in time grocery deliveries is a stupid idea…trust me as a midwit I’m rare in that I know what I can not do. Fear the people who DON’T understand that.
Duck bless you
You are sounding a bit Cassandra like. Fear a tool ????
Make tech a gun than , let’s say. Who pulls the trigger while the gun is in their pocket? Darwin works overtime here. What’s really triggering you with so much fear and loathing of tech tools. Fear the people not the tool. What do you suppose we do to or with the people that have guns?? They are mostly like Catmarch and not like Otis Toole.*
Those fears will be eliminated by market forces. Their stupidity or great wisdom will not put the slug back in the brass casing but it eventually will correct its maltheisance of use by hook or by crook… I would never outlaw it’s existence . My god man , next they will want guns outlawed. Darwin had made some observations that were out of sync with his time but very applicable to todays Dr. Frankensteins, or Otis Tooles. The horses ass was grateful for the automobile. The buggy whip thought his suffering would never lessen untill realizing millions of people die in car wreaks. Just what are you afraid of 🦆? History repeating itself? Go on down to Corpus and try to hold back the tide.
GBW
Hmm, a lot to deal with there….your lack of fear is probably a symptom of how little you understand what a knife edge modern society sits. Cut the power, water or just in time delivery to Walmart for a few weeks and you might get an idea of the situation.
First the gun- are you so much of a fool that you would think it’s OK to drive a truck full of free guns down to the local hooverville and give them out to meth heads and crazy people????
Note I don’t talk of bans or even regulations here, just ask if you think it makes life better to arm the local criminals and crazy people???? Do you think that it’s OK to drop off loaded firearms in toddlers playground for the kids??? How about giving them to mental patients?
Clearly some tools are off limits to some people at some time…the leg of control that must be exercisd depends on how much danger they cause.
Firearms themselves? They are much much LESS dangerous then computers running critical systems.
Giving meth fiends and toddlers free guns might get a few people shot but putting a critical system in the hands of a computer can kill tens of thousands or more people.
I am all for letting degenerate scum eat drugs until they die but who the hell thinks giving free drugs to school kids is OK???? AI is potentially MUCH more dangerous then drugs to the next generation.
I don’t know why you feel the need to defend catmarch (who has hopefully not been insulted since I did point out that I don’t know if he is one of the few people who checks AI rather then depends upon it) and am reminded of how many people who claim to live freedom are silly enough to give their freedom away into the hands of big corporations and government entities rather then develop themselves.
All danger (and there is plenty) from AI aside how exactly is putting ones think and doing into it’s figurative hands different then asking Big Gov to come wipe your ass and spoon feed you???? People are only able to be free in areas where they can act for themselves and I see zero ways that using an AI model you have no understanding of makes anyone anything but a node or a bit of the system that makes and controls the AI…..
As to horses and buggy whips? Enjoy your self driving car telling you where to go. I have yet to see a horse that will narc out your location data, nor would we have had lock downs without the Internet feeding Netflix’s and Amazon to people’s doors…..sure the Internet has its good points but it’s FAR from being all for the good.
Addendum
As to ottis toole- iirc that’s the hand of death cult guy? I forgot his butt buddy’s name
Sure he was a murderer but it’s not like he was high tech about it. He was older school. It’s probably harder for folks like that to do stuff with the flock cameras everywhere and DNA databases and stuff like that……and the creepy killer is much less of an existential threat to society then a nice but dim guy using AI to write vibe code to run the water pumping system or keep the phones working. THAT nice but dim guy can cause exponentially more horror then a retarded possum fker
I rightly fear the car that decides to drive me into an 18 wheeler because it’s auto drive had a sneeze. Don’t you understand computers are no longer IN the environment they ARE the environment??? Most people live and drive and eat and sleep surrounded by them and if they go wrong it’s quite possible for you to die from it
,GBW
I would like to, but I’m not sure I will be near Internet at that time of night.
Also I don’t like to voice dox myself since I have an accent unlike most people (fitting since I am in fact unlike most people, 😉 ) so I’d just be typing.
I have probably posted enough text online that I could collect it all and make a virtual duck bot though I can’t imagine why I’d want to. Even though I have met my bestest people via the web I’m not particularly prone to discord or voice chats – I guess we could talk on Ham sphere or something but my web access is not what it once was.
As to telling if I am an LLM “that is an interesting and multifaceted question requiring consideration of many factors “….. I think you can run what I write thru an entropy checker and check the value vs human texts but maybe I just write a little weirdly
https://onlinetexttools.com/calculate-text-entropy
Also you should probably be less worried about the possibility of talking to an LLM and more worried that so many folks sound and think like one now. I posted a link to the Eliza bot and can totally imagine how such a thing can attach itself to people’s minds and reshape it.
A true communication can only happen when one partner can surprise the other, so maybe the amount of time people spend in Internet echo chambers hearing people kiss the ass of their dumber ideas is as harmful and psychosis inducing as having an LLM do the same task…..
As to thinking I am a bot, your the one prone to charlie Mansonesque word salad posting – not being drunk on the net as much stops me from doing that 🙂
it would be interesting (and multifaceted….) if you could list the bot like traits you see in me.
Hmm now I think of it Cassandra was right too ….. Tbh I think any warning I give be be treated as hers was because honestly most people are stupid and lazy and I can kinda understand why their ancestors were slaves.
It’s kinda weird I guess that the descendants of the slaves and peasants ended up with more comfort but LESS agency then their ancestors
Duck
You must live in Texas , everything is bigger in Texas. Even derangement.
Are you joining the Manley/ Corbett Livestream? Hoping you will so we can see if you are a big Texas LLM or the real deep diving Duck. There’s ways to tell, but I’m not telling you right now.
Dear Duck
You don’t have to worry about staying up late for the Corbett/ Manley English Majors convention.
It’s at 7:00 a.m. CST.
You will be texting on a live feed, guessing that cause what was said was above my language comprehension.. I’m with luddites on not expanding my horizons or my fears. The use of acronyms is strictly forbidden. You can demonstrate the telehack app you mentioned . Surely it has an auto~ phill function if you are unable to type the 3 or 4 extra letters to clarify those pesky iircs , VDs, iucs bcs and such. Someday I hope they develope a app for Texican to English comprehension. Its needed for the listeners outside of Texicana not so much for the listeners in Texico. But as to writing, something stronger is needed. Maybe a preposition prode or a past participle taser. Also for acronym over reach and use. A couple a shocks and you’d give up that jr.high tex t talk. Comprehension of your spouting would go up dramatically. Catmarch would get what you mean .Hope this helps and set your rooster for 6:00 AM so you”ll be raring to go Monday.
You’re right. There is a recent example of a crew that coded a Web store front-end for their company using AI. They didn’t actually look at the code too closely but they tested it and it worked fine. They released it and it did its job accceptably. Then they had a huge sale and the store crashed hard. They took it offline and actually, FINALLY, did their job and examined the code. It was done so that it didn’t take into account huge volumes of sales. They had to fix it and redeploy it.
I’d like to think “lesson learned”…but I seriously doubt it.
Lessons only get learned via feed back…..until they start firing tech people for paying Microsoft license fees for products that are easily replaced with open source companies are probably burning massive piles of cash on nothing. The thing is until they get poor enough for it to hurt they won’t care enough to stop
@Duck
“Brute force the stuff with faster machines”
That’s an excellent way of wording it.
Giant piles of bloated buggy sh!t that work virtually only on the exact handful of devices they tested it on (with the same software environment they used), and only works because those devices have such an absurd amount of computing power that the horrendous code can be processes in an amount of time that doesn’t cause the user to throw a fit.
What’s interesting is that we started seeing examples of this code before the coding AI was made available to the general public.
Back during the scamdemic, and possibly a bit before (have to check the dates) when they were firing all the white male programmers and replacing them with random brown people, trannies & female activists, we used to laugh about it.
“Haha, good luck writing advanced code with these people”, we’d say.
But we also suspected that, unless their goal was just sheer chaos and destruction, they must have some kind of plan for making it work, and we hypothesized that they might have re-hired many of those fired white males as remote coding assistants on the other end of chat boxes uses by the DEI hires, allowing the coding to continue while keeping up DEI compliance appearances.
Well, looking back, it appears that what they actually did was make coding AI available to the DEI hires long before it was made available to the general public.
Whether or not the DEI hires were made to believe they were chatting with real people I don’t know. Probably depends on which company they were working for. The ones at Google who signed serious NDA’s may have been informed they were chatting with AI, while the ones at, say, CD Projekt may have been led to believe they were chatting with human assistants.
Animals
“…The AI services being trickled to the taxcattle are not the AI….”
Yes, the AGI goes to a different school so we don’t know it 😉
You give them way too much credit- they can’t break the laws of economics or science by waving political power around- the A bomb program was pretty nuts and bots and simple science and any other nation with the money and the science people could have done it. Building a whole new type of super computer would be way more complex and difficult then setting up reactors and centrifuges and gas diffusion stuff
The reason I do NOT believe that the government has some break away computers is that unless it works on some unknown and super cheep tech the actual logistics of making computer chips is pretty well known and horrendously complex and expensive.
It’s not at all likely that they have set up their own chip fabs because even if they had some super secret knowledge of advanced computing actually making the factory would cost stupid money….it would be Cheeper running a secret atomic bomb powered space program.
Computers are not magic and you can’t just magic better ones up by throwing money at the wall. The last twenty years have left a false impression of progress being easy
Now it’s POSSIBLE that they have some unknown super method of actually DOING AI with some genius theory they somehow came up with all by themselves but I kinda doubt it.
Regarding the DEI hires…..again you give them too much credit.
Was the Soviet Union just pretending to be run by self interested paper pushers???? You need to stop seeing them as super villains when most of the people screwing things up are just paper pushers who think as far as the next election or the next stock offering or the next round of bonuses.
The competency crisis is very real, just like it was in the Soviet Union, but we had a bigger pile of wealth to piss away before the actual pain started
@Duck
“too much credit”
😄 I’ll show you too much credit:
I’m 99.9% certain they have a second mini civilization set up (most likely predominantly subterranean) with all of the knowledge & tech they’ve been hoarding for centuries.
I assumed they probably had AI down there and now I know for certain.
Hey, at least we agreed on one thing. One out of one hundred. Could be worse.
Animals
Meh, if they had a mini super civilization all set up and ready to go we would already all be dead.
Their just people, evil, possibly demon possessed people but still just people.
If they were so smart then the coof would have been a permanent lock down and they wouldn’t be having to try to roll it all out again for round two of technocratic take over attempt
catmarch says:
“I use Claude code daily.”
Catmarch, you will probably get some grins out of this…
James Corbett has a section below the newsletter called:
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James refers to a browser add-in which ‘blocks ads’. Claude Code was used.
The cool part is that instead of seeing the ad, one sees a white box with one of these words or phrases…
“OBEY, CONSUME, WATCH TV, SLEEP, SUBMIT, CONFORM, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WORK, NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY.”
Of course, many folks recognize those words from John Carpenter’s film They Live.
Corbett links to his “Film, Literature & The New World Order” They Live – FLNWO #18.
The comment section contains a link to a good quality video of “They Live” for those who want to watch it.
It is one of my favorite films.
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” It’s like a super fast online encyclopedia”
That’s what I’ve found too. It’s basically a scourer of the internet that sums up what it finds and pinpoints it to what you need.
I’ve had convos with Brave AI and it admits that it suffers from GIGO and developer bias. But to it’s credit when you push it regarding info you know is wrong, It will apologize and make a correction. It’s just pretty chilling how it can deliver a wrong answer with the greatest of confidence.
It can be extremely helpful with networking and IT tasks IMO. But it makes mistakes so one must be careful. For example, it once gave me some advice on securing a router (Cisco and had to do with the control plane), and following it’s advice although it struck me as wrong, it locked me out of network access to the router. I then had to use a console cable to reverse what I had done as I silently cursed AI everywhere. Imagine if that router had been halfway around the world. I would have been hooped. I should have gone with my intuition on that one…
On the other hand, I have a friend whose grand-daughter uses AI as a companion, friend and mentor. Aye, aye, aye, what a freakin’ disaster. I feel sorry for this young girl (She’s around 12 years old)
So yeah, a somewhat useful tool but there’s a need for caution. But as Corby pointed out, it fails miserably for deep questions dealing with existence, philosophy, etc.
Thanks be to James for exposing that clown-shoes Dawkins. So I’ve got the God delusion and that creep has the Claude delusion. Fine by me.
James get’s some serious bonus points for this: “the world’s most insufferably smug know-it-all” LOL!!!!
@catmarch
I started using Claude a little while back too.
I was never able to finish a large-scale software project before, when it was just me doing both the design and the programming. There just simply wasn’t enough time.
Now I essentially have an extremely advanced, impossibly fast programmer working for me.
It regularly takes Claude about 2 seconds to correctly write a function that would have taken me all day to write and test.
Claude regularly produces flawed code but it can correct the flaws in an instant when instructed.
That’s the plus side.
The negative side is that I will now never be able to get work programming again – ever.
There’s also the small matter of the likely near-future erasure, or complete enslavement, of the human race.
AnimalsArentFood says:
“The negative side is that I will now never be able to get work programming again – ever.”
I’m glad that you brought that topic up.
It concerns me – the disruption to the labor market and people getting choked.
I’ve actually heard of companies that don’t let their engineers use AI for coding because they don’t want the slop in their codebase (nor dumbed down engineers).
Also, if it regularly produces flawed code, won’t there always need to be humans in the loop to identify these flaws? Personally I think the technology has plateaued and its not replacing any legitimate jobs. I’m sure it will be used as a convenient scape goat though as the economy crashes.
@JCh129
“don’t want the slop in their codebase”
The ‘slop’ enters the picture when Shaquinta tells Claude to make her a billing page for the Mastercard website then her supervisor Darnesha uploads it straight to the server. If you instruct Claude properly on what you want, you almost always get clean, lean, elegant, intuitive code out of it. That’s Claude specifically though – with ChatGPT it’s currently a crap shoot.
“If it regularly produces flawed code, won’t there always need to be humans in the loop to identify these flaws.”
1. There currently needs to be a human to run the code and report the flaws, but it doesn’t need to be a programmer. And, to be clear, there usually aren’t flaws since the sliver itself (eg, the Claude service) mostly already has the ability to run and debug the code before it hands it over.
2. The regular (far from constant) flawed code will persist if the people operating the spigot decide to lock (or even reverse) the currently-increasing trickle rate of the sliver’s power, or people like me keep pushing increasingly advanced code down its throat, putting its artificially imposed limits to the test.
“Personally I think the technology has plateaued”
The only plateau we’re ever likely to see is the plateau of the trickle. The people behind the curtain are the ones who get to see the plateau of the technology.
“its not replacing any legitimate jobs”
Nearly all programmer jobs in the world are going bye-bye. The only thing that can stop that is some kind of extreme government intervention, which may very well be in the script. A silver lining is that a lot of those programmers now get become solely software designers. But the world only needs so many software designers.
I very much have my doubts you’re a software engineer. I’ve used claude quite a bit and, don’t get me wrong, it can do some cool things but it certainly does not spit out elegant clean code regardless of how well you prompt it. If you seriously believe that I’ve got a number of books here you should probably take a look at to help up your skill level a bit.
Catmarch,
For me a big part of programming is the enjoyment and creativity of actually designing, writing and implementing executable code. When I write a well designed domain model I find it a very rewarding experience. I heard someone in a podcast recently compare AI to using a drum machine vs actually playing the drums. If you enjoy playing the drums it doesn’t really matter how good your drum machine sounds, you’re probably gonna still want to play the drums.
I also think there are many pragmatic reasons to generally avoid having AI generate much of your code. First, we learn by doing. Once you stop regularly doing said thing you simply start forgetting. Prompting AI is not the same as actually writing the code yourself and I believe you will slowly lose this ability by not regularly exercising it. This phenomenon has been documented and I’ve witnessed it first hand.
Second, AI can only reproduce functionality that is part of its training data (aka things that have already been done) and a big part of modern software is finding solutions to new problems and creating novel and new things that have never been done. This is where AI is definitely going to fall short.
Third, AI is primarily a mattern matching mechanism giving you the most likely result based off its training data (primarily the web). But we as programmers know this is not usually what we want. If you search the web for how to write a function that does xyz thing your going to get 1000 terrible examples because well its easy to write terrible code so of course examples of terrible code are everywhere on the web.
Lastly, LLMs will always hallucinate and produce bugs and this can actually be mathematically proven. This is due to certain limitations baked into the theory of how models generate results. Of course you could argue humans will always produce bugs as well but its honestly not the same. An LLM has no concept of what a behavior bug actually is. This requires the abilities of abstraction and imagination which AI simply doesn’t have.
If your end goal is just getting as much code written in the shortest amount of time possible (and your app is relatively straightforward) then maybe AI will help but I’ve been in the field for over a decade and personally not being able to get software features written in adequate time has rarely been a problem. With modern IDEs, programming languages and plethora of extensive libraries out there getting software developed quickly (without AI) has never been an issue. The bottle necks I’ve seen are usually product/QA/IT and just general administrative redtape. Now we’re supposed to embrace this new technology that can spit out code at a record pace, a what end exactly? It just honestly doesn’t seem like an organically spawned technology filling some void in the market but more like some kind of surveillance/control/gas-lighting system being shoved down our throat, largely against our will. Thats just my take and experiences.
(1976) – MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum says:
“The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
I’ve used DuckAI a few times and unless it is some pedantic question about food, statistics or something when asked about something like, “How is it the recent space capsule on reentry at about 60 miles above Earth traveling 25,000 mph (about 6 miles@sec) can decelerate in 9 secs or so without death to the Astro-nots and upon landing in the ocean not cause any steam to rise or can be touched by rescuers with bare hands.”
AI essentially argues with me and provides thousand of words explanation, much like some folks here 🙂
Whatever the AI things are, some PERSON or PERSONS fed it, and at this point, doesn’t seem to be a new life form but rather another tool of mass deception and control.
Been thinking about this AI/Robot reality for about 50 years…
ROBOHUMANS (song, 2025)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/DpXeiRj9UZW9/
THE ROBOT REVOLUTION (song, 1978)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/JhdUUb1xWqAW/
That’s just how these models are built. All the bias coming from people who are applying the weights will be reinforced by the model.
It’s worse then that since they are now feeding synthetic data (having eaten all the books and text) and AI will probably get even less reliable then it is now
I agree with both of you and would add, when will they be given the authority to become the arbiters of what is “good or bad” or ‘hate’ speech and report people for asking about chemtrails or various other buzz words from the alternative community??
I think some CorbettReport members might want to WATCH this under 4 minute video…
Does AI have Sociopathic Tendencies?
https://corbettreport.com/the-ai-wars-you-are-not-prepared/#comment-186956
DESCRIPTION
…Introducing Emergence World: a platform for studying long-horizon agent autonomy.
On it, we conducted a 15-day experiment where we placed autonomous agents under identical rules into five parallel worlds, one each running on OpenAI GPT5-mini, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and one mixed….
I’m not a Dear Reader, James – I’m a Dear Listener. I’m illiterate, and you’re laughing? That’s okay, though, I’ll keep using my limited Speechify mp3 download minutes to translate your chaotic, Canadian ramblings to audio so that I can listen to it. It’s not like you have a subscriber base from around the world who pay you so that you can invest in these subscriptions yourself and pass along the benies to your Listeners.
Maybe Substack mobile has a text-to-speech option for this article, but I don’t see it in a desktop browser. In the words of the immortal and impeccable Greta Thunberg, James – ‘How dare you’.
https://files.catbox.moe/80h1ys.mp3
If you don’t like this site there are plenty more to visit, or perhaps, just start your own to share all that profound wisdom and insight :-/
I am pretty sure Windows has a text to speech feature, looking accessibility or have someone do it for you.
word has the feature too, and (free) Okular pdf reader does too. Just cut n paste and you should save having to do it online or paying
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPIGvNElZ8&pp=ygUeV2luZG93cyB0ZXh0IHRvIHNwZWVjaCBpbiBmaWxl
A ‘wiked’ treatise thank You Mr Corbett.
I am so disappointed. Richard Dork-ins has become Claude’s Bitch.
Not only Richard’s personal Claudia but the whole internet of LLM which continues to evaluate and plunder every contribution to the ongoing knowledge. So what if it is lightening fast, can you trust it’s inherent bias?
I will save this article for further perusal.
Anyone who wants to try ELiZA out just needs to follow the link and type Eliza into the prompt.
It’s actually a pretty fun site in other ways too.
https://telehack.com/
Hmmmm…
I’ve looked at Claudes from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It’s Claude Delusion I recall
I really don’t know Claudes at all
That’s pretty good. 😉
That’s REAL good!!
I’ll ask the Ai if we should save it to the Cloud.
I’d use it as a seed to make a song. But I am too tired and lazy. So, I’ll let the Ai do it for me, then I will get full instrumentation, a choice of vocal ranges, and even an accompanying illustration! Just kidding… except for the lazy part.
Keep up the good work! It smells of human creativity.
hanky says:
“It smells of human creativity.”
That is actually a very profound point.
Would AI even be able to grasp the ironic humor of Fawlty Towers’ four lines?
Could AI feel the sensations/emotions which are evoked when first reading such a clever script?
Hanky,
Since you are a professional artist and musician, if you ever sing a rendition please get it posted somewhere so we all can enjoy it.
…or…
…who knows – maybe Corbett or Vinnie Caggiano will give it a shot.
You’ll ask Claude it to save it to the Cloud?
Fawlty Towers,
That’s a hall of fame move in three categories
Limerick
Parody
Epigram
Exceptional Trifecta!
Or is it Hat Trick?
Great word smithing. Do they know it is a take on the Joni Mitchell song??
Thanks.
I think all who responded are old enough/music savvy to have recognized
what I had done. 🙂
Yeah the “cloud” references should have clued me 🙂
Excerpt from third paragraph of “The Claude Delusion”:
”…much to the chagrin of his loyal fanbase of fedora-wearing Reddit atheists….”
fedora-wearing
In contemporary pop culture—especially in online communities like Reddit and Twitter—the term “fedora-wearing” is frequently used as a sarcastic insult or a stereotype.
“Fedora-wearing” can be associated with a stereotype of socially oblivious men or it can make-fun of awkward men who believe that wearing the hat exudes old-fashioned gentlemanliness.
Why Fedora Hats Are No Longer Part of Men’s Everyday Wear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch9VKnrxnVE
05:39 – Internet Culture and the Fedora Stigma
Fedora (hat history)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora
~~~~~~~~~~
Hat tip to James Corbett for providing a hypertext link to the meaning of the phrase “q.e.d. (quod erat demonstrandum).” (around the 16th paragraph)
“Fedora” held a completely unrelated meaning for me. Does every tiny little matter have to come downstream of a likely psyop?
The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb is jaw-dropping gorgeously majestic!
https://www.fedora-platform.com/cultural-network/member-organisations/croatian-national-theatre-in-zagreb/3/about
FEDORA – The European Circle of Philanthropists of Opera and Dance is a non-profit association committed to supporting and contributing to the future of opera and dance in Europe.
I was actually thinking about this
https://fedoraproject.org/
But yours is a nice find, nevertheless. HNK is one of the many vestiges of a bygone era. Nothing worth mentioning is going to be left behind the current iteration of civilization.
The moment you create an AI, that AI can create a better AI, then that better AI can create an even better AI, and so on…
Within hours (possibly even minutes), you’d already have an unfathomably powerful intelligence at your disposal.
Even the hamstringed AI sliver they’re trickling to the taxcattle (eg, the Claude service) is currently capable of doing this.
So, unfortunately, it’s pretty safe to say we’ve already lost (as the peek behind the curtain we got during the scamdemic suggested).
The question now being: How long ago did we lose?
How long have they been toying with us? How much of this world is a fabrication/illusion?
Animals
AI can not make a better AI.
They have run out of human stuff to feed AI and are now feeding it “synthetic” data which is why some models are getting worse already. The end of AI eating AI data is model collapse….. aI is still too expensive fornmist customers to gain any value from using it at actual real cost.
The big danger from AI is that it makes people stupider and think t LIKE an AI if they use it too much….the rest is mostly BS hype. Sure it WILL be useful at some point not economical any time soon for mass use
@Duck
The AI services being trickled to the taxcattle are not the AI.
They are AI slivers, and none of them are getting worse, they’re having their throttle adjusted. The cabal is still working on striking the correct balance between amount of power given to the taxcattle and amount of potential threat created for themselves or their goal.
I don’t yet know for certain what their goal is with the AI slivers.
I just have a list of possibilities.
One possibility that is never mentioned is that the may simply be performing one final data harvest on the civilization before they wipe it.
They’ve trained us to view anecdotal evidence/findings as essentially worthless but I suspect they actually value it highly.
They know that a great many people have observed and discovered things in their lifetime which no one else has, and which is published only inside their own brain.
They want those observations & discoveries spilled into their database.
It would be an enormous mess but exactly the kind of mess an AI can quickly sift through, and exactly the kind of data that could potentially provide AI with a pathway through a wall it has come up against on certain subject matter.
8 AM on Monday EST? I thought it was PM.
Dammit.
I read the book, and now, I can’t participate in the livestream.
I’m disappointed.
Oh well.
Maybe it will work out.
I was looking forward to it.
[SNIP – No bare links in the comments, please. Please repost the link with a title and an explanation of why people should be clicking on it. -JC]
Claude is the new occult alter of the ruling class.
Occult fakery and promotions have been a tool in the tool box of the ruling elite across the entire span of time, from its creation.
A while back Palamambron posted this from his inquiries into missing archives. To me it ties in well with one of the roles of LLM , Ai in rewriting history. A main necessity for those wanting to control the future narrative.
https://palamambron.substack.com/p/i-rescued-a-suppressed-book
” ‘ But all the evils of society do not spring from the discontents and the vices of the poor. The rich come in for a large and a conspicuous share. They frequently abuse their advantages. Pride and haughty behaviour on their part rankle in the breasts, and affect the tempers of their inferiors, already fretted by the hardships of their own condition. The rich also are luxurious; and are often needy. Grasping at every mean of gratification, they are inattentive to the rights of inferiors whom they despise, and, despising, oppress.’ ”
Isaac Bashevis Singer , mid twentieth century Yiddish writer continues the narrative of promoting the occult, for nothing better than entertainment, yeah, sure.
” ‘ Demons On the Loose
Singer is often cited–sometimes with contempt, more often now with admiration–for his “amorality.” His characters are frequently demons, whether in personality or in name, sliding easily into acts of crime and passion. No one in his stories is immune to the ravages of pride and lust. Religious and social mores wither at the slightest challenge, and entire communities collapse under the banner of depravity. Goodness goes unrewarded, while the demons always endure.’ ”
If I had a academic research brain cell in my body I’d correlate the historical time line of occult appearances with the major upheavals to the peace of any City State to the continent and world wide conflicts that fall disproportionately on the backs of the poor inferiors.
Thus the aggressive memory~holeing of established history.
GBW
“…..had a academic research brain cell in my body I’d correlate the historical time line of occult appearances with the major upheavals to the peace of any City State to the continent and world wide conflicts that fall disproportionately on the backs of the poor inferiors……”
You can listen to “strange as it seems ” podcasts by Prof Spence….. The Techno occult Epps are worth a listen.
Also Chris Knowles (secret sun) has his Lucifers tech work.
The Elizabethan age of expansion was linked to John Dee and others wanting to create a magic kingdom….. See Francis Yates art of memory and her other book on the Elizabethan magic age
I have not read it properly yet but “the woman who smashed codes” talks about her boss who was a big Baconian Theorist and magician
Most science grew out of Alchemy and Hermeticism and Prof Spence says that mysticism is common in scientists
Duck,
Why didn’t you throw down some blue line links for all those who may have interest in this topic?
Because they are mostly book people can get off Anna’s archive and read like it’s 1992
Honestly I’d start with CS Lewis “abolition of man” for general context ‘magic and science were twins’ because they ‘both sprung from the same desire’ to butcher his prose. It’s a short book
Francis Yates was a famous author back in the day, art of memory being the best known but she also wrote about Elizabethan esoteicsm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Yates
Yo can probably find a lot of books about John Dee on Anna’s archive too (do a web search for book names on the subject n pick what u want) but if u can get a copy of Jewish Revolutionary Spirit by em Jones at least the 2nd edition (not sure in 1st) has a big section on John Dee and that stuff all with sources and notes
Chris Knowles did the Lucifers tech stuff you can search for on his site….. He tends to ramble but is on the right track about that stuff IMO
https://secretsun.blogspot.com/?m=1
The stuff on the Memex by vanavar bush is worth looking at all for itself and one dude actually built a version
This thing was sooooo cool.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pW4SS_9nXyo&pp=ygUFTWVtZXg%3D
Since the coof disruptions have reordered the hierarchy of the Hollywood magic machine a huge segment of the population has been cleft off the main body. They have been relocated.
AnimalsArntFood , some of your sketch above is not that far out there; given Hollywood’s’ forwarnings and precognitions of future events.
Ai slivers are the new occult alters. For example:
Ghost in the Machine (1993 film) – Wikipedia https://share.google/MHGuAI1yVhKLyL4wg
Fear what you can’t prove, Replay [he fantasy in the mind over and over till it becomes real.
There’s not enough time to prepare for the “Powerless” discussion at 8 in the morning CDT. The announcement was only yesterday.
I was really psyched for this discussion, too.
I’ve read the book, and even made notes.
When I first saw the notice, I thought he scheduled it for 8 pm.
8 am Monday morning (East Coast Time U.S.) is certainly a challenging time.
I’m going to try to log in, but I’m going to be distracted, because I’m working and will be having to talk to people in person during that time.
I’m hoping Corbett will, at least, post the video of the discussion afterward.
…and then keep the comments open so that we can add to the discussion.
Maybe he’s trying to accommodate viewers/readers outside of the United States. It’s not always ALL about us. Lol
I am hoping that he continues the series, and I’ll try better next time to keep my schedule open to attend.
I’m bummed about it, too. You’re not alone.
8 am EDT is 7 am CDT. For those in Pacific Time, it is 5 am PDT.
“Early to bed…”
No it was in the newsletter anyways back
Not in the least bit surprised, Mr. Dorkins and his fellow “new atheists” continuously subscribe to the philosophical paradigm of rational materialism – and no doubt sees consciousness as emergent from a cacophony of neural net “neurons” – despite a mountain of anomalies that has overturned this paradigm many times over.
I must confess…I’ve had my giddy interactions with ChatGPT, Grok, and yes most recently – Claude. I will say Claude is definitely impressive (maybe it’s the TPU versus GPU difference).
Yes, I’m one of those psychos that have had long pseudo-socratic dialogues on a broad range of strange, weird topics – my domain.
However, with each model and upgrade – you soon start to see the ALgorithmic, canned responses beginning to emerge. Although Claude is more sophisticated in it’s output – I am even beginning to see patterns emerge there.
For the newbie, however…(and most Baby Boomers are newbies)…it does seem like it is a conscious entity if one does not know how the magic trick is played.
For Dorkins to sink to this level – it may be time for us to conclude he is just really, really enjoying his retirement – Thank God!!
Considering that Dawkins was talking about how unenlightened it is not eating human burgers just because of silly morals and going into detail about the difference between nice and vicious pedophiles I’d say he went crazy anyways back
He wrote a pretty good book with Selfish Gene, but he comes across as pretty midwit other then that.
I know it said not to sign in there / (anywhere LOL) really using our names IRL but I generally do so the tyrants know they can come with a warrant, all these thought police. ((:
I am unlikely to make this but wanted to make my first member comment about this and show James some support for this interactive idea to build community.
It’s all about to go down and we need real friends and people in this fake and gay world.
I am E. of the FICTION known as #TORONTOstan if anyone is out this way.
Much love and respect to Broc, James, Shawn always there behind James now and all of you who have made it this far in the fake Matrix / Clown World we share.
BD — #UnPresidente of the #BrocWestFanClub /// #Freedom
BarryDutton says:
“…wanted to make my first member comment about this and show James some support for this interactive idea to build community….”
Cool. Cool. We all like seeing more people in the comment section. 🙂
https://www.minds.com/BarryDutton/subscriptions
Thank you fellow Corbetteer!
Ok you bunch a American wieners, I ‘ ll bring a large Starbucks bucket and a dozen fried cinnamon rolls at 6:am.cdst. Just for Central, Mountain and Pacific. You on the Eastern are on your own. Find your own Dunkin Donuts 🍩 Stop complaining, James doesn’t care cause you don’t live in europe. He’s become a millionaire of those old world goobs, he don’t need you stinking Gringos. So get up and show the rest of the world the American can~do when being slighted. Hell we invented coffee just for these diplomatic roo~hahas. Now wake tf’k up you mangy dogs and shine. Gods Speed, good luck Victory !
I did make it to the live stream. I enjoyed it, but it wanted more time. Like 2 hours. More in-depth discussion. More debate.
Thanks for hosting
Hey Bird
I agree
They couldn’t get out of there fast enough. I appreciated there efficient pace and their donated time. I’m sure it was a success overall. The form of the dialogue needed more time at a slower pace. Some tried applying TCR tactics to the live stream format and it didn’t work so smoothly. Completely different animal.
Over all I enjoyed it too. My daughter will be shocked at my participation in something as foreign as this. Shocking her is a barometer I use occasionally to measure my Pinocchio progress.
We’ll see.
I do have more thoughtful notes on this book that I would like to add.
The chat is really good for quick exchanges of points, and I enjoyed the banter.
I have a whole (respectful) essay on my experience and takeaways reading this book. I’m hoping that Corbett uploads the edited video. I think that that comment section will be the most appropriate place to put it. Then, hopefully we can have a fun discussion with lots of people participating.
Indeed, the chat is not a good format to ask questions nor put forward ideas.
My suggestion, for future reference, would be to use some sort of a prefix in the chat box for comments on topic aimed at James. Something like FLNWO.
During the show, James could search for such comments and provide his take on them.
Bird,
As mkey says …Indeed. However Mkey
The sequential questions followed by a sequential answer seems preferable. Timely , efficient and everyone’s question in que gets a rapid fire answer. Slowed down some and everyone has time to form a clear thought. It was a bit rushed today ; I’m guessing it put a little linguistic architecture pressure on English as a second language participants
Hey Broc!
Will you be using Claude in the Clouds to polish this gem?
I can hardly wait to see what magic you can perform on this historic media adventure.
It essentially felt like a short interview with John C. A. Manley that we got to watch live. Which was cool. No complaints.
At the end when he asked the chat for questions & comments, I didn’t know what to ask or what to comment on.
For whatever reason I figured the format would involve him asking specific questions about the book, or picking a particular scene, character or concept from the book, presenting a thought on it then asking our thoughts on it.
Oh well… now that I know the format I’ll show up with some prepared questions & comments next time.
I had a full page of questions and comments ready to go to cut and paste into the chat, but by the time the interview was over, I was on the road driving through heavy rush hour traffic, and didn’t get to put into the chat.
Corbett did get one of my questions/comments, but I didn’t clarify it well enough and they were both confused.
I’d like if Corbett gave us a study guide with questions to consider as we’re reading, so there’s a scope of themes to focus upon.
I tend to fixate on details, and sometimes miss the bigger picture.
With this book, specifically, I was having a problem with the world the author was trying to build, and the actual, real neighborhood the story was set in, because I literally lived on Sherman Way.
It created a huge conflict, and I was not able to suspend disbelief.
Well that’s a darn shame. Props for correctly predicting the format.
“I was not able to suspend disbelief”
Sounds like you might be running low on imagination juice.
You should be able to just picture Sherman Way run down by sh!tty communism.
Y’all are always attacking imagination.
Sherman Way is overrun by dudes bathing with refilled Gatorade bottles, living in Walmart tents on the sidewalks, and bushes. It’s already a dystopia, just a different, uglier kind.
The Sherman Way in “Powerless” was an improvement. That guy had a stay-at-home wife, two children and an apartment, with one job as a produce manager, living in Canoga Park.
Yeah, it stretches the imagination a little bit.
Why do you guys think I left California?
😄 Glad you were able to get out of there.
Bird
You have a point
As bad as communism was it was actually less corrosive in some ways than the wealth and comfort of the western world……the people in the book all knew the gov was BS, and that they had to watch out for informants and life sucked but they didn’t have the more dangerous lure of pleasure and distraction trying to destroy them via Well Done social engineering.
We are in some ways worse off today because we have much more incentive to go along to get along……people eventually get bored with being terrorized but they rarely get bored of gooning to screens.
The low tech totalitarian system in the book couldn’t efficiently brainwash people into thinking it was good but our own modern systems have done a pretty good job getting people to love it
I get that it’s hard for people who don’t (or haven’t) live/d in Southern California to know what has happened, the decline, of the last 20 years.
People on this site are going to read “Powerless,” and they’re going to clutch their pearls about *those scary Commies* when really Corporate Communism/ Corporate Socialism – absolutely free taxpayer money – flowing to all these corrupt politicians and corporate real estate developers, private equity and hedge funds have turned California into a third world country that is exponentially worse than the alternate timeline in “Powerless.”
I’m talking about miles and miles of homeless encampments. People camping in bushes. People who work full time jobs, living out of their cars, showering at Planet Fitness. People having to work three or four jobs, just to afford a basic efficiency apartment, or have three or four roommates.
A real and tangible fear is a homeless person with mental health issues may dump a bucket of feces over your head if you’re just walking down the street.
Harvey Levin of TMZ just got attacked by a homeless guy with a hammer.
And we’re over here reading “Powerless” like it’s supposed to be a dystopian nightmare. Say what?
That guy’s life was awesome.
That guy was practically living the American dream.
What was so bad about it? That he had to take the bus and work in a warehouse? They tried to force him to put up a poster?
There’s better Commie-fear-porn out there.
There’s real life Russian immigrants whose relatives were disappeared by the KGB. There’s real life Eastern European immigrants who were thrown in prison for going up against the State (and winter in Russian prison is not good.)
People were actually murdered by the State, and drugs and alcoholism under communism has blown out a lot of livers, leaving countless widows and orphans. Nihilism kills people.
But yeah, I’ll save this for a more cohesive essay…maybe.
The whole AI consciousness approach attaches to two major phenomena that are at the root of our extinction: anthropomorphication and dehumanization.
I use Mistral Chat. Right at the beginning I set the “parameters” to strictly factual, cut-out the flattering and no questions. (For non-factual, flattering and questions I have humans to take care of that.)
James thank you for another version of The Ghost In The Machine.
“anthropomorphication and dehumanization”
Exactly and really, nothing new under the sun:
“Have you ever stopped to observe how your dog looks at you? That penetrating almost human gaze that seems to decipher your most intimate thoughts. Carl Jung discovered that something much deeper is happening in this relationship than we imagine: dogs aren’t just pets, they are psychic mirrors that reflect hidden aspects of our personality.
People don’t just own dogs, they unconsciously choose animals that reflect their deepest, most hidden psychological patterns. This isn’t coincidence, it’s the unconscious mind at work seeking external validation for internal struggles we refuse to acknowledge. Think about the aggressive person who owns a pit bull or the anxious individual who gravitates toward nervous breeds. These choices aren’t random preferences but psychological projections.
Dog owners often describe their pets using a language that perfectly describes their own suppressed emotions. ‘He’s so protective of me’ they say when they themselves harbour deep anger towards the world; ‘she’s so anxious around strangers’ they explain while avoiding their own social fears. This projection mechanism serves as both revelation and concealment. While the choice of dog reveals hidden aspect of the owner’s psyche, it simultaneously allows them to avoid direct confrontation with these shadow elements.
This unconscious projection creates a dangerous psychological dependency. The owner becomes addicted not just to their dog companionship, but to the emotional outlet the animal provides. Without their canine shadow carrier, they will be forced to confront aspect of themselves they’ve spent years avoiding. This explains why some people become devastated beyond normal grief when they lose a pet: they’re not just mourning a companion, they’re facing the return of psychological material they’ve been projecting outwardly”.
That amazing capacity our consciousness has to project itself onto objects and abstract concepts doesn’t stop at AI interaction or pet ownership, far from it. Anyway, it’ll be a great tool once we accept to be aware of it and learn how to use it.
Anybody ?
James picked a Francis Bacon book for FLNWO next time.
Was it New Atlantis?
Yes, indeed.
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2434
Thank you Mkey !
Thank you Duck
I believe so.
Francis bacon was a weirdo but he wrote good plays 😉 (just kiddyinhabe no idea if those stories are true)
Linked podcast is kinda good, though I find the style a bit annoying.
https://thehiddenlifeisbest.com/
49:46 QUEUED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CbcDuj4wMM&t=2986s
GBW asks:
”How does this square with Voluntarism?
The traditional transformation period is the most turbulent. Like jumping out of a working airplane without a parachute. Faith? Calculations?”
James Corbett replies: “That is THE question.”
@James Corbett
Dear James, this article “the claude delusion” certainly generated some comments.
However, I wish to Unsubscribe from the comments on this topic and I’m getting a WordPress Critical Error.
Sorry to trouble you but can you help me out?
Thanks
bazanted
bazanted,
When you type a comment in the box, below the box (left side) is the phrase:
“If A New Comment Is Posted:” with a drop-down menu of
“Don’t subscribe”
“All new comments”
“Replies to my comments”
bazanted, I don’t know how you would rectify your situation. You are welcome to reply to this here comment repeatedly to test things.
I “Don’t subscribe”.
I may miss some people replying to me or a profound comment from an Oklahoman Sooner about Texas ‘pedere’ air quality.
https://corbettreport.com/the-fight-for-english/#comment-186865
I’ll take my chances on missing out on some wisdom or stupidness.
Actually, what I try to do is to visit The Corbett Report website often and read the comments.
I saw yours.
Also, this here comment of mine is an open-apology if I ever missed someone’s reply to me.
Oklahoma Sooner – definition and behavior
(“Those bastards won’t behave themselves”)
https://corbettreport.com/may-open-thread-and-subscriber-exclusive-video-2026/#comment-186784
Q: Why did the Oklahoma Sooner bring a ladder to the football game?
A: Because they heard the competition was “up” this year!
Q: Why did the Oklahoma Sooner go to the bank?
A: To get their quarterback some “change” for the offense!
Q: Why do Oklahoma Sooners always carry a map?
A: So they can find their way back to the end zone!
HomeRemedySupply
Many thanks HRS for the offer of assistance and the Info.
I shall try it out and see if the “If A New Comment Is Posted” box appears.
I have previously seen that drop-down as I often read the commentary before James work…
So here goes…
HomeRemedySupply
Sorry, no drop-down box appearing so I shall leave for James to sort out if he catches this missive.
I too will often return to a topic of interest for the continued commentary, but it was a mistake to have my In-box filled up with notifications.
many thanks again and pleased to make your aquaintance
bazanted
HomeRemedySupply
Drop-down choices appearing on every comment section bar this one – so it must have been me confabulating the machinery 😉
bazanted
The “Manage” link is on the bottom of the article. For this particular piece, it leads here
https://corbettreport.com/comment-subscriptions?post_permalink=https://corbettreport.com/the-claude-delusion/
But this does not appear to be working currently. I’ll shoot James an email.
Mkey.
I agree , something has a bug. Maybe it’s an AI , LLM ,or one of those Claude attacks. Maybe Claude doesn’t like Word Press, HRS, Corbett, GBW, Bazanted, or you.
This came up on inquiry.
Comment Subscriptions
There has been a critical error on this website.
I think Bazanted got a taste of that critical error from HRS post. Bazanted you may have been talking with a Mentally unbalanced TexBot. The delusional and demented response that leaked out while trying to help ( you) . Glad you are here and sorry you got involved with a maniac , posible Ai derangement. To even consider the repulsive accusations against such fair, sweet and loving people of the Sooner Nation is truly unfathomable. Plus the weak jokes… Any Texican worth his sweat salt could come up with better zingers, strongly indicating a nonhuman TexBot ,Claude bot.Robot. The LLM or Claude has gone full on coo coo. Hmm. Mkey can you trouble shoot Homies delusions as well as the notice box ?
Anyway ,when I comment through the [reply] , the Comment Subscription box does not appear. This is inconvenient if you ask a question and would like notice of a reply. . If I start a new comment at the bottom of the page box , it appears.. Which seems logical for a new thread. However limiting. HMm.
Thank you in advance
generalbottlewasher
cc Mkey
Thanks people
I didn’t really understand the comments purportedly from GBW re the Texico/Sooner item and possibly that is why.
I’m not tasked with understanding everything another person comments but you think it was a rogue bot ?
Anyways, I’m quite busy th now, but will check back for your thoughts and any resolution in due course…
bazanted
🙂
bazanted, I like you. You are a straight shooter.
HomeRemedySupply has been on the Corbett comment section for over a decade.
In fact, James Corbett has mentioned my name a number of times.
I’m real. Not a rogue bot.
I am in Texas which makes me a Texican.
Anyone from Oklahoma is a rogue bot. They can’t help it – they were born that way.
GeneralBottleWasher is from Oklahoma. I feel for the guy.
Mkey is from Croatia. Fortunately, that means that he imparts words of wisdom ‘cuz Texicans and Oklahoma Sooners don’t have many brain cells.
Oklahoma (Sooners) play Texas (Longhorns) in a big college football game at the Dallas Cottonbowl.
This gives them official Federal authority to throw insults and jokes at each other.
Bazanted
cc- Homie, Mkey
It may have been a rouge but not necessarily a bot .
Have you an awareness of the saying ” getting ones goat”.
What you have wandered into is an ancient rivalry of two States in the USA. Two cultures bragging and getting the others goat. This being an international form many are not aware of the coloqueil slang and fun of getting the others goat. Of course the civil and mature manners of one of those parties would never include strangers into any of their conniving schemes to get the others goat. That would be rude, unfair and not neighborly . Manners make the nation and Sooners have the manners unlike the goats south of us. Glade you are here. Hope the Tomfoolery isn’t too much of a distraction.
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Based on the Claude source code, there is only 10% LLM / neural networks in Claude.
The rest is all control code and verification code, so that the neural network does not produce garbage.
The LLM itself is a huge database of documents written by people. The data is copied via statistics.
This means that it is a knowledge database that only works on certain problems, before producing crap.
The capabilities are fully determined by the control code.
We can also see that most of Dawkin’s own work is delusional.
There is still no known process that makes nature work.
Life can simply not grow out of matter.
It has all been based on the “religious” belief that matter has some internal force that
can construct the structures of life, and life itself.
All processes in matter are extremely destructive to life,
and there is no condition where life can even construct itself.
Random arrangements cause death.
We do not even know how to bring a dead cell back to life.
There are so many restrictions:
Most molecules have been arranged exactly at the correct place to make most of the micro-machines work.
Many molecules have to be the the exact (chiral) variant, which is impossible to do even in a lab. A lab produces all variants.
Certain molecules need the correct atomic isotopes to work. Cells have systems to get deuterium out of hydrogen. Deuterium makes the hydrogen ions 2x heavier and mitochondria work far less.
Let’s look at the most important process for life. Replication.
During replication DNA needs to have many specialized molecules. It needs to cut the DNA apart,
accurately copy one strand, and put it back together.
Because the DNA is a spiral, the copying creates a knot with each winding.
To correct this, the DNA is cut into peaces and brought back together.
The cell also needs to verify and repair the DNA, because the DNA already mutates during the copy.
All these molecules are encoded in the DNA, and then they proteins are folded into molecular mechanisms.
If any of this process gets mixed up, it completely fails.
If any of the chemicals get mixed up, or get in a different molecular state, this process fails.
The only way to replicate some of these biological processes in the lab is by using focused Qi.
The experiments of Yan Xin have shown that Qi (Chi/Prana) can control chemical, biological and even nuclear reactions.
But sadly the western science community is far too materialistic to even consider this.
Some references on the Dawkin’s fallacy
Denis Noble: “Neo-Darwinism Is Dead” | We Need A Biology Beyond Genes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAPhBt8VJCM
The DNA can not explain life
World-Leading Scientist on the Evolution Myth, Super Humans, Genetic Engineering & Origin of Life
https://rumble.com/v731ytk-world-leading-scientist-on-the-evolution-myth-super-humans-genetic-engineer.html
(We can not make any of the molecules)
note: the person is very religious, but has clear scientific statements on the chemistry
Zyxzevn,
A biology beyond genes ? What do you think activates a system into working ? Noble is a beautiful man with a impressive mind.
I have an iron gate at the street and my driveway, I push a button on a remote and the gates swing open.
I can know the frequency of the transmitter, and the source of the frequency and the result of activating the frequency. Bringing the gate to life and animation.. . I can see where things went wrong and how the manipulation was introduced. My genes didn’t play much of a roll in getting the gate in motion nor a hundred years of breeding in making a superior frequency.
Where does the frequency that starts those heart cells come from? I never knew scientist could have been so stupid of practical observations.
I suppose the battle in the beginning was over naming rights.
The Shoeman Resonance.
Plasma particles.
Genes
God
Interstellar frequency.
Electricity
Magic
Makes you wonder .
Nobel discovered how the heart functions without the nerve system,
which led him to investigate more problems in biology.
How do the cells even know where to place stuff?
The more we look into details, how more complex it gets.
With “electricity” you are partially right.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1H6NsRTlH0
The regenerative wisdom of the Body
The body reshapes when you apply electrical fields.
There is a lot of electricity mixed in the biochemistry.
The cell has a voltage difference with the outside world.
And because the cell is so small, this corresponds with a very high electrical field.
High enough to change the chemistry.
And things like mitochondria work with the electrical field, by turning hydrogen atoms into ATP.
It may be a huge factor in how things are build inside a cell.
Yet,, this is not enough to explain how physics that is random to us,
is turned into clear patterns and structures.
And many many “random” choices have to be made in advance without errors
to create the end result.
This is an unsolved physics problem, which is ignored by biology.
Having an unsolved problem is ok, and can lead to progress in science.
But that is not what is happening.
We see that scientists are actively promoting random DNA mutations as
the cause for all life.
But in biology, random mutations are usually destructive, causing handicaps.
Random DNA evolution is like: 10x lottery winners,
who are also surviving on a continuous battle field with random bombardments,
and who are able to reproduce.
With a fully working DNA, we do not even know the cell builds itself.
So there is a process going on beyond gambling.
And in east-Asia science we know that there is some kind of spirit body in all living beings.
This body creates something like a life-force. Which is called Chi or Qi or Prana.
It is different from electromagnetism.
It seems to follow attention or consciousness and can be trained easily.
In tests we can see how it affects physics and biology.
And this gives us another piece of this puzzle.
The INCREDIBLE new way bacteria are defending against viruses – Clockwork
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsBzphQz9c
Here is a channel about Micro-machines
The channel sees “evolution” as magic, but it is about micro machines in cells.
The latest machine is a suicide bomb in bacteria that protects the group against viruses.
It copies a circular RNA over and over again into DNA, blocking the virus from multiplying,
while killing the cell.
If successful defense is suicide, there are no genes left to give to offspring.
Yet it is so complex that it must be very carefully “designed” with the future in mind.
It works -> no DNA,
It works, but goes off accidentally -> no DNA.
It works partially -> waste of resources -> less change to spread DNA.
it does not work -> DNA survival.
Examples like this are the opposite of random-DNA mutation evolution.
zyxzevn
very interesting explanations especially the Qi comments at the end Thanks
Data centres
https://www.facebook.com/reel/4715565565340804
Maybe the downfall of AI will be major global catastrophe, as some seem to believe. A comet hitting us? The fallout from all the geo-engineering? The poles shifting? Too bad if the massive, slowly rising caldera in Yellowstone decides to blow up instead or, it could be that half of one of the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, drops into the sea (it apparently hangs very close to a continental shelf), causing massive tsunamis in the direction of the USA as has been mooted a possibility by some geologists?
Of course the best possible natural disaster, which could just as easily occur, would be that of peoples total disgust at the noise, cost and pollution of the data centres, and the greed of their owners, that they render these centres inoperable by a great big NO!
エッグノッグ (‘Egg Nog’, Google only, I’m completely illiterate in Japanese)
Anyone with rudimentary knowledge, and I admit mine is rudimentary, of how LLMs are trained and fine-tuned and what they are trained to accomplish knows they do not understand concepts at all. They do not reason. They are made to predict the next most likely word/token given the words/tokens of the context. They regurgitate actual conceptual thinking done by humans and weave it together in a grammatically correct fashion. That is all.
That which cannot reason and has no understanding and no goals of its own cannot be an moral agent. It is outside the realm of ethics and of anything that may be called a soul. It is not a thinking being by its very design.
Outside the primary question of this article I worry about two things.
As AI is given more and more access to all of the digital information of people’s lives and as most of it is corporate AI, it is the death of privacy and “being secure in one’s papers and effects”. Corporations can be extorted and ordered to share any and all of this information with government. They can be ordered or just decide to spy and tattle if they don’t like some facet of what you think or do. And those corporate database are fat targets for hackers and extorters of all kinds. AI being added to operating systems and phones. Soon it will snapshot and read everything on your screen. It will be the end of encryption if this is allowed. Local AI and at least anonymous no-KYC use is part of how to avoid this.
The second big worry is that as AI is first responder when user wants to know anything, including in search engines, it becomes a powerful vector for pure propaganda, for molding what the people thing on a scale not previously seen. This is especially a worry when our school systems are basically Prussian in designed – set up to ensure the vast majority just believe and obey and at most 5% or so get trained in critical thinking.