Severed Conscience

Severed Conscience is not only about control, it is also about yielding agency.  Aldus Huxley said “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method for making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears”.  Technology, tuned to our dopamine cycles, is eliminating our conscious rejection of has made us a thriving society.   MIT Technology Review recent...

Tariffs are amplifying the importance of Artificial Intelligence, as more recognize the fact that we have hollowed out our manufacturing base and no longer produce essential basic items for ourselves.  In that sense we live in a Controlled Environment.  In a world where Severed Conscience is meant to keep you under control, you have to ask yourself what type of society we have built for ourselves....

It's Not OpenAI's Sputnik Moment, It's Their Theranos / Elizabeth Holmes MomentHow Much Hype Beyond The AGI Mega Consciousness Is Driving The Billions Funneled To OpenAI and the TechBros? Remember that weirdo woman in the black turtleneck who spoke in clearly affected yet artificially deep tones while staring at you with unblinking eyes? Her hair was always all messed up because she was working al...

Is There a Slippery Slope of AI Idiocracy at Our Bureaucracies? What We Could Learn From Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley and Erlich Bachman?  We are going to use black humor, irony from Mike Judge’s series Silicon Valley to illustrate how we are yielding our agency so easily. No worries if you haven’t seen it, I’ll introduce you quickly. And to illustrate the hype of the rockstar status of AI, you are...

Why do we see the excuse that life has become too complex for us to manage, and we need AI to bring a degree of certainty to our lives?  It is apparent that cult membership of the “We Follow The Process” has capitulated and abdicated their responsibility.  Most of the issues we face today are because many do not do their jobs.  The crisis that ensues becomes an opportunity for new systems of contr...

As Elon recently explained at the unveiling of Grok 3.0, the word Grok was coined by Robert Heinlein in his book A Stranger in a Strange Land. Grok means to profoundly understand a concept beyond mere recitation of facts, it is to absorb the context of the idea’s existence, to embody it so physical and emotional sensations are connected to the deeper meaning of that concept. These are all things t...

Our digital culture has been built on a promise of extending our awareness, increasing our connections and providing discovery at a pace never experienced by humanity. Instead we have the tech oligarchs who have encircled us in Algorithm Ghetto. Algorithm Ghetto is the title of a new release by Tesstamona, a singer and writer who examines the themes of media manipulation, divide and conquer tactic...

NVDIA produces a specialized, powerful computer processing chip called a GPU that focuses on computational intensive algorithms for graphics and Artificial Intelligence.  It is at the heart of the computations that OpenAI ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude AI use to create Large Language Models (LLM).  These models are what answer the questions in AI chat applications and perform anal...

In Severed Conscience we talked about the concept of gradual approximation, where there is a slow repetitive process of exposing you to a state of behavior you would normally not accept.  But then presented in the context of a humorous or farcical scenario, your misgivings are dispelled with your own laughter.  14 years ago we had ads on the Super Bowl making jokes about people being arrested for...

In Severed Conscience we reported two years ago how AI was being used in mental health settings. An AI company, Character. AIm, is now being sued for its product advising a teen to commit self harm. There is a growing trend where people are turning to AI for companionship, yet for teens the large language models are not specifically designed to take their emotional maturity levels into account.  W...

When you lose your rationality to Severed Conscience, you lose your freedom.  You are at the whim of technocrats who make you dance on their strings.  During Covid we saw fear unabated by common sense and evidence contrary to the narratives that enslaved our nation.  That deep psychological damage is sufficient to make many look the other way and leave the same criminal politicians and medical pro...

The election of Donald Trump has caused alarm in the climate change communities.  When addressing the COP 29 conference, António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN announced that renewable energy solutions are here, and countries will not be able to hold back their implementation.  He also focused on the emergency reduction measures for CO2, stating that the 9% reduction each year is needed.  S...

Climate change activists, government officials and green celebrities such as Greta Thunberg recently attended the COP 29 global summit in Baku.  In Severed Conscience we described the concept of a Controlled Environment, where each movement, transaction and activity is tracked in order to achieve optimized efficiency in energy use, manufacturing and food production to combat climate change.  This...

With the election over and Trump being the victor, the narrative that misinformation aided by AI has kicked into high gear.  The charge is not that AI fooled people into voting for Trump, it is that misinformation aided by AI sowed seeds of deep distrust.  The new fear is that with Trump now in charge, AI safety will be compromised.  The establishment had hoped that President Biden’s Executive Ord...

The following is an excerpt from the white paper published by the World Economic Forum in 2019 titled A New Era of Manufacturing in the Fourth Industrial Revolution:  $7 Billion of Possibilities Uncovered in Michigan . Through the creation of a new Advanced Manufacturing Platform (AMP), hosted by Automation Alley – Michigan’s Industry 4.0 knowledge center – and connected globally through the World...

In the wake of the surprising election results, it is important to not take our eyes off important trends that shape our society against our will or without our knowledge.  The current mantra is that expertise is enshrined in and enhanced by AI.  While it is encouraging that Robert F Kennedy Jr will take on the task of rebuilding the FDA and hopefully the CDC, will this halt the march of AI as the...

According to a new White House National Security Memorandum, AI is strategic to our national defense, and by extension is also a threat to our well being.  With this memorandum, the federal government is declaring far more reaching authority with AI’s use, development and testing.  This also means the government will be able to intercede in the technology industry when national interests can be po...

In 2015 the UN established a framework for achieving a more equitable and stable society for all mankind.  According to UN climate change theory, our future is in peril due to climate change, environmental destruction, and the tyranny of poverty.  Because of our current destructive use of technology to acquire energy, grow food, and due to our unconstrained use of technology to acquire wealth whil...

On this episode, we are joined by Jen, also known as App Patriot Girl on Twitter, a resident of North Carolina.  Her charity Anne’s Kids has been collecting supplies for the victims of Newland North Carolina.  As Jen relays, the fortitude of the mountain folk of Appalachia has been something to behold.  Volunteers from other states have arrived to assist with wreckage removal and distribution of w...

On this of “Best Laid Plans of FEMA and the Elite”, Pam from North Carolina returned to give an update on the conditions in North Carolina.  She explained that operations entered into what is called the “Recovery” Phase.  What is recovery?  Sadly it means that the to perform rescue has unfortunately passed, and the missing are now considered fatalities.  Zee and Pam also dissected the change in mi...

Crisis can bring out the best and worst in people.  When your moral compass is tuned to respect the sanctity of life, helping victims of a disaster or an emergency is a duty.  Immediately we saw private citizens spring to action and risk their own lives to help the victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.  It was Americans at their best during great adversity. The impact of the devastation o...

In Severed Conscience we identified that a Controlled Environment was being constructed while you are occupied online.  This environment is presented as a technological nirvana, a Utopia that will not only save the planet from the ravages of climate change, but will be the next step in human development.  We will be our best selves when we live in these engineered habitats.  This concept has been...

In Part One of Planned Shortages, Planned Ballots, Zee examined a news report from Britain in the 1970s investigating severe food and product shortages.  An expert did his best to claim that while shelves weren’t empty, there was no actual shortage.  Zee also examines the threats from the Kamala Harris campaign to stop price gouging. In Part Two we will see how government causes disruptions that c...

Two years ago Orange and I released a documentary called Rationed State where we identified planned shortages resulting from policy based on rationing.  Healthcare policy in Canada had resulted in common cough syrup for children to be missing from shelves.  To disguise the disaster, themes of patriotism similar to World War Two Victory Gardens were invoked.  We can see the same themes used during...

In Severed Conscience we were struck by the words of Orlando Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat.  As a refugee from communist Cuba, he explained the appeal of giving up your freedom for power, and how some are satisfied with the ability to affect others directly.  As we saw during Covid, people horrifyingly became part of the “Mask Up We Are In This Together Brigade” and took it upon themselves to enforce...