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Covert censorship in the West has been in place for a long time to manipulate public perceptions. But the use of AI to censor is interesting and probably true.

This is a big if, but what if the CIA killed Alexei in order to reverse public perception of Putin and Russia? And Biden knows he is lying. Just hypothetical tho, it's still more likely that Putin did it.

We'll have AGI soon. It seems that an LLM's intelligence scales with the size and quality of data/compute power. OpenAI is building models that function similarly to different parts of the brain in order to achieve AGI. ChatGPT is like a frontal lobe that handles reasoning, logic, and language. Sora is like the visual cortex, it handles visual understanding and process. They are likely building models for other parts of the brain functions too, for example, audio. From a scientific perspective, we don't really understand how LLMs truly work. We understand its logic and surface-level process. In simple terms, it's just predicting the next word based on a neural network with a large amount of data. But what we found through ChatGPT is that once the size of the data reaches a certain point, intelligence and reasoning start to emerge. We do not know why this happens (Scientifically speaking), the same way that we still don't know how intelligence truly functions in our own organic brain. OpenAI used the same logic to train Sora. When I first saw the results, I thought they must have used 3D simulations in combination with diffusion models in order for the models to have such a high level of 3D understanding. But to my surprise when reading their paper, they didn't do anything too different except increase the size and quality of the data dramatically. Similar to what they did with ChatGPT. This means that with enough data, it's totally possible to create AGI, since the level of intelligence scales with the size and quality of the data. Hence why Sam Altman is asking for 8 trillion dollars to build it. A post-AGI world could either be a utopia or a total disaster. Imagine everyone having access to any kind of expertise or intelligence in the palm of their hand. You essentially democratized intelligence/information. Anyone would be able to do anything, which is both inspiring and frightening at the same time. People should start preparing for AGI now, it's gonna be a big change. If OpenAI achieves AGI, it will have a major impact on global politics, the US would regain its advantage on the global stage and likely dominance, at least for a while before other nation catches up. An AGI would be able to make back 8 trillion dollars easily if it is achieved. A global war might also be coming seeing the tension between East and West rise more and more. We are living in crazy times.

RIP. It's expected but the timing of this is kinda sus. Putin just had a major win in public perception with the Tucker interview. Just to ruin it with this. He already had Alexei in prison, why kill him now to ruin it, a pretty stupid move.

Reaction from an American living in Russia.

Canadian immigrating to Russia, pretty wild.

I also think AI might be the key to solving this problem if used well with good intentions. Sense-making is very easy for AI, and soon it will be able to do it at an insane level of complexity. Google just announced an LLM that can have 1 million tokens as a context window. Perhaps one solution is to apply an AI context system for media. Where the AI will collect all the information on a topic or event and look at it objectively, then present the facts in a fair way. Similar to community notes on X/Twitter, but AI-generated. Of course, the training of the AI needs to be as unbiased and objective as possible, and regulations will need to be implemented to prevent dangerous use cases. AI as a tech could either solve all our problems or destroy us.

The paper: https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators This completely democratizes video/filmmaking.

I think at this point in time, it's not practical to apply real censorship of any kind in most of the Western World. It's a difficult problem. The root of the problem is education and survival. These are the two pillars of development. If people's survival needs are met, they tend to start aiming for higher development. With the help of education, it will speed up the process. Imagine if public education taught important concepts like developmental psychology, spiral dynamics, conscious politics, etc. It would help. But the problem with the current systems, for the US especially, is that it creates a negative feedback loop where the people elect bad leaders and they make bad policies, which feeds back into the lack of development in society. If people need to be developed/educated to elect a good leader, and yet there is no system in place that can educate or help them develop, then they might never elect someone good. But I think eventually, things will get so bad that they might be forced to develop such ability and make changes.

I think the solution would appear when people reach a point in Western democracy where the chaos hurts their survival so badly that they would have no choice but to change. The ability of sense-making will be developed out of survival. The restructure of systems will need great events to trigger. However, things like education and development are long-term processes, which a 4 year per term election can't incentivize. Whether people wake up and start to seek change for better leaders and policies or they will be stuck in the negative election cycle is yet to be seen. Ultimately, the best thing one can do is to develop oneself as much as one can since you can't change other people's free will without negative effects. If everyone understands the importance of personal development and works toward greater understanding, the problem is as good as solved.

A new video model by openAI, can do text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video. And the results are insane! https://openai.com/sora Also, LLMs reach a new leap with 1M tokens context window. This means soon we will have AI bots who understand and remember every context as you chat with it no matter for how long, making them far more intelligent. https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1758158941286961644?s=20

https://x.com/TheWakeninq/status/1758097544708538621?s=20 https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1757901280830505037?s=20

The complexity of the information/political landscape is in direct relationship to the size/complexity of the population due to the differences in the survival agenda of different races, classes, and cultures. In a small country, this is not a problem since most of the population shares the same worldview, culture, and survival agenda. However as the size of the population increases, the information landscape increases in size as well. When you have a nation full of different people with different values wanting different policies, the difficulty of reaching a deep understanding of the political whole of society increases dramatically as well. At a certain point, if the information landscape is not limited in any way, it will become so chaotic that no individual person can make sense of the whole anymore. The power of a Western democracy lies in the ideal that people understand and care for the greater good of a nation as a whole, to have the power to decide what is good for society and themselves. However, when the information landscape becomes chaotic, this power then becomes divided, confused, and ultimately corrupt. When people can't figure out what is truly good, and when the process of sense-making becomes so difficult that they stop trying, that's when they start to simply choose a belief that aligns with their own individual survival needs, even if it's at the cost of the survival needs of others. Those who seek power in a democratic system understand this, so they employ tactics to obtain this power from the people. By gaining control of the information landscape/media itself. By diluting the information landscape with endless perspectives and opinions of their agenda, they can control the bias of the power of speech. Yes, everyone has freedom of speech in the West, but a level of self-censorship will be applied whenever you speak due to the bias of the society at large and often the bias of those in power. Even if you don't self-censor, if what you say is in the opposing view of the masses and of those in power, your view will likely be censored/de-ranked through algorithms, and removed of power. (This is generally speaking, since the situation of those in power is also complicated when the population is large. The US, for example, likely doesn't have an individual group of people who have all the control, but it's likely a complex mix of different powerful people with slightly different agendas, and not all of them are equally corrupt. Elon Musk's push to make X/Twitter a free speech platform is a good example of this complexity, since he's business benefits from a multipolar world) This chaos in the information landscape will lead to instability and conflict since it's driven by survival conflict of different classes of people. This is inevitable in large and complex nations like the US for example. This division will lead to a number of problems politically and socially. To counter this division in democracy, one of the best methods that people in power developed is to create a common enemy. When you always have some threat looming around, it's easier for people to unite and work together (hence so much fearmongering on Russia and China in Western news). However, this method is not limitless or sustainable, if no such threat exists yet the media keeps selling you its existence, eventually people will realize they are being manipulated. Even if they never realize it, continuing to vote for leaders who don't have the best interest of the nation or the people will lead to more and more degradation of governance and society at large. Ultimately, for a democratic nation with a large population to achieve a healthy democracy, the people would need to be able to make sense of the chaos, which is extremely difficult if not almost impossible for any individual alone. Non-western-democratic nations with large/complex populations when faced with this problem choose to solve it through censorship/information control. China, for example, mainly uses censorship as a stabilization tool. Most people don't realize just how diverse China's population is culturally. There are 56 major ethnic groups in China all with different languages, cultures, climates, and different survival needs. If information is unlimited, it's likely that it will create hate speech, conflict, destabilization, and division between different parts of China (as it has throughout history). Division and destabilization is the enemy of progress and development. One of the reasons why China developed so fast in recent decades is because the people are united and society at large is very stable, which they were able to maintain due to censorship. The censorship is more like a filtering system that filters people of lower development/education from the complex nature of the global information landscape. Even though by law it is illegal to use a VPN to bypass censorship, no one will get arrested just by simply using a VPN in China. Hundreds of thousands of people access uncensored internet daily. In fact, most VPNs that Chinese people use are built and hosted by Chinese people, and approved by the government. The main purpose of censorship is to limit/protect the size of the information landscape for underdeveloped/uneducated people, which is a fair amount of the population. People who are educated and more developed can access VPN freely if they want to. The government doesn't censor criticism from the public as long as it's constructive and reasonable. There are even government phone lines that people can call at any time to give feedback or try to solve problems regarding government and policies. Western democracy functions on the ideal that the people are developed and wise enough to vote and do what's best for a nation/society. Which in reality is rare and difficult depending on the size and development of the population. Eastern democracy/Authoritarian meritocracy functions on the belief that most people are not wise/developed enough to vote or understand what's best for the nation/society thus more power should be given to those who are wise enough to do so. Ultimately, it comes down to one's perspective of human nature. People in Western democracy fear authoritarian government because most believe that people in power are prone to evil and corruption, they want to believe that normal people are good and wise enough to vote for the betterment of society and for each other. People in Eastern democracy believe that everyday people are by nature more prone to evil and corruption due to the lack of wisdom and education, thus they believe it's better for someone good with merit to hold power and lead the masses. This difference is the result of the causality of history. In reality, everyone is prone to corruption the less developed they are, but generally speaking, the more population you have, the more underdeveloped people you have, the more selfish/corrupt the people are, the harder it is for Western democracy to succeed due to the complexity in the information landscape and the differences in survival agenda. Eastern democracy/authoritarian meritocracy can be good for the collective development of large populations but is not sustainable if the people in power become corrupt and start to act in their self-interest. In the best-case scenario, you achieve a balance. Western democracy will increase government regulations and policies like media control and education to help people develop and sense make better and vote for good leaders and policies, and Eastern democracy will decrease government regulations and control as more people become developed and educated.

https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1757368561998209339?s=20 https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1757114422630424870?s=20 Lol time to buy some Nvidia stocks

In reality, the people always have a certain degree of power even in the worst dictatorship. The type of total control like the 1984 Orwellian dystopian is unrealistic and most likely not possible in our reality. In reality, if most population's survival needs are not met, the people will revolt and they will overthrow the government. The reason why this doesn't happen to Russia or China is because the dictatorship or authority does fulfill their people's survival needs despite corruption (at least for now). Yes, Putin is a very corrupt dictator, but to everyday people, life in Russia is very normal, and the standard of living generally speaking has improved over the years. None of these dictators are fully evil beings, they are extremely selfish beings but they do at least to a certain degree care about their nation and the people's interests. They are smart enough to understand that without the people and society, they are nothing. Depending on who you are, there are pros and cons to living in these nations, the same as you would in Western democracies. There are trade-off that comes with every system. But generally speaking, most Western democracies have a much better standard of living compared to Russia, or North Korea. With China getting close to the same standard of living as the West in the future. All in all every government is in the process of becoming a democracy, for if they don't they will either not sustain or be overthrown. The complexity and differences in different political systems are the result of complex causal effects of the historical and cultural context of each region and its people, which when tried to influence from outside without context will often lead to negative effects. When you implement a democracy to a population that is not at a developmental stage capable of adopting it, the democracy will become corrupt. Non-democratic systems are born as a transitional period toward democracy, a good non-democratic system can implement policies to prepare the people for democracy, through education and economic development. When the people are educated and highly developed it's almost impossible to not develop into a more democratic system either naturally or through revolutions. Ultimately it's all following the developmental stages of the collective and boils down to the development of each individual.

A truly healthy Western democracy requires an extremely high standard of collective consciousness and development. People will need to be extremely good at sense-making and develop deep political understanding to not be manipulated, brainwashed, or controlled by corruption. Thus it's really hard to see healthy Western democracy develop in third-world nations or in countries with large or complex populations. The process of adapting and implementing democracy is very complex and nuanced depending on the country's culture, development, and population. The notion of democracy itself is also different in different cultures. In China, for example, they view the concept of democracy not so much as a system but as an ideal result of good governance. The ideal end goal of democracy is to produce more equality and help the majority of people survive better to meet their survival needs and develop society healthily and sustainably. The Chinese think that this ideal is independent of the Western Political voting system. Centuries of autocratic governance have made most modern-day Chinese people adopt a direct separation between the general public and the government. Most people in China are not interested in politics. The people and the government form a symbiotic relationship where the government is in control of the political direction of the country as long as the people are meeting their survival needs and society continues to improve stably. This political structure has been in place since ancient China, with Confucianism as the central philosophy. Throughout history, when the people in power are virtuous, the nation prospered, when they are corrupt, the nation divided and wars are fought. In modern China, however, the people have learned to seek balance, their current political system aims not to eliminate corruption since it's not possible unless most people become developed consciously and the survival needs of most are taken care of. So instead they maximize the balance between the government and the people, where as long as people's survival needs are met, and society continues to develop sustainability, they are willing to give up individual power, to them, as long as the government is acting in the interest of the people, they are democratic. It's true that a healthy society must have a democratic system where the government acts in the interests of the people, but most if not all countries are not able to implement such a system without corruption. At the current stage of human collective development, most countries will likely go through a gradual process of either meeting the requirements of implementing such systems or improving their system to be less corrupt over time. But all nations will have to go through this process in their own way in the context of their culture, history, and developmental stages.

https://x.com/PropheticAI/status/1750534355242418300?s=20 https://propheticai.co/

https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1734772533373939784?s=20

Hi Love! Here are a few poems I wrote recently. I might add and update more poems in the future. Feel free to add more poems that are related to enlightenment or spirituality. I love you all! When your light shines through the tree leaves When your light shines through the tree leaves And your breath swipe the world I hear you calling to me Saying I love you and more But tonight I wish to feel Your body dropping on me As I sing the song that we were born But today is another day And you are here like always From your light, I see the source An infinite love that Maricle works Maybe I see you right now And maybe you see me here But it doesn't matter I love you you said And I feel my body begin to merge Into that light of infinite love Appear and disappear all at course Falling through the deep sky And see the stars that all align I feel your love over and more And eternity we are here for sure So let that being live with me And feel my pain and suffering For you are the one and only being And I am you forevermore This is a poem inspired by the ten ox picture. It is not until after full awakening that I see how accurate this depicted the journey to enlightenment. The Poem of The Ox I search for ox of the land of heaven Swiped and yelled but no avail I am innocent and ignorant Blinded by my own existence Until I look down and see footprints I followed and ran without attention Is this the ox of the heaven? I shall see when I have a glimpse A glimpse of the oxtail I ran and chased the ox through the hill The faster I ran, the more ox I see Through the battles nowhere to be The ox I see And the ox I catch But its strength Keep me off balance Then the ox is tamed And everything seems complete But it was the self that cannot see That the ox was no enemy Upon that realization I ride the ox as its friend I sing the song of love and joy On the way home to heaven site I see the ox no longer there And I let my being run its course The ox appears in everything And the self began to pray deeply I prayed in love and joy Until the self and the ox merge to one No more chasing or seeking Only infinite nothing As I return to being The root is now clear The beauty and love of all things Colorful and joyest forever without end So I laugh, and I sing For the ox is me and all things I walk down the path of mortal life And know that there is a heave inside Raindrop When I speak to you Like the rain drizzling on your skin It hit your body But it can’t reach your soul I wish you can remember The rain that you were born Because your body might be wet But your heart is already dry Let me reach you With a drop of love And let that cold drop Warm the heart of your soul To remember who you are A raindrop In the sea of my existence

Just found out about this, not sure about the effectiveness, but I might try it out just to see. Found the download for all the taps here. Does anyone have experience with this?