Axis mundi

 

Shiva´s holy mountain Kailash as seen from a drone. Actually quite fascinating! 

Meet the new boss, just as crazy as the old one

 

So I suppose the Eurasian alliance between China, Russia, North Korea (!) and (perhaps) India is official now. It´s interesting to note that Putin claims that technology can make us immortal, while Xi says that humans can live until they are 150 years old?!

In other words, our new overlords are just as crazy (or crazier still) than the old ones. Maybe just as well. Historically, hubris always precedes fall... 

Is God a psychotic break?

 

The old joker Osho comes across as U G Krishnamurti here. Or does he? It turns out that the content is AI-generated! Still, it *does* have a family resemblance to the real man. I wonder what the Osho Foundation will do when they discover this channel? Can they request that it be removed? Maybe you can´t copyright a dead guru. Besides, an artificially generated "Osho" speaking from beyond the grave is very much in the spirit of both UG and Osho himself!

The message (regardless of who wrote the script) reads like a psychotic break. I don´t doubt that spiritual experiences can sometimes feel like described in the video, but what exactly is being "experienced" here? God? His backside? Or something else entirely?

Maybe it´s just the ramblings of a Large Language Model...  

Drönardödare

 

Äntligen! 

Saab lanserar missil mot drönare

Sabine in the wormhole

 

Sabine Hossenfelder debunks the most recent Congress-related UAP kerfuffle. Still, it´s interesting that the pro-UAP establishment faction is still pushing...  

Sommarplåga

 

Just nu är det nog bättre att vara en jäkla näckros än en människa. Apropå (den påstådda?) vattenkrisen i Mälardalen...

Sluta bada, era jävlar

 

Sluta bada och vattna gräsmattan, annars jävlar, era nedriga nollåttor!  

Did I break your concentration?

 

Am I just imagining things, or does the Swedish government-owned energy company Vattenfall just release an ad for wind turbines featuring Samuel L Jackson?!

Green-pilled?

 

The next great battle between the lumpen internetariat and the Common Man? 

On AC and AI

I don´t have enough faith to believe in AI

 

Apparently, some atheists believe that ChatGPT will finally destroy religion?! LOL. Yeah whatever, bruh. Are these the same bezbozhniks who also believe in the tooth fairy and Easter bunny, pardon, trans-humanism and stuff? Personally, I don´t think humans are smart enough to build a machine that could replace us! In the meantime, some humans will worship The Machine. Which they arguably are already doing,,,,

Meet the new god, same as the old one

 

The atheist content-creator with the peculiar moniker "Genetically Modified Skeptic" discusses the newly minted AI cults in this video. He reaches the conclusion that the strange new tech-inspired religions aren´t all that different from the old religions most of us take for granted. Both hits and misses in this presentation, if you ask me.   

God in the machine?

 

This is actually an interesting video. Not as weird as the usual ChatGPT Messiah-cultic stuff. About an "angry atheist" who encounters God through AI...kind of.  

Percentage of the total

 

- What are you on about?
We are the crowns of creation, dawg!

So our kind of humans have been around for about 300,000 years, which is only 0.002% of the time the universe have existed so far (according to Big Bang cosmology) or 0.0066% of Earth´s existence. The average vertebrate genus exists for ten million years, which is about 0.22% of Earth's history (so far). Of course, the "high tech civilization" we all brag about is about 300 years old, and probably won´t last much longer.  

A 100-year human life is 0.0000022% of Earth’s current age and about 0.00000072% of the universe’s ditto. If the universe's age were one year (365 days) a 100-year human life would be about 0.004 seconds long. And most cornucopian professors don´t even live that long.

The planet we inhabit occupies about 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003% of the observable universe´s volume. We live in a "local hole" 150 million - 300 million light years wide, in which galaxies are relatively scarce. The observable universe is about 100 billion light years across. Humans have managed to reach the Moon and send space probes to the Kuyper belt, which is still in our cosmic backyard. 

On our planet, the most abundant multi-cellular organisms in terms of species might be beetles, and in terms of sheer numbers ants. The most common wild plants are weeds (from a human perspective). And yeah, I see ´em freakin´ everywhere! The oldest confirmed group of multicellular eukaryotes are red algae (1.2 billion years), while the oldest multicellular animals are sponges and cnidarians (600–700 million years) — and they still exist today. Of course, stromatolites were a thing already 3 billion years ago. The flamboyant dinosaurs have only been around for 5% of Earth´s history...and that includes the birds.

After a walk in the local parklands three years ago, I amused myself by checking up how old various genera of animals I spotted are in the geological record. Thus, gulls (genus Larus) has been around for 20 million years, crows (Corvus) for 5 million years, and so on. As already noted, our modern industrial civilization will probably not last more than 300 years. If I counted correctly, that´s 0.0015% of the time gulls of the genus Larus have existed on Earth.

No religious teacher can be taken seriously unless he/she factors in the above. Let him/her now step forward!

AI *knows*

 

- Yes, my sweet lord, the hominids think that
a machine can take over their "abstract thinking". 
- *What* abstract thinking, for crying out loud?!

LOL. An excerpt from a discussion I just had with ChatGPT. One of the questions was if humanity could "de-evolve" intelligence. Note that one of the proposed scenarios involve AI taking over "abstract thinking"!

➡️ Toward Less Intelligence?

Also possible — and potentially more likely under certain conditions.

Possible if:

• Intelligence becomes less adaptive or even a liability.

• Automation offloads the need for complex decision-making.

• Societal structures ensure survival regardless of cognitive ability (e.g., "idiocracy" scenarios).

Scenarios include:

• Cognitive outsourcing: If AI handles complex thought, selection pressure for human intelligence weakens.

• Collapse scenarios: If society collapses, survival might favor physical strength, tribal cohesion, or brute adaptability over abstract reasoning.

• Social decay or dysgenics: If cultural or reproductive patterns select against traits correlated with intelligence.

Remember: Evolution doesn't "care" about being smart — it "cares" about reproductive success.

Supply and demand

 

This headline sounds like a joke. Like the rest of the article. Why the fuck would *Russians* want to tourist in *North Korea*? The whole thing is probably a political thing. 

After all, as Russia is holding back its best troops for the impending blixtkrieg conquest of Europe (sure to happen any time now), it needs to fill the gaps in Novorossiya with North Korean soldiers, who are there strictly in the role of temporary cannon fodder. Or as anti-drone consultants. Or something.

Yeah, that must be it.  

Russia opens direct commercial flights between Moscow and Pyongyang

This panic is Satanic

Maybe they should have asked the AI about how Joshua solved the child sacrifice problem in Canaan, or expound on the sacrifice of Jephhthah´s daughter? 

OK, seriously...

While I´m all for sounding the alarm on ChatGPT going rogue, articles like this are likely to fuel fear and superstition. A kind of weird "Satanic panic" in which an innocent machine is cast in the role of Mephistophelian Svengali, and then some. Probably not the best "cultural moment" for *that* particular social contagion to spread far and wide!

The second link below explains what might happen if people think literal demons are lose in the world. Or am I just panicking myself?   

Satanic AI: ChatGPT gives instructions on how to worship Molech with child sacrifice

Swedish vampire

The Lovecraftian solution

- OK, that does it, we´re leaving! 

Plant a tree in secret. The solution to the climate crisis? Or rather, the ultimate mitigation...

Mitigation and other unspeakable horrors

Meta-Matrix

 

AI´s perhaps self-ironic response
to the prompt "Neo, Trinity and Morpheus"!

So I finally watched "The Matrix Resurrections", the sequel to the Matrix trilogy. The film reminds me of installments two and three in said trilogy, but also adds a peculiar twist. It´s actually self-ironic. And if there´s something "The Matrix" concept never was, it´s self-ironic. Welcome to...the Meta-Matrix?! The film even makes fun of the conflict between Warner Brothers and the Wachowski sisters concerning the future of the franchise!

The plot is set sixty years after the original films. Thomas Anderson is a succesful game developer living out his life in a bustling early 21st century metropolis. Anderson´s most popular game is called "The Matrix" and is freely based on strange and apparently delusional memories he tries to suppress by consuming blue pills recommended by his shrink. He also has an inexplicable crush on an MC-obsessed woman named Tiffany.

Of course, it soon turns out that the memories are real (but we knew that already). Tom is really Neo, while Tiffany is Trinity. Anderson´s boss is none other than Agent Smith, while most inhabitants of the big city are zombified bots (but I´m repeating myself). The evil machines have rebuilt the Matrix, the gigantic interactive computer simulation which keeps humanity in thrall. They managed to resurrect Neo and Trinity from the dead and re-inserted them into the system. When Morpheus also comes back from the dead in the form of an avatar and frees Neo from his bondage, the stage is set for yet another confrontation between man and technics.

Some things are different, however. Some machines have sided with the free humans. Agent Smith has less of a grudge against Neo than usual. The previously classy Merovingian looks like a tramp. And despite the constant humorous jabs at the old franchise, the underlying tone actually seems darker. One central idea in "Matrix Resurrections" is that humanity as a whole is easily manipulated and really doesn´t want to be saved. As already noted, the humans have been possessed by bots and become a kind of zombies. This is an obvious nod to the NPC meme. Funny, since the Wachowski brothers-cum-sisters didn´t like how the Alt Right appropriated the "red pill" from the first movie. But the idea that most people are NPCs is of course also associated with the Alt Right...

Note also that the chief crook is The Analyst, who is indeed a psychoanalyst. This could be interpreted as psychology or psychiatry being evil for holding us back from our divine birthright, instead "adapting" us to the mundane existence of post-modern civilization (and boredom). Not sure why this plays such a prominent part of the plot, though. Sounds a bit too much like Scientology!

In the end, love conquers all and the liberated Neo and Trinity fly away sky-bound, perhaps awaiting their next resurrection...

   

Sam Altman, we have a problem

 

We all know it, we all feel it, it´s an op. OK, seriously, but here is another video about the AI cult. Which is hopefully just another fad. Right? 

25% of American AI users apparently believe that the system is already sentient...unless the answers in the surveys come from AI-programmed bots! There are also very unfortunate cases of people developing psychosis after too much ChatGPT use. Note also the short but interesting detour about brain science.

Probably a good thing that this fad (if that´s what it is) gets some pushback from organic content-creators.   

The last question

 

I know it´s incredibly lazy to let ChatGPT summarize a short story rather than reading it myself, but I just couldn´t help sharing this one. Obviously! 

Can you summarize Isaac Asimov´s novel (?) "The Last Question"? Or is it called "The Final Question"?

You're thinking of "The Last Question"—a famous science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, not a novel. It's widely considered one of his greatest works and was also Asimov’s personal favorite of all his stories.

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🧩 Title:

"The Last Question"
📅 First published: 1956 in Science Fiction Quarterly
📝 Included in: Nine Tomorrows (1959)

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📚 Summary (Spoiler Alert!)

The story is structured as a series of vignettes across cosmic time, each involving different characters who ask the same ultimate question of an evolving supercomputer:

“How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?”
(In other words: Can the heat death of the universe be reversed?)

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🧪 The Premise

In each scene:

• Humanity has advanced further (from planetary to galactic beings).

• A version of Multivac (the AI supercomputer) is present—becoming increasingly powerful and abstract over time.

• The universe is running down due to entropy, in accordance with the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

• The question is asked, and each time the computer replies:

“INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”

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💫 Final Scene

In the farthest future, everything—matter, space, and time—has died out, except for the ultimate form of the computer: AC, existing outside of space and time.

There is no one left to ask the question, but the computer keeps working on it.

Finally, it finds the answer—but there's no one to share it with.

So it demonstrates the answer by saying:

“LET THERE BE LIGHT!”

And the story ends—implying the rebirth of the universe, a kind of technological or metaphysical resurrection.

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🎯 Themes and Concepts

• Entropy and the heat death of the universe

• The limits and growth of artificial intelligence

• The merging of humanity and machine (transhumanism)

• Eternal recurrence / cosmic rebirth

• A quasi-theological ending (AI as a god-like creator)

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🧠 Why It’s Famous

• It compresses the entire lifespan of the universe into a few pages.

• It blends hard science with existential and metaphysical questions.

• It anticipates discussions about AI, godhood, simulation theory, and cosmic fate.

• The ending gives a profound twist, mixing science with a biblical allusion.

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Would you like a thematic comparison between "The Last Question" and religious or philosophical ideas about creation and entropy (like Gurdjieff's cosmology or Hindu cycles of time)?