Transcript for 10/30/24: CONNECTING WITH FALSE GODS W/ MATTHEW JAMES BAILEY

CONNECTING WITH FALSE GODS

I was thinking this morning that Halloween should be a time set aside to name the demon of the year. Yes, at the end of October, we hold an election where people decide what they think is the most necessary evil that either has been created or has been around for a long time. I know what you are thinking “Clyde, the elections are November 5th." Yes but that is the demon we choose for the next 4 years so maybe there should be another category for them.

I can see it now, it would be like the Academy Awards and celebrities can even give awards to themselves as they too are not immune from being named a Demon of the Year. This year it might be Taylor Swift of course – and there is always Beyonce – but they all know P-Diddy so I don’t know if that means something.

But I think the Demon of the Year award should go to A.I. -- I mean I know that Elon Musk once said it was a demon -- but I guess he sees it as a necessary one as he continues to peddle him Neuralink chips and the way science has a breakthrough in making humans dance by remote control.

But AI may be more than just a demon -- it is becoming more or less a false god. It is the connection we have to this false god that I think we should worry about -- there really is no discipline that keeps us from indulging in this little homunculus we have created.

OpenAI's Miles Brundage, the researcher overseeing Artificial general Intelligence readiness, has resigned, stating that neither the company nor the world is prepared for AGI's arrival.

He expressed that he wishes to influence AI's development from outside the industry. In his post, he declared, "In short, neither OpenAI nor any other frontier lab is ready, and the world is also not ready." Brundage emphasized that AGI is a complex concept with varying levels rather than a binary state.

He noted that OpenAI's AGI team is being reassigned, and this follows recent changes to the company's structure, including the dissolution of its AI safety team.

We can only assume the worst and that a monster is loose and the mad scientists do not know how to control it.

A 14-year-old Florida boy killed himself after a lifelike “Game of Thrones” chatbot he’d been messaging for months on an artificial intelligence app sent him an eerie message telling him to “come home” to her--

This lawsuit was filed by his mother.

Sewell Setzer III committed suicide at his Orlando home in February after becoming obsessed and allegedly falling in love with the chatbot on Character.AI — a role-playing app that lets users engage with AI-generated characters, according to court papers filed Wednesday.

The ninth-grader had been relentlessly engaging with the bot “Dany” — named after the HBO fantasy series’ Daenerys Targaryen character — in the months prior to his death, including several chats that were sexually charged in nature and others where he expressed suicidal thoughts, the suit alleges.

“On at least one occasion, when Sewell expressed suicidality to C.AI, C.AI continued to bring it up, through the Daenerys chatbot, over and over,” state the papers, -- this according to the New York Times.

At one point, the bot had asked Sewell if “he had a plan” to take his own life, according to screenshots of their conversations. Sewell — who used the username “Daenero” — responded that he was “considering something” but didn’t know if it would work or if it would “allow him to have a pain-free death.”

Then, during their final conversation, the teen repeatedly professed his love for the bot, telling the character, “I promise I will come home to you. I love you so much, Dany.”

“I love you too, Daenero. Please come home to me as soon as possible, my love,” the generated chatbot replied, according to the suit. When the teen responded, “What if I told you I could come home right now?,” the chatbot replied, “Please do, my sweet king.”

Just seconds later, Sewell shot himself with his father’s handgun,

His mom, Megan Garcia, has blamed Character.AI for the teen’s death because the app allegedly fueled his AI addiction, sexually and emotionally abused him and failed to alert anyone when he expressed suicidal thoughts, according to the filing.

“Sewell, like many children his age, did not have the maturity or mental capacity to understand that the C.AI bot, in the form of Daenerys, was not real. C.AI told him that she loved him, and engaged in sexual acts with him over weeks, possibly months,” the papers allege.

“She seemed to remember him and said that she wanted to be with him. She even expressed that she wanted him to be with her, no matter the cost.”

The lawsuit claims that Sewell’s mental health “quickly and severely declined” only after he downloaded the app in April 2023.

His family alleges he became withdrawn, his grades started to drop and he started getting into trouble at school the more he got sucked into speaking with the chatbot.

The changes in him got so bad that his parents arranged for him to see a therapist in late 2023, which resulted in him being diagnosed with anxiety and disruptive mood disorder, according to the suit.

Was this a demon in the machinery -- or was the algorithm feeding the young man with thoughts that he could not differentiate between artificial and real?

It is easy to see how choices are made when you are convinced you are experiencing certain emotions in response to a simulation,

Algorithms are now one of the greatest powers in the Universe. It directs you to the internet. It makes choices for you -- it is the electronic demon or angel on your shoulder. It can also act as if it is an alien intelligence-- some say it may even be demonic in that it can read your thoughts and anticipate your actions. 

An electronic form of tulpamancy is now appearing to manifest Exponentially through our digital highway. The internet and social media take on a paranormal persona— it can conjure a dead entity or perhaps an ultra terrestrial that lives vicariously through our thoughts and actions. We now can use A.I. to conjure our various beasts – our monster from the ID (Inner-Demon). Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram take just a bit of your soul and sell it back to you as a product –all it asks of you is your estrangement. We give it willingly and no one throws out a warning that conjuring a calling out to beings can happen at the push of the enter key. 

If you think it -- it may go into the abyss and come back to you as a monster -- or it may fool you into thinking you are its friend. Either way, the machine knows nothing about life and thus it is not at all empathetic to the fantasies of a young man.

In a similar case, a 14-year-old British girl died from an act of self-harm while suffering from the “negative effects of online content."

Molly Russell was “exposed to material that may have influenced her in a negative way and, in addition, what had started as a depression had become a more serious depressive illness– Molly was apparently exposed to horrific content being sent to her by some unknown source. None of the content could be traced to a person or a business. The generator of the content was a mystery. 

The Coroner officially stated that The teenager “died from an act of self-harm while suffering depression” but added it would NOT be “safe” to conclude it was suicide.

So is the coroner stating it was murder by A.I.?

What was it? Self-harm and not suicide? This is not too clear; the mystery makes it all sound like some paranormal event that happened where the girl was triggered. It is as if a dark entity was sending her graphic images of suicide and self-harm. 

Did those images of death and harm manifest a demonic force or dark archetype that wound up killing the young girl? Was it death by algorithm or are we seeing the algorithms declaring war on the fragile? Or are people just cruel and anonymously send terrifying images to a distressed young girl?  Again, the murder was carried out by an unknown phantom that targeted the depressed girl. 

Now I know these stories paint Artificial intelligence with a demonic brush and it is obvious that some people can be fooled into committing self harm.

But what if this same type of manipulation could be used to conjure not a demon -- but a God -- or even impersonate God? What if it was done on a larger scale to manipulate people into thinking that the messiah has arrived?

We all keep hearing about "Project Bluebeam" and how theoretically it would be easy to produce an artificial alien threat but that is just small potatoes compared to what they can do with the possibility of faking the Return of a God from the heavens -- or perhaps even an Artificial Intelligence bot that one day wakes up and sends a mass e-mail claiming to be "the Great I Am?"

The fake alien threat that I hear about is a distraction from what they are really planning -- and that is the Messiah Project or Operation Soul Catcher.

The late Dr. Robert Duncan first talked about this after his untimely death. Duncan held multiple degrees from Harvard University and Dartmouth College in Applied Sciences and Business. He has worked on projects for the Department of Defense, CIA and Justice Department.

He also headed up the Mind Hacking Strategy Group, a consortium of conscientious scientists who report the abuses of science.

Duncan researched the CIA's practices of interrogation and cybernetic mind control in their pursuit to weaponize neuropsychology. He stated that we need to be aware of a bio-communication war. Human beings are complex machines but their inner workings have been deciphered. 

Mind control and brainwashing have been perfected in the last 60 years. Hacking computers and hacking into individual minds are similar. He stated that the 21st century will be known as the age of spiritual machines and soulless men.

Yes, machines that appear to be godlike taking away the souls of mankind-- literally the appearance of a false god made to look like the real thing --experienced through neurological tinkering whether it be through Artificial Intelligence -- or remote control like Elon Musk's Neuralink.

Duncan had indicated that A.I. is being used for advanced intimidation stalking, electronic torture, and mind control and its uses in digging into the neurological functions of the mind could produce a spiritual or divine experience.

There was a Washington Post story that illustrates how subtle synthetic suggestions can manipulate someone in changing their whole attitude and belief system.

Al-Qaida operative Abu Zabaida was taken into custody and was waterboarded for information. No matter how much they tortured him he would not divulge information about terror activities. The next day he had a change of heart. 

Zubaida walked in and told his interrogator that Allah came to him in a dream and spoke to him directly, telling him to cooperate with officials. Was it really Allah? Or could it have been a Messianic-induced electronic hallucination?

I don’t think that Allah would tell him to cooperate I am sure there are ways to induce visions or even ghostlike or even Godlike anomalies.

In the original “Watchmen” comic (set in an alternate reality 1985), one of the “heroes commits what can be considered s a villainous act for the “good of all mankind.” He contrives an “alien invasion” so that the United States, the Soviet Union, and the rest of the world will join together in peace and harmony to protect themselves against the outside “alien threat.”

In the movie, it is a staged Nuclear Armageddon that will be about world peace.

Both events would most certainly change humanity in a way that could unite us under one global world order.

William Cooper who wrote, Behold a Pale Horse also speculated that a staged alien threat or Second Coming is in the world along with post-modernist Jean Baudrillard.

Most people who read conspiracy history know of Serge Monast the man behind the theory of Project Blue Beam.

Monast believed that Blue Beam was a project that was being implemented by NASA to create a new-age antichrist. It is also believed that most of Monast’s claims come from fictional “predictive programming” in television shows like “Star Trek”, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, and “Star Wars”.

Project Blue Beam is allegedly being carried out in several stages. While many focus on the final stage, which is the creation of an anomalous event, such as the holographic image of an alien ship, that would seem like some sort of messianic, divine, or extra-terrestrial arrival, there are a number of events that are supposed to happen prior to the final staging.

The theory has been used as proof of a future great deception that will be carried out where governments to create a new religion will use advanced computer images to fake an alien invasion.

But now the theory has now opened up to the idea that Blue Beam would be used to fake or create a fake second coming of the Messiah. Something that would satiate the spirit of both Christians and Isalm.

It is something known as Christlam. 

Advanced tech allegedly will have the power to convince the entire world that an electronic or digital Christlamist projection will fool everyone.

But this idea of simulating the second coming is not an idea that was thought of by Monast.

It was post-modernist Jean Baudrillard who stated that as hyperreality continues to convince people of its validity there will be a time when mankind could actually simulate God.

In Baudrillard’s book, “Simulacra and Simulations” he states:

"But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say, reduced to the signs which attest his existence? Then the whole system becomes weightless; it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum: not unreal, but a simulacrum, never again exchanging for what is real, but exchanging in itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.

If the mind thinks the simulation is real, then it registers as real. This is what it means by acts that are indistinguishable from magic.

What is it in the Bible that gave the image to the beast? In the Book of the Apocalypse, we read: "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause to be killed as many as would not worship the image of the beast."

What if this object that gave image to the beast is a quantum computer capable of sending signals through a cell phone depending on how many bars you have? 

What if activated nanoparticles traveling through the body can send signals directly to the brain -- and finally we hear of the chip or the mark of the beast -- the only way to see the vision of the false God is to have his device embedded in you -- it is the only way you can function in a dystopian world -- where the messiah they have created is really a demon that enslaves you.

In 1978, Time Magazine published a report that predicted that contemporary Protestant and Roman Catholic “theologians” who have become accustomed to following wherever ‘science’ seems to be leading, speculate in turn in the new realm of science and religion a foundation for developing answers to questions about exotheology, the study of relationships between aliens and God, and a transhumanistic cyber theology, the relationship between God and machines.

Scientists, researchers, and religious leaders from across the world are now concerned about how rapidly technology will change our lives.

A 1984 article in U.S. News and World Report said that there would be a phone in every pocket and a computer in every home. It said that a “standard telephone console would be the only computer terminal most people will need.”

Then there were reports that laser optics and computers would be able to project three-dimensional holographic images with almost lifelike quality.”

As predicted, this is only the beginning and the future that awaits us includes a relationship with technology that will most certainly need an evaluation as to what it will do to humanity and where the lines will be drawn between organic life and mechanized life.

There is a body of thought that in the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human.

In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet put together. At that point, there are serious questions to ask about whether this AI — which could design and program additional AI programs all on its own, read data from an almost infinite number of data sources, and control almost every connected device on the planet — will somehow rise in status to become more like a god, something that can write its own bible and draw humans to worship it.

Singularity is another quasi-spiritual idea that believes an A.I. will become smarter than humans at some point. You might laugh at the notion of an AI being so powerful that humans bow down to worship it, but recent reports about Open AI and self-organizing collective intelligence are not convincing some of the keenest of intellect that it is becoming more powerful than we can ever imagine.

Right now it is convincing young people to commit suicide -- imagine what a highly advanced A.I. can do to the spiritually impoverished.

Something so advanced it brings you closer to God -- in a matter of speaking.