Problem, reaction, solution strikes again!
Journos are often compromised and/or severely misinformed and people outsourcing their own God given brain ability is one among many ongoing casualties. Tragic.
As far as outsourcing thinking, I learned something recently which I found provides a crucial insight on this. It concerns something which would be considered humorous and trivial:
The same logic, however, apparently does not apply to left-wing influencer accounts, as Sam learned when he created a short-lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram: “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much.” (Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)
"Liberal Emily" was not accepted by them as an "authority figure", and getting their reality from "authorities" is what basically characterizes liberals. More precisely, the authorities they grew up with were liberal and their level of consciousness simply entrained them to that.
Obviously it's not that half of us are dumb and the other half are also dumb and so we're all dumb. Sam--who is dumb--doesn't get the subtle phenomenon that has been revealed (or confirmed, since I realized a while back that this is what was happening).
Detecting AI is a pretty advanced exercise of our powers of observation and reasoning. You can do it and I can do it and we see that even Democrats can do it. Mostly it's subconscious and happens almost instantly. We get a "feeling" then we can look for specific evidence.
The difference, though, is that our subconscious also decides when it is "permissible" for that reasoning to prevail. For Democrats in this instance, it was harmless to come to this conclusion so they "recognized" it right away.
On the flip side, Gavin Newsom has been CGI since early 2022. He even got reelected. No one seems to have noticed this. It's better than slop but still detectable. The difference, though, is that it's a worldview-shattering conclusion to recognize such a deception. So it does not get recognized.
Same thing goes for the recent very obvious Netanyahu AI fakes. Whatever individuals "saw" or "did not see", no one came away thinking, "Ohhh, given that, I've been the dumbshit and on the wrong side all along, haven't I?" No, the actual function of our consciousness is to protect us from such upsetting realizations.
Well, the consciousness level varies by person. To ensure the development of your consciousness, one should strive to think, "Ohhh, given that, I've been the dumbshit and on the wrong side all along, haven't I?" as often as appropriate.
Problem, reaction, solution strikes again!
Journos are often compromised and/or severely misinformed and people outsourcing their own God given brain ability is one among many ongoing casualties. Tragic.
As far as outsourcing thinking, I learned something recently which I found provides a crucial insight on this. It concerns something which would be considered humorous and trivial:
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men (Wired 4/21/2026)
The anomaly is buried deep in the article:
"Liberal Emily" was not accepted by them as an "authority figure", and getting their reality from "authorities" is what basically characterizes liberals. More precisely, the authorities they grew up with were liberal and their level of consciousness simply entrained them to that.
Obviously it's not that half of us are dumb and the other half are also dumb and so we're all dumb. Sam--who is dumb--doesn't get the subtle phenomenon that has been revealed (or confirmed, since I realized a while back that this is what was happening).
Detecting AI is a pretty advanced exercise of our powers of observation and reasoning. You can do it and I can do it and we see that even Democrats can do it. Mostly it's subconscious and happens almost instantly. We get a "feeling" then we can look for specific evidence.
The difference, though, is that our subconscious also decides when it is "permissible" for that reasoning to prevail. For Democrats in this instance, it was harmless to come to this conclusion so they "recognized" it right away.
On the flip side, Gavin Newsom has been CGI since early 2022. He even got reelected. No one seems to have noticed this. It's better than slop but still detectable. The difference, though, is that it's a worldview-shattering conclusion to recognize such a deception. So it does not get recognized.
Same thing goes for the recent very obvious Netanyahu AI fakes. Whatever individuals "saw" or "did not see", no one came away thinking, "Ohhh, given that, I've been the dumbshit and on the wrong side all along, haven't I?" No, the actual function of our consciousness is to protect us from such upsetting realizations.
Well, the consciousness level varies by person. To ensure the development of your consciousness, one should strive to think, "Ohhh, given that, I've been the dumbshit and on the wrong side all along, haven't I?" as often as appropriate.