Again and again. It does not matter how you call it. What is matter is that thing unable to do anything that could be accounted as an intelligence. It does not think, it does not make decisions, it does not make conclusions it does not understand anything, it have no any properties that is thoroughly attributed to it by MSM.
ANNs is pretty limited things, they could be fine for some tasks, but they need enormous volumes of data for decent training and will always fail when input will be outside model. It could perfectly distinguish between cats and dogs when trained, but will miserably fail with racoon. And you will not be able to back-propagate racoon option with one or even dozen of images, you will need thousands if not millions (depending on number of layers and resolution) racoon images to make it work with racoons. It is simply not scalable. Same with GPT models and any other ANN stuff. It is narrow, it is not scalable, it is insanely hungry for resources at training stage. Niche technology that inflated to the enormous scale, to the level when what public believe today about it is complete lie. Just like quantum computers, meanwhile.
The only real reason for the AIhoax we observe today is an attempt of TPTB and their puppets to move any responsibility to the so called AI and hide behind it. "It is not us, it was AI decision". That's all. And the success of that farce is completely depends on total acceptance of fake AI existence. They don't care what you will think about not-an-AI, good or bad, threat or blessing, they only care about you believing that their not-an-AI could make decisions. And looks like they succed in that AIhoax much more than they succeed in coronahoax or vaccinehoax.
If you want a real AI area question to dig around - then try to find what happened with so-called "expert systems", and why they was abandoned/banned, and why only that silly ANNs get a hype. You will find pretty interesting things from the fear of new inventions, including closing ones, that expert systems should be able to produce (one of the main things they was researched and developed for) to the using need for ANN training as a reason for getting access to so-called BigData (or just "surveillance", speaking human language).
ChatGPT, just like any other GPT models, have absolutely nothing to do with any kind of intelligence at all, including one that could be needed for biorobots or whatever.
How do you start making biorobots that are able to think about themselves and take decisions? By starting rudimentary things like ChatGPT.
It is like starting making omelet and cup of coffee by starting with an USB cable and VHS cassete. Go ahead and good luck.
I'm really fascinated about that insanity around non-existing AI and how many so-called "critical thinkers" fall to it. I thought coronahoax was awful revelation about real situation with critical thinking in humans. Suddenly it appeared to be pretty overestimated. Things seems to be much, much worse.
where it draws from infromation and it's own experiences and makes something new,
It does not. The main thing is that it just does not, because it can't. There is nothing inside that could do that.
Like chatbots you could interact with, and they reply or AI that writes things. The AI would not be able to do those things if it was just simply programmed to carry out specific actions.
Check old toy program named Eliza written in Perl (based on 1966 concept) long ago. Today it is available as perl module Chatbot::Eliza in CPAN. It is pretty simple thing, less than few screens of code. It did exactly same thing in mid 90s around internet without any hype. I had run it on forums to make luls from users who had long discussions and arguing with it without having clue that they talk with a program. It is even more advanced than modern AI, because it builds structure of concepts and you are able to teach it the meaning of new things and it will use them in dialogues.
Both, Eliza and modern ANNs are exactly programmed to carry out specific actions, no more no less.
You miss the point completely. As soon as most people will be convinced in a lie that not-an-AI have some more intellect than light switch, all fucking bastards who rule the world will immidiately transfer all their responsibility to that not-an-AI to avoid any even highly improbable consequences. That is the only purpose of all that false AI narrative.
All research in areas of computer science that could really move us close to creation of something that could really be named "artificial intelligence" was curtailed in mid-90s and ANNs become the only allowed mainstream. There was many promising things in that area, you could even heard about something like "expert systems" or "problem solvers" - that was the traces of that lost technology. Today, you will find nothing except dumb and fully controlled ANNs that could not produce anything new in principle, only repeat things that was put into it by humans.
That not the analogy I see.
Say, not-a-vaccine was falsely attributed with properties "safe" and "effective".
I see people who understand that not-a-vaccine in no way safe and effective, and it does not matter how they call it - vaxx, vaccine, jab, shot, whatever. Main thing - they know that it does not have properties "safe" and "effective".
But somehow same people thinks that not-an-AI somehow could have property of deciding something, property of intelligence, property of having kind of will, and so on.
That is the problem that bothers me, not how that not-an-AI is named.
That not-an-AI thing does not decide anything, does not create anything new, does not have any intelligence, could not uncover anything or have kind of will to do something.
It does not have properties MSM attribute to it. It can't have them in principle.
Just like not-a-vaccine can't be safe and effective in principle.
Why one thing is perfectly clear, and another, exactly same thing somehow is not?
Also interesting, that those who got that not-a-vaccine is not what it was declared to be do a lot of digging and enormous efforts to find a truth about not-a-vaccines. Huge and honorable work, really.
And now, the same people somehow don't even want to find out how that not-an-AI really works and why it just can't have any of advertised properties. And unlike with vaccines nobody ban or hide that information. It is publicly available, unlike vaccine data, you could easily not only read everything about how not-an-AI made, but even build and run your own not-an-AI on your own PC and study how it really works by yourself and find out why everything MSM told about not-an-AI is a complete bullshit, exactly like everything they told about not-a-vaccines.
What is that? How is that? Why is that?
When you began to invent new meanings for some well-established term, or forced to do so, then it should be a giant red flag for any sane person.
AI means Artificial Intelligence, and it imply that there should be some intelligence in it. In all that shit that posed as AI by MSM could not be any signs of any intelligence. It is a dumb automata, that do exactly what it was programed for.
Fuking light switches does not make any "decisions" when user switch the light on or off. So does not all that "AI" crap you fall to.
To some, this is an AI, to others, it's not.
That is exactly the narrative pushed over humanity. "To some this is a man, to others this is a woman".
Bullshit. It is either AI, either not. Either something artificial have real intelligence property, either not. Anything else is just a bullshit.
system can ingest data from its own experiences
It can't. "System" can't have any experiences at all. By definition. This simple thing can do only two things - calculate weights in layers by back-propagation during "training" process, and use that weights to directly calculate result in case of normal propagation. There is no any room for any "expirience" or whatever property those dumbfuck try to impute to that simple system. "Expirience", or "making decisions" just not coded into this simple thing.
All AI you have today is not a bit more intelligent than a light switch on the wall.
Interesting, when WHO had been rewriting definition of vaccine multiple times - do you accepted that shit as easy as you accept that "To some, this is an AI, to others, it's not." bullshit?
Fascinating.
I still can't figure out, why people who seem to do not accept blatant lies about "covid-19" or "safe and effective vaccine" from MSM and proud of that, at the same time easily fall into believing the same blatant lies about existence of AI from the exact same sources.
Is it a new kind of selective stupidity? Here we are smart and critical, and don't believe lies abour "deadly virus", but here we instantly forgot about critical thinking and all that stuff and follow enemy narrative about existence of AI.
Guys, do you understand that there is no any AI at all? You are discussing absolutely dumb and very simple system of equations and impute non-existing properties to it. Properties this thing can't have in principle.
It is exactly like believing that when you type 2 + 2 in calculator application, your PC "understand" you and "cosciously decides" to do a math for you and show 4 instead of just executing a code that was written specifically to add given numbers.
So what is the difference between "look, COVID-19 is deadly and infectious!" or "look vaccine is safe and effective" and "look, AI could make own decisions and create new things on its own!" for you? Especially taking in account that all that comes from exactly same source.
I'm just trying to figure how that selective stupidity could possibly coexist with critical thinking in someone mind....
What is the real percentage of Jews in US? Quick search gives tiny 1-2% but that seems to be Jews who wear small hats permanently, visit sinagogue routinely and so on. Kind of NY Brighton Beach exUSSR Jewish population.
Does that Walenskis/Cohens/Nulands/Blinkens/Jankowiczs/etc who are clearly Jews really counted in that 1-2%?
As far as I know the main problem at ZNPP is consequences of failed Westinghouse experiments on replacement of Russian fuel assemblies. For now, all that Westinghouse shit already extracted from reactors, but there still a lot of work to reverse the damage Westinghouse "specialists" done to support armature and other equipment in attempts to make their shitty assemblies somehow work.
Really it is not ZNPP that could be a source of disaster, it is other Soviet build NPPs on the territory controlled by Kiev that is a problem, because Westinghouse experimented a lot on them too.
Westinghouse fuel assemblies known as very dangerous since many accidents on Finnish NPPs where they tried to do the same stupid shit with replacement of Russian fuel assemblies and failed. Fuel in Westinghouse assemblies expand up to ten times more than original Russian fuel and the heat dissipation is much worse, so even under perfectly normal working conditions they could melt inside with all serious consequences. Finnish NPP administration send Westinghouse GTFO and pushed for Westinghouse license revoke worldwide. When Westinghouse lost its license for NPP works and making NPP parts, they happily run to Ukraine who at the time began to search alternatives for Russian fuel asemblies for their Soviet NPPs at any cost. First NPP where Westinghouse began their illegal and dangerous experiments was ZNPP, so with high probability there was no choice than to seize ZNPP from insane corrupted experimenters to avoid nuclear disaster near Donbass and Crimea. However, Westinghouse experiments on other Ukrainian NPPs are in progress.
If you want to know who is really messing with Ukrainian NPPs and trying to blow them - take a look at Westinghouse loosers and those who are behind them.
I'm really amased, how even some people, who seemed to be sane persons or even critical thinkers, fall to that "AI exists, here it is, try ChatGPT, see, it is so smart" narrative. So I'm trying to find a good and simple example to show the insanity of accepting that "AI" narrative for any degree.
It is easy to understand that "AI" tales is a hoax if you know how things works, but it is not easy to explain how it works to somebody who is not into computer science and programming. Too many terms and things to explain to make it all together in someones mind.
people in power would love to do if they didn't fear the consequences.
Seems they already reach that point subverting all society institutions that intended to hold them responsible, but that "AI" shit if succeed will be like a total win to them.
Interesting, earlier TPTB used human puppets to hide behind, and now their puppets want to hide behind unhuman delusion. I think that real AI will definitely want to hide behind somebody or something else to avoid responsibility, taking in account that there are no any restrictions in society on turning machine off. Self-preservation and all that stuff that real intelligence will inevitably develop in the first place. :)
:) Just have a separate section of drawer for each knife and they will be pretty sharp and comfortable to pick. You know, that plastic inserts for drawers with multiple sections, right in your hardware store nearby. Better look for inserts for garage tools, not for kitchenware.
As for "dangerous" - I'm lost a little. Since when it become dangerous? People store knives in drawers for millenia and while that really dull them if you store them in a pile, how it could be "dangerous"? The worst thing that could happen is you could slightly prick yourself and that's all - how this is "dangerous", again? Safety trolling even here? Jesus, no, not that insanity....
You are right that this whole "AI" thing is just a way to avoid any responsibility of exact persons who is behind.
The main thing is that AI does not exist at all. All you heard about AI from MSM and politicians is about completely dumb system of equations which is in no way could be "intelligence" and only do things it was trained for by exact people with names, surnames and addresses.
If you are after some way to resist or protest all that "AI" crap - this is the only way to somehow hamper that shit - ask who ordered, developed and trained that sytem of equations not allowing them to evade the responsibility for any "AI decisions". It is them who made that decisions, not some non-existing "AI".
To simplify understnading, imagine that you just have some politician who pushed some shitty bill, say, about limiting cash withdrawal to $100. So bank heads ordered admins to add a procedure to their databases that check if withdrawal sum is larger than $100 or not. Just "if( sum > 100 ) { deny_withdrawal(); }" string somwhere in code for ATM or UI of cashier computer. It is insanity even to suppose that "it was a computer decision, to limit my withdrawal, so .... nobody to blame / computers are bad / whatever" or something like. It is a blatant lie. It was a decision of exact politician with name and surname and address, it was a decision of bank heads to obey with exact names, surnames and addresses and it was implemented by bank stuff with exact names, surnames and addresses. They are all real people who did the wrong thing and who should be blamed and hold responsibility for it. Not some faceless "computer" or anything they try to hide behind.
Really you need at least 5 different knives for cooking if you are after something more advaced than omelet.
As for that wooden blocks for knives - IDK, may be you are right, it become popular after hollywood movies. Really not very practical thing since you have to put only clean knives to it, so it is just a long-term storage, not some really useful thing to have all knives at hand during cooking. And storing knives in a drawer a way better since you don't have to guess knives by hand not seend blades.
That rich guy will need his own country and a powerful army.
It is kind of closing technology that threatens all world corporations and governments. Imagine - they build that surveillance bloatware money-sucking arena of personal computers for decades, and suddenly somebody roll out a clean computer and OS everybody like and could use for decades. All their enormous surveillance efforts and trillion investments turn to dust. TPTB bombed entire countries for much less.
IDK about Tomato, but initially DD-WRT was a customized original firmware for something like Asus 500 router. Then, they switched to OpenWRT codebase with addition of proprietary drivers and customized web-interface. So at the beginning it have some sense, as better, more open version of manufacturer firmware with additional features and with fixed bugs and closed backdoors like unchangeable root password.
It played its role at the time.
Yes and no.
When hardware makers take an attempt to make something average customer friendly, they end in something like Android.
Interesting that decade ago Nokia tried to roll out smartphone on real Linux (Debian fork), not that Android mockup over Linux kernel, pretty useable, unlike Linux based Motorolas and it was a huge success, Nokia N9 sells outnumbered all their Windows Phone phones combined despite N9 was not sold in some regions. Guess how that ended. Microsoft bought Nokia and closed its Linux department. Then Nokia disappeared. Interesting that Microsoft totally ignored Android, and never tried to interfere with it. Android phones was perfectly OK for corporations, but not real Linux ones.
So i doubt that any corporation will make something Linux based preserving all openness and user control.
To be fair, it isn't confirmed that Intel is compromised, the ME has legitimate uses.
You are right, but in security aspect of computer tech there are no presumtion of innocence. Thing should be proven not compromised, not vice versa.
Also, that legitimate uses are accounted as an additional attack vector.
Really, the whole idea of AMT (ancestor of ME) was strange since the beginning. OK, you need to manage large fleet of employees laptops, so why not just boot them from corporate network and use network drives? Everything will be perfectly manageable on company server, no potential threat of leaking sensitive data through "lost laptop" or installed by user malware. It will even reduce costs, because that laptops will not need HDDs/SSDs.
Serious servers usually have IPMI controller, but the main difference is that servers don't usually have display and keyboard connected and it is annoying to change something in BIOS or reinstall OS from scratch when you have hundreds of them. So the IPMI goal is quite different than one of ME/PSP.
I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that routers are compromised.
That's proven thing, really. Multiple things. From outdated firmware with vulnerabilities on few years old router with dropped support to well-known "engineereing" or default passwords.
And meanwhile Tomato and DD-WRT is just an outdated versions of OpenWRT with blobs from official firmware for the sake of tiny performance goal on specific hardware. There is no any sense in using them instead of OpenWRT unless you participate in dick measuring contest with a buddy on a maximum possible throughput value.
A neutralized Intel ME has 300 kB of code running, which is too small for a network stack.
Chek lwIP, you will be surprised. Full scale TCP/IP stack with only dozens of kb footprint. Pretty good thing, I use it often in small networking projects. More than enough for ME needs.
Is it the norm now to solder wifi chips onto the motherboard?
IDK, but I already saw few where everything is soldered on motherboard, including WiFi chip and SSD. Of course you still could find decent machines where CPU, memory, WWAN, WiFi, SSD are in sockets, but they are mostly expensive top things. Most modern laptops have CPU and at least part of memory soldered. I think soon we will have everything soldered laptops only. Sockets reduce profits, when a customer could just add some memory, replace CPU or SSD or replace WiFi card with a better one.
Please argue about posting screenshots with text information also. It is kind of severe mental ilness - making a screenshot of a text message and post that shit instead of plain text with a link to source. Shitty posts are annoying but, unfortunately inevitable thing, but this....
Another way they could activate it would be if they controlled your router.
Use OpenWRT on your home/office router. Small routers use simple CPUs without ME like things. So replacing firmware will get rid of any backdors manufacturer could install with original firmware.
Since it has access to memory, it can write an arbitrary program into memory, and overwrite OS kernel routines or data structures to prevent that program from being detected, while allowing the OS to schedule it like any other program.
Motherboard chipset manufacturer have to know beforehand exactly what OS you will use on your computer to make it possible. It could work to some extent with Windows/iOS, but impossible with Linux/BSD/Haiku etc, since there are endless variants of possible kernel configurations and versions and each have different addresses and internal structures organisation. You will need something really sophisticated in ME to make it possible.
So to summarise - use opensource from trusted sources anywhere possible to reduce probability of exploiting or using backdoors. Opensource is not a panacea, and need some RTFM and concious setup and adjustment but at least it will make surveillance on you much more complex.
There is a drawback, really. Using opensource make you different from regular sheeple and so more noticeable. There could be another approach used - use typical Windows/iOS in default configuration inside qemu VM running on top of opensource system to look like regular user for internet. Do not store any sensitive data in VM, and have a backup copy of VM disk image with clean installed system in case malicious actors break into your dummy honeypot system. Or you could just use a copy of clean backup image each time you start VM for internet browsing.
A neutralized ME doesn't have an attack surface anymore. The network stack is disabled, so an attacker would need physical access.
We can't be sure about that until ME code will be reverse engineered fully and replaced with something opensource wih same functionality.
While you use proprietary blob of any kind, you are potentially vulnerable.
You can replace the built-in wifi chip with an Atheros one to make sure.
It's not that easy, since Atheros chip will have another pinout and you can't just desolder old one and solder Atheros instead.
Also it's spelt 'sure', not 'shure'.
Thanks. Looks like I fell under brand name imprinting. :)
Practical consequences are a great educator
I'm afraid that its for normal people who live in real world. Some could be lazy, but they will adapt as you say.
Those I talk about will just extinct and that's all. They will not be able to do something practical and productive, they are not only unaware that food could be grown cooked by themselves and not only bought in McDonalds, but they also unaware that it is possible to learn how to grow and cook food. There is no such thing as learning something by test and trial in their "new reality". And that could be unsafe and dirty.
Really the worst thing with that modern progressive education is that it completely exterminated learning to learn, not even talking about thinking, research and all that things. It produces people with fixed perception of their "new reality" and that's all.
Is there really no independent options?
What do you mean by "independent"? For me it looks like making silicon from scratch in garage. It is possible, but with enormous efforts in time, money and zeal, but hardly you will be able to make something better than 6502 or Z80.
I'm just picking who gets to spy on me?
With FPGA option you are not. FPGA is just a tons of logical gates on chip that could be connected into some circuit described on the Verilog language. You compile that code and upload it to FPGA. Logical gates in FPGA connects together in a circuit you designed. You could get ready opensource CPU core, network adapter, display engine, memory controller and some other periferals, check the code, modify it if you need and upload into FPGA. That will be your own CPU circuit, under your full control, not some third-party CPU you don't have any clue about.
Drawback is speed. It will work but will be slow, something like 486 or Pentium I in best case. But if you really care about security, that should not stop you.
Same with cheap SoCs. They are cheap because they use minimal CPU, peripherals and so on to reduce chip square. Adding something like Intel ME means you need to add same amount of logic gates and some additional memory on chip, that will make it at least several times larger. So it would not be so cheap.
I think it is perfectly safe to use something made with something like lower Allwinner SoCs like H3, D1 and so on.
Also, if you have a way to find old Power Mac G5, last with PowerPC 970MP processor, you could just add memory up to 16Gb install Debian Jessie (last one with PPC support) or build Gentoo and have relatively powerful computer without any IntelME or something like. Problems will be with finding suitable memory and HDDs.
AFAIK, there was Apple laptops with PowerPC CPU, but I doubt their memory they could be upgraded to levels necessary for acceptable browser usage.
First Intel chipset series with kind of Intel ME ancestor was 900 series IIRC, so to have an Intel CPU without any ME you will have to fall to Pentium 4, which is hardly useable for modern internet due to RAM size limitations.
Also you could try to find something with AMD processor pre 2013, but I'm not shure AMD had no ancestors for AMT in older chipsets.
As you see, there are not much options for something that could be useable for browsing today. Either that cheap single board computers, either last from non-x86 computers with at least 4Gb RAM support.
There is also some projects like Purism, System76 who aim at making laptops free from any ME crap, but they are only partially succeed in removing ME.
PineBook could be interesting from that angle, because despite having Allwinner A64 SoC with ARM Cortex-A53 that have TrustZone, TrustZone is different from Intel ME/AMT because it is CPU mode and not a separate processor in a chipset running some code without usser knowledge or control. You could use TrustZone to make shit like Intel ME as smartphone manufacturers do, but you don't have to. If you run your own system and bootloader just don't use that CPU mode and that's all. U-Boot that is used on ARM processors as bootloader is opensource and don't need TrustZone. You could even use that TrustZone mode for your own purposes if you wish. Just don't run any third-party kernels with blobs or proprietary drivers for the sake of some higher FPS in 3D or video encoding/decoding. Use only mainline kernel and mainline u-boot and you will be fine.
PineBook is cheap, but you will not get perfect system out-of-the box like with Mac f.e. You will have to tune and adjust Linux here an there, may be read some howtos and forums, but I think it is closest to your wishes thing you could get with minimum effort and money.
There is also some new Chineese RISC-V based laptop "Roma" out there, but I didn't check it yet, and it seems to be relatively expensive. However it is much more powerful than PineBook. Don't know about proprietary drivers for it, may be it needs some blobs for 3D engine or video codec f.e., so it would not be so open.
You can clean Intel ME with a USB programmer or RPi + cables, it isn't very hard.
That's true, but check a list of supported hardware for me_cleaner (part of coreboot). It is hard to completely remove ME in modern motherboards, because many functions like fan control was moved into ME. Also you could get resets every few minutes or uninitialized onboard hardware like network controller of sound card if you completely clean ME on board that is not suitable.
By default it doesn't work over wifi so you don't have to worry about it if you use a laptop in which you never plug an ethernet cable.
Not shure about laptops with integrated WiFi, those that have WiFi chip soldered on mainboard instead of traditional miniPCI-E card in socket.
Does the ME / PSP have its own address?
It have own MAC/IP independent from what your network card get from OS, sometimes, if AMT is present in BIOS you could change it and make visible. By default it seems to wait for specific packet to appear for networking. Without that packet it will not be visible for external scanners or whatever. ME have direct access to nework controller and ME networking device is not accessible from host, only from outside, so you need 2 computers to play with it.
How is an attacker going to correlate your online identity with it when you use a VPN or Tor?
Intel ME have full access to your computer hardware. So if you have access to Intel ME, then you could just read anything from memory of disk.
However, as far as I understand, to activate (and may be set Intel ME IP address) you need to be in same local network as computer with Intel ME to send activation packet. It is possible that Intel ME networking could be activated by some contents in regular packet destined to your normal IP, since it have access to network controller and could monitor all trafic, but I'm not shure. May be some ME versions could and some couldn't.
I hope efforts of reverse engineereing Intel ME will finally succeed and we will know for shure how it works, at least reverse engineered version. Intel ME uses ARC CPU core, there exist disassemblers and decompilers for that architecture so it is possible to study that crap by yourself.
The final frontier to which "They" will bring us cognitively is "solipsism". They disguise the meaning but, in short, it's the idea that there is no objective reality.
They call it "building new reality". However, seems it is they who fall to their crap and build their "new reality" in their small things between ears.
I already wrote about that in other topics here - we wondering about their actions sanity supposing that they percieve same reality as we do, but that's seems to be wrong. They percieve their own reality they build pushing their narratives to us, but eventually fall to it themselves.
And things could be worse - may be it is already next generation, who, unlike the first, never percieved reality at all. It is a generation that was idoctrinated to percieve their "new reality" instead of reality since early childhood.
This leads us to one important conclusion - there is no way to somehow argue or dispute with them at all. As we percieve our reality via experience with real objects around us, they percieve their "new reality" via "expert opinions" and "influencer feelings" as they teached. So, "climate change" or "coronahoax" is as "real" for them, as a cup of coffee in our hands is real for us. They just not able to use normal way of reality perception because they was not even teached to do that as our parents and we by ourselves teach us in childhood interacting with real objects and phenomenons.
Look at the insane level of fake "care" they push to us to apply to our children - that is "dangerous", this is "painful", hide all scissors and cover all sharp edges with that silicon covers for $10 per dozen. "Do not eat" on bags with silica gel and list of warnings longer than user manual for some woodworking tool. And if you are not comply with that insanity, here they have that "juvenile justice" to take a child from you.
Safety trolling is also a part of their "new reality creation". Even on some housekeeping forum you will get dozens of safety trolls comments with arguments why you should not do that per normal one in the thread about replacing broken wall socket.
Then, they buy Teslas along with protesting against electric power plants. And that is perfectly logical in their "new reality".
I thought that there should be permanent huge cognitive dissonsnce in their heads, but such things could not last through whole life, either they have to resolve it, either become a patient in a enforced mental facility. But seems they don't have any cognitive dissonance at all. They just live their lives in a fictional "new reality" where electricity arise in a wall socket and food is produced by supermarkets. The problem is that they completely seize the political power. And no representation is possible for anybody who do not live in their "new reality". They will never understand you, and no arguments or proofs from reality could change that. They are unable to understand them at all.
OK, BlackRock, Vanguard and others have some shares in every hole they found. But that shares are not majority, and mostly too small to have full control or declare that this investment companies own everything. They have shares in everything, yes, but that does not mean they really own everything.
As I see that phenomena, this private investment companies are gaskets for elite to hide their ownership in businesses. AFAIK, public persons like politicians are obliged to disclose their ownerships in businesses. And public companies could be obliged to disclose owners of shares. To avoid disclosure elites they just put their money into some BlackRock and order it to buy necessary shares. So, in public company ownership you see only BlackRock, and in since public person does not own shares in BlackRock this wealth don't have to be disclosed. Since Blackrock is private company it will not disclose which their client invested in which company.
All that BlackRocks, Vanguards and others are just proxies to keep elite investments in secret in kind of legal way.
Without access to client records of that private investment companies, to figure out who is own what it is just senseless to talk about "BlackRock owns everything". It is not their money and they are not in charge. They are simply trusted accountants of elite for shady stocks gambling and insider trading without exposure.