A.I. - The New Rabbit Black Hole

On a related note, Zach just posted on Twixter yesterday a gripe about his Monday Night Football view count being only 3.3k views instead of the 330k he would have had in 2016.

The world doesn’t owe you views.  Just because your numbers were heavily padded by astroturfing for ages doesn’t mean it’s always going to be that way.  Previous sources have better things to do with their time and money, like military equipment above disinformation Patreon subscriptions.

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Things are an awful lot like before gematria became a Qanon spam weapon in the Trump election era.  That is you get sports stuff without a lot of political content.  Something like this:

The idea of supplementing gambling predictions with a lot of confusing nonsense to mask that you’re really just doing the same thing lots of sports predictors do with gematria and numerology.

And the Qanon gematria content has slowed down, too.  But if you want to use conspiracy lite content as baby’s first book of conspiracies to target the gullible, what do you use without gematria?  Chemtrails aren’t showing up much on my radar screen these days.  And that’s because the Weird Shit in the Sky crowd is going all in on A.I. content.  And at its core, it’s the exact same as gematria.

Instead of just being a commercial to try and hype sales of food, if you really believe that it’s purposeful subliminal advertising you have a confirmation bias problem.  And you’re a perfect fit to start off getting requests to get involved with worse content.  Maybe you jump on the next bandwagon of anti science content - there *will* be more pandemics in the future.  Maybe you would like to post about how much you hate libtards.  There *will* be polarized politics in the future.  Maybe it’s time to get the attention of law enforcement and use sovereign citizen tactics.  There *will* be taxes in the future.  Or maybe, after a couple different pit stops along these lines you can end up in a militia and genuinely think it’s time to overthrow the government.  There *might be* a government in the future.  It all depends on if rich white dudes have enough support from gullible useful idiots like you to allow it.

On the left side of the fake gematria equation is Popeyes.  The current event.  The new commercial coming from an impossibly huge database.  On the right side is 88.  A ludicrously small number to try and attribute any statistical significance to.  And it doesn’t matter that these make the whole equation stupid and pointless.  Like actual not conspiracy advertising it just matters what you think about it at the moment.  Right now 88 is Popeyes.  Tomorrow 88 will mean something else.  And 50 years from now, perhaps with Popeyes being a bankrupt faded memory, 88 will still mean Popeyes but nobody will ever think to mention that.

The same way that the gematria gurus trot out a new cipher like composite numbers or try to talk up a known future event like the path of the eclipse, the Weird Shit in the Sky crowd needed something different.  Something fresh and not gematria to talk about.  Something dumb enough that it identifies the gullible that think 88 has any special significance.  To lure them in, make some donations on associated fundraisers, and become a cult member ready to move on to bigger and brighter smaller and darker intellectual black hole things.  And that’s Artificial Intelligence.  Just like gematria decodes the blurry pictures are not so much a problem themselves.  The way they are manufactured is not important.  Zoom in on a picture, it will get blurry.  Freeze a video, it can show pixels in place of a smooth image.  And of course deliberate photoshop is on call.  These manufacturing techniques don’t escape the people that have the critical thinking skills to recognize the tricks.  But ultimately, it’s the associations they implant that matter.  And just like Qanon gematria it’s 99% Kamala, the Democrat, is up to no good.  Even though, just like gematria narratives could be shifted to the polar opposite the blurred pictures of Trump could be produced, but they aren’t.  At least not anywhere near the same quantity.

And as far as marketing goes it’s perfectly understandable.  The MAGA crowd is vastly more confirmation biased than any other major recognized political entity.  Blurry AI NFTs are probably in the works now.  Hell, if they could actually manufacture real, blurry Trump sneakers they would and they’d sell for $999 a pair.  That’s how far the confirmation bias Trump obsession has gone.