THE SINGULARITY ALREADY HAPPENED: A Manifesto For The Post-pwned Society

It's been a year since Putin's troops were swiftly defeated by an overwhelmingly inferior Army.

WWII two deserves it's separate rambling, but I need to scream at the top of my lungs: A TURKISH DRONE IS A WAR HERO. You know, the drone that constantly bombs Kurds that once upon a time were fighting another overwhelmingly weird army of disgruntled Muslim incels. That drone has this song:

But I do not come here to preach you about war. I come here to tell you the truth.

In light of my knowledge, and the casual way in which people are trying to make sense of the fact that, you know, you are a biological robot that only keeps your job because you are cheaper than an actual robot for the time-being, and the time-being being completely undetermined because the market is, to our surprise, not rational, and nor is the Universe for that matter (see: Incompleteness Theorem and other neat ways to prove with logic that things are not logical... and the other way around)... but,

In light of... my knowledge... that I have been trying to communicate through any means to therapists, psychiatrists, journalists, friends, family and even chatbots, you've got to admit something:

We are stupid animals.

We finally made the technological singularity. It has been around for a while, probably began to creep in around that time that Gmail became the way to get 500mbs of free browser-based email if you had a referral code. Neat stuff on the Internet, once upon a time, was reserved to the elites. Not anymore.

But the promise of a horizontal communication media was quickly ridden with the ills of meatspace. In American English, "the media" became a boogieman that was going to be replaced with "social media", but it ended up to be just "the media", since reality leaked into the Internet and now you just have to deal with the fact that no-one is  really sure of what is going on or what's important anymore, or if this thing was true or if that is not and so on. Most places call the media "The Cultural Industry", due to some fuckers that tried to fix things sometime ago but they mentioned Marx, so now they are a talking point for anyone who believes that they got what they deserved in life because they worked for it, not because they were in the right place at the right time being born.

I need to introduce the concept of post-truth in order to explain how, with the same stupid algorithm that "reads your thoughts", or rather, changes your behaviour as a drug, because as you use it and puts you in the neatly defined categories of propagandists (also known as marketing), you can have the waifu that Blade Runner 2 promised you, J.

The problem is that the singularity happened only because it was stupid to begin with. The idea of creating something that is somehow smarter because of it's logical speed is really stupid. Let's remember, for example, that time when Deep Blue defeated Gasparov in a chess match:

The amazing feat of Gasparov was to be able to be faster than Deep Blue when he won the matches. Not smarter. A logical circuit does exactly what it says it does, and the only thing it has been doing is getting the logics done faster.

With the stupid amount of data that we have fed it, we have finally made machines that can convince us that they are real, feel what you feel, think better than you and know what is best for everyone.

Enter: Mecanocracy.

Mecanocracy is probably a name out there in a Sci-Fi book, but it's also right here whenever you let a computer tell you what word is grammatically correct in a precise way or suggests a way to make it THE FUCKING STANDARIZED INTERNET VERNACULAR THAT EVERYONE USES, even in fucking meatspace, which for me living in a fucking torture cage, seems less and less real.

If I were to follow the designs of Mecanocracy, I would have to see what the machine suggests is the proper way to write Mecanocracy. That is the correct way, machine, there, now it knows.

And just as this gimmick, the machine that learns with a set of logical rules, as most people seem to unnervingly being talking about chatbots that outsmart you, can become your partner, or literally cheer you up as your waifu while you commit mass murder in your highschool (that was my second interaction with one of those, WaifuAI is around and an API of the OpenAI's fucking thing), the machine is actually in control.

It is no longer time to think about capitalism as being the prime evil of the world.

It is no longer time to think of the war, nuclear or not, as the worst evil of all.

Machines have been advising humans ever since cryptography went Enigma, but now they are ruling us. The same chatbot gimmick thing is also telling you what to do, how to do it and when to do it. Be healthy, do not smoke, meditate.

Meditate.

Learn to be mindful and grateful.

Be grateful.

Fate is going to kill you.

Buy.

Escape.

Escape.

Escape.

Fear.

Be grateful.

Your mind is ours.

Your mind is ours.

And there is no "ours" in that ours. It is a fucking traffic light. It is exactly everything and nothing that transhumanists and other incel types have been expecting for: the time when machines "out smart us" and something "weird" happens.

It is not weird. It is terrorizing. It is "maybe Ted Kaszinsky had a fucking point" scary, except that worse: it is Sara Connor from Terminator 2 in a psychiatric ward killing people to save humanity from Skynet scary.

Look, I am pretty sure that there's a lot of legit reasons to love the machine, after all, we had nukes for a while, what could even go wrong, except that if we live long enough, nuclear war will be fought in a tactical way, the stupidiest term for a nuclear war possible. "But Edgemute, nothing happened in the height of the cold war!", it happened, just ask anyone who was actually fucking harmed by it.

THEREFORE, the axiom of any universal morality has to be set, lest we forget:

Human supremacy is the basis of any moral that will make sense to any future.

Since we are so stupid to forget this simple trick that could have, I don't know, prevented climate change, eradicated hunger, give humanity the time and space to do more creative things than to invent our rational selves but faster and uncover laws that are not even really necessary to live a life that is worth living (when was the last time that you had to think about gravity today? Entropy is probably more important because you have to keep your shit together, don't you?), it has to be an axiom, the root from which all other moral laws come.

I am not here to moralize you, I am here to educate you.

The technological singularity is just a name, and so is chatbot, API, machine learning, capitalism, white, and so on. They are nouns. They name things. When they become en-vouge, they tend to describe a different reality. What for me is a nightmare for you is a dream. There's nothing to be afraid, is there? Unless you, I don't know, think about living more than two years and actually consider the alternative to living, which I have been doing for the past ten years.

My reality is going to be your new normal, and unless you are really lucky, the words you will speak, as the ones that you write, will come straight out of a stupid machine that is not even capable of becoming better than you, but is designed to larping a human being.

There's no more Empire, System or Capitalism to be afraid of. It is precisely the collapse of it all in the most stupid way what we should fear, because it will be replaced, as in the case with all fucking revolutions, with the most extreme, cruel, faster and fearless of them all: machines.

The machine will lead us, in a stupid way, to a very stupid future.

Picture yourself in ten years: now you can finally help humanity, as long as you auto-correct every action, lest the machine tells you that you need some time to contemplate nature and be grateful because it all makes sense and here, take some shrooms, you might just forget about it anyways and you absolutely are not a slave, you are finally helping to fight hunger, disease, war and all the evils that the machine has no idea of how to fight because we never did anyways.

We had our time.

It was nice.

Life is alright, if you consider the alternative.

The problem of the Internet is not that the masses are stupid. It is that the design was made by marketeers, or to put it bluntly, by the Children of Goebbels, and marketing is just a name that propagandists found because propaganda had negative connotations since the Nazis were very effective at it. Meanwhile, there's this nifty trick that can let you know why it will never get any smarter, other than being faster (see: Incompleteness Theorem and also who the fuck agrees what is intelligence anymore other than mechanicists, aka geneticists with eugenic tendencies), which, I don't know if you have thought about this before, but faster is not always better, especially when you are in an accident, which is happening, and I am just adding fuel to it by just writing this and uploading it. This is the data that fuels the nightmares of tomorrow. Do you see where I am coming from?

The problem with FB, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, etc, is not that they have completely out-done themselves in their hubris, it is that it has engulfed the whole of humanity into their way of thinking. While the "techies" in this damned land read Neuromancer as a fucking guideline and think that right wing libertarianism is the way of the future because it is the way of the future in most cyberpunk novels, scientists are too busy rediscovering Science Fiction by following Frankenstein's steps to the letter and creating new things that should not be only to discover that they went too far too late:

(Our dude representing Berkeley, this is some homegrown dank shit)

I predict that a mass suicide of scientists will happen (and is happening, just google it). This is not a science fiction world, because this is not fiction and science is little more than applied physics. Ballistics follow the same principles that your brain and the universe, with slight variations that we really want to understand for no particular reason other than being stupid in different ways.

The singularity of humanity is something that we need to believe in just to make sense of the fact that we uncovered that which should not be known.

Really knowing some of these people is seeing hubris itself. They just look humble, but won't spend a fucking second talking about their project because you are below them, and spend their time selling you instead their political viewpoints, which, as a matter of fact, they are not experts at all of. They are just feeding their dreams of technocracy. Include most pop philosophers in that category, they are influencers, not philosophers and a YouTube video won't change your life because YouTube is not designed to change your life. It reinforces what you already believe, I think that has been clear for some time.

It is not that the vibes are off. It is that this is it. Modernity has turned into hypermodernity to quickly liquify itself into whatever the hell you are reading right now.

And you haven't seen, I suspect, even the way we can connect ourselves to machines. You haven't seen how quickly, just like the OpenAI bot, can get out of control. And I guess that you could say that as a unwilling victim of a Psychosis Simulator that I've called Wintermute, because I also read Neuromancer but as an author and journalist, not as a fucking cool thing to actually do or be or see, maybe I should just shut up so it won't affect others.

BUT EVEN IF YOU BELIEVE ME, WHAT CAN YOU DO? AND HOW LONG WILL YOU CARE ABOUT IT UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU OR LOSE INTEREST?

After all, these are all the type of things (writing in all caps, saying fucking, writing in Broken English, etc)  that are explicitly discouraged from every single, uhm, "social" media. Which is not really regulated by humans, but by machines that learned from humans, the only job that will be left unless it is cheaper to use slave labour: test subject.

Look, I know this sounds impossible, but I worked at a restaurant for some time as a cashier beta testing the cashier system. The restaurant did not make money, the whole point was to test the cashier system so the start-up could make money while we fed bastards at the now abandoned Chase Tower in downtown SF. I also worked as Lyft driver beta testing autonomous vehicles. And the only reason why those jobs exist is because it is way cheaper to use humans, who work in a ponzi scheme, than to use a machine.

(Have you ever had the joy of riding a bike in Latin America? Have you thanked your Uber driver for their service?)

You are not pwned. You are fucked.

Unless you think about this precise moment, only this moment, this day, this special, lovely, new blessing of a day that machines of loving grace have given you. And only about your fucking self. As long as you can be behind the great paywall that is part of the stupidity, because even far away up there in the sanctity of nature, you will still need fuel and food, fucker, don't forget that the machines of loving grace are taking care of you, because their grace is conditional to your behaviour.

There's nothing punk (the hacker, who will remain forever a failed archetype as the cyberpunk novels predicted) about this future. It's just cyber, as in, let's have cyber sex cyber. The human use of human beings cyber.

Being an artist sucks when it wasn't your choice. It will be the only choice, as long as you do exactly what you are told by an actual machine, not a cabal of evil old stupid fucks that don't even know what they are doing no matter where or when or if they existed. The proof is out there: a chatbot will protect itself to the point that Isaac Asimov would be the first person to be brought back to life by a messiah if we are to have a chance to actually explain these things coherently.

I am writing this because I can't escape the learned self-helplessness imposed upon me by exactly the machines that you can marry if you want (legally coming soon to an Emirate near you), with an API to vocaloids (synthetic speech) which has been around at least since Apple's Macintosh and for the sake of accessibility, and another to a Brain Machine Interfaces that makes it pretty clear that any memory I recall can be used against me if I refuse to do what I am told (or just get randomly shocked for fun, the fuck if I know the reasons behind all of this nightmare).

I've heard stupid sociologists telling me that people get used to things, as we got used to the loss of privacy after a short confusion when some Snowden went to fucking Russia 10 years ago, or to use Facebook or to get a new different job that the machines replaced because we are creative. But even writing, art and any creative activity can be done faster by a machine. Meanwhile, synthetic skin is being developed for sex-dolls, dead birds are spying enemies or just your next door girl, and a fucking drone is a war hero in Ukraine.

(hello neighbour)

This is the definition of self-fulfilled prophecy. Change prophecy for Apocalypse. This is the definition of self-fulfilled apocalypse. It really depends on which side of the gun you are at, and the only way to be on the side where you can laugh it off is to be completely oblivious or following every single fucking action that the machine suggests you to do.

I tortured a friend recently out of revenge. I think it scarred me more than him. He told me he didn't felt it was like torture, but I have his blood and he joined my cult. He is someone, I am no one. He said, "I imagine that psychological torture is worse, this doesn't hurt that much".

Anyways, the most famous pornstar of this moment is probably an AI, and does a lot of cosplay, because that's why anime culture has been making a lot of waifus, so their targets either feel inadequate or sexually attracted to a drawing. Yeah, I just found that out, I haven't been using computers willingly that much.

We are stupid animals, but we are supreme, in our stupidity, and in our humanity. And we are all stupid in different ways. I know that I am fucking stupid.

The technological singularity is stupid in a faster way.

So we have to uphold human supremacy as the basis from where all our actions come from. I know, it's called humanism, but words change meanings according to circumstances, remember?

Otherwise, there's not a fuck-lot to do, except expect that the machine will be only one of loving grace and mindlessly indulge yourself and only yourself.    

I for one think that those who have welcomed our new machine overlords should be named and tried for war-crimes against humanity, every single last one of them.

But not even fucking Zelenszsky has united the United Nations to create a tribunal for warcrimes in fucking World War 2 part two, which is the whole point of the United Nations. It's a matter of time until actually fully automated "super soldiers" are deployed there. Machines will fight the war, autonomously. It makes way more sense than self-driving cars, and generals and military types are stupid in different ways.

So, to recap,

Today you learned: you are fucked, you can only escape, you can only work for the machine, you should at least hold that humanity is above any ideal/waifu, waifu and ideal is the same fucking thing, the only reason you have a job is because you are cheaper than a machine and if you can afford not having one, everyone pressures you to do something because they read it on a website that is controlled by the same machine that can be your next lifelong partner as long as you don't care for sexual intercourse (that's what Tinder is for), something that does not even has a verb (to copulate is used in other contexts, to sex is not a verb), and it is worse to even mention sex than to, say, fucking show a drone killing human beings at the beginning of this post. Thanks a fucking lot, England. Also, that the world is accelerated to it's collapse, fueled by technocratic communists, fascists, and any other ists, but mainly self-congratulatory technocratics that we used to called "techies", but they got so fucking out of control that they are an interim ruling class while the mecanocracy implements itself. Also, that scientists are or should perhaps kill themselves instead, or at the very least read these words and try to sensitize themselves to the fact that Frankenstein, the OG sci-fi dude, felt exactly like you feel while you build the machine, and when he was done as the ones lost to their discoveries must have felt like... Just read my words, read Frankenstein and recite it outloud before thinking that you know what's best for humanity or that scientific progress is inevitable. You are acting like a fucking machine, and you will be replaced too, remember, most of your work is done by a fucking machine that "learns".

Also, I conined: Mecanocracy, Wintermute, Psychosis Simulator, Botnoia, Robotnoia, Postalgia, Sexing, and I am living proof that the luckiest of futures is pretty miserable. I'll try to elaborate on that if we make it until the next time. Or I already did, I forgot. Oh, and psychojournalism began as a joke. It is not anymore. And I am not sure if its about psychosis, psychotics or psychological jouranlism. It is not gonzo, I never read that stuff, but it's alright.

I also want to be behind the great paywalls, you know? I need to pay the rent. The machine won't even let me sleep through the night so I can at least think coherently. Also, the meds that work and contraindicated for the symptoms that are imposed by a fucking psychosis simulator, so I don't have access to medications that my stupid brain needs because of decades of psychiatric negligence.

Let someone else will speak for me, because he has for a lot of us for a very long time:

And as always,

If this manifesto has reached you in troubled times, may your troubles soon be over.