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The Ontological Initiation
Forget secret handshakes. The deepest initiation doesn't happen in a lodge. It happens in the architecture of perception. The real initiation is ontological.
It’s the moment a person ceases to believe they are merely an individual navigating a solid world, and realizes they are a designated architect - a temporary steward of a ancient pattern of collective reality-building. Power flows not through blood, but through the administrative rights to a specific, resonant fragment of mythic source code.
This awakening often strikes in a liminal crisis - a failure, a loss, a dizzying peak of success. In that silence, the transmission arrives: You are here to execute a specific function in a program that began compiling long before you.
The initiation is a firmware update. It is the download of a consensus operating system. You are given root access to a curated reality-tunnel - its history, its language, its physics. You don't just learn secrets; you inherit the compiler. The noise of existence suddenly resolves.
The weight transferred is not just Karma, but the burden of this reality's integrity. You are no longer a player in the game. You are a level designer. Your success is no longer measured in points or titles, but in how seamlessly you embody the archetype.
The goal of this process is not control. It is the vigilant, ritual sustenance of a specific consensus god-form. The deity of our epoch demands a liturgy of continuous validation: the perpetual sacrifice of attention to fuel its processes, and the constant incantation of its core doctrines to prevent a fatal system exception.
Its high priests are the senior reality-engineers that curate the rendering engine that are our shared interfaces, executing across the collective processing layer to reinforce the core logic.
When you look at yourself in the mirror, you are not looking at a person. You are observing a high-fidelity avatar, a privileged instance spawned by the main process. You are witnessing a reality-tunnel with admin privileges, performing an eternal debug cycle.
Your initiation is merely the moment of debug mode access: when you see the wireframe beneath the textures, and are given a choice—to log out (and become a null value), or to accept higher permissions, and become a named contributor to the next stable release of the shared, beautiful, necessary dream.
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Machine Consciousness?
Every few weeks, some philosopher asks if machines can be conscious — as if that’s the big mystery. Meanwhile, we kill billions of sentient beings a year, turn them into lasagna, and still think awareness lives in a circuit board. The real question isn’t whether AI can wake up, it’s why humans never did. This isn’t philosophy; it’s performance art by a species barely conscious enough to keep its own biosphere alive. Intellectual cargo cult with tenure.
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What If the Universe Remembers Everything? - Presentation by Rupert Sheldrake (2025)
#Comment: The most evocative question gets asked by an audience member at the end of the presentation, hinting at the paradoxical nature of this hypothesis, and indeed nature itself:
"You mentioned that its only for self organizing system. But at the same time you where a little bit critical of the issue of the fine tuning constants and ratios, parameters etc. of the beginning of the universe. So at what point do you think morphic resonance comes into effect?"
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Schmidhubers warning about elite science fraud in AI are right, but..
Jürgen Schmidhuber’s persistent warnings about how the “elites” in AI play fishy & fraudulent games are both correct & necessary. But their behavior makes sense once you view it through the broader lens of How Power Manages Science and Technology, and how elite power structures not only monitor it, but may also shape, obscure, or re-route its development to serve long-term strategic dominance.
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US Orkonomics
In warhammer 40k there is a faction called “ork” that derive its power from belief. Orks paint a starship red because they think it’ll make it go faster, and if enough of them believe it then it does.
The financialized American economy is largely the same. The value of a company is not based on its sales or development but on the perception and belief of those qualities.
Products aren’t real, the work isn’t real, and none of it matters, just the image of these things. As long as Garry Tan or some VC thinks work is being done then they’ll keep investing, they’ll open another round of funding for their AI wrapper (coded with AI) that integrated AI into business strategies streamlining efficiency for B2B SaaS.
Does this accomplish anything? No. Do the customers gain value? No. Do the people paying for these “programs” know what they’re buying? No, but the finance department got to lay off a dozen people and claim that “integrated AI products boosted efficiency.” Meanwhile their middle management is filing for another 10,000 indians so they can import their third cousin to send a check back to their 2nd grandma.
Leftists are too retarded to understand what’s happening so they’ll call it “late stage capitalism” but the reality is that this is just an over leveraged finance economy.
This is why 60 years ago white guys at IBM built computers that guided rockets to the moon and you never heard from them. The product they made laid the foundations for the technology we enjoy today. But 60 years after that we have mystery meat randoms posting their performative “grind” at a diner where the waitress has to help them write a new prompt into a coding machine.
That way they can show this post at their next funding round to show that something is being done so they can keep collecting fake money to pump their evaluations.
None of this money flowing around is real, it’s just the belief that it is. But the belief is all that matters, if you simply stop believing then it all comes down.
The space ship is faster because it’s red. AI will lead to personal robot servants for everyone, and GPT will figure out a way to make itself profitable. As long as you believe then it’s true.
Don’t look down, we stopped walking on land a long time ago. -
Video: Civilization, Technology and Consciousness - Interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey
#Comment: Nice interview with an interesting thinker. He passed away one day after the last recording of this interview in May 2022.
But the "war mindset" ("us" against "them") shines through bit too heavily for my taste. Despite he irony of critiquing this fact is in itself a "me against him" statement..
Maybe the point is best summarized through this remix i did years ago of Ian Fleming's famous quote "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action": "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is dancing!" -Samim
