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I’d say it’s a business update, but really this is my mission. From out of the ashes of Silicon Valley, to forging for you the best shield I can.
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@MattInformed
A man of God pursuing the fullness of Christ in me. Husband and father. Reader, thinker, and strategist. Leading my family is my honor, Cybersecurity my trade.
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Bought a machete today. Before the spring quickening, the briar shoots make their move.
They didn’t see me coming.
Satisfying
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If I could afford the licensing, “Firebird” by Dirt Poor Robins would play ahead of all my podcast episodes and YouTube videos. Instead you’ll have to do that manually.
I chose the image of the Phoenix for Practive Security long before I had heard the song, but man it’s like that work was written for me.
Fun fact: my 16 year old daughter drew the graphic for Practive. She’s an amazing artist, and a person with an internal strength unlike any other I have known. She is rising in her own way, with a scar and a story to boot.
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If only I had some sort of badge. But alas all I have is a pile of ashes.
neoluddite@dokimazete
What I’ve noticed about AI skepticism is that it’s often authored by writers who lack deep, firsthand experience with the tech. They rely on worn analogies, social science research, and anecdotes. Noble’s piece is, predictably, no different: newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/why-should-w…
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What I’ve noticed about AI skepticism is that it’s often authored by writers who lack deep, firsthand experience with the tech. They rely on worn analogies, social science research, and anecdotes. Noble’s piece is, predictably, no different:
newsletter.oalannoble.com/p/why-should-w…
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In response to the AI Revolution, there are only a few members of the GOP and the Dems who are expressing opposition at the national level.
President Trump’s executive order on Project Genesis was explicitly an attempt to evade regulation of the technology.
If you recall, Project Stargate was launched during this Administration’s first week back in office, and lead Transhumanists Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Larry Ellison enjoy close relationships with the Admin.
It is very weird to me that the Transhumanists who are rushing to implement Techno-Socialism are finding welcome among the right and at a White House that claims to be trying to restore us to our cultural, political, and religious roots.
True to their ideology, the Dems are the louder voice on the regulation front, but they are actually the only ones pointing out some of the deeper political implications of this Revolution, though their protests actually point back at themselves.
I can’t find really any elected Republicans who are opposed to the Revolution, aside from the impact of AI Companions on the mental and physical health of kids. Maybe some concern about privacy, but that’s it.
And where is the church? Word from the Vatican has been mixed, and we have seen eager adoption through the Protestant world. The only firm opposition I’ve heard is among the Orthodox (yay for that!). But locally, I can’t find any interest either way.
It seems the vast majority of our political and religious leadership desires this One Ring. Yet it’s not clear to me that any of them understand where this is leading us. Or else they all do understand, and are all for it. In which case, our Republic and the culture that birthed it are truly at their very end.
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The Optimistic Curmudgeon@TheOptimisticC3
I promised news… here it is! 3/20 - paperback available 4/30 - hardback available Both via @DavenantInst. God is good. This book will have a story, and it’s going to see the light of day.
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We are getting excited about the opportunity to share Practive Security with the attendees of this year's Christian Home Educators Association of California annual homeschool conference.
If you stop by and say hello in the exhibitor hall, you can join a raffle to win a free membership to PractiveSecurity, or LEGO set 31161 (Medieval Dragon / Phoenix).
If you are in California, consider joining us July 10-11 in Downy, CA.
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The first deception is in the name: "artificial intelligence."
Not only is it not intelligent, but invoking that title brings definitions from our SciFi mythology that frame how we approach the technology and what are expectations are from it. That sets us up to believe the deception when we see the machine mirror our expectations through mimicry.
And that causes us to think of the technology as "higher" than us, an authority over us.
But it is not intelligence by technical standards, nor by practical standards, nor by theological standards.
It does not pass the Turing test because we can readily identify its output as "AI Slop," and it does not possess the most essential attributes of man that define us as "intelligent;" heart, and soul.
It is an attempt to re-create the cognitive processes of the left hemisphere of our brain, with the hope that doing so will cause something to emerge that will fulfill the role of what we think the right hemisphere of our brain does.
Indeed, the pointers of an "intelligent being" mostly come from our right hemisphere, our heart, and our soul; interest, awareness, attention, preservation, recreation etc.
The left hemisphere is cold and calculating - more like reactionary impulse than intelligence. What the AI chatbots of today are is more like an unintelligent think that simply acts on its programing.
And ironically, that's what the scientists creating it think you and I are.
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Can AI be used for good?
This is a very difficult question to answer, because it depends on the definition of AI, if you know how to use it, what you use it for, what using it does to you, and what the cumulative effect is on all of us as we use it.
I have written several articles that attempt to guide us through this, and am working on a book to that end, but the most important things to consider are the following:
The way you are being presented with the technology today is fully deceptive.
The many ways you are being invited to use the technology are based on that deception and are misuses of it, with the net-result of producing harmful outcomes, harm to the ones using it, and progress toward a harmful ideological end.
The cumulative effect of our adoption is nothing less than a total revolution on all fronts; political, cultural, philosophical and in service to the redefinition of man in the name of transhumanism.
So can we use AI? I'm very tempted to say "no, not at all." Because it's not isolated. The entire enterprise is bent and it is bending us.
On Deception:
practivesecurity.substack.com/p/the-deceptio…
On Origin and Destination:
practivesecurity.substack.com/p/the-darkness…
On Ethics:
practivesecurity.substack.com/p/an-ethical-f…
On Agency:
practivesecurity.substack.com/p/agentic-ai-i…
On Politics and Culture:
practivesecurity.substack.com/p/100-percent-…
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I keep thinking about the Studio Ghibli artist. Now everyone can make art like him, but that killed the artist.
Maybe as a writer, you can use the LLMs to refine your product, but you’ve also then deprived yourself from being a better writer.
And then if you continue that, your writing skills flatten or atrophy and then you’ve lost the point of writing.
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I had a really difficult time with this in my “ethics for AI” article, which is why I wrote elsewhere (can’t remember where) that I’m not sure we can separate the tool from the revolution. Indeed, I don’t think we can.
But the difficulty comes from the fact that I think there is still good use of the tool in its LLM state, and I think that good use has to be defined by our overall hierarchy of values.
That includes not only what we do with the tool, but what using the tool does to us.
That’s what led to my article on losing agency, because by simply using this tool in the ways we are being presented by the revolution is ending us.
So while I say “you can use this in certain circumstances,” I’m also very tempted to say “you can’t use this at all” because all of the circumstances are bent in nature.
Part of the problem is the personification - and the way it has been packaged as “AI.” Everything under the “AI” bucket seems harmful to me. If we undo the AI part and just get back to data analytics, then perhaps we can talk about the good of the tool.
But alas, I really don’t think we can separate the revolution from the technology - for it’s been purposed for an end.
I hope I got that right / clear in my articles.
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“Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the “content” of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.”
Marshall McLuhan
Barrett Velker@Bear_the_AI_guy
A LLM is a tool and when it isn't used as a tool the output results are awful and extremely low quality. The low quality result is God's punishment for framing it incorrectly. It isn't human. It as dead a machine as a computer is. A reflection of automated logos. If you can hold the frame that it isn't human then interactions with it become simple and clear and high quality. The quality itself is the reward for treating the LLM as its nature demands. It's not a dialectic exercise. It's an extremely one sided empirical badgering process. Any slipage is due to the fact that I'm not interested in being that type of person at all times. Formation happens when using a computer, or any tool for that matter. Your body and mind cybernetically combine to push the telos of your end. Extending telos through the physical and spiritual realm is a completely ordinary event
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It’s spicy Friday.
Practive Security@PractiveSec
Yesterday @BernieSanders learned of Data Monetization and how our use of "free" platforms is like mining for gold that we give away for free and then buy back as products refined by the same men who own the mines. The Senator could have saved a lot of time, and humiliation if he was a customer of Practive Security, because this is one of the first and foundational topics we cover in our 101 series. Don't embarrass yourself like the Senator from Vermont. Sign up today and be educated. practivesecurity.com/signup
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Any word on Project Genesis?
Of course not, because DOE has it.
That was a brilliant move. But something is cooking where we can’t see it.
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There is much spell casting happening right now.
That’s the analogy I used in my latest blog about the deceptions of AI.
The magicians also need fools in the audience to make the illusion real. They need participants, believers, accomplices.
Don’t be a magician’s fool. You can choose to not participate.
AI CEO = spell caster
Tech CEO = ticket seller / circus master
AI Enthusiast = planted audience member (believer / spoofer)
You don’t have to attend the circus.
Matthieu Pageau@PageauMatthieu
For the materialists out there. Here is more for you to mock: Any living being, including animals and humans, as well as inanimate and animated objects, can be manipulated by fallen entities under certain conditions. Evil magicians are experts at creating these conditions.
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This is one of my concerns as well. Age-based content controls or Internet access management will necessitate digital ID. There’s no other way, and as always, this is being pushed as a “safety” measure.
Yes, the threat to our kids is real. But socialism isn’t the answer.
My related concern is crypto and CBDC. That will be how the AI UBI is administered, and it’s the instant way out of the US debt crisis.
And these two topics are related.
Julie Barrett@juliecbarrett
🚨America's newest Digital ID proposal just dropped in the US Senate. Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn has introduced a new AI bill that bundles 17 different policies into one massive, 291 page bill. This is just like all these other tech bills we've been seeing - a massive Digital ID framework - with universal age verification being the key to access to the tools. The bill includes mandatory age verification for every existing account and freezing accounts until users verify their age.
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@MrEwanMorrison I think it’s worse than that. This is a full on false flag, politically speaking.
Bernie is pulling the cornerstone of the left’s power and financing structure out from underneath him here.
I don’t get it.
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Bernie Sanders - is so out of his depth in the field of AI that he takes all the hype at face value. He thinks a chatbot is like a real person and that it tells the truth. He is doing more harm than good.
Sen. Bernie Sanders@SenSanders
I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.
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