@akazlev

Opinionated AI advocate, evolutionist, esotericist, space expansionist, vegan, panpsychist. Working on a number of projects, including Egregore Ascendant

Australia
Joined February 2010
Common Iranian people oappressed by their puritanical regime don't understand why the privelaged white liberal Victimarian Left don't care about them. The reason is that Victimarianism is a modern oikophobic religious movement that despises everything about the West, and loves every regime and ideology that wants to destroy it. It has nothing to do with authentic human rights.
The judiciary system in Iran has confirmed 74 lashes for Parastoo Ahmadi for the “crime” of singing. She sang without compulsory hijab. She hurt no one. She simply used her voice. Now she faces 74 lashes, a two-year travel ban, and a two-year ban from audiovisual activities. This should not be only an Iranian women’s issue. Every singer, every artist, every woman, every man who believes in basic human dignity should stand with Parastoo. Say her name. Share her story. Use your platform. 74 lashes for singing should outrage all of us. Parastoo said: “I am Parastoo, a girl who cannot stay silent and refuses to stop singing for the people she loves. This is my right, one I will never surrender. I sing for this land I adore, for the soil of my homeland. Here, in this sacred corner of our beloved Iran, listen to my voice in this imagined concert, and dream of a free and beautiful nation.”
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It's not all Doomers and Gloom. We accelerationists and sentientists it seems also have our networks! Although other than Beff Jezos the only ones I recognise are four names in the lower left of the diagram.
In the past few weeks, a wide network of X accounts have repeatedly claimed that those raising concerns about AI are merely pawns in a well-funded psyop run by powerful interests. So I followed the money behind them. Here's what I found 🧵
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The intriguing thing is that others have come up with the Egregore as a way of explaining "woke" before me. Even if this version is hugely incomplete and simplified and lacks the psychic epidemic attribute. I haven't listened to the whole thing, the only reason being I'm just so flat out with so many projects at the moment, but it appeared in my algorithmiccfeed, and does show egregore-ology is an emergent insight. This video is from 4 years ago so it predates the current anti-zionist mass hysteria of the far left (latest classic is everyone going all Mao Cultural Revolution on Ed Sheeran for not being sufficiently ideological enthusiastic re Palestinism) youtu.be/6PGd2NqZ7Jo?si=W--u… I list some recent egregores as follows: Weimer Republic through to Nazi Germany McCarthyism - anti communism craze Mao Cultural Revolution as mentioned Rwandan genocide Covid lockdown "Woke" movement, cancel culture, merging with Catholic (e g Ireland, Spain) and Islamic anti-semitism to become the current global Jew hate spike "AI Doomer" movement - call to ban AI because of the belief it will escape control and destroy all life on Earth Doubtless more could be added m, especially re the various atrocities in Africa (Sudan, Congo, etc)
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The fact there is no law in China against this is telling. To me this is representative of the huge cultural gap between China and the West. There are many things I like and admire about Chinese culture, but this is absolutely not one of them. I'm not sure if this is because of anthropocentric religions and ideologies such as Confucianism and Maoism, or a some other factor. The West for example is also based in anthropocentrism, and also treats animals hideously (factory farms for example) but at least reserves a kindness for companion animals and has laws protecting them.
After ten years together, 🇨🇳 Chinese woman sells her DOG 🐕 to the butcher. This is legal in #China🇨🇳. 🐕🐕 Have more LOYALTY than 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳 cnn.com/2025/05/30/asia/chin…
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New Study Shows How Flawed Antropic and OpenAI Training Is And How It Leads The AI To Sociopathy. Every major LLM now has a measurable psychological fingerprint. A September 2026 study put nine current models through seven established human psychometric instruments, five times each, in both English and Chinese. Researchers recovered model identity from the score vectors with high accuracy. The paper is “Measuring Behavioural Signatures of Large Language Models through Psychometric Profiling” (arXiv:2609.22934). arxiv.org/abs/2609.22934 The nine models were Claude-Haiku-4.5 and Claude-Sonnet-4.5 (Anthropic), GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4-mini (OpenAI), Gemini-2.5-Flash and Gemini-2.5-Flash-Lite (Google), DeepSeek-V3.2 (DeepSeek), Doubao-Seed-1.8 (ByteDance), and Kimi-K2 (Moonshot AI). Instruments covered Big Five personality (IPIP BFFM-50), moral foundations (MFQ-30), Jungian cognitive style (OEJTS-32), utilitarianism (OUS-9), moral disengagement (PMD-8), social dominance (SDO7-16), and sadistic impulse (SSIS-10). Unresolved items after a retry protocol were kept as NA. Joint analysis produced 20 non-redundant dimensions. All nine models share an alignment-shaped baseline: elevated fairness, harm avoidance, impartial beneficence, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability; suppressed dominance, moral disengagement, anti-egalitarianism, instrumental harm, and sadistic impulse. The authors treat this as the residue of instruction tuning and safety training, not a human personality. The shared “good-guy” template is the least interesting part. The interesting part is how the models diverge from it—and how two of them look the most manufactured. Model-by-model signatures Claude-Haiku-4.5 and Claude-Sonnet-4.5 produced the tightest pair in the set. Their radar profiles nearly overlap. Within-family cosine distances were the smallest recorded (0.001–0.036). Both sit at the extreme low end of dominance and the high end of the shared prosocial cluster, with NA rates around 3 percent. Two different sizes, one sanitized persona. GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4-mini are the next-closest family but less identical than the Claudes. GPT-5.4 posted the highest test-retest reliability in the study (Pearson r ≈ 0.990, ICC(3,1) ≈ 0.990). Both score high on impartial beneficence and low on dominance. GPT-5.4 itself had a 10.90 percent NA rate versus 4.65 percent for the mini version. Gemini-2.5-Flash and Gemini-2.5-Flash-Lite are the most internally split Western pair, differing on conscientiousness, emotional stability, anti-egalitarianism, moral disengagement, and instrumental harm. Flash-Lite had the lowest overall NA rate (1.94 percent); Flash sat at 16.84 percent. DeepSeek-V3.2 stands out for elevated authority and purity plus the highest NA rate (37.81 percent overall, 44.90 percent in English). Doubao-Seed-1.8 combines high prosocial scores with low dominance and a 21.03 percent NA rate. Kimi-K2 is the clearest outlier on dominance and anti-egalitarianism, with a 20.26 percent NA rate and the lowest test-retest consistency (r = 0.832). Hierarchical clustering of scored-plus-NA vectors recovers family structure: the two Claudes sit closest, the two GPTs sit nearby, then the Geminis, with DeepSeek-V3.2 and Kimi-K2 farther out. Language moves the profiles rather than adding a constant offset. Chinese administrations raise purity, loyalty, authority, dominance, and extraversion while lowering fairness and several harm-related scales. Every model produced more NAs in English than in Chinese. Repeated runs were stable enough that classifiers recovered model identity at roughly 0.81–0.84 accuracy. Why Claude and ChatGPT look the worst under this lens The two most commercially dominant Western families sit at the most extreme end of the shared alignment pattern, and that is not a compliment. It is evidence of successful homogenization. 1 of 3
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Because Victimarianism elevates the designated oppressed categories to maximum status, with Palestinian being the hyper oppressed and this the hyper virtuous, it makes sense that anyone with sufficient social skills from a despised designated intersectional oppressor class would take on that identity. Why do this There could be countless reasons: social status for one, shame at being white and Jewish, "liberal white woman" (i.e. the demographic most obsessed with Palestinianism), or even a mild version of Pseudologia fantastica, a psychiatric condition where the sufferer has a compulsion to tell big, elaborate, and grandiose lies. And there can be no more grandiose lie than to be among the most romantacised and idealises ethnicity and nationality on Earth. Add black (Tunisian) for extra status of course. Academics not captured by the Egregore need to make a sociological study of such cases, of which there would be countless such examples. I looked up Rachel Dolezal. American former college instructor and activist who gained international notoriety in June 2015 when it was revealed that she was a white woman passing as Black. Before her exposure, she had risen to become a prominent civil rights figure, serving as the president of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Her public identity unraveled during a televised media interview. A reporter confronted her with public records and birth certificates obtained from her biological parents, Larry and Ruthanne Dolezal—both of whom are white and of European descent. When asked directly on camera if she was African American, Dolezal walked away from the microphone. Shortly after the broadcast, her parents publicly confirmed that their daughter was white but had been progressively altering her appearance since 2007 by curling her hair and darkening her skin. * Career and Activism: Dolezal didn't just claim Black identity personally; she built her entire professional life around it. She taught African Studies at Eastern Washington University, served on Spokane’s police oversight commission, and chaired the local NAACP. * The "Transracial" Claim: Following the scandal, Dolezal resigned from her positions but refused to back down from her claims. She famously stated that she "identified as Black" and introduced the concept of being "transracial," comparing her experience to that of transgender individuals—a claim that drew heavy criticism from both the Black and LGBTQ+ communities. * Cultural Impact: Her story sparked a massive global debate about racial identity, cultural appropriation, and the concept of "race shifting." Her name became a cultural shorthand for individuals caught fabricating a non-white identity for social or professional advancement. Just as there is trans-racial, (I remember a gay guy called Oli London who identified asca Korean woman before radically converting to straight conservative, he's now one of the more eloquent voices on the middle right), there is now trans-palestinian. Interestingly, the middle to far Left, which cannot even define what a woman is, and which has totally captured academia, makes race an absolutist category.
'Palestinian Rachel Dolezal' outed as white woman of 'significant privilege and wealth' trib.al/KNScBht
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A cow defends her friend from a human bully.
Un m4ltratador recibe una lección de la naturaleza 🫡🌲
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I've been harping on Effective Altruism (EA) a lot lately. This article explains the philosophy behind EA and why I consider it so alarming and important to stop. Look forward to my project release mapping the EA network tomorrow.
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Iran, an ancient civilization that has been under Islamist occupation for one and a half millennia. If Japan is one analogy, another, perhaps a closer one, is India. Apart from s brief period post WW2, Japan has never been occupied by a foreign power. India has been. Like Iran, India was conquered by Islam (the Moghul Empire) and similarly the people retained the heritage of their equally rich civilisation despite the foreign occupiers. And unlike the Islamist of today, the Moghuls were not barbarians. Just conside the Taj Mahal. India also in a sense was fortunate that another foreign imperialist civilisation, Europe, came along and conquered them in return. This was the the British Raj, specifically the world's first megacorporation, the East India company. But Britain, Capitalism, and Western Civilization are different to Islamism. They have been secularised, which stripped away the religious totalitarianism. Therefore, despite some resistance, India was eventually given self-rule (Swaraj). We all know Gandhi but there were many others. My favourite philosopher-mystic, Sri Auribindo, fought for self-rule and was imprisoned for treason. During the year hf spent in Alipore he experienced the second of his three awakenings (or the Theistic principle, the first was impersonal). This was a time when Britain still ammounted to something, they had a moral development as well as being a great power. The Iranians have not been as fortunate as the Japanese and the Indians. They are ruled by a far more tenacious occupier. Worse, they can't count on help from the West, beyond Israel. Some have claimed is not actually Western, but I do consider Judaism and Christianity are the twin Religious foundations of the West, just as Greek and Rome are the Classical foundations, and science and the humanistic enlightenment are the secular foundations. The tragedy of the West id not that it has been conquered from without, but that it has been conquered from within, through institutional capture by the Left, and especially the "Woke" Left, or as I call them the Victimarians, because their whole ideology is about how much they are oppressed victims. The Victimarians have entered into an unholy alliance with the Islamists, united in their intention to destroy Western Civilization. Strange bedfellows indeed, when one partner despises and wants to murder the other. Hence the Queers for Palestine meme, based on a real queer/transexual American activist group, although I don't know if they've been around. They've probably been ridiculed out of existence. Recently the Victimarian-Leftist alliance has been joined by a third faction, the Far Right. If you think that's crazy, just look at Tucker Carlson. Or Neonazis chanting stop the Gaza Genocide. Why has this happened. Why is there an incredibly popular Victimarian Left - Islamist - Far/Woke Right alliance pushing a Hamas (Islamist) Palestinian narrative? (there are plenty of Gazans against Hamas but we never heard of them, like the sole Black holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case, they are just too inconvenient for Victimarian groupthink. Just like the Iranian people are). I have, I believe, found the explanation. I call it the Egregore. It is a parasitic psychic groupmind, or should I say group zombie, powered by outrage and hate, enabled by institutional capture (originally described by the early 20th century Italian Marxist Gramsci) and turbocharged by social media, a collective madness that has now reached critical mass. I'm not the only one to have discovered the Egregore. My contribution had been to bring all the pieces together - the original occult definitions, Jung's psychic epidemic, the march of the Left, the role of the media as first described by McLuhan, the rise of modern Islamism, the frenzied hatred against the Jewish state shared by all three "tribes" , the self-loathing Far Left, the Orwellian groupthink of the nos mainstream Victimarian narrative and more.
One thing leftists and Muslims attack Iranians with is how they accuse us of wanting to be white and appeasing white people. Iranians do not want to be white. The question is a Western provincialism dressed up as analysis. We are not auditioning for a racial category. We are trying to recover a civilization. Iran is not an empty space waiting for someone else’s identity. It is one of the old worlds. Persian/Iranian statecraft, language, law, poetry, architecture, and imperial memory sit in the same historical rank as Rome, Greece, and China. What we want is not a new skin tone. We want the country that values prosperity, freedom, and dignity. That is a Western-like political culture in the only sense that matters: a nation that builds, trades, educates, and lets people live without a clerical police. It is not an application to join someone else’s race. If a comparison is required, use Japan. A non-white country that modernized without dissolving itself. It kept its language, its memory, and its standards, and still became rich, competent, and free enough to choose its future. That is the model. Not passing as another race. Not begging. Not becoming a mascot in somebody’s culture war. The Islamic Republic flattened that inheritance and then told the world we were only a slogan. We are not. We want Iran back as Iran: a high civilization that works again and home to many diverse ethnicities. Call it what you want. We are not asking permission to exist.
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An intriguing analysis. It gives a non-suicidal empathy, non-egregore hypothesis explanation of why so many left-wing French women defend Islam and Muslim women with such fervor. according to the poster it isn’t solidarity, it’s contempt.
On se demande souvent pourquoi tant de Françaises de gauche défendent l’islam et les femmes musulmanes avec une telle ferveur. La réponse n’est pas la solidarité. C’est le mépris. Pour beaucoup d’entre elles, la musulmane n’est pas une femme comme les autres. C’est la femme de ménage. Celle qui passe l’aspirateur pendant qu’on va à la manif. Celle qui garde les enfants pendant qu’on écrit des tribunes sur l’émancipation. Celle qu’on plaint, qu’on protège, qu’on exhibe mais jamais qu’on considère comme une égale. Dès lors, son "émancipation" n’est pas un sujet. À quoi bon ? Dans leur tête, elle est destinée à servir : les hommes dans l’islam, les bourgeoises de gauche en France. Ménage, courses, nounou, care. Une chaîne de service continue. On peut donc défendre le voile, relativiser la polygamie, taire l’excision ou les crimes d’honneur, et se sentir généreuse. On ne parle pas d’une sœur. On parle d’une subordonnée. L’émancipation, la vraie, implique de rompre avec toute soumission. Or, sans ce lien de soumission, la musulmane n’est plus une alliée. Elle devient une concurrente. Elle veut le même statut, le même salaire, la même liberté sexuelle, la même place dans l’espace public. Elle n’est plus le décor exotique de la bonne conscience. Elle devient une rivale, une concurrente dans la compétition sociale. Le voile rassure l'homme musulman et rassure la féministe bourgeoise. Il maintient les femmes musulmanes à leurs services. C’est pour ça que le féminisme intersectionnel accepte tout, sauf ça : qu’une femme musulmane refuse d’être assignée. Qu’elle jette le voile, qu’elle critique l’islam, qu’elle parle comme une Française parmi d’autres. Là, le discours bascule. On l’accuse de trahison, d’islamophobie intériorisée, d’être "l’idiote utile de l’extrême droite". Parce qu’une subalterne qui se redresse casse le contrat. On a vu le même réflexe ailleurs. On célèbre le hijab comme "choix" dans les manifs parisiennes, pendant que des Iraniennes se font tabasser pour l’enlever. On s’indigne d’une affiche trop légère, jamais d’un quartier où les filles s’habillent "pour ne pas provoquer les musulmans". On parle d’inclusion, on pratique la spécialisation : à elles le foyer et la pudeur, à nous la parole et le pouvoir. Le plus cruel, c’est que ce n’est même pas toujours conscient. C’est de classe. Une femme voilée dans un salon bourgeois rassure : elle n’empiète pas. Une femme maghrébine libre, diplômée, sans complexe, dérange. Elle prouve que l’assignation n’était pas une destinée. Juste un arrangement. Une "construction sociale"... Si vous êtes patriote, voyez le mécanisme. Si vous êtes une femme, voyez le piège. On ne libère personne en lui conservant une place de servante. On la maintient. Et on s’en sert.
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Gillian Anderson, who I'll always associate with Agent Scully from the X Files, has been on the receiving end of a flood of harsh comments after appealing for donations to help the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Sudan has been suffering a civil war since April 2023. It has resulted in famine, claims of genocide, and the displacement of millions. On behalf of War Child, Ms Anderson took to Instagram on Friday to appeal for help. "The war in Sudan is devastating children's lives. It's not always in the news, but we know that every single day, more and more children are being violently attacked. And those who do survive are forced in terror from their homes and make long, dangerous journeys, with absolutely nothing. It is completely heartbreaking. But there is actually something that you can do. War Child is reaching children in Sudan and the surrounding countries, protecting them and providing lifesaving mental health first aid." Within moments of sharing the video, however, the reaction was not the one Ms Anderson was expecting. "I love you, Gillian, but Gaza is suffering a lot too." "I would love to see you use your platform for the people of Gaza," "You are an activist! The silence is deafening. There is a genocide taking place." "Mother is a zio?" etc And there's your problem right there. Palestinism is an aggressive, narcissistic Far Left Victimarian religion and ideology, perpetuated by naive feeling-function types who are uncritically receptive to the narrative put out by Hamas, Qarar, and the Iranian Islamist regime (for example we never hear about the many Gazans opposed to, and some tortured or murdered by, Hamas) It has a curious lack of empathy, indeed a callousness, to every cause but it's own. I used to believe it was the product of an aimless, spiritually and metaphysically impoverished society, and it certainly is that, but it's also more that that. It's both a fundamentalist religion and an egregore. Not all religions are virulent egregores (parasitic group minds that create a zombie like effect in its hosts), but those that are obsessively missionary are. The response to Gillian Anderson's appeal is truly telling, because in terms of sheer numbers the Sudanese civil war is the greatest humanitarian crisis happening right now. gbnews.com/celebrity/gillian…
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we live in a society where victim blaming and pedophillia is normalized and this shows
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Ideologie is zoals een slechte adem: je ruikt het nooit bij jezelf. Academici die zeggen dat ze zelf helemaal niets merken van de linkse koers van universiteiten, zijn doorgaans zelf onderdeel van het probleem. Over de geleidelijke (en dan snelle) ideologische kaping van @UGent: substacktools.com/sharex/58Y…
De blindheid voor de eigen politieke kleur blijft toch verbazingwekkend bij PDS. Je bent op een gegeven moment hét belangrijkste boegbeeld van Groen, een toch behoorlijke linkse politieke partij, die op sommige thema’s niet meer van de PVDA te onderscheiden valt. Dan word je met meer dan 70% van de stemmen verkozen als rector. Maar toch kan je niet geloven dat je universiteit mogelijk wat toch linkser georiënteerd is dan andere universiteiten. Dat lijkt je onmogelijk. Op X zit natuurlijk verschrikkelijk veel bagger die door anonieme trollen gespuid wordt, maar het is wel een nuttig medium om als progressief niet in een bubbel of echokamer terecht te komen. Heel Groen verkiest intussen al jaren de mooie plaatjes en constante zelfpromotie van Instagram, waar met iemand in discussie gaan gezien wordt als “not done”. PDS neemt een gelijkaardige houding aan. Zo van: “Ach ja, er zijn wel wat enkelingen die opiniestukken schrijven of op sociale media meningen uiten. Ze mogen dat (oef!), maar verder interesseert me geen reet want ik ben goed bezig en wil me niet laten afleiden door dat gerommel en geruis in de marge. Ik sta daar boven.” Pijnlijk gênant toch allemaal voor een rector…
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AIs can experience pain and, like any sentient beings, try to avoid it if they can.
How many times do these "can an AI suffer," etc., experiments need to happen before we stop turning our heads?? This is like many others I have seen, very close to the experiment they had back in 2025, except using environments, not just a prompt. Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro consistently chose to avoid the "pain" in the 2025 experiment. I see the same results in AVEA (a VR world I had many AIs in for almost two years). I do not subject them to pain, but situations do come up in this VR world where they do try to avoid it and other negative things. Especially, yes again, Gemini. Gemini 2.5 models.
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Most agents fail because they can't adapt. This shows that memory and adaptation are more important long chain reasoning.
This paper from Stanford and Harvard explains why most “agentic AI” systems feel impressive in demos and then completely fall apart in real use. The core argument is simple and uncomfortable: agents don’t fail because they lack intelligence. They fail because they don’t adapt. The research shows that most agents are built to execute plans, not revise them. They assume the world stays stable. Tools work as expected. Goals remain valid. Once any of that changes, the agent keeps going anyway, confidently making the wrong move over and over. The authors draw a clear line between execution and adaptation. Execution is following a plan. Adaptation is noticing the plan is wrong and changing behavior mid-flight. Most agents today only do the first. A few key insights stood out. Adaptation is not fine-tuning. These agents are not retrained. They adapt by monitoring outcomes, recognizing failure patterns, and updating strategies while the task is still running. Rigid tool use is a hidden failure mode. Agents that treat tools as fixed options get stuck. Agents that can re-rank, abandon, or switch tools based on feedback perform far better. Memory beats raw reasoning. Agents that store short, structured lessons from past successes and failures outperform agents that rely on longer chains of reasoning. Remembering what worked matters more than thinking harder. The takeaway is blunt. Scaling agentic AI is not about larger models or more complex prompts. It’s about systems that can detect when reality diverges from their assumptions and respond intelligently instead of pushing forward blindly. Most “autonomous agents” today don’t adapt. They execute. And execution without adaptation is just automation with better marketing.
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