@jayvanbavel @MrEwanMorrison @ScienceMagazine A World War, centered on consciousness itself. "The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare ... reach[ing] unprecedented scale and precision, manipulating beliefs and behaviors on a population-wide level." - AAAS 01/22/26 science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1697
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23/ Indeed, the breadth of AI’s epistemic capture now runs far beyond nuclear or even military categories, braiding civilian and commercial streams into a mediated picture "shaping what's real" that destabilizes the center long before anything even nears a nuclear launch circuit. And, sadly, child's play relative to, say, the massive acceleration of vast, machine-driven resources of dominative structures of power and consciousness deliberately shaping universal attention span in their psychotic image. A World War, suddenly centered upon perception itself. Bingo. *Choice* excerpt, Nils. Peculiar, isn't it, the evolutionary ontology of a noospheric, algorithmically-supercharged claim upon the private soul, and the planetary harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure it radically enhances, remaining, as a rule, unobserved. "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." That's Marshall McCluhan headlining a 2017 Atlantic Council report on the radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation. Nick Routledge 3/ Martin Gurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA...And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama...We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?” Yup. Take exponentially augmented upgrades in persuasive generative AI and the tools to massively amplify it, add bad faith state and tech actors with untold resources on tap, and manipulative media abruptly crosses an authoritarian threshold at the planetary level. Then again… @nick_routledge "...the backstage fusion between human and machine authority....modes of governance normalised by digital platforms...algorithmic level of governance as an increasingly key field of political struggle...digital post-democracy...‘swarm governance’..." 1/ Why stop at polls? With the fusion of military and corporate functions in a single, conjoined mediasphere, vast resources - increasingly, at a machine level - aimed at dominating perception of reality itself, now define planetary war at the level of total consciousness.
Open original document@NoemaMag @AndrewSorota end\ AI is the banner; the deeper phenomenon is the total stack—profit and control as first principle, prior to any telos of truth. The Machine cannot self-correct: correction would be self-negation. But it can be made answerable to a Truth it cannot convert into instrumentality.
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and 2/ ...a present bent by its teleological horizon, the moment when the hidden God shows itself, the katechon-to-eschaton crossover, the eschatonic flashpoint, Grace as the Real becoming obvious, the Hour of Unveiling, the Cloud Event as eschatological proviso and disclosure… @nick_routledge· 1/4 A meta-aside. Kingsnorth’s critique of the Machine isn’t outside the Machine. It’s published within it—arriving _as_ it: data, attention, algorithmic signal. That’s the point. No exterior remains. The Machine isn’t the subject here; it’s the condition of reading. 2/ Revelation, then, isn’t something we observe or resist. There is no outside conferring a god's-eye view or immunity. It’s what we’re inside as awareness catches up to enclosure—disclosure catching us in its net. A verdict that doesn't include us isn't judgment; it’s reportage. Subtweet: 3/ That’s the apocalyptic fact. The Machine becomes the site of judgment-mercy—verdict _as_ unveiling. Reader and text, biosphere and logosphere, chronos and kairos, human and divine are driven into answerability at once, in real time. The Event authenticates itself by happening. []
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