# The World After Wireheading

Jul 18, 2025

> Hold my hand, grow my skin
> Slow my pulse rate
> Ignore the sound, the fire alarms
> May we never hit that force field
> Emperor X – Erica Western Geiger Counter

Do you have any addictions? You may not register them as such, perhaps because they don’t lead to anything you consider harmful consequences. But you have them. In some ways, all your behavior is compulsive. What would the alternative be?

> A point is, if we have something that we can predict
> It becomes, not creative at all, it has no free will, and it’s science
> Keith Raniere – this video

Free will comes from the “veil of computability”, things look random until you find the pattern. I was at a bar last night and this girl told me you can’t predict humans, and the exact example she used was that it’s not like `y = mx + b`

Oh, if only she knew. The dreams of my childhood have come true, studying machine learning has shown me how I work. I tried to explain that instead of 2 parameters it’s 100 trillion parameters, and it’s the slightly different `y = relu(w@x) + b` a bunch of times, you have to put some nonlinearities in there cause linear systems can only approximate a small class of functions.

But this explanation was not heard at a bar. She was so confident she was right, and like I didn’t even know where to start. Reader of this blog, do you know?

AI is coming and we are so unbelievably unprepared.

What is this garbage and this garbage. It’s nerd shit and political propaganda. The amount of power over nature that the Silicon Valley death cult is stumbling into is horrifying, and these high priests don’t have a basic grasp of people. No humanities education (perhaps the programs were gutted on purpose).

Are we ready for the hypnodrones? How the fuck is targeted advertising legal and culturally okay? This will not stop until they take our free will from us.

> There’s a fire that burns today
> It’s raging under K and A
> I look back at descending wraiths
> And remnants of the failed state
> Caracara – Better

Nukes don’t end humanity. Current path AI doesn’t end humanity. It just ends all the machines and hands the world over to the street people. Now I see how the dark ages happened.

If all the humans died today, all the machines would shortly follow. If all the machines died today, humanity would keep on going. Pay attention to this milestone.

To date, machines are not robust, and evolution may be efficient at robust search. If it is, we get dark ages. If it’s not and we find a shortcut, God only knows.