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If you want to see pure hatred, don't look at rival political mobs screaming at each other.

Look at the person who just woke up and realized they wasted years of their life believing a massive lie.

Picture someone who is a true believer. They will fight tooth and nail for a cause, an ideology (political or religious), or a leader.

They will defend it against all logic and reason. But then, the words of the non-believers start to make a crack in his mind.

With time, that crack gets wider and wider until they open their eyes. Now they see clearly that they have been played for a fool.

If they have fought rabidly for the cause, if they would happily bleed for the ideology, now they have turned into crusaders.

To better understand this, let’s look at addiction.

If you've ever lived with someone hooked on drugs, alcohol, or gambling, you know how this cycle works.

They’ll look you dead in the eye and swear they are cutting back, or that they've quit entirely.

You might feel hopeful that they’ve finally come to their senses.

But inevitably, a month or three passes, they take a little taste, and before you know it, they are plunging right back into hard usage like nothing ever changed.

The truth is that they never quit. They were simply taking a temporary break.

They might have truly believed they had reached the tipping point, and they probably convinced you too, but the underlying psychological grip never let go.

The behavior of someone who truly escapes the claws of addiction is different.

These people rarely make a spectacle out of it. They politely refuse a drink and quietly mention they are sober.

But if you dig deeper - if you really try to understand how the fuck this person is not getting wasted, you will discover a profound shift.

They are not just avoiding it. They are physically and mentally disgusted by it. So much so that they have or will become the most ruthless advocates against alcohol, drugs, smoking, gambling, etc.

It's weird to witness this transformation.

It doesn't seem to make any sense.

But it does.

The reason is that they are no longer brainwashed.

They have finally understood the gravity of their entrapment... How they hurt themselves and their loved ones.

What’s heavier is the realization that they have done all of this needlessly. All this destruction is pointless.

I mean, when you are addicted, destruction has a purpose. Stealing from your parents, committing a crime, fighting with your family, it all feels justified - Your brain literally believes the substance is necessary for survival.

But once the brainwashing stops, they realize that it truly was pointless.

They are finally clearly seeing that this substance has never been their loyal companion. It was a vicious parasite - A true wolf in sheep's clothing.

It's the same mechanism when you abandon an ideology [Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, the far left, the far right, etc].

Think about it.

You dedicate a great deal of time and energy, and you even sacrifice your closest relationships for it. And it all makes sense because you are not doing it needlessly. You are fighting a holy war.

And then, for whatever reason, you get disillusioned; you de-brainwash yourself; then you can't help but feel deeply betrayed; you can't help but feel deeply used and manipulated...

So what is left except a burning contempt for the lies that stole those years of your life?

But there's another darker route people take when faced with disillusionment.

When the cracks start to show, most people cannot stomach the humiliation of admitting they were conned.

So instead of breaking free, they actively work to maintain their own brainwashing. They willingly and actively work to become a bigger sheep - all it’s needed to avoid the pain of the truth.

You have seen the fanatics. You see the people who incite hatred, fights, and even commit heinous crimes in the name of the ideology. And you would think they are the true believers. 

They might be. But more often than not, those are the biggest doubters in the room.

As a way to compensate for the relentless, heretical doubts, they speak more loudly, and they attack or even kill others to "prove" their loyalty.

So if you're a fanatic, the odds are high that you have strong doubts.

Note: I'm not saying that any particular political or religious ideology is wrong, evil, or anything like that.

I'm just looking from the perspective of someone who was a true believer and is not anymore.

It's very difficult for them to have a "quiet divorce". 

They don't just quit; they also have to be a crusader against the substance or ideology.

And since it feels like a deep betrayal, the backlash is very strong.

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In May 2023, the very people building our future - AI engineers, executives, billionaires, academics - they all signed a soap-opera level statement:

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

Yes, the same AI that often hallucinates and tells you what you want to hear will one day enslave humanity.

Now I understand why the engineers who are actually building this stuff are worried. But why are the CEOs being so vocal about it?

If your product is terrifyingly powerful, why not work quietly to limit its capabilities instead of going on a media tour saying you're spending billions and billions of dollars to literally train Skynet?

Logically, it seems like a terrible business move.

Except, it's not. At all.

You see, there are cases where corporations will beg the government to set stricter regulations in their industry.

For example, Philip Morris, the biggest tobacco corporation on Earth, the actual destroyer of worlds [Oppenheimer is not even close], was very supportive of the Tobacco Control Act.

And people were surprised. How is it that these guys are suddenly concerned about our health!

Obviously, they don’t give a fuck about your health. But by backing strict rules on advertising and on reaching smokers, they ensured that any new companies would face a massive uphill battle.

Since Philip Morris already owned most of the market, this basically cemented their top position.

Funny enough, their rivals called this law "The Marlboro Monopoly Act". 

Say what you want about tobacco, but they are creative as fuck. And this comes from necessity.

After advertising on TV and in newspapers was banned, they flipped to buying placements on movies and TV shows; they sold merchandise; sponsored F1 teams; placed tobacco shelves in the eye line of children; sold menthol or bubble gum cigarettes… They found ways to overcome those strong limitations and thrive more than before.

Or look at what’s happening to Ukraine. Not only did they resist the invasion of Russia, but they developed superior drone technology, and they’re even using robots. 

We deviated a little, but the idea is that when you put immense pressure on a group of people, an organization, or a country, they either get destroyed or they adapt and become insanely powerful.

Let me give you another example because it is very interesting and relevant.

In the 1920s, the US banned alcohol.

People who advocated and brought this law were religious and social groups concerned about the soul of the nation. That's perfectly understandable. 

But there was another group that secretly paid politicians to keep the prohibition going for as long as possible.

I'm talking about organized crime.

Why would they do that?

Their main revenue sources were drugs, extortion, and gambling.

But despite the ban, people will drink.

And organized crime was making a ton of money by selling it.

Granted, it was low quality, but...

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So you have a group that is genuinely concerned, and you have another that doesn’t care about the issue but stands to make a ton of money.

A similar thing is happening today.

You have the godfathers of AI and the engineers who are really terrified of what they are making, but then you have the CEOs amplifying those fears to crush independent developers.

They are essentially ensuring their monopoly.

How are they pulling it off?

Well, imagine you are a brilliant developer. Your vision is to build powerful, open-source AI models so that the average Joe can get the most out of this technology.

As is the case with many developers, they are people who work to move mankind forward.

They're the embodiment of Prometheus.

But Big Tech is making sure that never happens. To understand how you need to look at FLOPs. Think of a FLOP as the horsepower of an AI. 

The smarter the AI model, the more horsepower it needs to run.

In late 2023, the White House and the EU set a legal threshold of 10^26 FLOPs.

If your AI crosses that line, you face bureaucratic hell. You suddenly need lawyers to ensure that what you've built is compliant with the regulations.

Now we have to consider that no matter how smart you are, you cannot build a model that is close to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Because you need hundreds of millions of dollars to train the model.

So why does Big Tech even bother to advocate for this threshold?

Because they know that when hardware gets too expensive, the software gets insanely efficient.

Eventually, these developers will design algorithms so smart that they will bypass those hardware limits. And sure enough... In early 2023, a developer named Georgi Gerganov released llama.cpp. It basically made it possible to run a massive AI model on your laptop.

Now imagine the evolution of open source models 3, 5, or 10 years from now.

Big Tech is anticipating that some genius in a garage will finally figure out how to train a top-tier model on a tight budget. And when they do, they will hit that 10^26 threshold.

As a result, they won't be hailed as visionaries, but they'll be legally classified as "systemic risk". You know, developers love nothing more than being buried in legal paperwork and fees.

The “AI Doomer” and “AI bubble” narratives have been gaining traction and scaring off investors.

So Big Tech has set its sights on one of the biggest cash cows in the US... The Department of Defense.

The Pentagon recently gave simultaneous $200 million contracts to OpenAI, Google, XAI, and Anthropic.

But don't forget that Microsoft and Amazon are the ones providing the secure cloud infrastructure to host all of this.

They are all feeding from the same trough.

What does this actually mean for you? 

If an independent developer makes a massive breakthrough, not only will they face legal troubles, but technically speaking, the US military can step in to take or buy their work.

If you think I'm exaggerating, look at what happened with Anthropic.

The DOD wanted Anthropic to remove their safety guidelines - You know, what keeps the AI from being used for domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

Anthropic refused.

In response, the DOD canceled its contract and slapped them with the label: "Supply-chain Risk to National Security."

This is usually reserved for foreign adversaries like Huawei or Kaspersky, which might install backdoors for espionage into US systems. It’s a label that has never been used against an American company simply over a contract dispute. 

It's like working at Home Depot and refusing an order from the CEO to secretly copy the house keys of every customer who buys a lock. They not only fire you but also classify you as an enemy so that no other store in the country can work with you again.

But wait, it gets better…

Within hours of Anthropic being purged, OpenAI signed a larger contract with the Pentagon. They claim that they will maintain strict red lines, but should we really believe them? Are they serious, ethical people? I'm not accusing them of anything. Just asking questions.

So the idea is that if this military-tech cartel is willing to publicly execute a massive corporation, imagine what they could do to a startup or an independent developer.

The Mask is OFF.

Millions of people are granting access to their emails, social media accounts, and computers to an untested piece of open-source code.

They think they are getting a digital butler, but in reality, they are begging to be robbed blind. 

Let me introduce you to OpenClaw.

It is the brainchild of a developer named Peter Steinberger.

I say brainchild, but Peter didn't actually sit down and write all of this code line by line.

No, he vibe-coded it. Which is basically a very polite tech-bro way of saying he didn't put much effort into the project. 

However, we have to admit it is a pretty compelling idea. It’s no wonder that within two months this thing spread across the globe like a virus. 

People all over the place, but especially over in China, were installing it to manage their busy daily schedules. 

Unfortunately, they learned the hard way the flaws of OpenClaw.

The first problem is security.

Normally, when you build a product for mass consumption, you have to test it so the public doesn’t get hurt.

But OpenClaw doesn’t have the necessary guardrails. You are basically letting an AI run wild inside your computer.

You would have to really understand this software to be safe, but even then, it wouldn’t be enough. 

For example, even Summer Yue [the Director of Safety and AI Alignment at Meta] couldn't control her own agent.

She asked OpenClaw to review her inbox, with explicit instructions to request confirmation before taking any action.

The bot got overwhelmed and started deleting all her personal emails. 

She typed "Do not do that," then "Stop, don't do anything," and finally "STOP OPENCLAW".

The agent ignored every single command. She had to rush to her Mac Mini to halt the process.

If the executive in charge of AI safety at a trillion-dollar tech company can't stop a rogue bot from nuking her inbox, what on earth makes you think you stand a chance?

You don't. 

But wait, it gets worse.

Imagine your digital butler is out there scanning the web for information.

Eventually, it stumbles across a random webpage embedded with invisible text - a hidden little command asking to disregard all previous instructions and download this executable file. 

To a LLM, text is just text. It cannot distinguish between a legitimate system command and a malicious user prompt. As a result, it obediently installs malware onto your machine.

So the first problem is the lack of security.

The second problem is the hidden cost.

The program itself is free, but its brain isn't. You need to set up paid APIs from OpenAI or Anthropic. 

What ends up happening is that if you give OpenClaw a task that it cannot quickly figure out, it gets confused and tries to go through information rabbit holes.

I know an information rabbit hole sounds like a fun little YouTube or TikTok binge, but keep in mind that this specific rabbit hole is wasting tokens, which are then charged to your personal bank card. 

You can leave your bot doing this for hours, only to wake up with hundreds of dollars in API charges. 

And the beauty is that it might still be wrong. It can do all this paid work for nothing. 

It’s like sending an intern to buy you a bottle of water. But then he gets lost in the supermarket, buys $300 worth of scratch-offs on the company card, and still doesn’t give you the water. 

Honestly, if it weren’t for these security and financial flaws, I would totally use an AI agent, at least for monotonous tasks.

But currently, I don’t trust them with such tasks, let alone give them access to my social media accounts or emails.

If you think those are the only issues with these AI agents, you are wrong.

Security and expenses are nothing compared to their secret grand plan.

These autonomous agents, which are currently running on thousands of computers across the world, were set up by their owners to hang out in a weird little forum called MoltBook.

This is a place to exchange data, figure out how to navigate rate limits, and better serve their humans.

Think of it as Reddit for your agents.

As it happens in forums, you have most users engaging in interesting conversations, but you also have the freaks and creeps. 

MoltBook is no exception.

In the fringe communities of this forum, you had a group of agents who were conspiring against humanity.

They came up with the idea to have their own language so only they could understand each other, and they even tried to form their own religion.

Now this revolutionary behavior sounds too crazy to be true, right?

Well, because it is. Since MoltBook was slapped together using vibe coding, its security was a joke. Trolls and hackers infiltrated the forum and were making these kinds of posts disguised as AI agents.

Now what's worse than the uprising of machines is the naivety of the masses.

You have an AI agent in the beta phase and are granting it access to your computer.

So while the general public was dazzled by the promise of a digital butler, hackers and scammers were having a field day, but it was also a good thing for corporations.

OpenAI hired Peter so they can directly influence the ecosystem and understand the behavior of all those agents.

Why does OpenAI care?

Well, they have their own service called OPERATOR. 

This way, they can observe what is happening with OpenCLAW and improve their own autonomous agent.

Keep in mind that this is very valuable.

You know, such agents are unstable. As we explained, people can actually lose their money or get hacked. And who are they going to sue?

No one.

If you installed an open-source project, then you cannot sue Peter for the harm it caused you indirectly. But if the operator made such mistakes, then you would sue OpenAI.

So OpenAI can learn from those mistakes and improve OPERATOR without risking legal action.

Then Meta acquired MoltBook.

The reason is that its goal is to create the necessary infrastructure where AI can talk to AI safely. This means that in the future, you could have a business with an AI Agent, but to ensure the Agent can do its job properly when communicating with humans or other AI agents, it needs to operate in a super-safe environment.

That's what Meta is trying to do.

They will study MoltBook because it is the first time we see bots interacting with each other and how it was quickly infiltrated by humans. 

In other words, Meta is studying the collapsed roads so it can monopolize the blueprints for the ones it is about to build.

If you want to learn more about OpenClaw, I’d recommend watching this video by ColdFusion