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Chuck Prince, Citigroup CEO, 2007: 'As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing. When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated.’ ---- I see that happening in front of my eyes with AI. Companies are developing internal chatbots at great expense; employees are getting CoPilot licences. At the same time, I hardly use it. I hardly see a need for it. Outputs are unreliable, and require so much reviewing you're often quicker writing it yourself. The uses of gen AI, in my professional experience, don’t come close to justifying the investment that’s put into it. And the time invested in compulsory training programmes. But… everyone else is doing it. All the big companies, all the big professional services firms. The music is playing. And we have to dance. And when the music stops playing we will look like idiots.

" In the 1950s, there was a great cult of Progress in the West. We've beaten the Nazis. We've got all these scientific advances. We're going forward out into space. Mankind is being drawn together through communications. Modernity is bringing all sorts of gifts. And the old paradigms don't work. We're having extreme unction in the face of laser surgery. We're having blessings of cars while we're sending people to the moon. This is an easy trap to fall into: to think that because things have changed so much in the immediate, that somehow the realities have changed. " - Charles A. Coulombe is an American author and historian. "Symposia | Ep. 4: Fish With Their Heads On" (00:37:39), The European Conservative YouTube: https://youtu.be/Tnx_830VlMI?

" To act violently to draw out an opponent’s efforts while manoeuvring under cover to destabilize their centre of gravity and resolve the action with minimal confrontation. Making it so an opponent feels intellectually and morally defeated before they are materially defeated. This means conceiving action based on a few basic parameters: what our adversary expects us to do, what we want to achieve, how we make them believe they are in the right, and how we resolve the dilemma of the use of force. It is a constant exercise in Go, the popular and ancient Chinese game cited by Confucius more than 2,500 years ago. " Francisco Gan Pampols on Sun Tzu's recurring idea of "occultation" or the simultaneous undergoing of several actions to disguise one's true purpose in war In 'The Art of War', Sun Tzu (with commentary by the Lieutenant General Francisco Gan Pampols) (2025). Translation is ChatGPT’s & mine.

Brains (or brain regions) undergo model collapse just like AI systems. ... Urban people often behave as if they’re retarded. Socially (they’ve never been punched in the face), Geospatially (they have no idea how to navigate by the sun or shadows), Culturally (without some pop-fiction touchstone, culture doesn’t exist), etc. They’re entirely bound to a world of artificial ideas: human-produced data, and unable to accurately model from first principles anything outside their extremely limited sphere of artificial experience. The bugman’s neurological model of reality is divorced from reality. They hallucinate truths that make no sense, and they delude themselves into provably false ideas, and violently attack anyone with a model of reality more accurate than their own. They don’t understand violence, hunger, or (real) social organization because they’ve never encountered those things. https://substack.com/home/post/p-178113467

Our Stand-In Religious Affairs Editor, Garlic Johnson, has released the following Special Report while Asphalt Suarez is away maintaining his innocence: The holiest of festivals celebrating the gods of Consumption, Impulsivity, and Treat-Yo-Self begins tomorrow. Black Friday, that counterbalance to Good Friday, is a time granted to us by the high priests during which we have the privilege and the pleasure of inflation-busting deals. The faithful gather in expectation to celebrate Consumption's vital leadership of our economy. We are ready to follow the example of Impulsivity and Treat-Yo-Self in demonstrating our loyalty. Those of us who are tempted to save will do well to remember that large pots of money will be taxed and be donated at the altar of Fair Share.