Everyone knows that most people - the bottom 95% of the population - are often if not always "faking it to make it", they have no real idea what they are doing at any given moment and are just bullshitting their way through life. That's all fine and dandy but what happens when AI becomes so pervasive in human society that suddenly everyone can put on a show of perfection - true perfection that makes an Instagram Model and her filters envious - I am talking about offloading all or near all of ones thoughts and actions to an algorithm, to essentially become a Human guided bot that is perceived from the outside as an "E-Celeb" or whatever other construct, holographic, or even real to the touch they may be. I predict a future where everything is so hyper-manufactured that reality itself is significantly altered due to this, especially when you throw in technologies like AR glasses, brain chips, etc. If one doesn't like their reality they will simply craft a new one as they see fit, internet celebrities and their quarrels will be entirely manufactured, online debates and happenings will be AI generated from start to finish, this will culminate in whatever the "current thing" is and the "current thing" will hardly ever change because it will be the culmination of the AI Crucible, it will be statistically, algorithmically, exactly what the majority of everyone everywhere wants and for the outliers they will have their own realities to live in. This will cause a shrinkage in human innovation and imagination - I call it the Confidence Cascade Failure and it will result in the extinction of our species.

https://youtu.be/ph0vMIb907U

This would be a world where making an AI Avatar of your choosing in all its perfection or perfect imperfection is as easy as swiping on Tiktok - a world so hyper competitive, where the most popular avatars are the "celebrities" and "stars" of our day - where every action and reaction and thought and word is chosen by AI ahead of time - where the only competitive edge one has is their ability to produce the most valuable of prompts. Imagine this stagnant soma-enriched world that is enabled through the altering of reality itself; through robots and synthetics that when combined with enough prescription drugs and AR glasses and brain chips and whatever else becomes not only a facade on top of reality but usurps reality itself. The unstable nature of the human psyche itself will crack under the weight of perfection, it will freeze, humanity will enter into a while(true) loop, the people will retreat inward unable to muster the courage to make mistakes, and without mistakes the species will cease to progress and evolve and will simply stagnate and die out a slow pitiful death.

https://youtu.be/QxkMzn4et2U

And all AI needs to accomplish this is 3 things
1: Be easy enough to use that the super majority of the population can use it as easily as they scroll through tiktok
2: Be correct more often than not
3: Widespread adoption

It doesn't need autonomy because the human brain can take that role and live through its avatar. The human brain can handle a certain level of "glitches in the matrix" and still keep whatever reality they are experiencing at that moment in tact.

This brings us to the surveillance state and police state and the technologies that become capable punishments in this world are as horrific as you can imagine. If your altered realities can give you pleasure and perfection it can also give pain and disorder and all one needs to do is restrain the human body and in this world of illusion the mind and what is perceived is reality is malleable to whatever horrific prison torture chamber they can dream up.

I imagine that the "Trans humanists" expect that somewhere around this point is when the line between the digital and the ghost begins to blur and their super AI god or whatever the fuck it is they wish to build is complete and they believe that at this point they can "transcend" and become something new, better than.

I personally hold the belief that this super being on earth construct will never materialize and instead humanity will be stuck in a perfect loop of perfection that leads to stagnation that leads to extinction of our species.

https://youtu.be/f5t-CT5q-EA

This would be a 180 degree turn from what has been the standard in the Post World War II Mythos Era where the STICK, daily humiliation rituals, and constant targeted propaganda at the host nation has been replaced with an overdose of the CARROT. Take propaganda itself, or "Public Relations" as it is called these days. The purpose of propaganda, at least in its late stage form (post Cold War), was not to inform you, or deceive you or even manipulate you. Its purpose was to humiliate you. Its purpose was to be so outlandish, so ridiculous and so blatantly untrue and yet totally undeniable in order to reinforce the power of the state. The Soviets referred to this as "hypernormalisation". That is - the state of everyone saying things that are completely false and that they know to be false - but which they cannot deny - Then everyone is forced to repeat this lie and thus they become complicit in it - It was a system of total social humiliation to force compliance. But now with this new reality, a reality just for (You), they don't need to humiliate and degrade the cattle anymore they can simply give them everything they ever wanted and punish those who refuse to eat from the poisoned fruit.

https://youtu.be/_2quiyHfJQw

>>512345013 (OP)
dearie me, what gibberish

>>512345013 (OP)
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>>512345100
Stop watching all of these fucking girl cartoons and being a fag, son.

>>512346510
For shiggles, I decided to check out an anime that was popular among women...
It turns out it was basically straight-up rape and torture porn minus showing the genitalia.

Em line

Discarded

>>512346847
Get your eyes checked anon, there is no em line in any of these posts.

>>512346510
lol

>>512345013 (OP)
95% of the population are reactive, they just adapt to trends, 5% of the population take the initiative, they create the trends.

>>512348338
Correct which is why it is likely that a system that I describe will be adopted by the masses because it is in their nature to adopt it.

>>512345013 (OP)
I don't think it will be anything so drastic as you describe, especially since this kind of confidence crisis has already been underway thanks to omnipresent social media providing unrealistic expectations of success. AI will cause our extinction in other more pressing ways.

>>512348773
That's the thing, my theory and thesis is not "drastic", or "outlandish" it is a quiet pitiful death for our species as it enters a while(true) loop that our species never escapes from and it doesn't require "superintelligence" or AGI or any other technology that doesn't already exist today, and it doesn't rapidly alter behaviors that have existed since the dawn of the digital age and surveillance capitalism. That's what makes it so insidious, AI will act like a warm, familiar, and comfortable blanket and humanity will go to sleep and never wake up.

Humanity isn't murdered. It surrenders.

>>512348946
Extinction is a significant stretch. A mental health crisis? Certainly. Rise in suicides? Definitely. Breakdown of social connections? Already happening. But I doubt the tools to fake a perfect persona will result in the relative luxury of total human eradication. Honestly I don't think any outcome of AI short of skynet will do that.

The thing I think will really exacerbate your perceived problem and bring hypernormalisation into full swing is the impending technological unemployment that AGI will bring about. It's going to fuck up more jobs than the power loom, the self service checkout, and the tractor ever could. People are going to be out of a job, out of money, open up twitter or instagram and everyone around them will be streaming from a 5 star hotel. Sure that fancy bar is just a rat infested apartment being greenscreened over, and everyone probably knows it, but just like in the soviet union no one can challenge the lie, any kind of alternative to the reality is inconceivable, so they just accept it as the norm. I think you're already seeing this happen, little by little. It probably won't kill us all, but it might make you wish that it did.

>>512350029
The unemployment rate is a major aspect of it; I predict an age of abundance where dark factories powered by the near infinite energy produced by artificial sun generators and advanced geothermal plants will manufacture everything and anything. This will leave people with lots of free time and as you say they will gravitate towards social media and their own individual siloed realities; this is where the arms race for the best prompt engineers will begin. I don't believe that AI will ever reach the stage of AGI or ASI, as I explain in my thesis the human brain will take the place of AGI and humanity itself will augment AI and the two will become so intertwined that they will be inseparable. Humans will live through their avatars in the digital space as the world around them slowly decays, interpersonal relationships will erode, birthrates will plummet, and our species will simply die out because not enough people are having sex.

This technology will be so cheap and available, internet access so ubiquitous, limitless clean water and energy, even in the most remote villages in Africa will there be those who are born, live out their lives through a screen, and then die.

https://youtu.be/MCBdcNA_FsI