Singularity: The elites' dystopian view of human beings



The singularity has been at the tip of many tech-savvy and global-elitist tongues as of late — and its implications are more than a little frightening.

According to Justin Haskins, president of Our Republic and senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, the definition of the singularity is a "hypothetical moment off into the future when technology advances to a point where it just is completely transformative for humanity.”

“Typically, the way it's talked about is artificial intelligence — or just machines in general — become more intelligent than human beings,” Haskins tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.” He goes on to say that some people describe the singularity as the time when AI "has the ability to sort of continue to redesign itself."


While Haskins notes that some of the consequences of the singularity are positive — like the potential to cure cancer — it also creates all kinds of ethical problems.

“What happens when a lot of employees are no longer needed because HR and loan officers and all these other big gigantic parts of businesses can just be outsourced to an artificial intelligence system?” he asks.

In response, Haskins says, “There’ll be massive disruptions in the job market.”

Stuckey herself is wary of the small issues we have now that might grow into bigger problems.

“People have posted their interactions with different kinds of AI, whether it's ChatGPT or Grok,” she explains.

She continues, “I've seen people post their conversations of saying like, ‘Would you rather’ — asking the AI bot — ‘Would you rather misgender someone, like misgender Bruce Jenner, or kill a thousand people,’ and it will literally try to give some nuanced take about how misgendering is never okay.”

“And I know that we’re talking beyond just these chat bots. We’re talking about something much bigger than that, but if that’s what's happening on a small scale, we can see a peek into the morality of artificial intelligence,” she adds.

“If all of this is being created and programmed by people with particular values, that are either progressive or just pragmatists, like if they’re just like, 'Yeah, whatever we can do and whatever makes life easier, whatever makes me richer, we should just do that’ — there will be consequences of it,” she says.

Stuckey also notes that she had recently heard someone of importance discussing the loss of jobs and what people will do as a result, and the answer to that was concerning.

“It was some executive that said, ‘I’m not scared about AI killing 150 million jobs. That’s actually why we are creating these very immersive video games — so that when people lose their jobs, they can just play these video games and they can be satisfied and fulfilled that way,” Stuckey explains.

“That is a very dystopian look at the future,” she continues, adding, “And yet, that tells us the mind of a lot of the people at WEF, a lot of the people at Davos, a lot of the people in Silicon Valley. That’s really how they see human beings.”

“Whether you’re talking about the Great Reset, whether you’re talking about singularity, they don’t see us as people with innate worth; they see us as cogs in a wheel,” she adds.

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Google founder's ex-wife speaks out about evils of ‘tech mafia’



The Big Tech elites have been laying “groundwork” to enable the policies of the Great Reset, and no one knows it better than Silicon Valley attorney, entrepreneur, RFK Jr. running mate, and ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin — Nicole Shanahan.

“Their money especially was being conscripted to set the groundwork for the Great Reset, specifically through a network of NGO advisors, relationship with Hollywood, relationship with Davos, and their own companies,” Shanahan told Allie Beth Stuckey in a recent interview on “Relatable.”

“If you look at who’s on these boards, who hangs out with each other, how the culture of tech wealth works,” Shanahan continued, “it’s a really small group of people, and it’s a really small group of people making these decisions.”


Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” is well aware of plans for the Great Reset, but he’s shocked that Shanahan is warning about them.

“It is amazing to go from five years ago, everybody saying, ‘That’s crazy, that’s not happening,’ to the former wife of the head of Google coming out and saying, ‘Yeah, this was all orchestrated, we didn’t even know what we were into as wives of the Silicon Valley mafia wives,’ as she calls them,” Glenn tells Stuckey.

“She said that she really saw the reality of evil, the reality of hell, when she was deep into politics, and that kind of started to shift her perspective on, ‘Wait, who are the bad guys here? What’s going on? All of this evil is being done under the guise of really good intentions, especially in Silicon Valley,’” Stuckey explains.

And when Shanahan’s daughter was diagnosed with autism, she started attempting to figure out what could have caused it.

“As she was digging into the research, she found some things that kind of have been dubbed as right-wing conspiracy theories about different environmental factors, even pharmaceutical factors that could possibly cause some symptoms of autism,” Stuckey says.

“But she had a hard time researching because the search engine that almost everyone uses censors that kind of information. And, well, she was married to the co-founder of Google, who was playing a part in censoring that information, not only inhibiting her research for her daughter, but research for the effects of the COVID-19 vaccine,” she continues.

“And she shared that that caused, understandably, a lot of conflict in her life and still does,” she adds.

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Zorp Corp: Decentralizing critical infrastructure



Is humanity doomed to be subjugated to technology and bureaucratic power? As cryptocurrency slips closer to the hands of governments and tech giants, it may seem that the future of tech is already written in stone. However, some people are proposing a freer, more independent future in the digital landscape, refusing to bend the knee to the authoritarian trends in our society.

On “Zero Hour,” Logan Allen, entrepreneur, software developer, and founder and CEO of Zorp Corp, sat down with James Poulos to discuss cryptocurrency, the importance of critical infrastructure, and the future of technology.

Allen talked about the competing “cults” currently vying for power in the age of cryptocurrency. According to him, Silicon Valley represents the worship of technology, while the D.C. “Paper Belt” represents the worship of bureaucracy. Allen, however, said he is placing his bets on a third option, the worship of God: “All you need is a cult that truly believes in God, in competence, and in generational transfer of knowledge. If you have that, you win on a long enough timeline.”

Unfortunately, these other cults recognize the power of cryptocurrency and are seeking to take control of it. Currently, the industry is not as free as it may sound: “Most of the cryptocurrency industry is centered around building a series of virtual scam games, where the game is to play a lottery where you’re guaranteed to lose money if you’re not an insider.”

Zorp Corp, which finds itself at the intersection of critical infrastructure and decentralized currency, recognized a serious problem that needed a solution: “The problem is that we are not training new people to understand the infrastructure that keeps our water clean, that keeps our power plants running, that keeps our trains from derailing, that keeps our supply chains working. We’re not training new people to do these things because the people that are smart are instead being trained to send emails to each other. This is a civilizational killer.”

Logan Allen’s company seeks to provide a solution to the generational skills problem as well as an alternative future of technology to the ones Silicon Valley and the Paper Belt are proposing: “We’re trying to make tools that allow software developers to build things with 100 times less effort and man-hours. We want to make it so that people can build tools that are more secure, more stable, require fewer updates, and require small organizations to maintain and keep running.”

To hear more about Zorp Corp, zero-knowledge proofs, the future of cryptocurrency, and the battle for supremacy between technology and bureaucracy, watch the full episode of “Zero Hour” with James Poulos.

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'Privatized sanctions regime': Andreessen's take on America's corruption



Has America been morphing into an economically fascist country? Marc Andreessen suggested as much in a recent interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Andreessen, billionaire, software engineer, and co-creator of the first widely used Internet browser, Mosaic, offered a unique inside look into navigating the inner workings of Silicon Valley.

Andreessen and Rogan discussed a wide variety of topics, ranging from the Democratic response to Trump’s re-election to Chinese drones, but the conversation always centered around one theme: The public and private spheres are in bed with each other. This “cooperation,” Marc Andreessen argues, is the source of many of our corruption problems, which are far from over despite some hope for “positive change” with Trump returning to office in January.

The combination of these levers of power amounts to a 'privatized sanctions regime that lets bureaucrats do to American citizens the same thing we do to Iran.'

Rogan and Andreessen talked about the state of the Democratic Party. Andreessen, a lifelong Democrat turned Trump voter, said that a “civil war” has begun within the ranks of the Democrats: “This time, it’s undeniable that the path they are on is not working. ... The smart Democrats know this is not a viable path. ... [They] have to reorient back to common sense, back to the sensible, the moderate.” He also acknowledged the possibility that they may simply “go off the cliff” if they don’t manage to turn things around as he hopes they will.

In a viral moment, Rogan said, “They’re scrambling to create their own version of this show. This keeps coming up, like, we need our own Joe Rogan — but they had me!” Harris failed to appear on "The Joe Rogan Experience" despite Rogan’s willingness to speak to her. Rogan endorsed Donald Trump very late in the election cycle during Trump’s appearance on the podcast days before the election, but he had been supportive of the Democrats prior to that. In a sense, the extremity of the Democrats in recent months and years finally pushed him away — into Trump’s camp.

Speaking of extremity, Andreessen added this insight into the nature of the woke, which he compares to traditional religions: “The big difference between woke and traditional religions is that woke has no concept of redemption, no concept of forgiveness. You do not want that to be the cornerstone of your religion,” he laughed. He went on to say that woke is “inherently totalitarian because it can permanently destroy people.”

America is at a crossroads, which will require a major fiat from our leaders if we want to see any positive change in the structure of our government and society. Andreessen brought up an idea from the Roman orator Cicero, who famously complained that the best and richest men in society were secluding themselves from the public, withdrawing into their private villas in the countryside, and “working on their fish ponds.” He drew a parallel between these Roman leaders and the status quo in America with our leaders: “When times get tough, do the people who are in a position to actually make positive change step up or not?” He and Rogan, however, expressed hope that the “coalition” around Trump, including billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, are prepared to “go all in” to fix our system.

Fascism in America?

What, exactly, is wrong with our system? Andreessen shined a light on the government corruption that has effectively saddled corporations to “legally” do government's bidding. He explained that this is the basic mechanism, or “sleight of hand,” as he calls it, that makes censorship and de-banking possible: “The First Amendment only applies to the government. ... The government cannot censor American citizens. So if you’re in the government and want to censor American citizens, you fund an outside organization and then you have them [censor Americans]. And that’s what’s been happening.”

The censorship campaigns of the last several years, which have only gotten worse, were conducted by private companies, yet Andreessen suggested that the government was involved in instigating them: “The companies bear a lot of responsibility, and the people in the companies made a lot of bad judgment calls, but the Biden White House was directly exerting censorship pressure on American companies to censor American citizens, which I think is just flatly illegal.” He went on to explain that the companies would likely say that this all happened under “coercion” from the government, which ties into the notion of “soft totalitarianism” that he discussed elsewhere in the interview.

Just as the government censors Americans by proxy, it is also involved in the de-banking of Americans with whom it disagrees. The wording for this regulation is astonishingly blatant: “Under current banking regulations, there’s now a category called a ‘Politically Exposed Person.’ If you’re a PEP, you are required by financial regulators to kick them out of your bank. ... I have not heard of a single instance of a person on the left getting de-banked.”

The logic for de-banking is the same for censorship: “There’s a constitutional amendment that says the government can’t restrict your speech, but there’s no constitutional amendment that says the government can’t de-bank you. They don’t have to de-bank you. They just have to put pressure on the private company banks to do it. Then the government can say they didn’t do it.” This plays well into the distinction that Andreessen drew between hard totalitarianism and soft totalitarianism. Hard totalitarianism would entail a flat violation of the First Amendment by the government itself, while soft totalitarianism involves this “sleight of hand” with private companies that Andreessen described.

Provocatively, Andreessen stated that the combination of these levers of power amounts to a “privatized sanctions regime that lets bureaucrats do to American citizens the same thing we do to Iran.”

Why would a private company allow this type of external control on its operations? “You can either invent the future before it happens to you, but that’s hard to do. You can also go to the government and propose a trade.” The trade involves “voluntarily plac[ing] yourself under the government’s thumb” while the government creates a vast array of regulations that makes it virtually impossible for a startup to function. Andreessen explained that the regulations require a company to hire thousands of lawyers and compliance specialists, which big companies can afford but small competitors and startups cannot. This makes it impossible for new companies to compete with the established large corporations. Thus, he complained that this “intertwining of government and private companies” in multiple sectors of the economy effectively creates a “privatized social credit score” in America.

This trade has two simultaneous consequences: First, the government quickly gains some amount of control over the private sector; second, the number of startups shrinks, and the large companies will ultimately merge together. Big government, big business.

Therefore, Andreessen continued, large private companies have been subjected to or assented to “regulatory capture.” He gave a few examples of this phenomenon, including the adverse effects on the food industry and the drone industry. In the case of the food industry, “One of the reasons why everybody became unhealthy is because the government directly put itself into the food system.” The government has been subsidizing unhealthy food products for decades, with no sign of changing its practices: “We’re living with these horrible downstream consequences, and unless somebody steps in with a hammer, none of this is going to change.”

Drone troubles

Likewise, the government has regulated the U.S. drone industry to the ground: “The FAA killed the U.S. drone industry.” Andreessen explains the details of these regulations in more detail in the interview, but essentially, compliance with current regulations either makes it impossible for drone manufacturers to sell to a broad enough customer base or it makes the drones practically useless. Consequently, the market has largely shifted to China, yet this poses another problem: “Every Chinese drone is both a potential surveillance platform and a potential weapon.”

This brought the conversation more broadly to China and invited a consideration of our relationship to China. Should we become more like China or more like ourselves in order to beat our rival of the 21st century? “You’d rather be a CEO in the U.S. rather than in China, for sure, as long as the U.S. system actually stays open. ... That’s why [the Biden] administration freaked us out so much since it seemed like they were trying to become much more like China.”

After hearing about this tangled, corrupt, potentially fascist mess, who could disagree with Andreessen when he says, “It’s time to carve the government back in size and scope”?

The only way out is through. Andreessen recounted some alarming meetings he had in the spring, presumably of 2024, with government officials. They were about the future plans for the regulatory capture of the budding AI industry, which the government doesn’t want to crush but control: “The AI thing was very alarming. We had meetings in the spring that were the most alarming meetings I’ve ever been in, where they were taking us through their plans ... full government control. ... There will be a small number of large companies that will be regulated and controlled by the government. ... They told us, don't even start startups. ... There’s no way we’re going to permit that to happen.”

Joe Rogan asked, “When you leave a meeting like that, what do you do?” Andreessen immediately replied, laughing, “You go endorse Donald Trump.”

Trump’s Silicon Valley Advisor Pick Pits MAGA Loyalists Against Tech Bros Led By Musk, Ramaswamy

'This is about cost of tech labor and the ability to NOT higher American Engineers'

MAGA movement fractures on key immigration debate



Conflict ensued inside MAGA world on Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump's allies sparred over immigration policy.

Former Republican presidential candidate and incoming head of the DOGE Vivek Ramaswamy sparked the conversation in a lengthy X post on Thursday. Ramaswamy, who himself is a first-generation American, criticized American culture as promoting mediocrity, which is why he says tech companies often prefer foreign-born workers over native Americans.

"Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer)," Ramaswamy said. "That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers."

"More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of 'Friends,'" Ramaswamy continued. "More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less 'chillin.' More extracurriculars, less 'hanging out at the mall.'"

Ramaswamy's commentary set off a chain reaction of conflict in MAGA world and even outside Trump's inner circle.

'These are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay,' Trump said.

Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, of all people, came out against Ramaswamy and said the hiring disparities had nothing to do with culture but rather everything to do with immigration policy.

"There is nothing wrong with American workers or American culture," Haley said. "All you have to do is look at the border and see how many want what we have. We should be investing and prioritizing in Americans, not foreign workers."

The online discourse resurfaced an older conversation surrounding immigration policy and the differences between H-1B visas as opposed to O-1 visas.

H-1B visas allow foreign nationals to work in America for a temporary period of time and for a specialty occupation. Most notably, H-1B visas have become instrumental in Silicon Valley's growth, with nearly three-quarters of the workforce being foreign-born.

On the other hand, an O-1 visa is a more stringent nonimmigrant visa for foreign nationals who possess an "extraordinary ability" or who have demonstrated a "record of extraordinary achievement" in a specialized field.

Although Musk himself held an H-1B visa, he advocated an immigration philosophy that closely resembled standards put forward for O-1 visas.

"I am referring to bringing in via legal immigration the top ~0.1% of engineering talent as being essential for Americans to keep winning," Musk said. "This is like bringing in the Jokic's or Wemby's of the world to help your whole team (which is mostly Americans!) win the NBA. Thinking of America as a pro sports team that has been winning for a long time and wants to keep winning is the right mental construct."

Trump notably came out against visa programs like H-1B in 2016, arguing that the program is an opportunity to displace American workers with "imported" and "cheap labor" workers.

"The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay," Trump said. "I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions."

Although Trump has not specifically addressed H-1B in recent years, strict immigration policy was the cornerstone of his 2024 campaign. While Trump repeatedly advocated shutting down the border and putting America first, we will have to see how the internal fractures within the MAGA movement play out in the incoming administration.

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