Hurricanes spinning, tankers getting shot at, Washington arranging Russian diesel while sanctioning Russia, and Wall Street celebrating. Welcome to Saturday, where the headlines are the atoms, but the real trouble begins when they form molecules. Today’s Peoplenomics News Compressor connects the dots between energy, warfare, consumer confidence, and financial markets. The wiring diagram isn’t pretty.
Then we’re into the Saturday ChartPack and our latest Over-the-Horizon (OTH) forecasting diagnostic. With consumer sentiment sinking while stocks climb, we’re looking at the possibility of a final market push higher before external events take control. The question isn’t simply whether a top is forming. It’s whether the growing number of geopolitical and economic stress points will finally bond into something markets can no longer ignore.
But the real intellectual adventure comes afterward. Following Wednesday’s exploration of the Missing Frame of reality, we’re going somewhere unusual: Investors & AI, Broomsticks & Witchery. What do witches staring into black mirrors, shamans contemplating fires, and humans entering prolonged AI collaboration have in common? Perhaps more than you think. We’re exploring voluntary domain independence—the possibility of deliberately stepping outside our normal mental frameworks to discover connections ordinary thinking misses.
Could the next frontier in human evolution be less about making AI think like us and more about learning to think beyond the boundaries we’ve spent our lives building? That’s where today’s subscriber report ends up. Four courses today: News Compressor, ChartPack, OTH, and a trip through the Witch’s Mirror. Bring your curiosity. We’ll provide the broomsticks.
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yaba yaba yaba lu lu lu lu ma ma ma ma . just responding in AI tongue to the market pushing higher. but in the great cage rattler lingo from early gold bull days . market higher rattler ? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seeker of Truth
I do not know if anyone has previously commented upon Nate Hagens blog at
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/161-humanitys-icarus-moment
He discusses 20 reasons to be concerned about the growth and evolution of Artificial Intelligence. I think he makes a good presentation of the subject. It is about an hour in length.
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“You are not paranoid if THEY are REALLY out to get you.”
“Let no GOOD DEED (recorded in on-line history) go UNPUNISHED (retroactively)”.
Thanks for sending this along. Nate Hagens is doing some serious systems-level thinking here, and I respect the work. But we’re approaching the AI problem from two different directions. Nate is looking at civilization’s *metabolism* — energy, resources, overshoot, and what happens when we dump trillions of cognitive workers into an economic machine already addicted to growth. Fair questions. My work starts a little closer to home: **Who is driving the machine, and does the driver have the slightest idea where he’s going?**
In *Mind Amplifiers*, and more recently in my work on cognitive state management, I’ve been arguing that the real shortage isn’t intelligence. It’s **executive control over intelligence**. Before asking AI to solve a problem, we ought to ask whether we’re in the right mental state to define the problem correctly in the first place. What state am I in? Is it appropriate to the task? What state would work better? And how do I get there safely? AI can multiply thinking power enormously, but multiplying poorly directed thinking doesn’t magically produce wisdom. It produces industrial-scale mistakes, delivered faster.
Then there’s my *1,000 MPH Car Problem*: just because technology can build a car capable of a thousand miles an hour doesn’t mean civilization needs one. Or can afford the road. Or the wreckage. That connects directly to my developing book, *The Case Against Advertising and Fashion (F.A.M.E.)*, where the Four Horsemen of Consumerism — Fashion, Advertising, Media, and Entertainment — have turned much of modern life into revenue farming. AI dropped into that business model doesn’t automatically liberate humanity. It may simply become the most efficient sales department ever invented. And efficiency isn’t resilience. Sometimes the friction and slack we work so hard to eliminate are exactly what keep systems alive.
So I think Nate and I are looking at opposite ends of the same telescope. He’s asking whether the economic Superorganism can survive another enormous acceleration. I’m asking whether individuals can reclaim enough agency to **decide what deserves accelerating at all**. That’s also why we’re developing our Over-the-Horizon forecasting work: not merely to predict the next collision, but to recognize when today’s little headline atoms begin bonding into tomorrow’s dangerous compounds. The challenge isn’t to make AI smaller or humanity faster. It’s to make human judgment good enough to deserve the horsepower we’re putting under the hood.
daydreaming,, I have oft caught myself looking out a window or even standing looking out the storm door, and my mind is else where, the other day I daydreaming how I was going to make improvements on my new wood chipper, I was ‘seeing’ how I was going to make fabrications, then something grabs my attention back to my physical, as my mind was on a task, but not really present where the body was. maybe I should check out lessons on remote viewing
got into trouble a lot as a student in a catholic 1-8 grade school, looking out the window with my attention on walk about, till the nun brought my attention back,,, looking out windows seems to be a common trigger, allowing the mind to wonder away from the flesh vehicle
my wood chipper works much better now, feeds better with less jams
re: “The Truman Show”, 1998
feat: finding your Trumania
For those in the group whose morning workout consists of Guitar Hero windmills in front of the mirror, thanks can be extended to DJ George. “Rock You Like a Hurricane” by the Scorpions apparently offers some good reps.
Meanwhile Hurricane turned tropical storm Isaias (sp/heb: God Saves) rocked ashore near Destin on Florida’s Emerald Coast. Rather than destiny, the town’s namesake turns out to be a whaling captain from New London, Ct. named after London, England according to Wiki. However it seems the Pequot tribe knew New London as Nameaug translating as Fishing Place.
Back in Florida, Destin’s New Urbanism next door neighbor of Seaside contributed filming locations seen in Hollywood movie hit “The Truman Show”. It’s understandable that you may feel an urge to look behind the mirror.