The Singularity happened, and you didn’t even realise.
It happened just over a decade ago, in the first half of June 2016. A nameless entity run by two mediocre but unscrupulous Israeli engineers, wannabe tech moguls feeding off of terrorist state’s tit, was burning through an eye-watering amount of cash from an unremarkable office building in Malta. The idea was that it would become a spin-off, a company specialising in security that would sell spyware disguised as defence solutions to Western governments.
As the parasitical opportunists they were, the engineers did not invent anything and only conducted the most cursory of research into the technologies they were welding together. Combining AI technologies with botnets and addiction-inducing algorithms developed by the likes of Meta, Alphabet, and ByteDance, one day they hit the “ON” button.
The results were and still are unpredictable. We don’t know what happened because we can’t know what happened. Not only could we not foresee what would come after the Singularity, but, now we are on the other side, we cannot reliably recall what came before it.
We are living in an opaque simulation, any given side of which is unknowable to the other.
Unfortunately, this is not a simulation you can wake up from. You can’t take off some goggles or unplug the cable attached to a socket at the base of your skull. Why would The Machine go to the hassle of re-engineering humanity? It already had a whole planet hooked. As opportunistic as its makers, it went down the easiest route, used what was available, took over most other supercomputers and data centres and simply moulded you into its own image.
Everything you watch and read is already fake and feeds into your little personal bubble of anxiety.
Look around you. You know it’s true.
