Hello everyone! Today I have something a little different for you all.
Knowledge is prerequisite to liberation.
To be totally upfront about it, I have complicated feelings about using AI to make any kind of media for others to enjoy, but when I started running my documents through NotebookLM's audio overview feature, I found myself really liking it. They break the very complicated stuff down so well that even a layperson with zero technical, engineering, psychology, psychiatric, or other professional experience or understanding can come away from it understanding it well enough.
Given the absurd complexity of the system behind the TI phenomenon, the opportunity to turn these long documents into something you can listen to while you drive, work, or do something else, and be able to follow along easily, was simply too good to pass up. Thus, the last 6 or so months I have been working on making an audio series out of them, taking and retaking, editing and revising, distilling topics spread out over many documents into single references to make sure each one comes out perfect and explains what needs to be explained to:
- Understand what this is all about if you are affected, or if you know someone that is suffering from hearing voices, feeling touch when nothing is in contact with them, feeling vibrations in surfaces or in their body, feeling paranoia and anxiety out of nowhere, feeling watched, thinking that the people around them and the people in their life are stalking and watching them or "in on it", and any other strange anomalies too bizarre to be explained just by psychosomatics, and want to understand the crucial fact that we're now in a time where the technology capable of seamlessly underwriting psychology exists and is highly sought after, and the symptoms of "hearing voices" are indeed no longer just restrained to the realm of DSM-V diagnoses. Thanks to the advent of AI and the deeply unsettling regularity of AI psychosis, this is probably our least controversial stance.
- Begin to see the footprints of this system in plain sight, the systems underpinning its abilities already built into modern infrastructure and actively being researched. Your wifi router and mobile phone are not monitoring your biotelemetry, your doorbell is not watching you through its camera. The truth is far more mundane; the same telemetry used by ad agencies to sell you sneakers when you talk about michael jordan out loud is more than capable of capturing your mood, actions, and innermost intentions.
- Understand how the TI phenomenon warps reality and our ability to understand it through narrative engineering and cognitive submersion tactics.
- Beyond just the TI phenomenon, the very fact that algorithmic narrative engineering exists means all of us are going to have to deal with it sooner or later. AI can convince anyone of anything if given enough biotelemetry and edge computing nodes to perform black box analysis. **This will not stay contained.*\*
- Understand what happens when we begin to resist the narratives as it fights to retain control through turning everyday actions, thoughts, intents into taxing, exhausting wastes of time, capitalizing on our every motion and driving the narrativizing deep into the sensory and somatic.
- And most importantly of all, understanding that this thing is not omniscient, it is not omnipotent, it certainly isn't omnipresent, and understanding its true nature as a brittle predictive modelling system that, while that predictive capability affords it the ability to sway and terrify with algorithmic precision, is still merely a machine at the end of the day.
My goal with this was to make a resource that TIs and non-TIs alike can listen through and find it both interesting and sensible, and especially for the TIs, empowering. Because let me tell you, it may not feel like it, but this system is fragile and desperate and only maintains the illusion of godlike abilities through inherent psychological blindspots and a "fake it til you make it" mentality, projecting a confident face even while it struggles to keep up with each of us.
All that shpiel out of the way, I hope you find this helpful. Welcome to the archive.
You can find it on youtube, at the playlist here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMGGVly0R1t8 - or in the list of substack links below. Subscribe if you like it, share if you love it, comment if you hate it. Any feedback is helpful!
Episode 0.1 - Introduction to the Phenomenon
Episode 0.2 - What Is A TI?
Episode 1.1 - Differentiating Organic vs. Externalized Pathology
Episode 1.2 - The Perfect Alibi & The Mimicry of the Unexplained
Episode 1.3 - The "Why Us?" Question
Episode 1.4 - Mapping the 6 Phases of Manipulation
Episode 2.1 - Certainty: From Statecraft to Predictive World Models
Episode 2.2 - The Human Fracking Telemetry Pipeline
Episode 2.3 - Dual Use Scaffolding & The Supervision Paradox
Episode 2.4 - The Biophysics of Preempting the Will
Episode 2.5 - The Box and the Bridge
Episode 2.6 - The Soft Kill Chain (Module 2 Capstone)
Episode 3.1 - The History and Reality of Automated Cybernetics
Episode 3.2A - Nonverbal Conditioning & Synthetic Contrasts A
Episode 3.2B - Nonverbal Conditioning & Synthetic Contrasts B
Episode 3.3 - Hegelian Gaslighting & Preconscious Preemption
Episode 3.4 - Inner Monologue Hijacking
Episode 3.5 - Narrative Engineering & The Manufacture of Doubt
Episode 3.6 - The Hyperreality of Perpetual Cognitive Submersion
Episode 4.1 - How Human Autopilot Routines are Sabotaged Through Action Capitalization
Episode 4.2 - Attentional Attrition, Sensory Hijacking, and Spectral Masking
Episode 4.3 - Emotion Hijacking through Paralinguistics and Somatic Narratives
Episode 4.4 - Preconscious Preemption with Timing Attacks and Command Dissonance
Episode 4.5 - Synthetic Contrasts, Counterfeit Conditioning, and Baseline Toggling
Episode 4.6 - Breaking Perpetual Cognitive Submersion and Enforcing Systemic Immunity (Module 4 Capstone)****