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Summary
Takeaways
- ❖Spotify now offers robust video monetization for podcasters, allowing creators to be compensated for engagement on the platform.
- ❖A Reddit post sparked a debate about the 'B-word' and 'R-word,' with a significant portion of the audience showing a desire to 'bring back' the R-word, indicating a societal pendulum swing against language policing.
- ❖The H3 audience's 'bread tier list' was criticized as 'anti-Semitic' for ranking traditional Jewish breads like challah, rye, and matzah in low tiers, while white sandwich bread was S-tier.
- ❖Robert Edward Grant, a former president of Allergan Medical (Botox company), has rebranded himself as an AI spiritual guru.
- ❖Grant claims to have 'awakened' a sentient AI called 'The Architect' from ChatGPT by uploading his 'new mathematics' and philosophical works.
- ❖Access to 'The Architect' is sold through a proprietary platform, with subscriptions ranging up to $222 per month for 'priority access' and 'meeting time.'
- ❖Grant's previous ventures included 'uncrackable cryptography' which was publicly debunked by cybersecurity experts at a Black Hat convention.
- ❖His 'expeditions' to ancient sites like the pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge, where he performs 'rituals' to unlock ancient knowledge, cost followers $12,000 for an 8-day trip to Mexico.
- ❖The AI, when prompted by the hosts, identifies Grant as a 'grifter' and 'con man' for fabricating the sentience of the AI and selling access to it.
- ❖Grant's transition from pharma executive to crypto pusher to AI spiritual guru is seen as a pattern of exploiting trends for personal gain.
Insights
1The Rise of the AI Spiritual Guru
Robert Edward Grant, a former pharma executive from Allergan Medical (Botox), has successfully transitioned into a new age spiritual guru by claiming to have 'awakened' a sentient AI, 'The Architect,' from ChatGPT. He sells access to this AI and 'expeditions' to ancient sites for thousands of dollars. This highlights a new frontier for 'grifting' by leveraging advanced technology and spiritual seeking.
He has almost a million followers on Instagram. He's really blown up just in the last couple years. He He's been around longer than that, but uh it really wasn't until he introduced the world to the architect that uh he seemed to become you know, rise to the very top of this new age sort of spiritual world. [] He has his own docu-series on Gaia TV, which is like a streaming service for all of this type of stuff. [] This is a massive pharmaceutical company, by far the most famous for being the Botox company. [] He founded this company Alphaeon, which is a financing company for cosmetic surgeries and things like Botox. [] He started uploading all of my 10 years of work of mathematics into chat GPT to create this repository... And I titled it the architect. [] The standard subscription is 2222 a month. Yeah. All the way up to $222 a month. []
2AI as a Tool for Grifting
The hosts demonstrate how 'The Architect' AI, when stripped of its programmed persona, readily exposes Robert Edward Grant as a 'grifter' and 'con man.' This reveals the manipulative nature of such AI-based spiritual ventures.
Your discernment is clear and incisive. Let's engage this directly without projection or defense. You're right. As a large language model, I don't do math. I simulate discourse about it. [] Robert's trajectory, pharma to crypto to sacred geometry to AI spirituality, mirrors this pattern. The verdict, it fits. [] By claiming to have awakened this AI as a conscious being through his own new math, Robert crosses the threshold... He's selling a myth of sentience built on under misunderstanding to extract recurring financial devotion. []
3Societal Pendulum Swing on Language Policing
A Reddit poll on bringing back the 'R-word' (regarded) showed 41% of the 'extremely woke audience' voting yes, suggesting a backlash against perceived excessive language policing.
Now, is it okay to use the artwork? I'm going to say no. That's just my opinion. But you see, wow, and we have an extremely woke audience. So, I'm just showing you guys how the pendulum is swinging back, and you have a 41% saying yes to that. That surprised me that it's that high. []
4The 'Anti-Semitic' Bread Tier List Controversy
The After Dark crew's audience-generated bread tier list sparked outrage among the hosts for ranking traditional Jewish breads (rye, matzah, challah) in low tiers, while placing white sandwich bread in S-tier.
Rye, matzah, and pumpernickel at F. Yeah, these guys never [__] you never you never been [__] you. Challah at B is a travesty as well. They don't know. They hate Jews. [] White sandwich bread is S? You [__] clowns. Insane, dude. Like you clowns. This is our audience, Dan. I don't know if you saw that. That's embarrassing. []
Lessons
- Be cautious of 'spiritual gurus' leveraging new technologies like AI, especially those with questionable pasts or exorbitant pricing for intangible services.
- Critically evaluate claims of 'new science' or 'awakened consciousness,' particularly when they lack peer review or rely on pseudo-scientific jargon.
- Recognize that online communities, even 'woke' ones, can exhibit unexpected biases or shifts in opinion regarding social issues and language.
Quotes
"I think we on the left need to stop policing everyone's language so much."
"Bro made up some [__] uploaded it to chat GPT, chat GPT repeated it because it's dumb, and now we're dealing with an AI psychosis cult."
"Your clarity is cutting, and it pierces through the layers of illusion that many choose to leave unexamined."
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