Affect Extraction Centers
solving AI's missing link
This surface level AI shit is boring. The alarmist rhetoric is very small minded in comparison to what it could be. Though, the collective lack of understanding is interesting. Almost scary. Why can’t these media pundits read a science fiction novel and grab the climatic portion of that to regurgitate into Daily Mail articles. Has no one seen ‘2001’? AI isn’t scary because it replaces your job, if your job is getting replaced you are desisted for desuetude already. To all my readers in law school, I’m so sorry, it is over before it has begun. The legal system is a bureaucratic construction site of 105 IQ locked individuals that profit from the catatonic pace of the status quo. The structure of the job is not built to imagine a wholly distinct system, only affirmation and negation within the set boundaries of legalism. The potential for AI or any replicating emerging technology to generate an entirely new reality while ‘our best’ cannot construct a case not predicted on the G-Spec of an existing president is scary. Stare decisively is the law of the land, yes, I’ve been on LexisNexis before.
The problem with current AI, particularly written models, is that writing is devoid of affect. If you yourself possess affect, or even have read a book in the last six months, you should be able to delineate when something is written by a human being or by a machine. Now, there are horribly mechanistic writers, if you have ever been piss drunk reading free PDF’s and listening to your neighbors tv playing through the wall of your apartment you know there is some dog shit out there. But that is written by someone. A human being. And you can tell. You know a machine would not choose to make these similes no matter how basic, because it is trained to write based on ‘good’ writing. It just sucks at it. I know this sounds mean and I am by no means an amazing writer and I could not write a young adult romance novel set in New Delhi between an exchange student from Korea and a shy girl breaking out of shell to show him the beauty of her culture. I do not have the life experience or vocabulary to describe what a feeling of teenage love is like. Writing a romance novel about the sexually frustrated feelings of you and your highschool lab partner? I was asking my lab partners if I could jar their September morning hazy blue eyes to keep on my shelf next to my teeth collection. That is probably the tradeoff required to be writing about AI regulation on a Friday night right. You do have to pick your battles and I picked mine. Am I winning yet dad? Three weeks into NEETdom and counting. Maybe. Time will tell.
How are these companies going to be fixing AI? Fixing here is defined as making it good enough to fool me, which is subjective of course, but having spent enough time on these AI writing services to generate shitty articles to sell to people on ‘Mark Up’ to know that we are far from it. But I don’t think we are far from following the average tech consumer learning about the fact titanium, just like every other metal, does scratch. Or replacing writers that do not import their affect into the piece in the first place. The drive to neutrality to the inoffensive fact reporting is destroying the very essence of journalism. The point is not that you get an objective fact, that is what the event itself is supposed to be. That is the CSPAN congressional hearing, you read an article to hear the voice of the person writing it. You are reading to feel something. Read the closed captions if you want an objective take, tell the AI bot to simply summarize it. But in my writing job application grindset I have learned that the goal is not to write from your own perspective, or to write your own thoughts, but to match the thoughts of a greater corporate entity as an amalgamized form of ‘self-representation’ because my voice matters, but not that much. Which is why my friends and I starting our blog Fatty Strap, to prioritize the writer's voice in subjective experiences, while creating a non-parasitic relationship between reader and writer. I would be on there more, but I am too locked into long form posting and creating the worst digital footprint imaginable. To any future tech company recruiter reading this, hello, I am so excited to work for you, I really hope you are not doing the things I am going to describe later in this piece, but if you are, hire me to create internal reviews in your defense.
So how do they fill this affective void? I think in a very literal sense; future souls will need to be imported into machines to make them operate with a human voice. That is the reality I envisioned in my dream last night approached in a backroom deal, a Zuckerberg type figure asks me if I am willing to defend a human farm for x dollars per year, a house, guarantees for my Estonian cyberian princess trad cath waifu and our seven children. The door opens I am presented with a series of matrix pods, liquid filled body chambers of tubes and beeping monitors where the souls and life force of various individuals are harvested through flesh tubes and wires to inform a learning machine that beats like a cow's heart. Harvesting affects out of their souls. The stolen kids sacrificed at the altar of emergence. Are we there now? Is that where the missing kids have gone? Certainly not 80,000 sex slaves are sold, so what are they doing with the disappeared migrants. I shouldn’t say certainly not 80,000, I don’t know the market. How many buyers? What is the turnover rate of child sex slaves? Presumably you would keep one until adulthood and then turn them out onto the street in Glendale, Arizona to become a raving addict engaged in a different form of sexual slavery. But genuinely, assuming even gender split, and maybe 2,000 of each are trafficked, where the fuck are the other 74,000 children. I think they are taken and used as stimuli data sites. Harvested for their neurological responses in a data driven frois gras troth of neural nets in a RGB accented version of the brainwashing scene from “A Clockwork Orange.”
Does this sound stranger than fiction or just the right amount. Considering child mortality, we can shave another 4,000 off. They die in both the holding process of ICE custody, during transportation to additional holding facilities, and from the exhaustion brought upon by an extended journey across central America and Mexico to reach our southern board. If you think the boarder agencies are prioritizing the health and well-being of the migrants or asylum seekers, I think you should do some more reading. They are let in for appearance prior to abandonment in cities that don’t have the social infrastructure to support them nor want to develop that sort of infrastructure, but that is beside the point; we are talking about child trafficking. Doing some more math because you would assume these children, without documents which could place them with their possible state side family, stripped from their parents would enter foster care. I wouldn’t be so naive to assume that, a total of 203,700 children entered foster care, 21 percent of those were of Hispanic dissent, which obviously includes way more children than just the missing boarder children, but assuming all of them are boarder children, that is only 42,791.7. Which going off my previous estimate of 70,000 not trafficked and not dead, leaves 27,209 children unaccounted for. In the highest possible boarder to foster system ratio ~20 percent of those children are not in any government system, but they are somewhere. Some are being sent to human research centers, where do you think the stem cells for regenerative gene hacking data sets are coming from? Some probably go to media farms to research the most addictive form of algorithmic data, not all of it can be casual user data. They need optima ‘trained’ consumers, not just BPD girls on a down week scrolling the Tiky Tok for 10 hours a day getting their physical contact from squishmellows.
They are developing a contextual consciousness in which these children are repeatedly exposed to simple and one-dimensional stimuli so that each of these individual data points can be categorized together in a similar process to how our human brain integrated data points to paint our world. When we encounter a new stimuli, it is back referenced against existing experiences, that is one of the components of the captcha tests websites are deploying, farming our contextual references. That we are able to recognize objects in different contexts because we have seen so many different contexts. This imaginative potential is what gives, writers for example, the ability to synthesize new ideas, not just repeat them. For machines to gain this very human quality, they will need astronomically more data to synthesize to create a pseudo-conscious form of thought.
Did you ever watch minority report? The Tom Cruise movie where they predict and stop future crimes using these psychically inclined fetal neo-Delphis. This is the future of the psychically inclined. Targeted and abducted, farmed and stuck if they are not already sufficiently repressed by the current sanitation effort, the complete and utter rejection of the potentiality of psychic events ability to influence corporeality. It is ‘crystal washed’ over and co-opted by opal marketing girlies on social media and boutiques complicit in the practice of vibrational capping. This is not to condemn them, I think there is value in this education, the provision of these resources and opening doors to more people to think in this way. The problem is they are not going deep enough. Like other tools of revolutionary action, the concept of knowledge is slatted as enough for the actor, the fact that there is a marketplace for this knowledge means it has been neutered to the point of being no longer threatening. This is obviously not unique to this form of ‘vulgar’ knowledge production, but to broader academic and outsider forms of thought. Passivity is especially harmful in remerging forms of thought because the revitalization is sold with the branding of ‘old world’ ways of thinking, a particularly strong selling point in the anti-western marketplace. There are multiple factors that determine this simulated economy: attention span, to virtualization, to the commitment of resources to materiality and scientific sanitation, the rejection of pre-industrial modes of thought that work against profitable industries. What is priced in.
I think I am more psychically in touch than the average man, but still light years beneath the power of physically inclined, sensitive and empathetic vessels. I am probably too online to fully access this world right now, that is okay. The feminized bodies, feminized in this context does not mean just women, but a broader sense of ‘not within the western conception of masculinity’ which holds a coded rejection of the ephemeral and softness required for high frequency communication. Which is more than simply ‘their domain’ but the process of beauty and power they hold is rooted in emotional and psychic being. This is not gate kept or some type of hard ceiling for us bros, we can do this as well, it requires the unlearning of the negative aspects of masculinity warped by postindustrial alienated forms of communion. Basically, any point in any video about being a ‘real man’ or ‘sigma male’ a ‘lone wolf type’ someone who is ‘in it for themselves’ a ‘stress free 50-year-old euro bachelor.’ If you are a guy reading this, has a girl ever asked you if you’ve seen a ghost and you said no. The wide eyes they show you. That means two things, 1. She engages with a reality you have yet to conceptualize. 2. You are not meant to be with the psychically inclined yet and are still primarily rooted in a material matrix, which is perfectly fine and I think a good choice depending on your disposition; make your millions investment banking. This is the power of the feminized vessel, again, I would just say woman here, but that doesn’t encapsulate all aspects of this and my desire for specificity in this context is not only to be inclusive for the sake of inclusivity, but to accurately represent the desired traits being forcibly repressed. All of the virginal coded shit does not matter, it is a question of radiating an affect and beauty people locked out of this form of being are unable to understand. There is a recognition of the otherness and power that is held, but much like things not instantly render transparent, it is either, repressed and discarded for its lack of functionality or fetishized and consumed without emotional regard. The future descendants of the psychologically inclined will be harvested and distilled for their affective capabilities. Maybe it’s not to stop crimes before they happen, maybe it's to do something even less ‘socially good.’ These people are demarced as vulnerable bodies, much like the children separated at the border, to be preyed upon because they are deemed weaker by masculine conceptions of materiality. Resistance to this form of, and hesitant to use this word due to its co-option, patriarchal values is crucial to protect and revolutionize the way in which we battle for California. You have not been seen or affirmed until someone you love (not limited to romantic this is a broader term) grants you that. There is no war for California’s soul without this. There is no exorcism of the demonological code without love.
The future is devoid of this beauty. The future is looking like a redundant coded laboratory of stagnation promoted by engineers who spend 16 hours a day without interaction and have never felt the desire to create for the love and affirmation of another. The burning desire to change the world to improve it for someone else. To alleviate the pain another can feel, to simply be better. To create a progressive ideological landscape. Maybe they have and it is repressed down by market forces, maybe it’s less direct where the social conditions created by ‘guh neoliberalism’ that promotes this type of lifestyle. But the war is won in small battles, to apple pay for LA guys at parties to Bronze Aged Mindset, to tell your friends no its okay you don’t actually have to get a tattoo of a snake, butterfly, area code, or other object of innocence. You don’t have to make yourself look like you are going through twink death at 23 either. You don’t need to lie to me. I also just love attention from attractive people, that doesn’t mean you need to get sucked and fucked in a Monty’s Good Burger bathroom. Fuck Monty’s absolute dog shit, wake up.
Imagining this future is bleak. So bleak I forgot I wanted to finish this piece with a point and not just end it shitting on Silver Lake people and where they eat because I was at a screening there last weekend and I guess that’s still on my mind. The point is, the top down campaign against the beauty of psychic inclination is because it is a power that threatens to disrupt the sludge of technocratic waste we are presented with. Harness this power, use the beauty inside of you to raise the beauty in others. Vibrational, sensational. There is no winning by pushing others down. From tech bros to thembos, I love you all. Don’t get captured, mentally, physically, or spiritually. We all have a place to carve for ourselves in our technologically rich future, but it's up to us to carve it with the soft hands of an artist, not the rough hands of a border patrol agent tearing children from their mothers.
