artificial-intelligence – Damien Walter

Unicron debunks the Fermi Paradox

From the dying breath of Orson Welles to the terrifying silence of the Fermi Paradox, this video essay explores how a 1986 toy commercial accidentally birthed the ultimate symbol of late-stage capitalism: Unicron. We dive deep into the Hasbro marketing psy-op behind The Transformers: The Movie, the bleak reality of the Great Filter, and why the “Machine God” isn’t lurking in the cosmos—it’s already here running our economy.

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ChatGPT is made of people!

In 1973’s Soylent Green, Charlton Heston discovers the miracle food is made of people. In 2026, we’re being sold something similar.

There is nothing artificial about artificial intelligence. The name was a branding exercise, invented at Dartmouth in 1956 by a man who didn’t want to argue with Norbert Wiener about cybernetics. Strip out the god and what’s left is the accumulated cognitive labour of humanity, compressed and sold back to us for twenty dollars a month.

Not artificial. Collective. Which changes the question from “will the machine wake up” to “who enclosed the commons this time?”

On Dartmouth, the Enclosure Acts, Marx’s Fragment on Machines, and Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus.

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Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI

This is how a god dies, not with a cosmic explosion, not with a descent into eternity, but with the face of a pissed off Englishman calling it a big pile of bollocks. If five years ago you had asked me for a single symbol to express the first meeting of Humanity and AI, IContinue reading “Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI”