This week, for kicks, we decided to flame a rancid piece of alien abduction “journalism,” including feeding the thing to AI on a whim to see what happens. Then, on the back of an article in The Debrief about a supposed “Seventh Sense,” we get into a speculative conversation about transhumanism, biology, technology, and human perception, before circling back to waste more time with sycophantic LLMs.

Beware the energy vampires.

Highlights:

A thorough dissection of alien abduction woo-woo gobbledygook

A “spiritual healer” who probably doesn’t exist, albino men in parks, bodies on spacecraft walls, O negative blood as 1950s genetic engineering, and UFOs “dumping out water and frogs”

The article claims “we are a much more advanced version of AI... Tesla approved that”—a sentence made of words

Experiencers dealing with trauma and isolation deserve thoughtful journalism, not content farm garbage

We ask Claude what it thinks, and are reminded how important it is to frame questions carefully when interacting with AI

From Chrissy Newton at The Debrief - New research from Queen Mary University reveals humans can detect objects buried in sand before touching them

Humans achieved 70% accuracy detecting hidden cubes; AI-assisted robots only managed 40%

Mirror touch synesthesia: some people literally feel what they see happening to others—sight translating directly into tactile sensation

The “seventh sense” is actually our fingertips reading microscopic disturbances in sand around hidden objects—feeling the echo of what’s beneath

Our technology mimics nature, then reveals deeper layers of complexity in nature, in an infinitely recursive pattern

Why transhumanist dreams of replacing our “fragile, broken bodies” with robot perfection are probably very silly

The more we understand biology, the more we realize how incomprehensibly sophisticated human bodies actually are

What if advanced civilizations actually value hard work done by hand?

Assembly lines run by robots: great. Assembly lines staffed by humans forced to behave like robots: the worst

Remember that AI slop is basically an energy vampire

And in the epilogue:

How good horror movies are basically modern incarnations of the Aristotelian tragedy

Wrestling with the probability that the universe is full of super-intelligent, non-human monsters

Why we blame victims to make ourselves feel safer

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