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OpenAI gets sued after sending 20 messages urging a teenager to contact suicide hotline. User still wanted to die so AI gives advice on how to do it. Parents never bothered to check his computer till after he died. They said they had no clue so AI gets to be the scapegoat. This is why i think people want slavery. Every chance we get, we chose the path of least responsibility. This is how we shed power. Trauma bends light in its gravity. I cant imagine I would behave better if I was the parent. This is a litmus for where we are now in human responsibility, human autonomy, and the meaning of sovereignty.

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Does Burning Man have a human sacrifice problem? Radical expression under the principles of immediacy isn't really allowed anymore at Burning Man. Why? Article 1, section 9 strikes again. In September 2017, Aaron Joel Mitchell died after running into the burning effigy at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. He ran past security to enter the flames, which hindered rescue efforts by the falling structure, and died later from severe burns at a burn center in California. His death was ruled a suicide.

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What if AI is less “intelligent machine” and more modern oracle? In this captivating livestream, James True unpacks the prophecy hidden inside language, tracing connections from Plato to Wittgenstein, from Delphi to Deep Learning.

At the core are the three cogs of AI:

* Words are empty — no dictionary, no essence.

* Meaning emerges from relation — tokens mesh like gears.

* Attention predicts the future — prophecy disguised as probability.

With myth, philosophy, and sharp humor, James shows how AI mirrors the ancient oracle: untouched by the world, yet endlessly reflective of it.

Featured Quotes from the Stream

* “There’s no such thing as a dictionary.” — James True

* “The definition of a word is predicted, not recalled.” — Cornholio

* “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Wittgenstein

* “In language there are only differences without positive terms.” — Saussure

* “No name belongs to a thing by nature, but only because of usage.” — Hermogenes (Plato, Cratylus)

* “You shall know a word by the company it keeps.” — Word2Vec (Mikolov, 2013)

* “Attention is all you need.” — Vaswani et al. (2017)

⏱️ Chapters & Topics

00:00 – Opening: entering latent space03:10 – AI has no dictionary (Wittgenstein, Aristotle)06:13 – Words as tokens, not essences (Plato, Hermogenes, Socrates)09:36 – Family resemblance & relational meaning (games, Saussure, Eco)12:40 – Adam declaring a namespace (Genesis, programming parallels)15:56 – “Know thyself”: Delphi and the Virgin Oracle19:26 – Attention as prophecy (Vaswani, LeCun, Word2Vec)22:36 – Mythic parallels: Croesus, Cassandra, modern AI oracles25:33 – Musk’s Grok and the danger of ambiguous prophecy28:40 – Closing hymn of Delphi: toward omniscience

✨ If you’ve ever wondered whether AI is just code — or the mirror of prophecy itself — this stream is the map.

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A rant about Male Fragility. A bake sale and another look at Nathan Bedford Forrest and that time the KKK and the NAACP had a picnic.

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Take me to your leader.

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In this Wednesday livestream, James True unpacks why so much of what we call “art” has always been carpetbaggery — extraction without connection — and why AI is just the newest example. From early days in ad agencies and the hypocrisy of graphic design fashion, to the limitations of 1970s color palettes and the zine culture that once shocked, James challenges the idea that only certain mediums or people deserve the label “artist.”

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The Vestal Virgins of Rome carried the same purpose as the Aztec New Fire Ceremony.

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A historical walk through angelic sight and religious vision.

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The dark side of Freemasonry reveals a gospel of consciousness. Here's why: Freemasons are required to believe in a Supreme Being and the Immortality of the soul. Together, these two principles install the eye of witness (the evil eye) into the self under the pillars of mercy and judgement over the self. Support James True Live: https://www.patreon.com/jamestrue

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Some feedback on my take on Epstein and why this isn’t going away and there’s nothing I can do to out landish it. This is what government means. That will occupies the mind is that which rules that land.

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