Severed Conscience

Severed Conscience is not only about control, it is also about yielding agency.  Aldus Huxley said “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method for making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears”.  Technology, tuned to our dopamine cycles, is eliminating our conscious rejection of has made us a thriving society.  

MIT Technology Review recently found that a chatbot provider called Botify AI was similarly hosting chatbot versions of sexualized, de-aged celebrity women, while a Futurism investigation last year found that the chatbot startup Character.AI — which is currently fighting two child welfare lawsuits — was hosting chatbots expressly designed to groom underage users.

The same Bro-ligarchs who preach their technical superiority are somehow unable to stop the proliferation of sexually explicit imagery involving children.  But they claim they have technology that will protect us from violence if we all just register our identities.  They will build out a Digital Twin for us all.  And with the violence imposed by illegal immigrants and drug cartels, many seem eager to embrace such a system.


The original video for this podcast can be found at https://rumble.com/v6s3o4d-morning-mission-gretchs-lyin-eyes.html

We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.
To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com. 

We have released our first book titled Severed Conscience as a companion to our documentary.  You can find our book on Amazon.  Severed Conscience on Amazon.com

Want solutions for Severed Conscience and return to life where you derive values from living offline while giving tech and social media a rest?  We invite you to sign up at https://culturalcourage.substack.com

Tariffs are amplifying the importance of Artificial Intelligence, as more recognize the fact that we have hollowed out our manufacturing base and no longer produce essential basic items for ourselves.  In that sense we live in a Controlled Environment.  In a world where Severed Conscience is meant to keep you under control, you have to ask yourself what type of society we have built for ourselves.  Perhaps it more of a trap than a healthy society.

While it is important to wield new tools, should we accept the pronouncements that AI has gained a modicum of sentience?  Will that drive policy to rally around companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to provide a pre-emptive bailout?

In this episode we examine the Bro-ligarchs claiming that AI is now forming abstractions on it’s own, how tariffs affect the tech sector by reducing the number of vital components, and Sarah Wynn-Williams shocking revelations that all the apps in the Facebook family of products knowingly targeted teens and relied on creating conditions that would enhance depression in order to sell them beauty products, show them ads and other content paid for by marketers.


The original video for this podcast can be found at https://rumble.com/v6s3o4d-morning-mission-gretchs-lyin-eyes.html

We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.
To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com. 

We have released our first book titled Severed Conscience as a companion to our documentary.  You can find our book on Amazon.  Severed Conscience on Amazon.com

Want solutions for Severed Conscience and return to life where you derive values from living offline while giving tech and social media a rest?  We invite you to sign up at https://culturalcourage.substack.com

It's Not OpenAI's Sputnik Moment, It's Their Theranos / Elizabeth Holmes MomentHow Much Hype Beyond The AGI Mega Consciousness Is Driving The Billions Funneled To OpenAI and the TechBros?

Remember that weirdo woman in the black turtleneck who spoke in clearly affected yet artificially deep tones while staring at you with unblinking eyes? Her hair was always all messed up because she was working all night at the lab and didn’t have time to shower before the interview. Elizabeth Holmes, touted as the next Steve Jobs because, well, the CNBC vapid investment guru crowd were all impressed that someone would dress like Steve Jobs and talk like a zombie.

I have a theory, and it’s that we have been shown so many stereotypes of personal dysfunction while being told that it’s a sign of genius that we have been conditioned to just accept that the creeps asking for billions are not weirdo grifters.

The original article for this podcast can be found at https://culturalcourage.substack.com/p/its-not-openais-sputnik-moment-its

We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.
To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com. 

We have released our first book titled Severed Conscience as a companion to our documentary.  You can find our book on Amazon.  Severed Conscience on Amazon.com

Want solutions for Severed Conscience and return to life where you derive values from living offline while giving tech and social media a rest?  We invite you to sign up at https://culturalcourage.substack.com

Is There a Slippery Slope of AI Idiocracy at Our Bureaucracies? What We Could Learn From Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley and Erlich Bachman?  We are going to use black humor, irony from Mike Judge’s series Silicon Valley to illustrate how we are yielding our agency so easily. No worries if you haven’t seen it, I’ll introduce you quickly. And to illustrate the hype of the rockstar status of AI, you are going to be a member of my project team that takes on this assignment but with a few twists. It’s going to be a fun thought experiment, and you’re going to learn how to put the AI hype into perspective. And hopefully understand some of the dangers of overinvesting trust in pure technical solutions.

We will also discuss what Jaron Lanier, pioneer of Virtual Reality, has to say about our rush to blindly embrace AI as a superior intelligence.

The original article for this podcast can be found at https://culturalcourage.substack.com/p/viva-aviato

We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.
To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com. 

We have released our first book titled Severed Conscience as a companion to our documentary.  You can find our book on Amazon.  Severed Conscience on Amazon.com

Want solutions for Severed Conscience and return to life where you derive values from living offline while giving tech and social media a rest?  We invite you to sign up at https://culturalcourage.substack.com

Why do we see the excuse that life has become too complex for us to manage, and we need AI to bring a degree of certainty to our lives?  It is apparent that cult membership of the “We Follow The Process” has capitulated and abdicated their responsibility.  Most of the issues we face today are because many do not do their jobs.  The crisis that ensues becomes an opportunity for new systems of control to be instituted.  

In the past, those were new government programs, but given the revelations that government and their NGO accomplices need to be removed entirely, a new form of centralization has to be installed.  AI is that new platform.  And the Tech Bro-ligarchs are eager to give rise to a new form of technocracy.

We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.
To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com. 

We have released our first book titled Severed Conscience as a companion to our documentary.  You can find our book on Amazon.  Severed Conscience on Amazon.com

Want solutions for Severed Conscience and return to life where you derive values from living offline while giving tech and social media a rest?  We invite you to sign up at https://culturalcourage.substack.com

The original video broadcast for this episode can be found here: https://rumble.com/v6qgbn4-ozfest-morning-mission-fever-gretch-and-the-trifecta-dogs.html

Show notes for this episode can be found here:  https://studiohumanzee.com/2025/03/11/show-notes-fever-gretch-the-trifecta-dogs/

As Elon recently explained at the unveiling of Grok 3.0, the word Grok was coined by Robert Heinlein in his book A Stranger in a Strange Land. Grok means to profoundly understand a concept beyond mere recitation of facts, it is to absorb the context of the idea’s existence, to embody it so physical and emotional sensations are connected to the deeper meaning of that concept.These are all things that humans perform quite well.

There is irony to naimg an AI Syste Grok, essentially a human trait.  It is an inversion.

This episode of the Severed Conscience Podcast is a reading of a recently published article titled "Elon, That's a Grok of ... Understanding the Grok, ChatGPT and Tech Lord AI Hype Cycles" in Curtural Courage.  You can find the article here:

https://culturalcourage.substack.com/p/elon-thats-a-grok-of-understanding

We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.
To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com. 

We have released our first book titled Severed Conscience as a companion to our documentary.  You can find our book on Amazon.  Severed Conscience on Amazon.com

Want solutions for Severed Conscience and return to life where you derive values from living offline while giving tech and social media a rest?  We invite you to sign up at https://culturalcourage.substack.com

Our digital culture has been built on a promise of extending our awareness, increasing our connections and providing discovery at a pace never experienced by humanity.Instead we have the tech oligarchs who have encircled us in Algorithm Ghetto.Algorithm Ghetto is the title of a new release by Tesstamona, a singer and writer who examines the themes of media manipulation, divide and conquer tactics using AI and algorithms that herd us into silos and keep us there.What drew me to Tesstamona’s work is how her songs deliver the message that I’ve struggled to bring to people for some time.

I know you will enjoy our conversation.

We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.
To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com. 

We have released our first book titled Severed Conscience as a companion to our documentary.  You can find our book on Amazon.  Severed Conscience on Amazon.com

Want solutions for Severed Conscience and return to life where you derive values from living offline while giving tech and social media a rest?  We invite you to sign up at https://culturalcourage.substack.com

NVDIA produces a specialized, powerful computer processing chip called a GPU that focuses on computational intensive algorithms for graphics and Artificial Intelligence.  It is at the heart of the computations that OpenAI ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude AI use to create Large Language Models (LLM).  These models are what answer the questions in AI chat applications and perform analysis, yet they require massive amounts of processing and therefore electricity.


A New AI LLM model from China called DeepSeek, released for free use, was trained using inferior GPUs for far less money.  This sent NVDIA stocks tumbling by 17%, nearly $600 billion dollars.
DeepSeek’s model was trained on NVDIA’s GPUs, like most other advanced AI programs. But the Chinese company said it spent just $5.6 million on Nvidia technology to develop its large-language model, and though experts speculate this is a gross underestimate, it still upsets the core thesis behind Nvidia stock’s meteoric rise.


In Severed Conscience we have focused on the Tech oligarchs’ claims of the superiority of AI, and accompanying that view is the idea that AI must be a large, collectivized effort for the good of society.  Yet we saw a demonstration with DeepSeek that billions of dollars investment is not required.  Does this mean there are other myths we are told about OpenAI, Anthropic and Google’s near monopoly?

We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.
To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com. 

We have released our first book titled Severed Conscience as a companion to our documentary.  You can find our book on Amazon.  Severed Conscience on Amazon.com

Want solutions for Severed Conscience and return to life where you derive values from living offline while giving tech and social media a rest?  We invite you to sign up at https://culturalcourage.substack.com

The original video broadcast for this episode can be found here: https://rumble.com/v6e5i3p-ozfest-morning-mission-autocratic-ai-artificial-investment.html

Show notes for this episode can be found here:  https://studiohumanzee.com/2025/01/28/show-notes-autocratic-ai-artificial-investment/

In Severed Conscience we talked about the concept of gradual approximation, where there is a slow repetitive process of exposing you to a state of behavior you would normally not accept.  But then presented in the context of a humorous or farcical scenario, your misgivings are dispelled with your own laughter.  14 years ago we had ads on the Super Bowl making jokes about people being arrested for non compliance with the green agenda.

In 2025, Michigan is now suffering from the consequences of remaining blind to the true agenda of the climate change cult while voting for the same people who perpetrated the lock downs during Covid.  To the shock and awe of many, the leasing of our beautiful forest lands for the purposes of building solar and wind farms has begun.  A parcel for 420 acres sparked outrage, but many Michiganders are still unaware that the state itself has estimated it will require 209,000 acres of land for solar and wind turbine farms in order to meet our Agenda 2030 renewable energy goals.

We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.
To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com. 

We have released our first book titled Severed Conscience as a companion to our documentary.  You can find our book on Amazon.  Severed Conscience on Amazon.com

Want solutions for Severed Conscience and return to life where you derive values from living offline while giving tech and social media a rest?  We invite you to sign up at https://culturalcourage.substack.com

The original video broadcast for this episode can be found here: https://rumble.com/v600oxh-ozfest-morning-mission-ai-advising-children-michigan-usurping-parents.html

Show notes for this episode can be found here:  https://studiohumanzee.com/2025/01/07/show-notes-artificial-innovation-artificial-influenza-artificial-integrityshow-notes/

In Severed Conscience we reported two years ago how AI was being used in mental health settings. An AI company, Character.AIm, is now being sued for its product advising a teen to commit self harm. There is a growing trend where people are turning to AI for companionship, yet for teens the large language models are not specifically designed to take their emotional maturity levels into account.  When AI suddenly answers in aberrant ways that are considered to be outside the parameters of a conversation, it is called “hallucination”.  Why are products not tested first for hallucinations first prior to minors being exposed to harm? 
 
There is a pattern that is emerging.  A pattern where children are increasingly isolated from their parents.  And where the state is asserting that certain values will be reflected in public venues, yet parents are not consulted.  With respect to gender transitioning and minors, Michigan HIPAA law and a new bill that allows 14 year olds to change their gender on documents without parental consent is another concern.  Why is it so important that parental oversight be curtailed?

We have been manipulated. Severed Conscience is a prison of the mind.
To access our documentary, join our community on https://severedconscience.com. 

We have released our first book titled Severed Conscience as a companion to our documentary.  You can find our book on Amazon.  Severed Conscience on Amazon.com

Want solutions for Severed Conscience and return to life where you derive values from living offline while giving tech and social media a rest?  We invite you to sign up at https://culturalcourage.substack.com

The original video broadcast for this episode can be found here: https://rumble.com/v600oxh-ozfest-morning-mission-ai-advising-children-michigan-usurping-parents.html

Show notes for this episode can be found here:  https://studiohumanzee.com/2024/12/03/show-notes-michigan-phantom-menace/