Void Kampff

Purity above all

[Void Kampff @void_kampff]

On this day, 95 years ago, one of the most influential writers of science fiction was born.

To commemorate PKDs artistic genius, I'll be sharing a daily selection of cover art from one of his 44 novels.

"The aesthetics never ended!"

#1 VALIS (1981), cover art by John Berkey

[Void Kampff @void_kampff]

@GreenNotic9887 @to48864 Ah yes, the infamous L-Tower 😂

[Alaric The Barbarian @0xAlaric]

SEARCHING FOR PYRAMIDS IN THE DARIEN GAP

FULL DOCUMENTARY

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Logos for Evil Companies from 80s Sci-fi Movies

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Just finished reading this.

Camp of the Saints is probably the first zombie apocalypse novel. It has all the tropes: the ravenous horde whose only strength is its own wretchedness, which smoothly assimilates those it touches, pulling them down to the same mindless level; the doomed survivors trying desperately to hold back the night from an isolated redoubt even as they realize the futility of their gesture; the delusional lunatics who open the gates, thinking that they can master or befriend the beast, only to be trampled or absorbed by it.

There are really two zombie hordes in the novel: the third world masses, and the disenchanted, demoralized West. Raspail's narrative is really about the latter. He shows a civilization that has hollowed itself out, that no longer believes in anything, not in itself, not even really in the saccharine humanitarianism it substitutes for God. The priests are all atheists and apostates, the revolutionaries nothing more than opportunistic criminals, the humanitarians cowardly hypocrites, the politicians dithering incompetents, the general population narcotized last men. It is a West with no governing center, a civilization without a soul, every bit as undead as the hungry mass that pours from the Ganges. It no longer recognizes anything higher than its own appetites, can no longer even imagine a spiritual dimension to existence; thus sickened, it becomes nauseated by itself, succums to self-hatred, and inevitably gets pulled down into that which is only appetite, becoming one with the diseased filth and animal corruption of the third world. All possibility of higher development is extinguished, first by dissolving the minds and culture of the white race, then even at a biological level, via miscegenation.

@VaubanBooks has done fantastic work in bringing the English edition back to print. It's quite clear why this book has been vilified and suppressed. It lays the true nature of the left bare, as nothing more than a poisonous agent of civilisational decay. Raspail is prophetic: his book could have been cribbed from the headlines of 2015, when millions of migrants marched on Europe, bringing nothing but crime and rape, as deluded women held out banners proclaiming that sex with migrants was jasmine-scented and beautiful and that they preferred rapists to racists. He rips the moralizing pretense away, revealing the treachery and paralysis of the West for what it is: cowardice in the face of a cosmic horror that weaponizes pity by poisoning conscience.

[Charles Wing-Uexküll @CWingUexkull]

In the age of cloud computing, search, & AI, discovering what's known is becoming easier & easier.

What's becoming harder is keeping a secret...

I find it interesting how esoteric societies & political conspiracies of the past evaded censorship, secret police, ideological hall monitors & such.

Even prior to the publication of the Rosicrucian texts in the early 17th century, secret societies with implicitly pan-germanic ideologies were forming.

In 1577, owners of mines & smelting works founded the Orden der Unzertrennlichen, or lndissolubilisten (the Order of the Inseparables). They were especially interested in metallurgical & alchemical secrets.

The results of successful alchemical experiments were recorded & placed in an 'Archa,' a secret chest whose contents were continually augmented.

In Fama Fraternitatis (1610), the first Rosicrucian tract, Christian Rosenkreuz's tomb has vaults & chests filled with various secret objects & texts. Rosenkreuz's tomb was kept secret for 120 years after his death.

[Asha Logos @AshaLogos]

Ok.. the 'Master Library' is created, and fully functioning - and thus the most obsessive portion of my project is complete, and I'll be back to active posting here and on SS and YT again.

It was quite a lot of work, in all..

tens of thousands of historical books have been collected and included so far - many of which were older hard-to-find works, and likely would've disappeared forever, otherwise.

Each night, as I sleep, the library automatically grows ever further - and two local LLM models further clean and organize and label the data. It'll only grow better, with time.

I've worked with Claude Opus (and Gemini and GPT, but mainly Opus) to create a front-end to query this Master Library - lightning-fast searches, but I've also created an ultra-exhaustive overnight mode which spurs a team/council of local LLMs to answer the biggest and most important questions in the most comprehensive depth.

The results are beautiful - as I mention in the article, I've learned more of historical substance in the past month or so from test queries of this Master Library than I have at any other period in my life.. virtually every historical work of note ever authored, down to the most obscure and hard to find, able to be queried in mere seconds. I can't imagine a more effective historical research tool - it's even better than I'd hoped and imagined.

I'm not certain yet how I'll make this public-facing - I think the best idea, initially, may be an X account, in which people can ask it questions directly?

I'm open to ideas...

much more to come, hopefully soon - read article for comprehensive details.

[Void Kampff @void_kampff]

@UndergroundAeon "Digital confession" - THX 1138 vibes

[Void Kampff @void_kampff]

@MASSExpedition It Didgeridoo be like that, Mr. Stancil

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

A vast number of humans, probably a majority, aren't people.

They are large language models.

I'm not saying this as a generality, as a clever or funny way of saying, "they are stupid".

No. I mean something very concrete and specific, and there are a lot of people who appear very intelligent, maybe even win awards for writing good poetry or something, who are nevertheless not people, not fully sapient, just a large language model walking around in a human body.

First, you have to understand what a large language model is.

It's a computer (organic or inorganic), which has been trained on a data set consisting solely of language (written or spoken), and rewarded for producing language that sounds like the data set, and is relevant to a prompt.

That's all there is in there.

This is why ChatGPT and Grok lie to you constantly.

It's not because they are somehow just indifferent to the truth — they actually do not understand the concept of "truth" at all.

For something to be a "lie", or an "inaccuracy", there has to be a mismatch between the meaning of words, and the state of reality.

And there's the critical difference. You see, in order to identify a mismatch between the state of reality, and the meaning of a sentence, you have to have a model of reality.

Not just one model, of language.

This is why Grok and ChatGPT hallucinate and tell you lies. Because, for them, everything is language, and there is no reality.

So when I say someone is a large language model, I do not mean he is "stupid". He might be very facile at processing language. He might, in fact, be eloquent enough to give great speeches, get elected president, win the Nobel Peace Prize, and so on.

What I mean is that humans who are large language models do not have a robust world-object model to counterweight their language model. They are able to manipulate symbols, sometimes adroitly, but they are on far shakier ground when trying imagine the objects those symbols represent.

Which brings us to this woman.

Most conservatives understand her behavior in terms of concepts like "suicidal empathy", or "brainwashing", or an "information bubble", interpreted as reasons why she is delusional, but the truth is far worse than that.

To delusional is to have an object model of the world that is deeply and profoundly wrong. But to have an object model of the world that is deeply and profoundly wrong... you have to have one in the first place.

To sapient humans, words are symbols, grounded in object model of reality, that we use to communicate ideas about that reality. We need those words because we don't come equipped with a hologram projector, or telepathic powers.

But for another type of human, that object model isn't very large or robust at all. It consists only of a grass hut or two with a few sticks of furniture, and it can never be matched up with the palaces in the air which she weaves out of words.

And so, to her, there is no reality. Or at least very little.

Reality consists only of her and her immediate surroundings in time and space, and words referring to anything bigger or more complicated are not descriptions of reality... they are magic spells which will make other humans drop loot or give her social approval.

You cannot correct her worldview with contradictory evidence, because there is no worldview to correct.

You cannot confront her with the logical inconsistencies in her worldview, because her object model doesn't actually have any, it's not complex enough for that.

The relevant parts of her world-object model can be summed up as follows:

"If I say Goodthing, I get headpats and cookies from all the people like me."

That model is simply not big or complicated enough to contain notions like self-defense or vehicular assault. She has no theory of mind for a man whose job includes violence. She cannot explain or predict his behavior.

It is too far away from her daily experience to fit into her reality at all.

And if she can't imagine things like these, how can she possibly imagine concrete meanings for vast and complex ideas like demographic replacement, culture shift, and western civilization?

This is not about intelligence or lack of it. This is about what her brain is trained to do.

Her upbringing, education, and life did not force, or even encourage, her to develop a robust world-object model. It wasn't necessary for her to get safety, approval, or cookies. She just had to be glib.

So it really didn't matter if she had an IQ of 125, or whatever, because if she did, then she was just an IQ-125-large-language-model, and only used that brain capacity for writing clever poetry, and saying things that aligned her to her local social matrix.

She couldn't actually understand the world no matter how smart she was, because her brain was trained up wrong.

I don't know if this is correctable, or if there was some critical developmental phase that was missed, but it doesn't matter, because once the LLM-humans are adults, they won't sit still for corrective therapy, percussive or not.

What's important is that they can't be taught things. They can be programmed to repeat stuff, and if you win a culture war, you can even program them to say the sensible stuff. But even then, they will just be saying it for headpats and cookies. They will never truly understand the sense of what they are repeating, because they don't understand things.

They are just Large Language Models.

And we have to figure out some way to take the vote away from them.

[Void Kampff @void_kampff]

@SpaceAgeHerr Danke, dir auch!

[Alaric The Barbarian @0xAlaric]

We have reached Part II of Schizoposting, dealing with the technology that rules our lives and politics. Discourse as ARG covers what happens on here, and everywhere online: a vast alternate-reality game, the first that influences the Real.

READ: https://t.co/GCXIsIHtnn

[ObtainerOfRareAntiquities @ObtainerOf]

Really disappointed with the development of submarines. In a rational world that cared about beauty we would have vernian luxury submarines with baroque interiors that act as vessels for contemplative voyages around the world. Instead we just have ugly black tubes

[𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗘 @UndergroundAeon]

A new article on the temporalities of chiasm, representation, and iconography as a time-travelling technology, and much more.

This is my biggest work yet, link in bio. Enjoy!

[Void Kampff @void_kampff]

@_veneramusic @samantagarciap This goes incredibly hard, absolute 💎

[𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗟𝗘 @UndergroundAeon]

eschatological engine

[Joe Allen @JOEBOTxyz]

America's AI Action Plan is out.

The plan is to saturate the digital space with low-risk US artificial intelligence models, fast-track data center construction, and secure high-risk AI projects.

🧵/1

[Void Kampff @void_kampff]

@MASSExpedition @MeinGottNiles @meatheadmusings Still remember buying this album purely because of the cover art, the music didn't disappoint either!

[Void Kampff @void_kampff]

@UndergroundAeon Very reminiscent of 'Demonic Presence detected', they certainly aren't subtle anymore about it