The New Reason to Back Byron AI

The last three weeks have significantly underlined the importance of supporting the combined efforts of Castalia and Infogalactic to develop a custom AI system that will protect and enhance the ability to produce fiction without limits being imposed by the major AI providers. A number of things have happened since we launched the Byron AI crowdfunding campaign, including:

  • The continued degradation of Claude’s ability to creatively hallucinate.
  • The expanded interference with subject matter: one news site was aggressively denied the ability to use a major AI system to write about Hayden Panattiere’s death due to sensitivity concerns about its recent occurrence in the site’s article announcing Hayden Panattiere’s death.
  • Deepseek increasing its token price by 4.5x due to its upcoming IPO.
  • OpenAI actively blocking ChatGPT users from being able to intentionally imitate the style of authors both living and dead.

Even though the campaign hasn’t ended yet, the dev team has already made solid progress on a number of peripheral items, including the ability to accurately imitate various literary styles and eliminate the various AI tells, including these abominations.

The eliminations of these tells have been made with tactical precision. And that matters. Let the weight of that sit for a moment.

Despite being a major champion of the use of AI in music, video, and textual production, I still find it maddening to see how many people insist on utilizing it in an observably suboptimal manner. I noticed that Larry Johnson recently started using it to write his articles for him; it’s always easy to recognize when the article length increases by a factor of three and the author’s voice disappears into that passive wash of AI overexplanation.

In case you didn’t realize it, the most obvious sign of textual AI is when the text explains itself as well as its significance to the reader. It’s actually considered a “prestige” form of writing, and it’s very similar to what I describe as “sociopathic externalization” by novelists. This is when the writer is presenting a character’s perspective, but providing descriptive elements that would normally come from an external party. It’s not precisely the same thing, but it has the same effect of putting the reader in the Uncanny Valley.

Anyhow, I’ve been doing some video animation tests with the MiniMax H3 engine that have proven entirely successful. To better understand what that means, I’ve put up examples at Sigma Game, as well as some recently-found footage of an old Psykosonik concert featuring a much younger Vox on stage with the guys.

So check it out, and if you haven’t backed it yet but are interested in either independent book production or independent film production, get on board with Byron AI and help us set the stage for making future history.

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Skip the Sunscreen

Another lesson in what trusting the science and the media gets you:

The LARGEST sunscreen-skin cancer study EVER conducted found sunscreen users faced FAR higher risks of EVERY major skin cancer.

  • INVASIVE MELANOMA: +292%
  • MELANOMA IN SITU: +258%
  • BASAL CELL CARCINOMA: +140%
  • SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA: +126%

Large increases in all major skin cancers can NOT be explained away by the “sunscreen paradox” given that lab tests found BENZENE, a known human CARCINOGEN, in 27% of sunscreen products tested.

Slathering rapidly absorbed carcinogens all over your body will unsurprisingly raise skin cancer risk.

At this point, your best bet is to ignore absolutely everything the media reports that The Science is recommending. Some of us can still remember when microwaving carbohydrates in margarine, then going outside covered in sunscreen was optimizing your health.

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Cathedra Three

The third book in the Castalia Cathedra series of leatherbound Christian titles is APOLOGETICUS by Quintus Septimus Florens Tertullian.

Apologeticus is a text attributed to Tertullian according to Christian tradition, consisting of apologetic and polemic. In this work Tertullian defends Christianity, demanding legal toleration and that Christians be treated like all other sects of the Roman Empire. It is in this treatise that one finds the sentence “Plures efficimur, quotiens metimur a vobis: semen est sanguis Christianorum,” which has been liberally and apocryphally translated as “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church” (Apologeticus, L.13). The simplest and most faithful rendering remains: We multiply when you reap us. The blood of Christians is seed.

The Castalia Cathedra edition will also include seven more of the great Latin Father’s works. For more information about the third Cathedra subscription book, visit Castalia Library.

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The Retreat From Asia

Even those pulling the strings of the Short Fat Trump now understand that Asia is a bridge too far for the US military to even pretend it can contest, and it appears they’re now conceding the region to China.

Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful. Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I hâve instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises! While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, “No thanks!” Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

It’s only a matter of time before US troops are withdrawn from South Korea and Japan. Which is a good thing, since the fate of South Korea and its dying population has demonstrated that as bad as communism and Jutism may be, and they are very, very bad, Western liberal values and feminism are even worse for a nation.

The USA now has a single-issue foreign policy.

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Two Days to Go

Only two days left to back the successful Byron AI campaign, and remember, each backing is being doubled by one of our strongest supporters, so you’re getting double bang for your backing.

I’ll explain the connection tomorrow, but we’ve added one more very special reward, which is a custom three-minute music video or animated Arkhaven comic of your choice from the respectably sized music library on UATV, including Vibe Patrol, Soulsigma, and Cradle to Cavalry, although unfortunately not Booster Patrol, Boomer Patrol, or Silenziosa,

UPDATE: After conferring with my bandmate, Psykosonik songs are also a valid option. Including modern remixes of the original demos. And in not entirely unrelated news, original footage of our second show at Glam Slam has surfaced…

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The Mystery of the Missing Novelist

In 1926, Agatha Christie famously disappeared for 11 days and was widely believed dead. When she reappeared in public, she claimed to have had an episode of amnesia, which absolutely no one ever believed. One hundred years later, the truth of the matter has finally been revealed.

When the Queen of Crime’s car was discovered abandoned at a beauty spot, it sparked an 11-day police hunt, while amateur sleuths speculated that she had been killed by her adulterous husband… In fact, about 12 hours after her car was first spotted, abandoned in Surrey, Mrs Christie checked in to the Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate. Taking a room on the first floor for five guineas a week (about £300 today), she brought with her only a small dressing case, probably purchased along with a change of clothes in London earlier that day.

She signed herself in not as Mrs Christie but as Mrs Teresa Neele – using the surname of her husband’s lover – and claimed to be visiting from South Africa. Few of the 18 guests at the Hydro guessed that Britain’s most wanted woman was in their midst. She went shopping in the town, purchasing a few dresses, and when the weather was wet, she joined in musical afternoons, playing the piano and singing in a ‘very high soprano voice, very nicely,’ according to one guest.

On other days she played billiards (though not well, the hotel manager later told the Daily Mail). In the evening, she enjoyed dancing at the nearby Prospect hotel. One family, the Findlays, teased her that she looked ‘very much like the missing lady’. She replied, ‘Mrs Christie seems to me rather an elusive woman. I really don’t know where she is or whether she is alive.’

But the staff had their suspicions from the first. Chambermaid Rosie Asher claimed to have recognised her quite soon, and reported her concerns to the manager, Mrs Taylor – who later told the Mail, ‘I took on a certain responsibility in not informing the police […] although some of the servants here had said that there seemed to be a great resemblance between the woman and the pictures. I told them to say nothing.’

The dance band members were not so discreet. On the day that 400 cars converged on Newlands Corner as the public joined a mass search for a body, two musicians named Bob Tappin and Harry Leeming visited Harrogate police station. Officers took their tip-off seriously enough to send plain clothes detectives to the Hydro. Convinced they had found the ‘elusive woman’, they contacted Supt Kenward – yet he still refused to believe Agatha was alive, despite the growing rumours. ‘The newspapers are suggesting that Mrs Christie is alive,’ he told the Mail. ‘If this is so, why has she not written to her bankers, her agents, or her solicitors, or to any of her relatives – without divulging her address? […] She has not written any such letter for a reason which is obvious – that she is dead.’

But he relented long enough to ask the novelist’s secretary, Charlotte Fisher, to visit Harrogate and take a look at this ‘Mrs Neele’. Miss Fisher immediately told Colonel Christie, who announced he would make the trip himself. When he arrived at the Hydro, Mrs Christie stared at him, turned to a fellow guest and said, ‘Oh, fancy, my brother has come.’ Then she retreated to her room.

Archie issued a statement: ‘The lady is my wife; there is no question about her identity. She is suffering from complete loss of memory and identity. She does not know who she is. She does not even know me, and she does not know and cannot tell me why she is here. ‘I am hoping to take her to London tomorrow to see doctors and specialists, and hope that after rest and quiet she will be thoroughly restored. Great credit is to the police of the country for untiring efforts in the matter.’

By the time they left Harrogate, the world’s press had converged on the town’s railway station. As the Christies walked hand in hand along the platform, Agatha was overheard to say, ‘What is all this for?’ Her husband replied, ‘It is all right. You have just lost your memory.’ They changed trains at Leeds, where according to the Daily News, a man, ‘raised his hat and attempted to enter into conversation with the novelist. She walked on as though no-one had spoken to her. Colonel Christie, still carrying the baggage, rushed forward and pulled the man away.

‘There was a heated altercation for a moment, and the man remarked to the Colonel, “Surely I am entitled to have from Mrs Christie an explanation of her conduct, where something like £1,000 of public money has been spent in searching for her.” Colonel Christie flushed and replied: “You will get nothing; I have said all I am going to say.”‘

For the rest of his life, Archie held that line. He would not discuss the matter further. The couple separated four months later and were divorced within two years.

I always assumed it was something connected to their subsequent divorce, but it’s nice to finally have the facts come out. Imagine how many other fairy tales we’ve been told in the intervening century…

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Never Assume Stupidity

A foolish aphorism known as Hanlon’s razor says “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

This is foolish and short-sighted. All adopting it accomplishes is to offer cover to the malicious and allow them to hide behind their multiple levels of deception. Consider the following comments made in response to a wicked fake philosopher seeking to convince others to submit to evil.

  • Sounds like the guy posted his shroom trip.
  • I became more retarded reading that retards nonsense.
  • Stones can’t dance; why do they spout such idiocy? Recycled Taoist mysticism.
  • Sounds VERY Hindu/Indian, or wearing those trappings at least
  • Sounds like some Psilocybin based philosophy from a 90’s art student.

It’s vital to not fall for the primary deception. But it’s also important to not fall for the secondary deception that allows the wicked to retreat while continuing to move and operate freely under the cover of harmless stupidity.

Always attribute to malice that which gives off even the faintest hint of sulfur, no matter how stupid it is. Neither demons nor the wicked are particularly known for their intelligence.

KTFS

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Clown World Lunacy

If China wants to maintain good relations with Estonia, then it should stop supporting Russia. This was stated by Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsakhkna following a trip to Beijing and negotiations with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Are Clown World’s puppets as innumerate as biologists? Or do they simply speak the lines they are given, without regard for how nonsensical they are?

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Two Perspectives on The Absurd

As I mentioned the other day, I’d been on a bit of a creative tear of late. And if I’ve learned one thing from GRR Martin, it’s that you’d better strike while the iron is at least warm, because you have absolutely no idea when life, the universe, and everything is going to pull the plug on your inspirational spark.

So, I wrote and recorded seven new songs, and added three remixes, in a style that can be reasonably termed Neo-Gothwave and characterized as if The Cure had actually read Albert Camus and hired a female singer. There are a lot of things going on behind the scenes, which includes the possibility that an actual band will record everything organically, but for now, suffice it to say that for those who are interested in the musical side, there is a new music video available for viewing at AI Central as well as a philosophical critique of the underlying Absurdist philosophy available for reading at Veriphysics.

I wouldn’t think there would be much in the way of crossover, but at least there is a little something for everyone.

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Diversity Kills

The imposters can’t handle it when their manufactured success is exposed for the total fraud that it is.

Aug 12: Jason Arday, a professor at the University of Cambridge and DEI poster boy, has RESIGNED after being accused of plagiarism and lying about his career achievements

August 15: Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism and career lies, has just been found DEAD in a south London home.

The tragic aspect of this is that there is no way Mr. Arday concocted this ridiculous persona entirely on his own. He almost certainly had a considerable amount of assistance in doing so, and everyone who “helped” him bears at least some responsibility for his fate.

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