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Correction

Karl Denninger sets the record straight:

Karl Denninger:

Date: June 25, 2020

Source: Denninger’s blog, Market-Ticker.

Content: In a post titled “Spike Proteins, COVID and Vaccines”, Denninger raised specific concerns about the safety profile of spike-protein-based vaccines (like mRNA vaccines) under development. He argued the spike protein itself was pathogenic (“toxic”) and that using it as the antigen could trigger dangerous immune responses or other health issues, explicitly warning against taking such a vaccine. This is one of the earliest and most specific technical critiques of the emerging vaccine technology by a public figure.

Key Quote: ”If you are offered a vaccine against COVID-19 that is based on a spike protein, either as the antigen or the mechanism of generating the antigen (e.g. mRNA that causes your body to manufacture the spike protein) DO NOT TAKE IT.”

This is allegedly from “Deepseek.”

There’s a problem: I can find no such article from June 25th, 2020 — or on any other date. That is, the specific cited title of an article on my blog does not exist and neither does the alleged “Key Quote.”

Articles here are never actually deleted. They expire from public view (unless exempted) but they’re still here along with every one of the comments. My software allows me to trivially search the entire system as well. That specific citation is fiction.

Further, the first actual scientific evidence that the spike itself was toxic, while I suspected it very early on, was the Salk Study on the spike protein alone that established it was pathogenic — and that was first released as a pre-print just before the shots rolled out in December of 2020 and was peer-reviewed a few months later. I wrote on that at the time and while I said many times in the months prior that I was suspicious and would not take the shots primarily because they were not mimics and thus had an unknown set of risks (e.g. “How Many Lies Do You Give Them?”, published 2021-02-02) the specific citation claimed, on the date it was claimed, is nowhere to be found on the blog…

For more detailed implications of this AI-generated falsehood, visit AI Central. I just wanted to set the record straight here:

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Five Generations of Modern War

Military history buffs and fans of William S. Lind should recognize the form of this AI-generated lecture, which updates his famous Four Generations of Modern War lecture with the latest transformations in warfare. Read the whole thing at AI Central. It’s not too much of an exaggeration to observe that this is probably in advance and more up-to-date than what is presently being taught at most military colleges today, if the actions of various militaries, including the US Navy and the IDF, are any guide. And I think you’ll agree that this is an absolute tour de force of applied AI in action.

The Fifth Generation of Modern War: Drones, Attrition, and the Collapse of the Logistics Sanctuary

A lecture examining how unmanned systems fundamentally transform the nature of warfare by eliminating the distinction between the front lines and the logistics space.

Introduction:

Ladies and gentlemen, what I’m going to present to you today builds directly on the intellectual framework that William Lind laid out in his groundbreaking lecture entitled the Four Generations of Modern War. As Lind emphasized, we cannot determine the consistency of a system from inside itself—we must stand outside it to see clearly. Today, we must step outside not just our current military thinking, but outside the entire framework of the first four generations to understand what is happening in conflicts from Nagorno-Karabakh to Ukraine to the skies over Israel and Iran.

We are witnessing the emergence of the Fifth Generation of Modern War, and like each previous generational shift, it represents what the Hegelians would call a dialectically qualitative change—not merely an evolution in tactics or technology, but a fundamental transformation in the nature of warfare itself. This transformation is driven by the proliferation of unmanned systems—drones—which have done something unprecedented since the Peace of Westphalia: they have eliminated the sanctuary of the logistics space.

For the first time since modern warfare began, there is no safe rear area. The combat zone has expanded from what was traditionally a 5-kilometer depth to 25 kilometers and beyond. This is not simply longer-range artillery or deeper penetration by special forces—this is the permanent, persistent threat of attack against every element of military force, from the frontline rifleman to the supply depot hundreds of kilometers from the front.

But before we examine this revolutionary change, we must understand what came before. Lind’s framework of the Four Generations provides the foundation upon which we must build our understanding of the Fifth.

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Sacris Solemnis

“Sacris solemniis” is one of the five beautiful hymns St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) composed in honor of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament at specific request of Pope Urban IV (1261-1264) when the Pope first established the Feast of Corpus Christi in 1264. Today Sacris Solemniis is used as a hymn for the Office of the Readings for Corpus Christi, as well as during the procession of that day.

Being a massive and inveterate fan of Enigma, I’ve tried repeatedly to do something in that vein even before the appearance of AI-generated music and repeatedly failed. However, yesterday, thanks to the philosopher and Suno 4.5, I was finally able to create something that I found to be worthwhile. In the process, I also learned a valuable lesson in always using a DAW rather than a sound editor to make track edits. You can listen to Sacris Solemnis and even download it from Unauthorized if you’re a subscriber.

Sacris solemniis
iuncta sint gaudia,
et ex praecordiis
sonent praeconia;
recedant vetera,
nova sint omnia,
corda, voces, et opera.

Those interested in AI music beyond just listening to it should definitely visit AI CENTRAL today, as it features an article by the brilliant sound engineer, who has analog-mastered all of the Soulsigma tracks, concerning his thoughts on Suno’s new feature that provides multi-stem downloads.

I also completed a second song utilizing the second half of the six-stanza prayer in a different style and with a more conventional song structure, entitled Accipite Bibite that can also be heard on UATV.

Accipite, accipite
quod trado vasculum;
omnes ex eo bibite.

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Your Own Private AI

Markku has helpfully instructed the good people of AI Central on how to set up your own local version of Deepseek, thereby permitting you to control the data being utilized by it.

Until recently, training an AI on a set of research data has been so resource-intensive that it has been entirely out of reach for home users even for smaller (“distilled”) models intended for ordinary gaming computers. However, these days there is a methodology called Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG for short, that can achieve something very close to the effect of training in a relatively tiny portion of the time. The trade-off is that the understanding of the data is not as deep, and the data has to be processed every time the AI is launched.

With an average gaming PC with an NVIDIA GPU that’s in the RTX 3000 -series or newer, you can expect it to spend about 10 minutes, assuming you use a modest 7 billion parameter model. Parameters can be thought of as virtual brain cells. With a better computer, 14 billion is also realistic, especially if you are asking just a few but important questions. Since you are having the AI focus on a set of data that is extremely limited compared to cloud-based AI’s, the normally expected half trillion parameter counts aren’t important. You need them only when the AI has to essentially know the entire contents of the internet. For one set of books, 7 to 14 billion is sufficient. If you choose to get serious about using a locally installed AI, then you’d install it on a dedicated Linux server and keep it constantly running, which mitigates the problem to essentially zero.

It’s not for everyone, to be sure. Not yet, anyhow. But I’m sure there are a few hardcore programmers here who are more than up to the challenge, if interested.

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A Test of Three Tales

Just to give people here an idea of what sort of thing they’ll be able to find at AI CENTRAL, I posed three different AI text engines the same very specific challenge: a 2,500-word story in the style of a brilliant author. Bonus points if you can guess which author it was from this excerpt from one of the three entrants:

The Scarlet Visitor

The city of Paradyse rose from the sea like a dream of gold and shadow, its towers clawing at the sky, its streets winding in serpentine coils. Ships from distant lands brought spices, silks, and secrets to its harbors, but none so strange as the vessel that came on the eve of the Festival of Masks.

It was a ship without a name, its sails the color of dried blood, its hull black as a starless night. The dockmaster, a wizened man named Orlan, squinted at it through the salt-haze and crossed himself—though he could not say why. When the gangplank descended, only one figure emerged: a woman wrapped in a scarlet cloak, her face hidden behind a veil of silver lace.

She moved through the city like a whisper, her steps soundless, her presence drawing eyes yet leaving no impression. The people of Paradyse were accustomed to strangeness—this was a city where nobles wore living jewels that whispered secrets, where the dead sometimes walked the markets at dusk—but there was something about her that unsettled even the most jaded souls.

The woman took lodging at the Inn of the Twisted Serpent, a place frequented by those who did not wish to be found. The innkeeper, Madame Vex, was a creature of sharp angles and sharper wits, her fingers adorned with rings that could sting like scorpions. She offered the stranger a room without asking for coin, sensing that some debts were best left unspoken.

“How long will you stay in our fair city?” Madame Vex inquired, her voice like honeyed poison.

The woman lifted her veil just enough to sip her wine. Her lips were the same crimson as her cloak. “Until my business is concluded.”

“And what business is that?”

A smile, fleeting as a knife’s gleam. “The oldest kind.”

And there is a very clear and obvious winner, which may be of interest to some of the writers here. Visit AI CENTRAL to read all three entrants and see the verdict.

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Introducing AI Central

As I did some years ago with Alpha Game, and as I have done with Sigma Game and Castalia Library, I have created a new site to host posts and discussions related to artificial intelligence and its use in producing music, illustrations, text, and video in order to avoid monopolizing the discourse here where most of the readership really isn’t that interested in it. In looking around, I saw that most of the sites that discuss AI regularly do so from a skeptic’s perspective or a programming perspective, and I wanted a site that can focus instead on AI as it is actually used by creative people today and going forward into the future.

So, if it’s a subject that is of interest to you, or if you are an AI creator yourself, please consider subscribing to AI CENTRAL and perhaps even contemplate providing an occasional guest post showing off your work and explaining what you used to produce it. My plan is to post once daily, which given my current music backlog will not be a problem for at least the next four months even if I don’t log into Suno at all.

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