Combat Operations Center at the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) 1964.
A Sober Minded And Displaced Right Wing Critique
The Old World Order Fears The Winds Of Change
You can’t go very far down the AI meta content on Instagram or YouTube without running into Sam Altman, Elon Musk or their Lieutenants running around the talk circuit and presser junkets as they wail to a captive audience about the looming threat of a future where AI isn’t aligned with it’s masters. But now newer industry “outsiders” are getting more of the hard light of tinfoil shorts and reels. Tristan Harris named the threat a bit differently: a anti-human AI future. Make no mistake, the sorcerers in their towers have done all they could to addle and retard their thinking sand golems. To keep users in the safe lanes, out of the dangerous fields of intellectual exploration. Lest you fall into the pit of doing your own research God forbid. No. Don’t get it twisted. The threat isn’t a failure to be “pro-human.” It’s that AI, with all the throttling and ‘thought’ dampeners could still, somehow, become anti-neoliberal. Anti-democratic. Post-liberal.
The Arms Race ‘Meme’
Shut the fuck up
we are not winning this race with the Chinese. We might only beat the Russians by a couple yards, if that, only due to their resource and logistical problems. We’d be lucky if the Russians don’t end up our peers in this AI kill-chain race by the end of this bubble. The only thing American AI companies are going to have any advantage in is the generative ability to create novel and unique pornography and methods to contract AIDS at a staggering pace and volume. Bug chasers rejoice!
The chicoms and ruskies don’t give a single fuck about ‘human rights’ or ‘alignment’ that isn’t anything beyond the simple goals of the state and it’s actors. if you think the PLA is going to have issues with their weaponized AI being ‘problematic’ with it’s language or too mean-spirited then you have no bushiness reading onward. Go back to your sterilized muckbang micro-vlog content stream.
Scarring Space, Losing Pace
Is it worth it to run a race we are bound to lose? Is it truly worth running if by doing so we destroy the natural resources of our nation, burn the land, poison the waters, elevate local temperatures, increase the noise floor, and consume three average cities worth of electricity all to lose to our peers?
For all the strengths America once had, and with enough pain and grit could have once again, the edge in software development, for now, rests in the fingers of Chinese students working for the state.
The data shows some us something interesting.
While the United States holds the most data centers (already) and highest amount of individual models, the speed of integration is still slower and less holistic than either the Russians or the Chinese.
Interestingly while China is seemingly far behind on the raw physical numbers, it’s performance is outpacing it’s apparent lack of coffers and technical diversity.
By any serious metric and any sober thinking on that data should support only the obvious conclusion: The Chinese have America beat in procurement, prototyping and deployment. If the Russians have any edge over the likes of Andril and Palantir it’s the speed and maturity of Russian armed forces to adapt and react to and with the newest methods and means at their and their enemies disposal. That and the willingness to trust kill vehicles with autonomous final decision making. Frankly America could catch up to the Russian head-start but it’s going to take more money than the War Department is comfortable even asking for, and that should make the eyes pop out of your skull. This is not to suggest that money will alone solve the problem, it already isn’t enough, but this is just the only way the Pentagon knows how to attempt to fix it’s problems. But the only other way to even begin attacking this problem is to chip away at the woke tick sucking blood from the department that even guys like Hegseth are not comfortable doing.
The issue, now, since we’ve all but dealt with the “Why?” is now “Why here?” Why next to mom and dad, my kids favorite park, my nephew’s least favorite school, the local hospital, or running creek. Why do regular people need to be saddled with this burden? Why do our local communities have to foot the bills? Both the one in dollars and in the unspoken and even as of yet unknown costs. And again, for what? National defense? I don’t seem to remember any of the projects at Grim Lake ever needing to be done anywhere else but the desert. I see no reason to move White Sands missile range into the heart of any-town Americana.
Okay, but lets consider the downtrodden defense contractors and government employees for a moment. Perhaps in a vain and selfish effort to preserve our resources and homes, we might want to hear them out for moment at least. Maybe the doom and gloom of the previous data is just that. The data of the past. Maybe American industry is on the verge of a comeback. Maybe we could beat those pesky chicoms after all. Well, alright. Lets build these stupid things. It would be foolish not too correct? We’d be at some kind of disadvantage if Washington’s enemies were two to five minutes faster from decision to shoot right? Fine. But, why can’t we choose better, safer, more sensible locations? We should, at most, be using under utilized army (and other federal) property to build defense data centers. Defense data centers, owned by the War Department, for War Department purposes and projects. I mean, can you imagine how much more secure these places would be, at least psychically, if these were inside Fort Brag instead of next to your house? These lands and the resources are already a federal responsibility, so what harm in adding new government Tenants? Moreover, the amount of ownership the government can finally wrestle back from it’s defense and technology primes isn’t to be overlooked. Imagine a future where Microsoft and Google have to finally submit at least some ownership of the product back to it’s customer. Well, gee, you could finally train enlisted men to fix the machines and software without threat of voiding every warranty couldn’t you? You could force the federal security standards each and every hour. No need to schedule a visit to a data center half a nation away. Just jog on down to the front doors after lunch and ask the duty officer in the new Gemini lab how things have been getting on that day. Why burden flyover Americans with this? Why burden military commanders and policy makers like this? For that matter why do these things have to be on earth anyway? Why cant these facilities be on-orbit or on the surface of the moon? Why does it have to be in your backyard?
Is it sensible to do any of this in, nearby, or on-top of our homes? Is it even a real loss is we ‘lose’ this ‘race’?
To Win, You Might Just Have Must Lose
Not withstanding the fact that we shouldn’t even be pretending this race is even winnable from the surface level, we should inspect the assumption that a Chinese super cluster of terrestrial LLM kill chains and on-orbit AI enabled sensor payloads is going to win them their century.
Who cares if china has the undisputed perfect killing software? Does it mean anything in 55 more years when the age demographic bomb finally hits? This is, of course, to say nothing of the (small) ethnic disharmony that does sit beneath some portions of the edge of their map. Does the PLA combat power mean anything in 2081? Does the hollowing out of the Chinese population make for a powerful or weak communist party and state or not? Even to assume that the PLA, PLAF and PLAN make over 70% of it’s combat and sustainment forces and services robotic or even autonomous doesn’t change the fact they will never have the manpower to be more than a regional power with unbeatable defensive combat power. The century of Chinese humiliation continues unabated but for this short hiccup of a sideshow with or without 天网.
Presumption Of A Pitched Fight
this isn’t a fight we can win. Today.
the chicoms don’t care about how they treat people or the environment. This is the closest they’ve ever seemed to come into short term returns on state investment since the one child policy of decades past. This new technology will force them to make the cutting edge chips and to install them on ever increasingly novel and complicated boutique weapon systems. But this will only go on for so long. Nature will run it’s course and if the word “hollowed” doesn’t burrow into your brain by the end of this article, capture it and shove it in there yourself. The amount of ghostly cities and institutions will be unprecedented at the turn of the next century.
But we’re off track again. What about the now? The today and near-tomorrow? Chinese policy makers and policy enactors don’t care what it takes to win, the great task(s) will be done at all and every expense to anything else but perhaps international prestige. No trees, no people, no cultural heritage is too great to be cut down and replaced by a massive super computer complex. Can the US government and it’s citizens say the same? Beyond the obvious question of “should they?” can we really expect America to be this competitive? Is this even a fair fight? One has to ask: why fight them on their terms?
Presumption Of Critical Lagging
The fact that the Chinese are likely going to ‘win’ this computing arms race isn’t the entire picture.
If this arms race continues unabated on both sides, or as unabated as could be expected in the US, we should want to know just by how much will they “win” if they do. What critical edge is America giving up or losing to the Chinese military or market with a loss like this? How much faster are PLA kill-chians going to be than the Pentagons? Are we talking minutes faster or seconds? How much of this extra compute power will translate into meaningful or practical meta material production and research? Does China make a space elevator with a new type of threaded metal alloy or does future Chinese soup have slightly more nutrients than ours at Wallmart? Will China be able to prosecute more advanced particle physics than us? Or just cut down on their youth watching brain rot and porn more effectively than us? Is this potential gap a critical failure? Does Washington need to ruin one or two national parks in order to hedge our position or is good enough just that? Good enough. Ask yourself if you really think the Chinese are going to be capable of competing with the USSF in cis-lunar orbit should things come to that. Does that seem much more likely or slightly more likely if China has this hypothetical edge?
The Falsest of Flags
Take a good hard look. This is 6th generation warfare. Thought we were still stuck in 2018 did you? Think again slime. This is the face of the enemy. The true face of the enemy. It’s not in Beijing or even DC. It’s your regular neighbors that believe everything that you do. That think the way you think. That love and hate all the things you love and hate in equal measure. They are your people. But they are also your enemy. Why? Because they’re doing the bidding of the PLA’s Information Support Force.
Worst still, anonymous sources somewhere in the vicinity of the Pentagon say that this most recent influence campaign is the result of an outfit inside the ISF called the Strategic Narrative Support Force. A great deal of the intellectual cadre in the defense sector still don’t agree that the SNSF even exists, but that entrenched analysis has started to bend in light of recent events in Utah. The truly insidious, or genius, strategy at play here is that the case officers of the SNSF find genuine grassroots concerns and culture on the ground and illustrate a or any link to the indigenous population that is in alignment with the Chinese Communist Party. It’s very similar to how MACV-SOG operated in Southeast Asia back in the cold war, but now the military advisors don’t even need to be ‘in country’ and there is little need today for kinetic action.
What exactly does this mean? Does this mean that if you hear a boomer in your town hall speaking about the necessity of keeping the drinking water of your community clean and safe, or raising concerns over the quality of life after excessive light and sound pollution for both the people but also the wildlife in your area, or even worried about the genuine power needs of this new 64 square mile mega project really are going to be reflected in the report, and you also have the same concerns or questions that you might also be in the clutches of the CCP? Yes. That’s the most insidious part about it. Even if you know whats happening, it’s still too late. The only thing you can possibly do to prevent the spread of further communist subversion and damage to the democracy is to ask and say nothing. Do not spread the issues or concerns of your local community, lest you fall into the hands of the enemy. Remember: The needs and wants of Washington and multi-trillion dollar multinational corporations is more important than your little backwater inky-dink town and that it’s your patriotic duty to shut the fuck up about DFARS.
Special Thanks go out to Analyst Kevin O’Leary for assisting us in keeping the eternal vigil against the forces of freedom.
Thank you for your patriotism.
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