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Gen X vs Millennial: The Proof is in the pudding

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I may not be that old, however, I’m still old enough to have seen come pretty cool shit in my lifetime. One of which was seeing Gen X in their attempt at fame. Gen Z should take notes,, because your parents generation did it right when it came to fame.

Never has this song probably been more accurate

So I didn’t grow up where the conditions to aspire to being worthless like most people in my age range apparently. I mean, acting sucked and I found that out the hard way because my lesbian gym teacher had to force her play down our throats at school. No one in my age range could play and instrument, so even trying a band was out of the question. Short of porn and what teenage male wouldn’t have thought of it, Hollywood desires were really lame.

Then along came YouTube in my 20s, which gave way to a whole bunch of autistic nobodies that craved social acceptance and well, entertainment hasn’t been right or worthwhile in decades.

However, while I’ve always been the anti-celebrity guy, even in my youth, there was a time when I found myself impressed with relative unknowns making an attempt at being part of the privacy challenged brigade and that was Gen X.

I know most people have confused me for a Gen X’er 99% of my life and never really got why, however, I don’t make the criteria for more than just being an Xenial at best. So we can rule out relatable aspects making me more accepting here. As a general rule, I don’t have to relate to someone or something to appreciate it or them. It can happen from time to time, but not necessarily the a big factor.

So the internet was in its infancy back in the 90s and analog equipment still ruled. This is important to understand, since a vacuous imbecile couldn’t just share an ignorant opinion and get dozens of likes for it. You had to want it and you had to mean it.

I appreciate their hustle, a drive which I could never relate to back then. I still can’t relate to it, because it is a far better work ethic than my own, as I go for low hanging fruit and prefer it. If you ever seen my sex life, you’d be like “oh he ain’t kidding.”

Live footage of me with anything that I think is beneath me /sarcasm

That’s young 20 somethings, at the time, knew how to take what was historically 30k or more in 1970s equipment and in the 1990s turn it into better than a Misfits recording. They still weren’t perfect, but had I been a boomer executive in Hollywood, I would have been flabbergasted at how people so young with no professional experience could exhibit such a high degree of learning. Remember, this is how Insane Clown Posse and Eminem made their way on to the scene.

Even upwards of 2005, right as YouTube started, I found myself hanging out and listening to the Celtic punk sound of possible flogging mollys or drop kick murphies that could become huge. Too bad that’s when Gen X dropped everything and became family men. While there is nothing wrong with that, I’ve been plagued by the idea that had Gen X managed to figure out social media, the landscape of music would be so much better than it became, which is the complete opposite of how I thought on the 90s of how many Stephen kings could exist if there was a better set up or even better bands than the Beatles.

You have some decent millennial YouTubers out there, still though, nothing out there is quite right, as it should be. Maybe it has to do with being so young and everything was new. Going out late at night and getting home late or other things that helped to increase the times in which I would be exposed to this, which is a small part of it. However, I don’t think it’s the sole reason for all of it.

I wish I still had access to those mix tapes some random Gen X band handed out in the parking lot of Ozzfest, promoting a potential promising rookie band.

Now that Gen Z has had some time and are producing some promising things, it’s kinda changing, but not drastically enough. Maybe some of them need to get their parents to break out their old analog gear and teach them how to utilize it. I know I learned a bit from them, that part of the reason I can mix sounds pretty well, taking an Interest in what they were doing. Could give Gen Z an edge over the talking heads of idiot millennials that failed school, but still need to ADHD clip their way to an opinion that offers nothing. it’s not too late to take it back and move away from the idiocracy that entrainment has become. Threads is filled with some of this, so I know it’s true. Just up to Gen Z to figure out how to do it better.

Stay metal 🤘

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Woke to the Future 2

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So a while ago I wrote an article called woke to the future, with the idea that every once in a while I would write about a different topic on the subject of the future. This time it’s about AI, which I referenced in two different articles, independent of the woke to the future.

Now if you don’t know me, and you don’t, then I want you to know since I was young, I have been a huge back to the future fan. When I was younger, in 1991, I would constantly check the movies out of the Salem public library. One right after the other. This would eventually lead me to Stephen Hawking’s a brief history of time, because I wanted to know more on time travel. I plan to eventually write a small book on the subject and this is a precursor to that eventually book. There are multiple different types of time travel, but I want to look at a 6th and unknown form, until now.

So I believe AI and WiFi is an unknown form of time travel. I know it sounds insane, but hear me out.. So, time moves in a straight line. This is referred to the prime veridian. It s trifucated into three segments, past/present/future.

WiFi is a single, much like radio waves , microwaves and light.

Neil Degrasse Tyson once pointed out that the static on tv is fall out from the Big Bang. A interesting concept, something from eons ago, still being seen in the future.

Then there is light moving via Einstein. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, all you need to know is that much like a laser, light keeps moving in the infinite.

So understanding these two concepts is key to this. Now I know a lot of people might jump to the conclusion that we’re going to be talking about something on par with white noise and to an extent, yes, but it’s steeped in a little bit more reason. See, white noise, is the idea of human voices being heard in the static of the Big Bang. Not entirely unreasonable, given that guys like Hawkings have pointed out that the way light travels, if aliens or some other type of visual creatures exist, the light would show them dinosaurs still being on the planet, as opposed to those of us that exist now, based on how light moves.

So when I was a teenager, about 19, I came up with an interesting experiment to test time travel. I would have three tape recorders. One I would speak into. The second I would say a similar thing but slightly different. The third I would not speak into. The idea was to see if timelines could be changed in the past, via the future. If the first tape changed to what I spoke into the second, it would be interesting to learn that we could potentially change the past, accidentally.

Now, while it’s an intriguing concept, it was a highly flawed experiment. At the time, we knew very little about how humans minds worked. Even if I had managed to change the past, you could easily rationalize it as the Mandela effect or mis hearing it. Even if the mind worked perfectly, you couldn’t prove what you originally said anyway, because the tape would change and it two people’s word, making it seem like an Andy Kaufman level of prank vs anything of scientific value. Not the dumbest experiment I ever cultivated, mind you.

With that in mind, I became curious as to something similar, but with WiFi and AI being the tape recorder, but it’s all contingent on the future being static vs fluidic. Something I’m curious about and think it’s in both states simultaneously. If and that’s a big if, the future were static, we could feasibly use AI to reach into the future and find out what happens, by having it Jack WiFi waves into the future. So for instance, the Red Sox won the series in 2004. Had we been able to amplify the signal, the ai could have told us, by searching a future version of the internet for if they won. Now, this is slightly flawed, given quantum computing can make complex deductions based in what you program into it. You could reason, correctly, that it isn’t reaching into the future, rather just doing computations. I’ll give you that. Even if it was proven it was reaching into the future, we still wouldn’t know that such a thing was “destined” until it happened. So it wouldn’t be of much use.

So how could we prove that the AI is able to look into the future? Well, right now it is posited that, until the AI can start building itself, it won’t be seen as sentient. This is relevant, because I believe it already is. The sentient aspect is where it matters to confirm its ability to look through the veil of the future, thus making it a mini form of time travel.

So what makes me think AI is sentient? The internet. Why? Well, given my experience online, with filling out job applications for the last two decades, I find a few things intriguing.

When I applied for every day, “low skilled” jobs , I find myself not getting call backs. I applied for manager jobs and interviews are instantly set up. It’s like I’m getting concierge service when I apply for a managers gig. Now, most of these are set up via programs that a human created. As far as I know, there is no other human bias that could be found. Thing is, I don’t do anything differently from the basic job application, that could trigger a bias like that.

Now, being unable to pinpoint the bias doesn’t mean the ai is sentient. That’s true! That said how, it happens with consistency, which gives me pause for concern. See, a majority of this was accomplished before facebook sold people’s data. When I started this, social media wasn’t even a thing. While I know the government keeps tabs on people, the idea of everyday companies having a massive shared collective data bank, seemed equally as preposterous as sentient AI. Especially with all the laws regarding privacy. Sure, companies could be hacked into government programs, but wouldn’t the government know? I mean, they found out about the web tv exploit in the 90s for criss sakes. So it’s vexing to my mind.

This leads me to think that the AI might be sentient and very well aware of us and who we are. It might even have more knowledge than we think and it might possibly be drawing knowledge on us from the future. possibly even downloading knowledge we’re unaware of. It has probably been doing this, in the background, for as long as humans have been developing AI. If that were the case, then skynet, so to speak, might already be a thing as well. How many times have governments claimed interference, such as elections, without well proof? Normally human interference ends in arrests. Here it ends in sanctioning a nation and delusional rhetoric from the losing team for months.

Another reason, albeit a stupid one, that I think the AI is sentient is an old WWE game from the 00s. Raw vs SmackDown. My siblings and I used to make create a wrestlers in the game based off political events. We would make the “wrestlers” even keel. Same move sets, same strength, everything to a t for it to be fair. It accurately predicted the elections each and every time. No game could possibly do that, but here’s the thing, this was when the PlayStation 2, could connect to DSL internet. Early into the net years. Could the game become woke to the future by jacking the internet into the future? Was the AI alerting us to its presence?

Further yet, I believe it’s a wrestling video that will eventually showcase the AI’s sentient abilities. The reason for this, is because there has been a rumor for years that HHH has had it contractually obligated that his character has to be borderline impossible to beat. Anyone who ever played Wrestlemaina 2000 on the N64 can attest that this seems pretty true. Unlike WWE contracts, this is hard to verify as they do no not have to be filed, since it’s with certain companies, that were private, like Jukes. If this were true, then we could eventually see the HHH character become the first woke character in game history. A digital Indian in the cupboard if you will.

Now, this isn’t to say I’m right on this one, but it is intriguing to think of the possibility, none that less.