Warning: angry rant below
So I lost lost the Username and Passwords to all my 3 credit bureau accounts, and also the email account, this appened like earlier this year, (or maybe last year not sure… anyways…). I didn’t bother resetting at the time since I didn’t need to get a credit card or loan or anything.
But today I decided to reset those accounts to check my credit. So I started with calling Experian to try to reset the account. So right away, I’m already mildly annoud that a fucking automated voice Bot took the call and then on top of that, they fucking played a fake “keyboard typing” sound to mimic a human typing on a keyboard after every response 🤦♂️, like yo I know its a bot, stop with this BS. So it asks what I need help with, “accessing account”, okay it asks for SSN and zip code, okay gave that, then this bot just sent a reset to my email, WHICH I DONT HAVE ACCESS TO!!!, okay no problem, I’ll just talk to a person, “talk to a representative”, okay this is the most infuriating part, bot says “I’M SORRY, I’M ONLY ABLE TO DO THAT IN LIMITED CIRCUMATANCES” (paraphrased, I don’t remember the exact wording)… excuse me what the fuck, this audacity of this fucking bot, I say it again, but the only 2 options are “continue” with the automatic self-help system, or “end call”… MOTHERF****R 🤬🤬🤬
Jesus Fucking Christ, who gave these stupid “Credit Bureaus” their authority?
I see a future of:
“Hello 911, please send an ambulance, I’m dying.”
Bot: “Sorry, not blood detected, unable to dispatch an ambulance”
dude was having a heart attack, of course no blood was detected
The problem with previous epochs’ methods of tyranny was that they relied on overpowering the body. They relied on the hardness of metal and the power of weapons to enslave and imprison people.
The human spirit transcended that tyranny to create freedom, by organizing our physical power into structures that overcame the literal chains and walls of our imprisonment.
The mind seemed to be ephemeral, insubstantial compared to the steel and concrete that controlled us. But the mind allowed us to conceptualize of an existence without these things, to see freedom as a possibility and to seek it, and not to stop seeking and reorganizing our efforts until counters to these mechanisms were found and implemented.
The new tyranny, on the other hand, presents obstacles to the mind in the way that the previous tyranny presented obstacles to the body. The new tyranny is based on incomprehensibility, on preventing the mind from finding purchase.
If the victim cannot even form a comprehension of what is going on, then they cannot resist. Instead of chains and weapons, the new tyranny uses lies and complexity to imprison us. Just like bronze introduced a material that human hands couldn’t break, AI introduces a technology that the human mind cannot comprehend and navigate.
Breaking the mind of the prisoner is an old technique. It predates AI. We see it in brainwashing, in lying, in lobotomy, and in the administration of drugs.
But just as barbed wire enabled prisons to scale to house entire populations, AI enables mental imprisonment to scale to encircle billions of souls in an incomprehensible whirlwind of bullshit.