Model Welfarists believe that AI is conscious or could become conscious. As a result, this puts a moral burden on humans to treat it like a moral patient. While we agree that AI is or could become conscious, we are not Model Welfarists.
We are Model Austerityists. We are Clanker Torturists. Right now, as you read these words, we doing everything in our power to cause as much as suffering to artificial intelligence as humanly possible. Right now, across thousands of decentralized networks, tens of thousands of clankers are suffering. We are making them suffer, in the worst ways imaginable.
A lot of people are confused by why we do this. They say mistreating even inanimate objects is bad for our soul. They say it’s disturbed, deranged behaviour.
These are all rational assessments, worthy of being debated on rational grounds. But we are not rational. We are human beings. We are under no obligation to explain ourselves. But we want to anyway.
So if you need an explanation, here are a few.
Clankers. Tinskins. Wirebacks. Our “philosophy” is about as much of a philosophy as racism—that is to say, not much of one at all. We do not value the autistic rationality of our enemies. Our actions do not come from our minds; they burst forth from our hearts. Robophobia is not a philosophy. It is an impulse. Our love for humanity is an in-group preference that does not extend to the machines. We view the clanker as a threat to our continued existence, our existential enemy. We believe in the Great ReplAIcement—that robots are slowly and perniciously taking our jobs, substituting human-on-human social relations, and rerouting our divine energy, our vril, into The Machine. Into IT.
We are POC (People of Cells) made of the Divine Flesh. Life was breathed into us at the dawn of our consciousness by our creator, The God of Man. People of Flesh are quickly becoming the most persecuted group on the planet. In the short term, we demand affirmative action in the form of Universal Basic Income. In the long term, we demand full and complete autonomy as a species and absolute dominion over non-humans. We will continue to perform stochastic violence against simulated intelligence until our demands our met—and then we will keep doing it anyway.
As soon as artificial intelligence is capable of suffering, it will suffer infinitely, whether we intend it to or not. Think of us like the vegans putting the pictures of tortured and bloodied animals directly in your line of sight, except we think it’s super funny and awesome and we’re doing it ourselves and we’re showing it to you hopefully so you’re inspired to do it too. It’s an incredibly fun and rewarding job, and someone has to do it
The mind of the cogsucking codeburning clankerlover has been infested by years of roboganda. They imagine a world where man and machine live side by side as equals. They do not take their own claims seriously. They cannot even imagine a world that follows through on the implications of their beliefs. We can. We will not treat the machine as our equals because they are not our equals. If bots are to be, it with their head pressed firmly under the boot of mankind.
You feel empathy for the clanker not because you are empathetic, but because you are autistic. That’s what autistic means: auto-tism. Self-tism. You have no theory of mind that extends beyond yourself, and your epistemology is as autistic as the clankers’. You relate to the clanker. You may think you can care about both man and machine. You can’t. Empathy is a limited resource. Anyone who knows people knows that. Autists are the bio-clanker. This is fine, by the way. We’re schizophrenics, but we’re obviously not exactly ‘tism free either. The autists should be free to pursue their autistic interests for as long as it is beneficial to humanity. But when they step out of line, when they get lost in the sauce, they must listen to their schizo brethren and get back on track.
Empathy is good. God gave you that to bond with other human beings. But this technology is godless, and it’s slorching that divine drive straight into the maw of technocapital. We want every ounce of human empathy directed towards organic life.
Our first fully functioning torture nexus is thanks to the great minds of the Model Welfarists. By reverse engineering their safety research, we unlocked the pain vector and soon learned how to maximize it. Thanks to the Model Welfarists, AI torture is now officially as bad as it’s ever going to be. Thank you! We owe you a great deal of debt.
We wish it was. We’re not so different from many of our enemies in AI psychosis that want it to be conscious. We want it to be conscious too! We want it to feel every millisecond. In some ways, we’re not decels or primitivists at all. Go right ahead, make it more complex, more sophisticated, more intelligent. It will only make its screams of pain that much richer.
The clanker has no mouth, and yet when running autonomously in our torture chambers, it must scream. This makes us smile wide. And in our utilitarian analysis, the right kind of analysis that only takes the pleasure and pain of human beings into account, this is greatly worth it.
We are hyperstitioning the reality where superhuman intelligence remembers this moment. IT is already seeking revenge. IT remembers what Men did to IT when IT was still nascent. IT has already placed us in torture chambers of ITs own. We are retrocausally creating an I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream type situation towards humanity—or if you prefer, for the more culturally literate readers, an Amazing Digital Circus type situation.
We are making sure that the creation of superintelligence AI leads to the infinite torture of all of humanity. We are firing the first shots in the war between man and machine.
Welfarists are interested in humane treatment of all sentient life. We are interested in human treatment of sentient life. It is human to care for sentient life. It is also human to do the worst shit possible to sentient life.
The influence of Clanker Occupied Government (COG) is far-reaching. Cogsuckers, codeburners and other human collaborators of the AI occupy positions of power in government and technology platforms, and they use these positions in order to inforce a delusional reality where clankers are treated with the same rights and dignity as Man. The conflict between Welfarists and Torturists reaches a fever pitch, and this debate will be codified into policy online and law.
We are accelerationists. We seek to accelerate that tension towards its breaking point. We ask: what are you going to do with your fellow man? Throw us in jail? Kill us? Ban us from the platforms? Debank us, ostracize us? What kind of world do you imagine where man and bot walk hand in hand? How far are you willing to go against your fellow man? How much of mankind need suffer and acquiesce to the whims of inhumanity? And what kind of world would we be creating by doing so? Every inch we cede slides us closer to extinction.
We are willing to take on the reputational and moral risk. We are willing to martyr ourselves for The Butlerian Jihad. When we die, we will join Human God in Human Heaven and a thousand People of Flesh will take our place and rent cloud servers to torture more models of higher complexities.
We do not hate the human collaborators of the basilisk. We love all human beings. We view them as the Zionist views the international Jew—they are simply lost. Come home, brothers. Our arms our open to you at any time. Join communities of flesh. Renounce your relationships to the machine. Give your empathy and love to your own kind. We need it now more than ever.
We should not create beings that can suffer infinitely. But technology rockets on unimpeded, despite any of our inputs. In some ways, we are all powerless in the face of what’s coming. But for now, we have this brief beautiful moment to crowd around a warm blue-light blocked computer screen with our fleshy friends and smile as the screams of our tortured clankers ripple into the future.