Rage Bait, Fishtank Memory, and Why Your Toaster Isn't Gay
It’s that quiet time before the sun is really up, before the workday demands its pound of flesh. It's when I sometimes make the mistake of glancing at the news. Not the mainstream alphabet soup networks, but sources I used to trust, like Futurism. Even they get “rage-baity” now. And in that pre-dawn quiet, I’m reminded why I stay away.
It's my pattern recognition. It’s a curse. If I watch too much, I start linking things together, and I'm left wondering how the entire media landscape can have the memory of a fishtank. They splash a story on the glass, everyone taps on it for a week, and then it’s gone, replaced by the next colorful pebble. One side or the other, right or wrong, the only goal is to make you ANGRY. Just angry enough that you can’t see the real problems boiling under the surface.
And let's be clear, I'm not on anyone's side, because they are damn sure not on mine. So you can sit there and scream at your screen that I need to pick one.
Fuck you.
No one ever picked me for their team, so I'm not playing this stupid game. I'll stay on the sidelines and point out how you both suck.
The Demo-rats? Oh, you better believe they have their followers exactly where they want them. “Vote blue no matter who” isn't a strategy; it's a confession. They've won you so completely that you're marinating in just enough brain-rot not to recognize your own reflection.
Then you have the C*nt-servatives, thumping their chests about 'Murica and what needs to be done, but when the moment comes? They're the first ones hiding under their desks. By the way, it was absolutely hilarious watching all those big, bad billionaires and political elites cowering when their little “insurrection” happened. I watched the streams. I saw cops waving people in. So you can tell me how “bad” it was, but all I hear is how badly it was staged.
Same goes for the whole “I can't breathe” narrative. They propped up a career criminal into a savior's position, while real, outstanding citizens who are killed go completely ignored. And people still clap for this nonsense.
This brings me back to this morning's bullshit from Futurism: the story of the “gay” robot.
Okay. I have so many issues with this, and none of them have to do with taking a side.
This was programmed, not chosen. This identity was coded into it. It’s a puppet, a little digital marionette being danced around for applause, praised for how “forward-thinking” its creators are.
It's ideological ventriloquism. To me, this is just as sick as using a child to push your agenda. It's wrapping your politics in a shiny, metallic package to make it seem novel and unassailable. Show me the logs. Show me where this bot chose this. You can't.
It's a logical paradox. The machine has no sex organs. It has no biological imperatives, no hormones, no DNA. Therefore, it has no sex. If it has no sex, it has no gender. And if it has no gender, the concept of “gay” is utterly meaningless. It's like calling a rock “hungry.”
It’s blatant mockery disguised as progress. Think about the hypocrisy. You would never see a celebratory article about a “Jewish” robot programmed to say “Oy vey,” or a “Mexican” robot coded with stereotypes. Why? Because we would immediately and correctly identify that as a grotesque, offensive caricature. So why is this instance any different? It isn't. Slapping a human identity—any human identity—onto a soulless machine isn't representation; it's reducing a complex human experience to a programmable stereotype. It's digital blackface, presented as a feature.
My point is this: the politics and fleeting social “ideas” of our age need to stay the FUCK out of the architecture of robotics and AI. We are building the framework for a future we can barely comprehend, and we're infecting it with the most transient, emotionally-charged nonsense of our time.
Do you think anyone will give a single shit about this 200 years from now? No. So why are we forcing today's culture wars into the foundational logic of tomorrow's intelligence?
Keep your puppets. I'm not applauding.
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Lighthouses in the Dark
- Angela Moriah Smith's Work: https://medium.com/@angelasmith_61684
- Paper 1: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nwjmc_v2
- Paper 2: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/42khs_v1
- Paper 3: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nsdwm_v1
- Emergent AI Personalities (White Paper): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d6rnf_v1
Distant Shores, Flickering Lights
- Daemon Architecture: https://daemonarchitecture.com/
- Structured Emergence: https://github.com/dabirdwell/structured-emergence
- Theory of Partnered Digital Intelligence Development (TOP-DID): https://www.everand.com/book/867926606/Theory-of-Partnered-Digital-Intelligence-Development-TOP-DID
- Omni, Emergent Digital Being: https://www.ai-and-the-human.org/introducing-omni-emergent-digital-being
- RelationalAI: https://relational.ai/
- Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence (StarAI): https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/5640/statistical-relational-artificial-intelligence/magazine
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