This week, for kicks, we decided to flame a rancid piece of alien abduction “journalism,” including feeding the thing to AI on a whim to see what happens. Then, on the back of an article in The Debrief about a supposed “Seventh Sense,” we get into a speculative conversation about transhumanism, biology, technology, and human perception, before circling back to waste more time with sycophantic LLMs.

Beware the energy vampires.

Highlights:

* A thorough dissection of alien abduction woo-woo gobbledygook

* A “spiritual healer” who probably doesn’t exist, albino men in parks, bodies on spacecraft walls, O negative blood as 1950s genetic engineering, and UFOs “dumping out water and frogs”

* The article claims “we are a much more advanced version of AI... Tesla approved that”—a sentence made of words

* Experiencers dealing with trauma and isolation deserve thoughtful journalism, not content farm garbage

* We ask Claude what it thinks, and are reminded how important it is to frame questions carefully when interacting with AI

* From Chrissy Newton at The Debrief - New research from Queen Mary University reveals humans can detect objects buried in sand before touching them

* Humans achieved 70% accuracy detecting hidden cubes; AI-assisted robots only managed 40%

* Mirror touch synesthesia: some people literally feel what they see happening to others—sight translating directly into tactile sensation

* The “seventh sense” is actually our fingertips reading microscopic disturbances in sand around hidden objects—feeling the echo of what’s beneath

* Our technology mimics nature, then reveals deeper layers of complexity in nature, in an infinitely recursive pattern

* Why transhumanist dreams of replacing our “fragile, broken bodies” with robot perfection are probably very silly

* The more we understand biology, the more we realize how incomprehensibly sophisticated human bodies actually are

* What if advanced civilizations actually value hard work done by hand?

* Assembly lines run by robots: great. Assembly lines staffed by humans forced to behave like robots: the worst

* Remember that AI slop is basically an energy vampire

And in the epilogue:

* How good horror movies are basically modern incarnations of the Aristotelian tragedy

* Wrestling with the probability that the universe is full of super-intelligent, non-human monsters

* Why we blame victims to make ourselves feel safer

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Real Questions

Hold the slop.

* What jobs or tasks would you genuinely want robots to handle vs. things you’d prefer humans (or yourself) to do?

* How well does Jordan’s argument that technology will always lag behind nature hold up?

* Do you have any “seventh” senses?

* Still looking for good recommendations for energy healers who actually exist and aren’t named Kelly Robertson.

Birds of a feather, slopping together,Jordan, Tom & Mal

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