{"id":5424,"date":"2026-09-27T00:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2026-09-27T00:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:19:23","slug":"whatnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2026\/09\/whatnow\/","title":{"rendered":"whatnow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very long article very well worth the read (phenomenal work, that scene writes a lot, or is it bots now?):<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/www.iankduncan.com\/personal\/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iankduncan.com\/personal\/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse\">https:\/\/www.iankduncan.com\/personal\/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>A Harry Potter fanfic used as a recruiting pipeline. Psychological workshops that former participants describe as coercive. A program for breeding smarter children, promoted by an AI institute. A sex worker from Idaho who became one of the subculture\u2019s most-read writers and now runs an AI-doom propaganda residency with Grimes, Elon Musk\u2019s ex-girlfriend. A splinter sect that fled to tugboats and whose members have been linked to six deaths. And a blogger who wanted to abolish democracy, found the ear of several billionaire patrons, and watched his ideas come to fruition in the vice president\u2019s office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as much as I do, of how utterly insane that paragraph sounds. However, every bit of it is heavily documented by numerous sources.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/34eea74c176c9a2c8b1c709cb73de66b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I mean in a sense morbidly online people who have been morbidly online their entire lives, self-centered, coming from religious backgrounds and tripping out, right. That makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>But also no, what the actual fuck is going on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very long article very well worth the read (phenomenal work, that scene writes a lot, or is it bots now?): https:\/\/www.iankduncan.com\/personal\/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse A Harry Potter fanfic used as a recruiting pipeline. Psychological workshops that former participants describe as coercive. A program for breeding smarter children, promoted by an AI institute. A sex worker from Idaho who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5425,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}