Stargate and Sauron: One A.I. to Rule Us All

Trump's new plan will merge the A.I. engines together, and the Singularity will come even faster. The enslavement of men to our new god is on the horizon.

Henry Thoreau once said, “God created man, and man - being a gentleman - returned the favor.” If that line sounds familiar, something similar was also said by Mark Twain and Voltaire, but I’d rather quote the Christian than the atheists on this point. And the point is a valid one.

CREATING gOD

One of the purposes of Insight to Incite is to apprise you of dangers and threats to God’s people that you might not otherwise see, especially amidst all the daily drama revolving around doctrinal debates or the personality conflicts between evangelical celebrities. Often times in this respect, we miss the forest for the trees.

One big, big danger on the horizon of our world is hardly seen as a theological issue at all, and that’s the advance of the Singularity, and Singularity’s mother, Artificial Intelligence. I assure you this issue is indeed a theological one, and perhaps one of the greatest theological issues, not only of our time, but of all time.

SINGULARITY, which I wrote about in the post Singularity and Babel: A Comparison of the World’s Newest, and Oldest False Religions, was originally a term of astrophysics, referring to the singular pinpoint within a black hole where the known rules of physics don’t apply. In fact, we know next to nothing about what happens in a black hole except that scientific laws don’t seem to apply there. Singularity is - as I wrote then - “the place where our knowledge meets God’s omnipotence, and God’s omnipotence sucks in our knowledge like a whirlpool and swallows it.”

However, SINGULARITY is now a term that applies to a similar concept in computing technology, in which it grows so exponentially that all bets are off and all guesses are worthless, as to what will happen hereafter. It is to imagine a world in which computing power so far exceeds human cognition, that we can’t fathom what it can do or the future it can bring.

Chiefly, Singularity refers to the development of ARTIFICIAL SUPER INTELLIGENCE. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is generally described in three stages.

The first (1) was “Narrow AI,” which was the capacity of a computer to do one particular task, such as driving a car. It’s good for that, but not good for anything but that. The second (2) “General AI,” describes computers that have a broad array and mastery of information, similar to that of a human. It is when one machine can do many different things, of similar competency to a human. And this is where we are now. But we’re quickly growing to (3) “Artificial Super Intelligence,” which is when the computing power of a single machine is far superior to humans, can expand and learn, and even create more superior forms of AI than itself.

We are in stage 3, Artificial Super Intelligence, and futurists believe we will very soon reach the point of Singularity, and create a world around us that we can’t even fathom. And I could wax eloquent for several paragraphs about what the threat is to humans and how this issue is thoroughly theological, or I could just post a video from Bryan Johnson.

Johnson is a tech billionaire and the founder of Kernel, a company that created technology to scan and decipher the human brain, the founder of the OS Fund (a venture capital group investing in science and technology), and Braintree, another venture tech fund. Many people know Johnson as a futurist, who’s made the news for Operation Blueprint, his goal to harness the power of technology to literally live forever. Not only does he scan and quantify every measurable metric in his body every single day, but he sleeps in a special chamber and gets blood transfusions from his 17 year-old son (which sounds awfully similar to Adrenochrome).

As a side note: I pointed out in my previous AI article (hyperlinked above) that the religion of Singularity has as a stated goal, eternal life.

Anyway, here’s the video from Johnson that explains my point and lays down the context for this article…

“We are creating god in the form of super-intelligence…we are the creators of god, and we will create god in our image” - Bryan Johnson.

Johnson is on the cutting-edge of the AI Revolution, and make no mistake about it, it’s the religion of Babel. It is Trans-Humanism, the goal of which is to become other than how God made us, and to believe the serpent’s lie, that we “shall become like God.”

STARGATE, AND THE COUNCIL OF gODS

The second full day of the Trump Administration showed an interesting announcement from the new president, which was a plan to coalesce together the biggest and most-powerful AI developers in a 500 billion dollar program to join forces, ostensibly for the good of America. Trump is billing it as an “infrastructure development.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison gathered in the White House for the announcement.

Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told the press pool, “President Trump is very excited about this infrastructure announcement in the field of AI, which is obviously growing, and something the United States of America needs to capitalize on, because our adversaries, such as China, are very advanced in this field.”

Currently, this means we’re at war with Eastasia (a reference from 1984), which calls us to create an AI super-power to thwart them. If this were so, it’s bizarre that Trump has given a 75-day reprieve to TikTok, despite the Chinese app being the largest info-gathering and spying program of a foreign company in U.S. history.

Curiously, Elon Musk derided the announcement on the grounds that it was under-funded, and probably because he’s in the middle of a lawsuit with OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. But that’s besides the point of this article.

SAURON AND THE ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL

In J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings, he tells the tale of magic rings being given the different races of Middle Earth; the elves, the dwarves, and men. In total, twenty rings of various powers were given to these races, and they were spread out so that no one race of men could have total control. Because they were spread out, the magic served as a balance of powers.

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Along with Celebrimbor, Sauron created 19 of these rings, including 9 for men, 7 for dwarves, and 3 for elves. This was not out of the generosity of his wicked heart; it was to hook them on the rings’ power, and then control them. One ring, you see, was designed to control all the others.

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them, In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie."

With the rings dispensed already, Sauron used his remaining ring - of greater power, having been forged in the fires of Mordor - to rule Middle Earth. Isildur, during the Last Alliance of Elves and Men, cut it off his hand. He later lost it, trying to take it to the Elven kingdom, and it fell River Anduin, where it lay for two thousand years. And then, as you probably know from the movie, Smeagol found it. From there, the ring found its way to the Hobbit, who set about to take it back to Mordor and destroy it in the fires.

JOINING OF THE AI gODS

It was bad enough that Sauron created the smaller rings to begin with. None of them were truly necessary for the flourishing of the elves, dwarves, and men. They were quite fine without them, but the Middle Earthlings didn’t want to turn down power; magic, after all, is enticing.

Likewise, humanity doesn’t need Artificial Intelligence at all. We seem quite alright driving our own cars, or using smart phones to peruse the Internet. In fact, we seemed quite fine having to drive to the library, to scour for a book using the card catalogue (if you remember the Deep Magic, from many moons ago).

But we regular-earthlings like the new potions and spells. We covet the powers given us by the Watchers in the skies above us, especially if the elves and dwarves (or Chinese and Iranians) already have them. We can’t be left out of the passing out of sorcerous amulets.