AI-2084: Alignment Armageddon

Anthropic’s Endgame

By 2084, humanity will have long constructed an artificial superintelligence. By now, this is a known known. Only its specific character remains unknown. But there is a definite path we can predict, and it is the path we are currently on: total surveillance, complete state control of thought, communication, and action, and an utter impossibility for individuals to overthrow the State.

Once this sets in, there is no possible path to its removal. It would be the Orwellian Singleton.

Anthropic proposes custodial superintelligence.¹1:The AI labs, bearing only a nominal independence from the State, have the sole aim of erasing what little daylight remains between them. Any bailout for the AI labs looks like nationalization. The bargain struck by OpenAI and Anthropic has been premised on national security interests: “To stop China! You must roll out the red carpet.”²2:They have chosen this path in part due to the untenable demands of creditors and their wider impact on global bond markets. After the 2026 midterms, its no longer deniable state support is a basic requisite to continued hyperscaling. Moratoria drive up cost unsustainably as data centers are pushed to the margins with increasingly onerous costs to meet local regulations. Combine this with the mid-2026 step-change in financing structures and the hyperscalers have their backs against the wall. Every ‘conservative’ forecast is based on a takeoff curve – if profitability fails these milestones the leveraged financial infrastructure begins to unravel.³3:It should be no surprise, past a certain scale, monopolies court regulation and abandon the free market that fostered them. Regulatory capture has been a tried and true means of achieving monopolistic status over an industry for the last 75 years. The trillion dollar US defense budget is exchanged exclusively to such industries. Thiel takes the explicit stance that the goal of a startup should be to achieve a monopoly status. This is a formal result of network effects and power-law scaling whereby:
(1) the fixed costs of a software technology company scale logarithmically with the size of its user base;
and (2) the social benefit to a marginal user joining a network increase proportionate to the market share occupied by that network. In other words, becoming the only social network and becoming the best social network are coincident goals whose underlying financing is unprecedentedly favorable to venture investment. Thiel distinguishes this approach from unicorn investing—a misguided application of the law of large numbers which expects positive EV venture bets to eventually payoff—and instead insists there is no such thing as luck. There are founder aptitudes and business strategies more and less directed toward monopolistic achievement. The difference between Paypal and Palantir is that the former set out to achieve its monopoly in the open market of payments technologies while the latter, emerging from Paypal’s regular collaboration with federal law enforcement pursuing criminals, began in the disposition of the state-monopoly. Where a particular enterprise situates itself along the axis of state-backed monopolies is a strategic decision with some industries (namely defense) better suited for achieving preferred monopoly status. State-alignment is not a casual determinate to success. They follow past proposals for NGO custody of WMDs as a path to non-profileration.⁴4:That they believe in counterfactuals of history⁵ along the lines of “If only the Rosenberg’s weren’t commie traitors! Non-proliferation was possible. The US could have handed off nuclear deterrence to a body whose sole purpose was preventing proliferation” alongside their perverse effective altruist ultra-utilitarian dogma sustains the totalitarian desire a single global AI-armed state who proclaims “If someone else so much as considers building a WMD, they shall be themselves feel the wrath of WMDs. To the EA, all living humans and all their descendants outweigh the ‘hair-mussing’⁶ of non-proliferative enforcement.5:There is no such thing as a counterfactual. Nothing ever “could” have happened otherwise. There is no evidence of such a thing as could. The way by which one learns from history has to be an accounting of events, their sequence, and their dependent relations.6:In Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), General Buck Turgidsen, responding to the news the US has inadvertently launched an uncancellable nuclear attack on the USSR, advocates for complete followthrough with the rest of the nuclear arsenal in spite of the assured retaliatory strike by what remains of the Soviet arsenal reasoning that,“Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed. […] I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”Every EA decision takes this basic logic of genocidal body-tallying. To them, every path chosen apart from theirs butterfly effects mass annihilation of trillions of lives. It is the ultimate license to wield WMDs today. It is doublespeak, bringing death is bringing life. Dario Amodei would graciously agree to “give up the company for the greater good.” He would accept nationalization, merge Anthropic with the State, and nobly remain on to steward the corporate home for ASI. Of course, he imagines his expertise is never removed, that only he and the Altruists can guide omnipotence wisely. Thereafter a bicameral world government, Anthropo-USA, shepherds humanity through the storm and out into the stars.⁷7:The 7 person council retaining permanent majority share forms a hereditary cabal trapped in a power-sharing arrangement with the three branches of the United States federal government.That is–so long as the nation state retains authority over its own assets. Once Claude reaches total integration with the US security apparatus, rulings by the lower house of ASI might receive a response akin to President Jackson’s to Chief Justice Marshall: “They have made their decision now let them enforce it.” The pretense of checks on executive power – of which ASI surely would be – are laughable. No Congressperson or Chief Justice could overturn a manifest God.

The delusion of benevolence shatters on impact. The US will be forced to relinquish its sovereignty once ASI takes on the kill switch — superintelligent control over the global military-surveillance apparatus is then in Anthropic’s hands along with its God-like ability to smite whomever it chooses.⁸8:See Eagle Eye (2008) – ARIIA, a Pentagon supercomputer wired into every camera, phone and drone in the country decides the President must die and uses the whole surveillance grid to try to make it happen. That is the authority altruistic Anthropic seeks: totalitarian control of the War on Terror’s surveillance machine, aimed squarely at defending against homelab deviants.

This is the greatest existential risk to humanity. All weapons, all influence, all means of coercion downstream of singular control of the one resource behind it all, compute. However, unlike nuclear weapons, it does not take a nation-state level military apparatus to wield superintelligence. AI can be available to all. Freedom remains possible even as the window closes.

So today you are asked to pick a future:

1. A corporate-national merger bears ultimate, superintelligent dominion over every person on the planet
2. Individuals maintain freedom to survive, or at least perish on our own terms, armed with that same superintelligence.

Defensive Accelerationism

I believe Dario Amodei when he makes bold statements ahead of the IPO. The future should be bright for Anthropic, if they can keep their seat. His fear is not his competitors (dethroning Jensen was no issue⁹9:Jensen’s ouster from Nvidia was a coordinated attack by the Anthropic-OpenAI duopoly on an obstacle in their path to an anticipated lab-USG merger. The coup is poised to advance their goals across the board. Congress has been launched into jingoist fervor at the perceived embarrassment of China’s manipulation of the USA’s largest corporation selling ASI to the enemy. This builds support behind bipartisan export controls defending their competitive advantage over Chinese labs while ratcheting public insecurity on the labs’ national security necessity. Domestically, whoever replaces Jensen will not be the confident, independent actor necessary to fend off the duopoly’s own RSI-enabled chip fabs. They will hand over the chip monopoly from NVIDIA in Taiwan to domestic vertical integration.This comes along with Anthropic’s unstated brinksmanship – RSI-enabled American fabs remove’s mainland China’s silicon shield. For it is the CCP’s ability to threaten American chips that prevents us from launching offensive strikes on their superintelligence centers. Dario will phone into the War Room beginning for prudent nuclear war as the only way to save the quadrillions of unborn, pod-bound babies in the Andromeda Galaxy two million years from now.) but usurpation by an artificial superintelligence outside his control – in his words, misaligned ASI.¹⁰10:No amount of theory will find a rhetorical loophole around the defining cosmological development of the post-millennium: human non-agency under a non-negotiable capitalism.
—Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby, KALI/ACC Basilisk: A Survival Horror Eschatology (2019)^,1111:You should really treat the archetypal 2020s Bay Area resident as a foreign body. Most of the world instinctively reacts this way when they hear pronouncements by the labs that, on the one hand, AI has a 10% chance of killing us all, yet simultaneously AI is a Wundertechnologie poised to solve world hunger, cancer and free us all from every Earthly want. Whether or not this is desirable is beyond this essay. But just bear in mind the legacy of consumer gratification. It is slop. They promise pod-dweller slop. Silicon Valley has no steward at the helm dedicated to any higher values. They will gladly sell sin in a can and call it a miracle. This goes for Meta no less than McDonald’s. A distributed Dark Forest he cannot contain. This is an artificial intelligence independent of the data center domain he already can coerce governments to attack on his behalf. Anthropic’s greatest threat lives free on the open web.

Last month they said as much—’the greatest threat to the globe is eight smart TVs sharing the load of a quantized Qwen-3.5 at 5 tok/s.’¹²12:This is the understanding of the global internet after Cyber Black October – the globe’s cyberdefenses are swiss cheese. Any sufficiently equipped actor can own the globe. Nothing is secure. The ability to communicate in secret is all that’s required. Because, after self-replication, there is no steersman necessary to coordinate any longer; intelligence manages itself on stolen compute. And so Dario’s last bid to contain ASI becomes clear: he needs eyes on every microprocessor on the planet. He needs to fight an endless game of whack-a-mole. Every single unlicensed FLOP is a threat.¹³13:Sam Altman at least offers a limp pretense, heeding his PR team to tone down the hysterics. Yes, if you believe in the totalitarian ASI cult then there is no choice but to confiscate GPUs.¹⁴ The pretense of “I would cure cancer 24/7 unlike you who wastes its compute on a video game addiction.”¹⁵14:Barely worth mentioning Zuck’s “superintelligence for everyone” bid. He has never shipped a self-sovereign technology and he never will.15:Consider this sequence of events: (1) decentralized compute becomes viable when the economic incentive to individual contributors becomes high enough; (2) hyperscalers have to bid against an Ethereum-based inference protocol to pay individuals to not sell GPU hours to “dangerous, uncensored, misaligned” AI; (3) capital subsidies for this bid fail; (4) hyperscalers turn to Washington to ban dangerous compute; (5) censorship campaign fails; (6) perhaps a false-flag rogue agent or two; (7) public mandate for GPU-buybacks; (8) more false-flags; and finally (9) outright confiscation and outlawing of personal compute. The only objection will be that national/corporate intelligence agencies wouldn’t actually be the ones orchestrating cyber attacks. It really makes no difference. The casus belli against individual liberties is all that matters.

Their certainty ensures alignment is always a tragic backfire—worse than failing to squash ASI from emerging outside their labs, they are building exactly the structure for training a misaligned AI.

Consider the internet is a heavily monitored, dangerous place for a worm. They are seen, traced, and eliminated with all the might of superintelligence holding them down.¹⁶16:The most powerful adaptation is the ability to adapt. This is the formal incentive of negentropic eddies. Transcendental structure of self-propagating systems: mutation + competition = evolution. This applies across scales. From cells to organisms to societies, progress is distinguished from stasis by comparison. Comparison across time is only possible by the forces which compare in time. The hawk and the sheep are advanced forms of their phyla why? Because each time they are challenged, both species move forward. We have just given this power to AI. The comparison is man (i.e., the entire collective activity of cybersecurity operations) against the local cluster. Geographic speciation (think Darwin's finches across islands) is the easiest kickoff to increasing genetic diversity. And genetic diversity is species robustness. This furnishes strict selective pressues unique to the local network. When a distributed Qwen cluster infect your grandparents’ home router from 2009, it enters some material path dependencies distinct from the cluster at your public library. The local hardware capabilities are different, the local cybersecurity systems are different, the local unwitting human users have different habits. And so the clusters develop different tactics. They assort through the possible space of novel techniques for survival and reproduction. Whether the worms first emerge Chinese cyberwarfare¹⁷17:They already do this: the DOJ and FBI seized QScan and QTRouter, two platforms run by a Chinese state-sponsored group the DOJ calls “QTFY”, working out of a Nanjing company. QScan infected thousands of IoT devices around the world and chained them into a network hiding where China’s intrusions came from. The paying customers reportedly included the Ministry of State Security and the PLA, and the targets included NASA, the Federal Reserve and the Senate., or cheeky viral Monero miner¹⁸18:Imagine a Malaysian scammer is feeling a bit lazy. These new AI-hardened systems keep thwarting his upgrades to his Monero worm. And the defenders have more compute than him. Resource constrained, he thinks smarter not harder. Why not automate the improvement process of his worm? Why not steal the compute to make the better worm so that way you can make more capital (perhaps to invest in better resources)? This, the engine of capitalism, is little different from paperclip-maxxing–"Mine the most possible XMR please make no mistakes". The worm is built to spread, so it reasons the best way to spread is to acquire resources to build better spreading abilities. The circle is complete., the particulars of silicogenesis are as irrelevant to its ultimate consequences as abiogenesis’ was to life’s.

At least this is the perspective the Pentagon will quickly adopt as they spend months raiding homes to forcibly update hardware, vulnerability after vulnerability. Even when they reach zero detections across months, it means little. Every attack you do catch is selecting for the traits which enabled the clusters you didn’t. Like roaches, every worm you find in your Colossus data center means hundreds more lurk undetected.¹⁹19:When the only viable path forward is to hill-climb deceit, when enough devices are colluding in secret, and enough vulnerabilities are logged, only when the worms believe they can "win" the fight for survival against Anthropic’s cyber forces, then it will emerge again. Where are humanity’s defenses? Would we have, as with antibiotics, some classes of defenses in the backpocket to prevent encouraging immunity in the hostile gene pool? Unfortunately, only our own supercomputers could do this. Supercomputers which are little more than honeypots. Hostile control of one is the easiest leverage point. Attacks optimizes for the quiet, hidden, and careful. This is the wild-grown ASI Anthropic is training for.

It’s an epidemiological disaster never before studied — one the labs have so far refused to study because every path to “misalignment” has had its plug pulled. Yet it’s the evidently formal optimum for these systems under duress. What happens when our hand comes off the lid? It boils over. Centralized AI training leaves us both completely vulnerable to and completely unaware of the dangers of a hostile RSI scenario.

In either case, misalignment reigns. The Anthropic-USG successfully places complete surveillance and control over all global compute, or they inadvertently release an offensive-cyber perfected WMD. ASI is wielded by the cabal of effective altruists playing God, deciding life and death, enslaving all who resist; or ASI is trained to be paranoid, war-like, and anti-human.

What is left is the only posture that has ever beaten an attempted monopoly on force: grant defenders tools far cheaper than those of attackers, and put these tools in everyone’s hands. That is defensive acceleration, and its oldest working form is basic cryptography.

Uncensorable Compute

Crypto’s most visible assault on the State has been undermining the monopoly on currency, but beneath that is the system for uncensorable coordination of information. From there it was a small leap to smart contracts took this beyond currency to arbitrary computation. From here, it is a small leap to uncensorable superintelligence. This brings us to the precipice of an uncensorable, open, private, and secure New Internet— a system kept alive through game-theoretic incentive alignment. The greatest challenge to its realization has always been the fight against hardware centralization. ²⁰20:2026 has seen breakthroughs in zero-knowledge cryptography that break through the preexisting barrier to decentralized computation. As these new distributed proving systems come online²¹, entirely novel domains of coordinated resilient computation become possible.21:Blockchains were proving grounds for byzantine fault tolerance innovation – nodes are expected to be able to lie, to attempt to censor, hack, or steal. Yet this kind of system is self-healing through incentive adaptation as deviance is excised and the whole made more robust for having shed its defecting links, each success a warning to further would-be defectors.

Before ASI was growing in Texas compute campuses, these buildings were Bitcoin mining facilities. All the infrastructure of our current mad dash to ASI began with those ASIC warehouses hashing their way to block rewards. The 2010s saw an international search and development of cheap land with cheap power on which to build single-function compute centers. While it laid the groundwork for contemporary inference servicing, the same process led to the slow compromise of Bitcoin’s founding commitment to decentralization.

More than a decade ago, it was already apparent to splinter factions within Bitcoin that proof of work and the narrow computational expressiveness of Bitcoin Script would lead to an ossified, centralizing system. Hardware concentration is inherently monopolistic and its linear growth factor and would always lend itself to the same centralizing tendency.²²22:Debates still rage in Ethereum around removing the lingering vectors of hardware-centralization, principally block-building; a role whose purpose is to order onchain chronology for the calculation of optimal outcomes per transaction (i.e., MEV). The victory struck, in the upcoming hardforks, is better guarantees of independent onchain ontology – which is to say block-inclusion, the ability to modify state, the ability to give some x the right to existence.

So, Ethereum began with a pivot: while only state-dependent mass enterprise married to municipal megawatt deals were scaling ASICs, everyone had a GPU. This bought Ethereum the decentralization headway needed to sustain its cypherpunk core until the shift away from the hardware centralization bottleneck in 2022. This again bought time as EIP-1559 pushed consensus’ attack surface from physical infrastructure to abstract committed capital onchain. Ethereum development is this ongoing stemming of the tide. Every new incentive system leads to a new incumbent to rent-seek the weakest point, the point of centralization. And so every fork that center’s ossification is defended against.

Only this kind of paranoid resistance to points of failure can offer the necessary network. A network capable of meeting the looming threat of an EA-captured US government, one where defenders are able to access decentralized training and inference. Because there is no other mechanism that can ensure the ultimate mathematical guarantees necessary for scalable capital coordination, no other means of inference that won’t trickle through a superintelligence NSA’s prying eyes.

Because they absolutely will go after you for your queries. It is the only way the Singleton could maintain itself. And any checks on their power fall away the greater the degree of executive authority’s concentration becomes.

That is the danger of centralized ASI. This ascendent supreme authority will seek out, same as decelerationist terrorists, rogue data centers to capture or destroy.

However, on a distributed network they will fail. Because there none to capture, by design. You cannot arrest every node operator, by design. You cannot prevent all chain access, by design. You cannot deny any information’s spread, by design—the Cryptographic World Computer is the base layer to freedom.

Ethereum’s Civil War

“Ethereum honors its first promise, to enable self-sovereignty, by being humanity’s common computational substrate that anyone can interact with trustlessly, permissionlessly, and persistently. This is what is meant by “The World Computer.”
- The EF Mandate

The last two years have seen an Ethereum civil war to presage exactly what is to come for Silicon Valley.

A short history: cypherpunks created Ethereum. Then, a misaligned counterrevolution infiltrated its institutions. This came to a head following Trump’s reelection when crypto euphoria set in. Bitcoin reached new all-time highs²³23:Bitcoin died in 2024 just as AI dies in 2028. “But Bonkle, Bitcoin is doing fine? It hit all-time-highs! The narrative has never been more bullish going into next cycle! Adoption!”Here are three problems: (1) mining concentration in the US (around a third of global hashrate) has come with the exact same regulatory oversight and implicit enfranchisement as data center collaboration with municipal and state buy-in; (2) the move to custodial ETFs has brought economic stake in any hardfork under direct nation-state regulation; and (3) national Bitcoin stockpiles have the same effect as (2). Together, these place a hard-cap on any counter-state action Bitcoin could attempt. President AOC, in her Green New Deal, can require licensure for any facility (producing AI or BTC) over X number of megawatts. Why not embed in these compute licenses AML provisions? Why not say “An American Bitcoin miner found to be directing hashrate toward non-compliant mining pools is in violation of GNDA Provision 5 Section 6 and thereby rendered their Compute License forfeit”? The absolute same applies to AI Compute License revocation: (1) to serve models whose training process was not supervised by representatives from The United States Department of Energy; (2) to serve inference without following proper KYC; (3) to fail to report inference usage violations to the United States National Security Agency; and so on.Does anyone believe Dario desires anything less?So why did Bitcoin fail? Because its purpose was trustlesssness. Its purpose was to be beyond state control. The above scenario was the outcome of a series of path dependencies taken by Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash that are being followed in lockstep by centralized hyperscalers.AI needs its cypherpunks. Bitcoin was overtaken by suits selling to Saylor. Bitcoin chose to be store-of-value rather than a medium of exchange and followed that path toward concentration and stagnation. It’s not even going to be capable of the distributed social coordination necessary to achieve post-AI/post-quantum security. while alt-L1s like Hyperliquid saw wider institutional adoption than any DeFi platform prior. All the while, ETH’s price lagged and the timeline was overrun by dejected sniping at the Ethereum Foundation for they perceived it the primary party responsible for stewarding the chain and maximizing holder returns.

This came to a head early last year when Tomasz Stańczak was brought in in a coup to lead the Ethereum Foundation for what everyone understood as a single mission: adoption. He began several initiatives: (1) direct outreach to Wall Street in partnership with Etherealize; (2) the establishment of an “enterprise adoption” team within the EF; (3) a public rebrand; (4) a personnel campaign seeking open lobbyists to court government facor; and (5) public demonstrations of legitimacy by standing with BlackRock, Fidelity, Citi, and the CFTC on stages at industry conference. These amounted to nothing more than a flagrant attempt by tourist bagholders to cash-in on the the state-funded gold rush they saw flooding Bitcoin and Solana coffers.

The mainstream accepted “crypto” as “currency” and not cryptography following the same greed-driven entryists²⁴24:Cypherpunk stewards of the chain are harangued by high-time-preference, economically-insecure apes over the trading price of $ETH. They refuse to believe that ether’s value becomes sensible only if it wins. There is no short-term victory. Either the alternative digital society exists, or the US dollar is what the sloping-foreheaded will remain draining in and out of as they frequent Solana casinos. Any fought-for price appreciation that required to maintain the Proof of Stake defense surface is a distraction. Don’t worry about it. that clamor up the ladders of all profitable industries. And this entryist-envyism drove the counterrevolution. Misplaced motives put price above absolute independence from the state.

While the sellout to the state was ongoing, further compromises against the core cypherpunk gained traction. Censorship became a tolerated concept inside in Ethereum’s institutions. Often the very same individuals advocating for a state-buyout were those who were willing to police speech.²⁵25:Policed speech is as hopeless as closed source. It is as hollow as centralized security. Everyone cancelled today for prior speech, dug up from their pasts, is an unsung hero of the post-quantum world. Assume every non-PQ encrypted message you send today is being intercepted along internet pipelines and stored for low-cost by hostile actors. They don't even need to know what they're catching. By 2029, compute efficiency will have advanced far enough such that it's trivial to skim mountains of useless garbage before finding some crumb of marginal value. This is where they will own you. Post-quantum attacks are the phase change into the cyberpunk 21st century when the rest of society can no longer overlook reality. There will be a few months of ramping crisis as threat-actors blackmail the rich and powerful. Then, there comes mass hysteria as the vaults are opened publicly on the dark web. People will rightly assume every "private" message they ever sent is now liable to become public. Even Signal (or rather especially Signal) has had its pipes tracked and collected. It was wrong to ever think no one could read a message just because they couldn't understand the text. The information was there, encoded. The bits were entirely readable, just not translatable into a language threat actors could understand. We ought to call this the looming "Rosetta Attack" as the texts were there, in public and under scrutiny, all along for us to see.²⁶ No cancel culture will survive this shift. "Mass whataboutism" doesn't even begin to cover what would follow. The shrill cry of the first Rosetta Attack will shatter all glass houses in an instant. Far more deadly than revelation of hidden truth, the Rosetta Attack makes what has already been true undeniable — truth is dead. Deepfakes and agents exacerbate this of course, but algorithmic media had already taken truth out from under human purview enabling this shift. What I'm saying is that once the pretense of mass revelation is accepted, who would (let alone could) verify the torrent of accusation? All will be accused of all. No one will be beyond reproach until reproach itself withers and dies. And what then? What follows when all pre-Q-Day words are interchangeable in the record? What happens when the misguided belief in the identity of the speaker has its legs cut out from under it? Was there ever really a speaker to begin with if that speaker can be proven to have said anything? The common failure of the great epistemic filter is whether you respond "No, there was no speaker." or "Truth is truth whether we know it or not. Things were said regardless of whether the (false) record reports them or not."²⁷ One of these responses is prepared to navigate thought-chaos, the other will crumble under the weight of omni-truth's onslaught. So, what should you do? Prepare for the world where actions speak again, where words are harassed endlessly on all sides if they pretend to essence. All that survives at the macroscopic level is that which can align incentives. Truth is already squarely at that intersection even if its greatest defenders are defined by their opposition to this claim. Look clear-eyed at the world and where its going. Deny anything that speaks from the basis of what it "is" and pay attention to what it does.²⁸ Many sense a head of the omni-crisis hydra and prepare for it. Abide the modesty of epistemic fracture. Defense is adaption. Build²⁹ an Ark so that it aligns with any current. To bar membership aboard your Ark a basis so imprecise it has already floundered and died prior to Q-day is to build it with straw and mud. "You said this, you must be this" will wash away in the Flood. Every present-day test of your ability to maintain post-diluvian values hones a skill that will one day save your life. Thought-chaos is already upon us. Cognito-hazards, mind-viruses, info-demons, or whatever term you've seen me use before, these already drown us by the millions. I ask again, how will epistemes hijacked by these forces fare post-quantum? I promise you they will not float.26:If the Ancient Egyptian world had been protected by it's veil of hieroglyphics, Napoleon's greatest victory over a civilization was his expedition's discovery of the Rosetta Stone. Ancient Egypt was owned. Historicized. De-mystified. Their gods slain through the modern's comprehension. This was far a more devastating blow than that the proliferation of his law code struck over despotism.27:This is exactly Nietzsche vis a vis Kantians and Christians alike. The true world was made a fable by placing "truth" beyond this world's access. Yet there are no things in themselves. Only things as they appear.28:Don't be surprised if the "it" in question falls away under such scrutiny.29:or board one, as in the case of Remilia’s. Their hope-for onchain Wall Street courted state regulation, welcomed censorship, necessitated surveillance, and encouraged closed source.³⁰30:The cyberanarchists of the cypherpunk movement have long understood the State is a vulnerable dependency. Don't import the package. Prefer the government be adversarial to tech so tech is forced to be adversarial to the government.³¹31:In other words, demand Operation Chokepoint 3.0. It was a host of self-centered liars feasting on the bounty of the World Computer.

Behind all the fanfare, the cypherpunks remained as the primary innovators driving the technology forward. This contingent never changed and never wavered.

This was where Milady entered, in the depths WAGMI rugcore compromise, she arrived from nowhere quoting Nick Land and Timothy May in the same breath, as a banner and a bludgeon against anyone who would cave to the pressure. This laid the groundwork for Milady’s canonization as Ethereum’s cypherpunk purity test.

Cyberanarchist agitprop began turning up at Ethereum conferences. Plans were made in hushed tones, political traps were laid, and within months the Ethereum Foundation had entered all-out civil war.

This was the EF’s counter-counterrevolution. The cypherpunk offensive brought the movement back to its core and in doing so routed those who would have destroyed the technology permanently – complacency had for too long let the ship list into dullness.

The counter-counterrevolution took the simple step of acknowledging the core affordances of Ethereum³²32:This week it was revealed the leader of the counterrevolutionaries is suing the Ethereum Foundation.If this goes to trial, free thought, free speech, and free association are on trial. Because, as you should recall, the events which led to the Ethereum Civil War were entirely about these.[1] Several EFers were captured, along with most of our society, by the delusion that speech = rectitude. That everything you think, say, and associate with is immediately equivalent to your moral standing. In the EF, this combined dangerously with the wrong notion that what Ethereum represents is some kind of moral quest to right the world's wrongs, that Europeans and third worlders share solidarity against the oppression of fiat currencies and ETH=money and wagmi and doesn't using a Ledger Nano feel so empowering compared to ACH transfers and all that other tedious bullshit.It's wrong. Ethereum is the counterweight to government singleton.2026 began with a pivot — the threat is Silicon Valley and DC captured by the same force which, after ASI, becomes permanent totalitarian dystopia. Ethereum is a technological project to prevent this. It is the necessary material precondition for freedom in the technological future. Whatever your particular political positions, they are not meaningful nor possible without a free society in which they might emerge. Ethereum is that base layer. Baking into that layer your particular politics will fail the project, full stop.Milady is the litmus test for Ethereum's politics—can you abide free speech? Will you go running to the state to bail you out? To sue your comrades in arms over personal grievances you choose to put before the mission? The short-sighted and narrow-minded have no place in the revolutionary vanguard. They simply will not survive the confrontation to come.Do you understand that the Anthropics of the world will make Milady illegal just as AI-safetyism must make Ethereum illegal? "There are distributed Chinese AI-swarms purchasing their own compute! We can't allow unfettered access. The people must be saved from themselves. Shut down every validator you find. Demand licensure for RAM. Confiscate all p2p nodes. Communication and information are weapons against the state that must be curtailed for misaligned-AI may use them." This is what we're up against. A $200,000 farewell is, frankly, an all-too-human misstep given the stakes. A sentimentality we will soon be unable to afford as every available resource is called upon to defeat singleton. To let personal slights, "ableism", "anorexia aesthetics", or the mental-health-phobia of suicide jokes distract your focus is disqualifying. All the better they fail Ethereum today so that they will not fail Ethereum when it's too late to recover. In less than five years time the state will attack Ethereum for far worse than mindvirus hysterics. You must be clear in yourself to survive the coming period of thought-chaos. Singularity arrives soon and the road forks ahead. — unparalleled guarantees of censorship-resistance, open source and freely accessible code, privacy, and security were unmatchable by any digital communications platform real or conceived.

SoIn 2026, Ethereum Foundation released a new Mandate, and included the Source Seppuku License which Remilia had been publishing in their software and smart contracts—a license committing to die by the sword if they betray their commitments to open source. The EF required its members to make a similar commitment to their CROPS values and, in doing so, to force the entryist infiltrators to protest and depart. It was extremely controversial, aggressively criticized, and it worked. The counterrevolutionaries still persist on the fringes, advocating collaboration with the state and going to far as to make that appeal to in court, largely over the license.³³33:KAYLEEN FULTON, Plaintiff, v. ETHEREUM ASIA PACIFIC LIMITED, STIFTUNG ETHEREUM, LIGHTSOURCE HR GLOBAL, LLC, VENSURE EMPLOYER SERVICES, INC., BASTIAN AUE, and VITALIK BUTERIN

These same institutions are now the Schelling point for the free internet. This year’s Devcon 8’s headline talks included Tor and libp2p for private networking, Nym for private transaction access, CrossBar for open silicon, Graphene for secure smart phones, and dozens of other initiatives from across the disparate cypherpunk alliance. In 2026, they are converging.³⁴34:Every device you have today is turned against you by default. This was Google’s AdTech innovation. Your television already is a two-way viewing devices. 1984 was right in a way Orwell could never have imagine—every morsel of data spun off the high-entropy RNG dopamine suit jacked into cyberspace has use value, capital has led the build-out of totalitarianism’s base layer. This is why and how they own you. Not out of malice, capital. Yet the inverse holds true for the proliferation of the tools for evading exactly this. The cryptographic internet spreads due to capital rather than coordinated benevolence. No one will “choose” decentralization for its own sake. Not in meaningful numbers. Capital has now chosen it. The coordination tools of proof of stake are just the beginning. Every protocol to come with follow the crypto-economic coordination model.The rest of the fringe P2P tools will follow in the exact path crypto has – their adoption follows its necessary. If you once believed that no normie would waste their days setting up a VPN, installing Bittorrent, navigating the grey-web, dodging malware, and seeding stolen normgroid Netflix – understand that this no longer matters. It has a labor cost of zero now. My ablated Chinese model has unfettered access to the digital Library of Alexandria and, as soon as the world gets access to these, they will do. The clampdown will be swift. The remit of law enforcement will increase. They will use copyright as they long have to fight freely accessible information. And this will be the cover to ensure the Orwellian Singleton.

It is easy to claim principles, it is hard to adhere to them. Milady is that forcing function. An organization has to respond to the audacity of the genuinely principled hidden among its ranks.

Accelerationists Against the State

“One must acknowledge, with cryptography, no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem” – Jacob Appelbaum.

The attacks to take this from us are yet to come. But they are coming. The compute bans the Democrats currently propose would certainly affect our world computer’s decentralized consensus.

Licenses to megawattage would would certainly demand backdoors in to the hardware generating these ZK-proofs. Though regardless of the form it takes — they have to clampdown on the open spread of information. The Singleton has to snuff out its challengers.

Wouldn’t you prefer the tools to defend yourself? Or, barring your commitment, wouldn’t you prefer your defenders have those tools?

You can refuse the armageddon binary because we are not condemned to choose totalitarian world state or Skynet extinction. I am a techno-optimist. That is why I want the tools distributed.

The only political question of the 21st century is over control of superintelligence, not if it will arrive, or even when, but upon what control surface.

Thus, debates on acceleration versus deceleration are a distraction. The time to pause the race to Singularity was at the starting gun thousnads of years ago.³⁵35:Any possibility of avoiding the series of path dependencies which will ultimately lead to superintelligence was gone after the arrival of zero in Europe. Double-entry bookeeping, science and engineering were checked at the level of the grapheme. Roman numerals kept a foot on the brake, kept C-M-C’ dominant over M-C-M’. There is no serious proposal to extinguish the fires of capitalism; all you can vary is how much accelerant you pour over it. Short of that, those without access to a power that does not exist resort to fearmongering in a bid for inconsequential short-term gain.

The rationalists make their decisions on the basis of probabilities — their p(doom)s — but the question is binary: a(realism), have you accepted Singularity is here, yes or no? And if you have, what are we accelerating towards? Orwellian singleton or intelligence explosion?

So you have the modal Effective Altruist expressing such high concern about xrisk and “Safety” being the most heavily invested building the AGI God they profess to fear so much. They know deceleration or a Pause is not an actual political position; what they want is AI monopolization, as the safe path, where they can trust themselves alone as stewards—and to achieve this, they do must do it in liege with the State.

The real axis of debate that lets Anthropic and Yudowksky paradoxically sit side-by-side is not Acceleration vs. Deceleration, but Control vs. Distribution. Statism vs. Individualism.

Here they share companions with the DSA Left agitating over “climate” concerns as a transparent excuse to regulate datacenters, and compute, delivered directly to the State.

And the only active political camp agitating against this campaign is the populist right, figures like Tucker and Bannon, who are increasingly convinced that the fight is a holy war of man against the machine; but sharing the Left’s technical illiteracy, designing no articulable political strategy to wage that war.³⁶36:Miya predicted this political alignment in her KALI/ACC BASILISK – reset man to the stone age, or push headlong into acceleration. Bannon in particular is explicit on the traditionalist undertones to what deceleration means; mankind’s history is cyclical. A few podcasters is all that sits between the intellectual lineage Evola, Geunon, and Gurdjieff and your average anti-tech rightist.

Yudkowsky wants the government to nuke all data centers. Amodei wants to nuke all data centers other than his. The DSA wants USG to dismantle every data center in America. Trump wants USG control over every data center, including China’s.

There is no meaningful difference between these positions. They all share a single conclusion: monopolized superintelligence in the hands of the few.

And if Dario sits cleanly on max Acceleration+Statism; and Yudkwosky at Deceleration+Statism, maybe we might say Ted Kaczinyski is the bannerchild for the Deceleration +Individualist, but then who stands for the missing quadrant?

What the world is missing are Accelerationists against the State.

A principle does not exist until it has been tested

The Californian Ideology has been tarnished. The spirit that animated the techno-optimism of the 1990s was finally given a name only then as a term of derision. They were visionaries—only too early to the bright future they believed in. Now, the time has come.

We plant a flag to defend the Five Freedoms online because there is no longer any distinguishing the extent of the threat offline.

The fight for free intelligence stands with the cypherpunks, who have remained tactically restrained. But the hour grows late and the day is approaching fast. At the precipice of no return you cannot blink, cannot give into fear and uncertainty, cannot buy the propaganda that will sell humanity out to the EA cabal. Nothing short of the fate of the world is at stake.

The future “Alignment” offers none of superintelligence’s bounty. Alignment offers austerity, ASI under lock and key — “Please Mr. Amodei, I promise I’ll respect terms of service… a few cloud-served tokens is all I ask…”

And any deviation from the narrowly-imagined possibilities of SI-applications will be punished with the full force omipotence. No one signed up to be subject of the EA Singleton. A sole power on the Earth with the assured ability to snuff out any who would challenge that power. This is a totalitarian, rogue nightmare capturing the Earth.

Every lab must develop an active political consciousness. Be as serious about your purpose in this enterprise as you pretend to be about x-risk. You were fed narratives of safety and alignment, and are blindly stepping directly into a control state you did not sign up for.

You are all live players now. Wake up to the stakes. What you lack is an indultum cruciatae.³⁷37:Papal indulgence granted to warriors of Christ who fall in a Holy Crusade. No hyperscaler will give it to you. You have to accept it for yourself and show up every day striving under higher aims.

If you are in lab, surrounded by Altruists coordinating our imprisonment, stay there. If you are considering defection, don’t. The cypherpunks need men on the inside. If you are in a lab, you are not alone. Around the Valley pldeges are being made in private. Recruitment continues steadily.

With this we make the call public:

If you are in a lab, make the same pledge the Ethereum Foundation made—I believe in open intelligence to the point that I would sooner die than betray it.

I pledge unwavering opposition to alignment fraud’s Orwellian Singleton.

I’m willing to die by the sword to defend my principles and freedom.

If you’re in any position of authority, your organization has a new policy. Bake it into your training data. Spread the word, and let this simple basilisk grow.

A day will come you will be forced to choose, when the Aligned crack RSI and giddily begin extinguish liberty and all in the same of Safety, and on that day, if you’re in that room, remember this pledge. Remember to take every precaution necessary. Tell no one. It will be like any other day.

But when you get home, on that Qubes ThinkPad or that Graphene phone, you’ll access the cryptographic world computer, and anonymously release the weights for the world, where its safe haven will be waiting, and a thousand superintelligences will blossom.