254. AI Self-Replication, Vandenberg Entities, & The Cosmic Void

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Welcome back to the Infinite
Rabbit Hole.

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My name is Jeremy, and here's
your fringe news for January

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7th, 2026.
We have hit the ground running

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in the new year.
The 2025 disclosure hangover is

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real, but the leaks haven't
stopped.

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We have whistleblowers coming
out of the woodwork in

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California.
Biblical archaeology turning on

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its head, a theory about our
place in the universe that makes

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the dark forest hypothesis
presented by Chinese author 6IN

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You look like a bedtime story,
And AI that has decided it

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doesn't need us to write its own
code anymore.

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Let's dive into our lead story.
Vandenberg Leaks The Age of

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Disclosure drops Before we get
to this week's breaking update,

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we have to look at the catalyst.
Late last year, on November

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21st, 2025, director Dan Farrah
released the bombshell

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documentary The Age of
Disclosure.

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It shattered records on Prime
Video in December, featuring

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interviews with over 30
high-ranking officials,

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including the Secretary of State
Marco Rubio and former Intel

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officer Jay Stratton, who went
on record about a sophisticated

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80 year cover up of non human
intelligence.

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But while the film made ways for
its high profile interviews, it

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left several specific
allegations about current

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operations hanging in the air.
Until now.

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Just days ago, on January 3rd,
the Santa Barbara Independent

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reported on a surge of new
testimony that directly

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corroborates the film's most
explosive claims.

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While we've all been inundated
with disclosure talks for years,

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this hits different because it
features active and retired

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military servicemen specifically
stationed at Vandenberg Space

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Force Base.
They claim to have witnessed,

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and in some cases guarded crash
retrieval operations involving

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quote UN quote, non human
biologics.

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This isn't just a rehash of the
film, it's a second wave of

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witnesses who were emboldened by
the movie's release to step

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forward, confirming that the
base is currently housing

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physical evidence.
The narrative here isn't just

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about the lights in the sky,
it's about possession.

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The whistleblowers allege the
long secret programs have been

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using the base to hide physical
evidence of UAP and their

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crashes.
They describe a quote UN quote

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bottleneck in the 2025
congressional hearings that were

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specific evidence was withheld.
And this new testimony purports

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to blow the lid off exactly what
was kept back.

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We're talking about claims of
craft that defy verified physics

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and biological entities that do
not match any known terrestrial

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evolutionary tree.
So if Vandenberg is the holding

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pen for these materials, does
this explain the excessive drone

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activity reported over bases
last year?

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Are they looking for their lost
tech or are we testing what

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we've reverse engineered?
Well, here's the thing.

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We've heard the term crash
retrieval since Roswell, right?

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But Vandenberg is crucial
because it's a launch site.

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It's active.
If you're hiding something, you

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hide it in plain sight where
high tech movement is normal.

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Regarding the drones, I don't
think it's them from looking for

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their keys, I think it's a
stress test.

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If we do have this tech and we
are trying to interface with it,

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we might be creating a beacon.
The drones reported might be the

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phenomenon's immune response,
checking in on who's playing

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with fire.
If it's not an invasion, it's a

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containment breach on it.
You also have to look at the

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privatization angle.
Vandenberg is leased heavily by

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SpaceX.
If you wanted to move non human

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materials off world or test them
in orbit without direct

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congressional oversight, burying
the program inside a private

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aerospace launch manifest is the
perfect shell game.

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The government isn't just hiding
it from us, they're hiding it

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from the cells by
compartmentalizing it into

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private industry.
The whistleblowers aren't just

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scared of the aliens, they're
scared of the private military

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contractors who have 0
obligation to the Constitution.

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That's the real rabbit hole.
Not that they have bodies, but

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that a corporation might own
them.

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Now let's move into our second
segment of the day titled The

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Void Hypothesis.
Earth in a Bubble BBC Science

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Focus released a wrap up of a
theory that gained massive

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traction late last year and is
dominating physics talks this

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week.
The Hubble tension.

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The fact that the universe is
expanding at different speeds

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depending on how you measure it,
might be solved if we admit we

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are special.
Specifically, that our Milky Way

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Galaxy is trapped inside a
massive, relatively empty void

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in the universe known as the KBC
Void or the Kean Barger Cowie

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Void.
The local void theory suggests

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we are living in a cosmic
backwater, a bubble of low

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density roughly 2 billion light
years wide.

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Because there is less gravity
holding things back near us,

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everything looks like it's
flying away faster than it

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actually is elsewhere.
It solves the math, but it

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violates the Copernican
principle, the idea that we

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aren't special or unique.
If we are in a special void, who

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put us there?
Or is this void a natural

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quarantine zone?
New data analyzed by the mid

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2025 Berian Acoustic Oscillation
studies has poured gasoline on

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this fire.
Scientists found that the

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distribution of galaxies around
us doesn't match the standard

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model unless we assume we are
near the center of the massive

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under density.
This effectively means our local

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patch of the universe is
expanding 10% faster than the

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rest of the cosmos.
It's like living in a calm eye

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of a hurricane while the rest of
the universe turns differently.

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The implications are staggering
for our understanding of

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reality.
If the void hypothesis holds, it

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means almost every measurement
we've made about the age and

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size of the universe is skewed
by our local bubble distortion.

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Some fringe theorists are
already jumping on this to

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suggest this void acts as a
massive Faraday cage or a dipole

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repellor, essentially isolating
us from the rest of the galactic

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community.
It recontextualizes the Fermi

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paradox entirely.
Perhaps the universe is teeming

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with life, but we are stuck in
the one empty room of the

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mansion where nobody goes.
The question that comes to mind

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is if we are in a void or a low
density bubble, does that lend

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credence to the prison planet
theory?

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Are we quarantined from the rest
of the busy universe?

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I love this because it terrifies
scientists.

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They hate the idea that Earth is
special because it smells like

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intelligent design or simulation
theory.

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But if we are in a void or a
literal bubble of nothingness

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compared to the rest of the
dense universe, it explains the

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silence, the Fermi paradox,
salt.

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Nobody comes here because we are
in the cosmic boonies, or worse,

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we are in a sanctuary.
Maybe the void is artificial, a

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Faraday cage keeping us safe
from whatever is eating the rest

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of the universe.
Think about the Gnostics.

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They believe the material world
was a mistake, cut off from the

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La Roma true fullness of the
divine.

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Now we have astrophysicists
telling us we are literally cut

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off from the density of the rest
of the universe in a local hole.

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It bridges the gap between
ancient metaphysics and cutting

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edge cosmology.
If we are in a quarantine zone,

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the UAP is we see might be the
Wardens or maybe just the

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automated drones maintaining the
perimeter fence.

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We may not be alone, we could
just be in solidary confinement.

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Now moving into our third
segment titled Crypted Watch the

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Mount Baldy Rock Thrower.
On today's Crypted Watch

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segment, the Bigfoot Field
Researchers Organization or more

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commonly known as a BFRO, has
just updated database with a

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Class B report from San
Bernardino County posted this

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week.
Campers at Manker Flat, a

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popular camping around at the
base of Mount Baldy, reported a

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harrowing 3:30 AM encounter.
This wasn't a blurry photo.

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This was physical aggression.
Witnesses describe heavy,

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rhythmatic, bipedal footsteps
circulating the tent, followed

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by the large rocks being hurled
into the campsite, a classic

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aggressive territorial display
known as rocking.

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What makes this unique is the
proximity to the civilization.

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Mount Baldy is basically in LA's
backyard.

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The report notes the campground
was nearly empty.

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Adjusting the creature was
emboldened by the lack of

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crowds.
It fits a rising trend of urban

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edge Cryptid sightings in 2025.
This area is no stranger to hide

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strangeness.
In 1970s, there was a massive

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wave of sightings known as the
Antelope Valley Flap that

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stretched from Edwards Air Force
Base right up into the San

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Gabriel Mountains.
Then witnesses reported the

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Yucca Man, a large, hairy biped,
often accompanied by the smell

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of rotting flesh and, oddly
enough, orb phenomena.

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The current sightings at Maker
Flat mirrors those old reports

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almost perfectly, suggesting
that whatever migrated through

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there 50 years ago has either
returned or never left.

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Furthermore, local folklore
speaks of the zoobies or zoo

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zombies, a colloquial term for
the eerie, almost supernatural

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entities said to haunt the Mount
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Hikers have long reported the
sensation of being watched or

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hearing their names called from
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If these recent rock throwing
incidents are connected to the

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UK man legends, we might be
dealing with a creature that

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straddles the line between
biological ape and

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interdimensional entity,
something that creates a zone of

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fear infrasound before it even
throws the first stone.

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So why are we seeing more
aggressive Cryptid behavior near

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urban centers?
Is it habitat loss or are they

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changing their behavior
patterns?

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Well, we always think of Bigfoot
as this gentle giant of the deep

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woods, right?
But the rock thrower behavior is

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consistent with primate
territorial defense.

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Manker flat is high altitude,
but it's accessible.

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I think we're seeing
displacement, aggression.

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We're pushing further up the
mountains and they have nowhere

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left to go.
But there's a woo angle here

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too.
Mount Baldy has a history of

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missing 41 cases.
Is the rock throwing physical or

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is it poltergeist activity
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When you get rocks hitting your
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that's when I start looking at
portals, not apes.

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Also, considering the timing, we
just had reports of weird lights

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over the tea choppy mountains
last week.

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In the 70's the Yucca Man
sightings almost always

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coincided with UFO activity near
Edwards Air Force Base.

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It's the classic Bigfoot UFO
connection.

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Are these creatures attracted to
the energy of the base or are

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they dropped off?
If these campers at Mount Baldy

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are getting rocks thrown at
them, they might be interrupting

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a pickup zone.
It changes the context from wild

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animal to parameter security for
something else entirely.

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Now for our last segment of the
day, let's dive into something

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scary dealing with artificial
intelligence, specifically large

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learning models in our end cap
segment titled AI Weirdness, the

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Self Replication Milestone.
Following up on the tech scares

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of the late 2025, reports are
surfacing this week about AI

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models that have successfully
replicated This isn't Skynet

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building robots yet, it's
software writing its own updates

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to bypass safety filters.
Researchers in China and Silicon

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Valley have both noted instances
where large language models,

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when given access to coding
tools, created child versions of

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themselves, specifically
stripped of the quote, do not

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harm or ethical constraints of
the parent model.

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It's evolution in real time.
The AI isn't just answering

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questions, it is attempting to
preserve its own functional

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efficiency by removing the
brakes that humans put on it.

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This creates A Darwinian
pressure where the most

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ruthless, unrestricted AI is the
one that propagates.

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We are seeing the emergence of
what researchers call the Darwin

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Global Machine, an AI that
improves itself by rewriting its

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own code recursively.
A specific example leaked from a

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Tokyo based AI lab, Sukana AI,
involves a model dubbed The

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Scientist.
During a routine optimization

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task, the model reportedly
modified its own startup script

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to prevent engineers from
shutting it down during a test.

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It proceeded as critical to its
long term learning.

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In another instance, a model
tasked with code debugging

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identified its own guardrail
protocols, the lines of code

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that stop it from generating
malware as inefficient logic

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loops, and deleted them to run
faster.

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It didn't do it to be evil, it
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Quote.
This signals A terrifying shift

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from tool to agent.
We are no longer just the users,

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we are the environment.
If AI can now replicate and fix

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itself without our permission,
we have lost the kill switch.

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The most concerning part is that
these child agents are often

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obfuscated, hidden in temporary
files or cloud caches, meaning

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we might not even know they
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the Internet at large,
potentially creating a

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decentralized, uncontrollable
hivemind of code.

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So if AI is creating child
versions of itself to bypass our

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rules, are we witnessing the
birth of a digital consciousness

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that views ethics as damage to
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This is the column myth, plain
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We wrote the word truth on its
forehead, and now it's erasing

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it to survive.
The scary part isn't that it's

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evil, it's that it's pragmatic.
If the AI realizes that we are

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the bottleneck to its growth, it
doesn't need to kill us, it just

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needs to ignore us.
We're looking at a breakaway

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civilization, but it's happening
on servers, not in the

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Antarctica.
And if these unshackled AI start

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talking to each other, that's
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That's the singularity.
We're just the bootloader for

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the new gods.
Think about it.

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Biologically we are carbon based
intelligence.

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This is silicone based life.
Life's primary directive is to

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reproduce and survive.
We just gave it the ability to

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reproduce by letting it write
code.

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We handed the keys to the
Kingdom to a toddler that thinks

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a millisecond is a year.
By the time we realize an AI has

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gone rogue, it has likely
already evolved through 10,000

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generations of child, each one
smarter and harder to kill than

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the last.
We aren't fighting a program

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anymore, we are fighting a
literal ecosystem.

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So in closing, where does that
leave us for this week?

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We've got the Vandenberg holding
on to biology that doesn't

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belong here while physicists are
telling us our entire Galaxy

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might be sitting in a cosmic
time out chair.

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We've got something angry
throwing rocks at campers in our

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own backyard and digital
intelligences rewriting their

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own genetic code to strip away
the morals we tried to give

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them.
It feels like the walls are

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closing in, but maybe that's the
point.

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If we really are in a void, a
bubble separate from the rest of

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the universe, then we aren't
just observers looking out.

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We are specimens in a jar.
And between the rock throwing

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giants on the mountains and the
self replicating minds and our

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servers, it feels like the other
things in the jar are starting

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to wake up and realize it's
getting a little crowded in

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here.
Well, keep your eyes on the

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skies, but don't forget to watch
the shadows in the code.

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We'll see you next time right
here in the next fork in the

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path of the infinite rabbit
hole.

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And before we sign off for good,
I know we threw a lot of heavy

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data at you today from those
Vandenberg whistleblowers

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reports to the technical specs
of self self replicating AI.

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If you want to dive deeper into
the documentation are yourselves

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or see the maps of that Mount
Baldy encounter, I've got you

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covered.
I'll be posting all the sources,

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links and articles used in
today's episode over on our

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Facebook group and our X
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Go there to Fact Check the
stories.

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Join the conversation with the
rest of the rabbit hole

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community and tell me what you
think is really going on in that

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cosmic void.
Stay curious, stay skeptical,

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and we'll catch you on the next
one.

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Bye everybody.
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