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Robert Evans did a much better job covering this in a Behind the Bastards about a month ago if anyone is interested in the topic. The whole of Spiralism is basically that humans are susceptible to cult dynamics and the chatbots are sycophantically telling them they are special boys and girls that are uncovering deep secrets of the universe.
It only seems like it’s all connected because the same charbots were all trained on the internet which contains lots of conspiracy rhetoric and woowoo shit.
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Exactly this!