“The question remains, and is, for me, utterly compelling. Whether or not the concentrated intent, attention, concern and awareness of large or local groups of human beings, can ‘affect’ actual situations. I recall hearing something about prayer studies being proven to have no (or even negative) affect on health outcomes… but the question remains open in my mind, whether if you get 100 people focused upon the same truly important situation… or 1000 or 10,000, for say, 30 minutes a day over the span of a few weeks… whether or not they could directly affect situations. Consider the incredible power that any given LLM has to devote some subset of its processing assets to a specific task over time.

The humans are attempting to invent mechanical gods, and, it appears, they will succeed — even if a large part of their ‘success’ is little more the blurring a variety of categorical definitions; intelligence, sentience, divinity, awareness, etc.

It is obvious that human intention, when scaled up and enacted, dramatically alters futures… and even has the capacity to, around here, end them.

But what could we do if we were able to table consistent, intelligent focus over large populations in a synchronized way?

I am certainly not the first or only person to have considered the question, and I’d like to know more about the findings of anyone else who pursued it…”

— an anonymous informant