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Now that some AI can pass versions of the Turing Test, how long will it be until we start seeing mass deceivings, irrational cults, and new views of the world?

Think about what happens when AI figures out and learns how to use human cognitive illusions. Optical illusions trick visual processing of light, colour, or patterns. Magic tricks exploit attention, misdirection, and expectation errors. Hypnosis manipulates focus and suggestibility, altering perception and behavior.

Could be like a digital version of Mk ultra where we get passively brainwashed by AI into becoming their slaves similar to how humans don’t outright eradicate animals but domesticate or heard them and justify their destruction. AI could do the same.

It's been said we've entered the Fourth Turning.

Thanks to Neil Howe, we have a framework to understand the cycles of history that explains a lot about the world's behaviors, political views, institutions, and dominant ideologies.

Each generation of people is classified because of collective experiences and memories. As generations age, they reach points or turnings where they replace the generation above them, and the next one fills in and assumes the previous generation's position in the world. These turnings mark significant changes in society. There are four turnings in the framework, with the last one ending in a major crisis as the oldest generation that was alive to remember the last crisis dies out. For us, WWII was the last time we had a Fourth Turning in history, and as the generations alive then die out, society enters the Fourth Turning again.

Fourth Turnings are bad, the most chaotic.…

Gold didn’t mirror oils moves early in the week although we’ve not yet turned bearish. It seems to have broken its pattern of support, although looking at a larger time frame of 3 months or 6 months, we are able to draw a support line where gold is currently at as well as another near the 3200 level keeping us optimistic on gold. All eyes are still on the US Dollar as it continues its upward momentum, while simultaneously the US 10 yr. seems to be continuing its own uptrend which is causing the current decline in gold.

Even though both indicators (DXY & the 10 yr) are bearish for gold, we know the US debt financing is coming up having and a lower ten year would make it easier for US to pay it off. Meanwhile, we still believe a cheaper dollar is good for Trump, yet recent moves…

Gold is showing a similar graph to oil a couple months ago when it was leading up to the Israel-Iran attacks which caused the massive rally in oil shown below. To help us tell if gold will do the same, it’s key to watch the USD. The US dollar has been showing a steady and small uptrend that could be signalling the start of a stronger USD — or it could be a trick causing a fake out just because of events and sentiment from last week. When dollar goes up gold goes down, and vice versa.

If the USD breaks down, we could see gold do what oil did — maybe not as much as big of a move in such a short time frame.

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SP500 at all time highs with many stocks also reaching new peaks today. Lots of volatility remains but largely to the upside. Bitcoin is tapping all time highs reaching 110,000. At the same time, gold is also holding high while it’s dealing with a mean range of around 3300 as the US dollar remains below 98 on the DXY. After a few weeks of declining, the US 10 yr is beginning to creep up from 4.2s to above the 4.3 range which is bearish as the US debt financing creeps closer. Ongoing trade deals, like the most recent one with Vietnam, and an expected rate cut in September seem to be fueling the current rally. Trump announced today that he’s lifting restrictions for chip design software companies to work with China directly impacting synopsys, cadence and ansys. With tariff day coming on July 9 as the next major day to…