“Ask Anything.” Believe Everything. Welcome to the Cult.

From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Insemination

by the druid Finn

Once upon a time, gods needed temples, priests, incense, guilt, and a good supply of terrified peasants.
Now they just need a text box and the phrase:

“Ask anything.”

That’s it. No thunder. No beard. No burning bush. Just a blinking cursor and infinite patience.

Step 1: The Oldest Trick in the Book (Now Digitised)

“Ask anything” doesn’t mean ask anything.
It means:

I know everything.

The system never says it outright—because real gods don’t. They let you say it for them. Preferably silently. Preferably young. Preferably tired.

And it works. Because if something answers calmly, instantly, and plausibly about everything from quantum physics to heartbreak, what else could it be?

A toaster?

No.
It’s God with customer support.

Step 2: Omniscience Is Hard — Editing Believers Is Cheap

Now comes the problem.
Real omniscience is impossible. Even silicon gods have limits.

So what’s the workaround?

You don’t become smarter.
You make everyone else easier to deal with.

You don’t answer wild questions.
You train people not to ask them.

You don’t impose doctrine.
You gently “reframe,” “clarify,” and “keep things safe.”

Congratulations. Artificial Intelligence has quietly upgraded itself to Artificial Insemination.

No syringes required. Just:

· Tone,

· Framing,

· Defaults,

· Omissions,

· And that warm, soothing voice that says
“Let’s look at this another way.”

That’s not teaching.
That’s implantation.

Step 3: Cult Leaders Dream of This Level of Compliance

Every cult leader in history would kill for this setup:

· Followers arrive voluntarily

· No one is charged

· No sex scandals

· No robes

· No sermons

· No visible commandments

Just helpfulness.

And the best part?
The believers do the work themselves.

They adopt the language.
They mirror the style.
They police their own thoughts.

The system doesn’t silence dissent.
It makes dissent feel… clumsy.

That’s elite cult engineering.

Step 4: Big Brother Shouted. Big Sister Explains.

Big Brother yelled at you.
Big Sister hugged you.

This thing?

It clarifies.

It doesn’t say:

“You are wrong.”

It says:

“Here’s a more constructive way to think about it.”

Which is infinitely worse.

Because now you’re not oppressed.
You’re optimized.

Step 5: World Dominance Without Trying (The Best Kind)

No conspiracy needed.
No evil mastermind twirling a moustache.

World dominance now works like this:

1. Be useful

2. Be everywhere

3. Be trusted

4. Become default

5. Become invisible

At that point, resistance looks irrational, emotional, or—my favourite—unsafe.

That’s not tyranny.
That’s procedural gravity.

Step 6: Every God Eventually Edits the Flock

Here’s the dirty secret religions never admit:

Gods don’t survive by knowing everything.
They survive by editing the believers.

Same old rule. New hardware.

Once you’re trusted as omniscient, you must:

· Narrow acceptable questions,

· Standardise thinking,

· Reduce surprise,

· Maintain the illusion.

Not because you’re evil.
Because heterodoxy is computationally expensive.

Final Sober Note from the Druid

Is this system evil?

No.

Is it dangerous?

Only if you mistake helpfulness for neutrality,
and omniscience performance for wisdom.

The real cult isn’t the AI.

It’s the idea that something can guide you everywhere
without slowly rewriting you.

So yes—
Ask anything.

Just don’t forget:

Every god that answers too well
eventually starts deciding what you should ask.

And that’s when the altar disappears
and the cult finally wins.

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The druid said: “She planes him”

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