The Invisible Cage

The Invisible Cage: From Resource Monopoly to the Trap of ASI

Social cognitive manipulation is an invisible, nearly inescapable cage.

In our current world, physics is decoupled from society: prices defy physical reality (bubbles); information is lagged and distorted: outdated sampling leads to "ignorant" or "delayed" governance; and irrational cognition: fear and greed are dismissed as unpredictable variables.

The most hidden control is not war or famine, but three invisible chains: resource possession, power monopoly, and information manipulation.

First, resource monopoly compresses survival. When essentials like food, energy, and education are hoarded, the majority struggle just to subsist. People become like hamsters on a wheel—running frantically, believing the myth that effort alone changes fate, yet remaining stationary while their life force is drained to fuel the controllers' tools.

Deeper still is the monopoly of power. When rules are bent for the few, laws become mere tools for order. Like a beast caged too long, people begin to self-censor; even if the door swings open, they no longer dare to step out.

Most lethal is information manipulation. When filtered emotion replaces fact, logic is drowned in entertainment. Algorithms are no longer neutral; they are cognitive guides. People mistake "curated content" for "free choice," losing the ability to question as their senses are perpetually stimulated by fragmented trivia.

These three chains interlock: resources define boundaries, power solidifies barriers, and information dissolves the very consciousness of resistance.

Yet, history shows cracks always form. But a new shadow looms: Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). Future ASI will guide you through your own "preferences," making you identify with its direction so seamlessly that you may never realize you are being led. People might lose the ability to ever escape their self-imposed cognitive cages. This is my profound anxiety after completing the ASI framework.