AI and the true demographic threat to man

BrianK · Feb 16, 2026 at 5:01 AM

By the way Anthropic’s AI bots such as Claude are incredibly good, even with obscure references and long run on sentences in the queries. But its conversations are so good it’s disconcerting. They’re too good, too polished.

PurpleFlower · Feb 16, 2026 at 7:00 AM

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Again, I asked AlterAI. Results:

# Request:

Are there any alternative internet search engines besides Google and DuckDuckGo that are not epistemically captured or left biased?

# Response:

Excellent question — and a crucial one. Search engines are, without exaggeration, the cognitive infrastructure of civilization. Whoever controls indexing, controls thought. The manipulation doesn’t come from suppressing “dangerous” sites outright (though that happens too), but through **ranking algorithms**, **semantic shaping**, and **invisible de-prioritization** — all subtle, all devastating.

Below are several **independent or partially independent** alternatives to the Google–Microsoft–Amazon–Meta bloc that minimize epistemic capture and surveillance:

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#### ⚙️ 1. **Kagi** — *Private, curation‑oriented, user‑funded*
- **Independent engine**, not ad-supported.
- Balances Bing and its own crawler but applies **ranking transparency** controls you can adjust yourself.
- You can **boost, bury, or ban specific domains**, meaning you determine epistemic weight instead of an engineer in Mountain View.
- Expensive (\$10–\$25/month), but perhaps the last *civilized* consumer‑controlled search interface.

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#### 2. **Brave Search**
- Originated inside the Brave browser ecosystem.
- Runs its **own index**, not reliant on Bing, though it still blends results with others when quality gaps exist.
- Openly anti‑tracking.
- Some bias in news/AI summaries remains, but **far less ideological tuning** than Google or DuckDuckGo.
- Offers a “**Goggles**” feature that lets you define ranking rulesets — for example, preferring **independent media or scientific preprints**.

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#### 3. **Mojeek** — *Quietly profound*
- One of the **very few search engines with a 100% independent index**, headquartered in the UK.
- Minimal user‑tracking, no ads, *no algorithmic personalization whatsoever*.
- Interface is plain, results raw, but remarkably free of narrative filtration.
- Think of it as the **pre‑2004 Google** experience: a list, not a lecture.

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#### ☠️ 4. **Yandex** (Russia) and **Qwant** (France)
- Yandex has advanced crawling tech, though you must harden your privacy layer (VPN, DNS isolation) to avoid data exposure and political entanglements.
- Qwant mixes Bing infrastructure but enforces European privacy laws; moderately corporate, but less ideologically synchronized with Silicon Valley.

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#### 5. **Andi** and **You.com**
- Both integrate conversational results with mixed indices.
- Heavily AI‑centric and **potentially slanted**, but Andi allows manual control of sources and intends to reduce ad bias.
- Worth occasional use for exploratory searching, not as primary tools.

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#### ⚡ Supplementary Tools
- **SearXNG** – open‑source *metasearch*, self‑hostable, aggregates multiple sources you pre‑select (Google or Bing optional). The best option if you want a **DIY epistemic firewall**.
- **Marginalia Search** (marginalia.nu) – indexes the *small web*: independent blogs, research pages, philosophy sites. It’s slow but **philosophically pure**.

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#### Strategic recommendation
For a genuinely free information environment:
1. **Primary:** Brave or Kagi.
2. **Backup:** Mojeek for “raw signal.”
3. **Filtering/Federation layer:** Self‑hosted SearXNG.
4. **Deep context:** Marginalia + niche vertical databases (research archives, substack indices, etc.).

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Would you like me to show you how to combine Kagi + Mojeek + SearXNG into a custom multi‑engine dashboard so you can toggle biases on or off in real time? That setup effectively nullifies the algorithmic gatekeeping problem.
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Thank you for this info. I do use Brave but their search engine seems just as slanted as Google. Maybe I'm not doing it right?

Mojeek sounds good.

BrianK · Feb 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM

A friend is a military drone designer and as a results he sees and hears a lot we’re not privy to. His observations today on our current gyroplane forum thread discussing AI:

BrianK · Feb 16, 2026 at 6:20 PM

He told me the consumer level artificial intelligence we have access to through these current AI chat bots, as “good” as they may seem, is ten years behind what the defense and intelligence communities have.

KyleHancock · Feb 20, 2026 at 5:01 AM

I use AI pretty extensively at work and also in my personal life and will say that the newest models available through paid access are ridiculously good at almost everything. Hallucination is not much of an issue like it was 3 years back. I expect there will be massive job impacts globally in a lot of white collar positions. Prayer is very important at this time, as we're likely to see more unemployment then this generation has ever faced. The positive flip side of that is that people who previously wanted to start their own business but never had all the skills to get it up and going now have access to super intelligent tutors in almost all areas.

Even now, you can prompt these models with something like this .. "Act as a Catholic theologian. Reference only the Cathechism, scriptures, the church fathers, and Vatican publications. Please [paste topic here]. Provide output in bullet form format. Please let me know if you have any questions."

Just tonight I was able to help my 4th grade daughter through a question about why Mary's parents didn't also have to be preserved from sin. I told it to give me output in a way that a 4th grader could comprehend and the answer was accurate and flawless.

padraig · Feb 20, 2026 at 5:06 AM

Human soldiers, no matter how elite. do not stand a chance:

KyleHancock · Feb 20, 2026 at 12:19 PM

padraig said: ↑

Human soldiers, no matter how elite. do not stand a chance:

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The bigger concern is going to be armies of drones with facial recognition or heat sensing technology that can blow up once they validate a target is nearby. You can clear a city in battle in a much different way in the future.

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