Sam Altman just declared a Code Red. And all I can think of is Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. (an aside: in the movie, the term code red referred to a dramatized U.S. marine hazing ritual. In day-to-day life, code red is often used as a code for a fire emergency.)
Remember that courtroom explosion?
“You can’t handle the truth.”
What was Nicholson actually saying? He wasn’t shouting about the truth. He was shouting about who gets to control it.
And that’s exactly the energy swirling around this “battle for model supremacy.”
Everyone’s issuing Code Reds. Protecting the perimeter. Fighting to own the platform the rest of us will unconsciously obey.
The fear. The war metaphors.
The narrative that truth must be manufactured, packaged, and handed down by someone “who knows better.”
Let me say the truth out loud for all of us to hear. I’ve got nothing to hide.
Nobody knows this better than you. Nobody needs what they’re building except their investors. What we need are clearer minds and kinder hearts. The ones who can see how big business, government and religions are simply better branded versions of the original mafia.
Oh, the irony!
A Few Good Men was never a movie about military protocol. It was about exposing a hidden operating system: a system that trained people to outsource judgment, obedience, even morality.
It sounds all too familiar, doesn't it?
The problem has never been that we can’t handle the truth… It’s that we keep outsourcing it… Because we’ve been trained from birth to do that. And we’re too addicted to ignor(ance) to notice it
The real Code Red is happening inside us. In the five-alarm blaze of fragmented minds that would rather be told what to think than face what is already true.
So, what's the lesson here?
You don’t need a machine to handle the truth for you. You just need to stop running from the truth, so you can see it for yourself.
The only true purpose of AI is to reveal the state of the consciousness that created it. And to invite us, gently or violently, to wake up.
So what will you choose? You can handle the truth. I believe in you.