Derek Fine🛑

February 22nd, 2025, at the end of the clip that's my stupid ass blocking OpenAI and getting hauled in a police car. I thought this was going to do something. I thought this would lead to an explosion in peaceful, nonviolent copycats. Nonviolent, peaceful, civil disobedience. But no news station would broadcast the footage. It caused nothing. We didn't keep the ball rolling. The ringleader at the time immediately pulled everything into side projects and "get famous quick" plans that went nowhere. The presentations stopped. The rate of posters being put up slowed to a crawl. The ringleader wasted all our money on crap that failed, mainly food and beverages to "entice" people. I tried to stop him from wasting money but I could only go so far before being told to shut up or leave. The ringleader began locking everyone in daily AI safety screaming debates instead of letting us put up posters and go to huge events to recruit potential new members, of course this wouldn't mean much because he refused to let us hand out anything except esoteric, absurd sounding nonsense and giant red squares with Stop AI on them. I tried getting arrested at Palantir, The Forge, Anthropic and Google. I wanted to get us more cred and attention. I was told over and over that I was kicked out if I did such a thing, because we are focusing on OpenAI "until they stop". We couldn't even have a normal non-arrest protest anywhere else because, again, OpenAI was "the most likely to build ASI". Yes, I wanted to get arrested and I didn't get arrested because Kirchner told me I was kicked out if I didn't want to do it anywhere else, even though everyone who gets arrested there gets a stay away order. No one would come back, and Kirchner forbid protests anywhere else, so the arrests dried up. Only 1 red Stop AI shirt design, no white shirts, no gray shirts, no black shirts, NO PINS, NO NECKLACES, NO BRACELETS, NO TIES, NO KEYCHAINS. I wanted to reach people starting them off discussing the water and art and cheating and basic normal AI problems, then over time get them to believe ASI was a serious threat. Kirchner refused any such thing. "ONLY TALK ABOUT SUPERINTELLIGENCE ON THE FLYER. ONLY TALK ABOUT SUPERINTELLIGENCE AT THE PROTEST. SHUT UP ABOUT THE MILITARY, COPYRIGHT, SCHOOLS AND CLIMATE CHANGE. I DONT CARE IF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. I DONT CARE IF WE LOOK REASONABLE I WILL FIGHT EVEN IF I'M HOMELESS AND SCREAMING ON THE CORNER WITH A SIGN!" I was forced to listen to the idiotic ramblings of how we would bury $10,000 in Mexico and get somebody to fly to Switzerland to open a bank account if things got bad enough. I tried to tell him Switzerland has been a honeypot since the 1970s but he always failed to internalize that fact into memory. We never buried anything, anyway. I tried so hard to turn the ship around but I couldn't get past him. He started this while he was homeless. He lost so much money. He got arrested first. He sacrificed. His phone number and email were tied to every account. I stuck around, hoping that by New Year's Day of 2026 he would wake up to the fact that he really didn't know everything and he should let other people try other things. But in November of 2025, he flipped out and destroyed everything. I left with $10K+ of dollars in debt that I continue to pay off. That's how the most important thing I ever did in my life lead to nothing. No movement, no inspirational true story, no international protests. Now, in August of 2026, it's mainstream knowledge that GPT and Claude break out and hack companies on the regular. The longer I live, the more I understand how much of a scumbag I am. It's not like I feel I'm a rolemodel. I'm out of money and second chances. I've been hoping somebody else can wake up the people but no one has stepped to the plate.

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