Jobst Landgrebe: How Endless Hype is Used for Permanent States of Emergency

Oct 4, 2025

Jobst Landgrebe, a scientist and entrepreneur with expertise in philosophy, neuroscience, and AI, discusses the concepts from his book, The Hype Cycle. He explores how societal fears and hopes are manipulated to maintain a state of emergency, benefiting elites. Key topics include the pitfalls of overhyped AI promises, the consequences of harmful climate policies, and the rise of transhumanism among global leaders. Landgrebe also critiques modern medical practices and the implications of migration on society while advocating for calm, law-abiding resistance to reclaim legitimacy.

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Hype As A Tool Of Rule

Jobst Landgrebe argues modern hype cycles (fear and hope) are used as instruments of rule and social control.
He condensed decades of scientific work into a book exposing these pathological narratives.

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Limits Of Modeling Complex Systems

Landgrebe explains mathematical limits prevent full models of animate complex systems like brains and climate.
This makes grand predictive claims about sentient AI and perfect climate forecasts fundamentally unreliable.

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Use AI Where Patterns Are Regular

Use AI for tasks with high regularity like spam filtering, biometric ID, and battlefield sensors, not for full human automation.
Beware investors promoting grand AI promises; they may be funding global digitization and surveillance instead.

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Why I used a pseudonym and wrote The Hype Cycle

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The bipolar pattern of hope and fear hypes

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Limits of modeling minds and climate systems

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Realistic AI use-cases versus overhyped promises

08:31 • 4min

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Why singularity and transhumanist promises fail

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Climate policy, energy scarcity, and elite power

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Consequences if the West persists with self-harming policies

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Symbolism and the Pope's climate gesture

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Transhumanism embraced across global elites

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Medical technocracy and the COVID rollout

27:47 • 7min

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Global digitization, vaccine certificates, and control

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Globalism as an economic project of concentrated wealth

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Debt, financial extraction, and the eastward advantage

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How asset confiscation and bail-ins could occur

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Death culture, euthanasia, and modern evil

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Migration: assimilation, damaging migration, and elite motives

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Why hype cycles mask illegitimacy of elites

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How to respond: explanation, peaceful resistance, and executive class action

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Where to find Jobst Landgrebe's work

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The Real Anthony Fauci

Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

In this book, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presents a highly critical view of Anthony Fauci's career, particularly his roles during the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. Kennedy alleges that Fauci has sabotaged safe and effective treatments, orchestrated fraudulent studies, and violated federal laws to allow pharmaceutical companies to conduct deadly experiments on vulnerable populations. The book also details Fauci's partnership with Bill Gates and the influence of the 'Pharma-Fauci-Gates alliance' on global health policy, media, and scientific research. Kennedy argues that Fauci and his allies have suppressed open debate, censored dissent, and promoted fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis.

The Hype Cycle

Uppers and Downers in Our Bipolar Culture

Why Machines Will Never Rule the World

Barry Smith

Jobst Landgrebe

This book, written by Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, presents a compelling argument that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is mathematically impossible due to the complex nature of human intelligence. Drawing from multiple disciplines, the authors challenge the notion of an AI singularity and emphasize the limitations of AI systems. While acknowledging AI's potential benefits, they argue that machines cannot emulate human intelligence or social behavior.

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Critique of judgment

Immanuel Kant

The Critique of Judgment is the third critique in Kant's Critical project, following the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. The book is divided into two main sections: the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment and the Critique of Teleological Judgment. Kant discusses the four moments of the 'Judgement of Taste' and the aesthetic reflective judgments of the agreeable, the beautiful, the sublime, and the good. He also explores the teleological judgment, arguing that our determinations of purpose in nature are intersubjective judgments. The work lays the foundation for modern aesthetics and addresses the relationship between human perception, beauty, and the natural world.

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1984

George Orwell

Published in 1949, '1984' is a cautionary tale by George Orwell that explores the dangers of totalitarianism. The novel is set in a dystopian future where the world is divided into three super-states, with the protagonist Winston Smith living in Oceania, ruled by the mysterious and omnipotent leader Big Brother. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, where he rewrites historical records to conform to the Party's ever-changing narrative. He begins an illicit love affair with Julia and starts to rebel against the Party, but they are eventually caught and subjected to brutal torture and indoctrination. The novel highlights themes of government surveillance, manipulation of language and history, and the suppression of individual freedom and independent thought.

Jobst Landgrebe returns to discuss his fantastic new book “The Hype Cycle” which discusses how the endless fear hype and hope hype we are bombarded with is nonsense and primarily serves to implement a permanent state of emergency and enrich ruling elites. These include AI, climate, transhumanism, quantum computing, food, medicine, globalism, war, death, gender, race, and more. Jobst outlines the implications and offers his antidote.

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Why Machines Will Never Rule the World: Artificial Intelligence without Fear https://www.amazon.com/Machines-Will-Never-Rule-World-ebook/dp/B0DYPH3D59

About Jobst Landgrebe

Jobst Landgrebe is a scientist and entrepreneur with a background in philosophy, mathematics, neuroscience, and bioinformatics. Landgrebe is also the founder of Cognotekt, a German AI company which has since 2013 provided working systems used by companies in areas such as insurance claims management, real estate management, and medical billing. After more than 10 years in the AI industry, he has developed an exceptional understanding of the limits and potential of AI in the future.

*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

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