What do they want, and how much influence should we let them have?
Brent Friedman recently told Jesse Michels about a man he ran into on Orcas Island who looked like a Scandinavian male model. The man greeted him by name from about twenty feet away, and Friedman says he never saw his mouth move.
Take that story however you want. But if human-looking NHI are already walking around, they could go public whenever conditions are right. And conditions are getting very right. Trust in governments, media and institutions is at rock bottom. A being who steps forward, demonstrates genuinely nonhuman abilities, and says âweâve been watching, and we can helpâ would gain more influence overnight than any human leader has ever held. So why would they want that influence?
This ties into the seeding hypothesis I posted about before. If advanced civilizations seed worlds to produce genuinely new perspectives, cultures, intelligence and conscious experience, then Earth isnât a backwater. Weâre approaching the point where we can build AI, redesign life, leave the planet, and eventually seed new civilizations ourselves.
The seed is about to become a seeder.
Whoever influences humanity now doesnât just shape our civilization. They shape everything we go on to create. If different NHI groups or interests exist, some of them may want our future civilization carrying their values, contributing to their cause, or picking their side before we even understand that there are sides. That doesnât automatically make them hostile. But guidance that looks helpful can still serve someone elseâs agenda.
We already know how powerful cosmic authority is, even when itâs fake. Frederick von Mierers claimed to be an Arcturian walk-in, built a devoted following, and convinced people that aliens would rescue them when Earth was destroyed. By all evidence he was just a man. Now imagine that same pitch coming from someone who could actually prove they werenât human.
The Amaury Rivera case is why I stay cautious. Rivera claimed a human-looking being named Amaron showed him a beautiful planet called Kaa, then projections of global catastrophe. Governments were portrayed as corrupt and helpless, while Rivera and the others were promised roles in rebuilding afterward. Even if his experience was real, that doesnât mean the message was true. It could have been a warning, a possible future, a test, or deliberate conditioning.
Look at the structure of it: show someone paradise, terrify them with destruction, dissolve their trust in every existing institution, hand them a special purpose, then present yourself as the wiser alternative. Thatâs not a prophecy. Thatâs a recruitment funnel.
If humanityâs future really has value on a larger scale, influence is the prize. Iâd absolutely listen to what NHI have to say. But being older, more advanced, or apparently benevolent doesnât earn anyone moral authority over our future.