P R O S I L I E N T

Proactive engineering — beyond the hype.

AI has been hyped since 1956. Markets have always been noisy.
Surveillance capitalism isn't new.

We don't chase trends. We build clarity that lasts.

PROPOSITIONS

Plain-language positions on ideas designed to manipulate.
Formed through research. Ready before you need them.

On Superintelligence

No one knows if or when machines will become smarter than humans in all ways. Current AI is powerful pattern-matching, not general intelligence — it has no goals, no desires, no will. The urgent risks from AI are not robot uprisings, but real harms happening now: job displacement, surveillance, and concentrated power in few hands.

Sources

  • Melanie Mitchell, "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans"
  • Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis, "Rebooting AI"
  • IEEE Spectrum surveys on AGI timelines

On AI Doom

Fear of AI extinction is not scientific consensus — it's a minority view amplified by interested parties. Many who warn loudest about "existential risk" also stand to gain from positioning AI as world-changing. Healthy skepticism about both AI hype and AI doom is the rational position.

Sources

  • Survey data from AI researchers (e.g., AI Impacts surveys)
  • Analysis of funding flows in AI safety organizations
  • Historical precedent of technology doom narratives

On AI & Work

AI will change work, not end it. Every major technology has eliminated some jobs while creating others — the pattern holds. The real question is not "will there be jobs?" but "who will benefit from the transition?" — and that's a political choice, not a technological inevitability.

Sources

  • Economic history of technological unemployment predictions
  • David Autor's research on automation and labor
  • OECD employment studies

On Privacy

When a service is free, you are the product. Your attention, your behavior, and your preferences are harvested and sold. True digital independence requires tools you control — and that's possible today.

Sources

  • Shoshana Zuboff, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"
  • EU GDPR framework and enforcement data
  • SearXNG — privacy-respecting search

On AI Investing

Most AI companies will fail, like most companies in every technology wave. The infrastructure providers — chips, cloud, energy — tend to profit more reliably than the application layer. Beware narratives that conflate "AI is transformative" with "this AI stock will go up."

Sources

  • Historical returns: dot-com era infrastructure vs. applications
  • Current AI investment concentration data
  • Venture capital failure rate statistics

On Quant Investing

Stock prices are dominated by noise — no model predicts the future. The honest goal of quantitative investing is finding small statistical edges, validated out-of-sample, that compound over many trades. Anyone promising more is selling something.

Sources

  • Finsite — our investment workbench
  • Academic literature on market efficiency and factor investing
  • Backtest validation methodologies

TOOLS

We don't just talk about issues. We try alternatives.

SearXNG.website

Search without surveillance

A privacy-respecting metasearch engine that aggregates results from 70+ search services without tracking you. No profiles. No ads. No filter bubbles.

Your queries are your business.

  • Aggregates 70+ search engines
  • No tracking, no profiling
  • Self-hosted for full control
  • Open source (AGPL-3.0)
Search Now →

Finsite

Model-driven investing without delusion

A personal investment workbench that uses Random Forest machine learning to find statistical edges — not predictions. Rigorous out-of-sample validation. Traffic-light deployment criteria. Honest about uncertainty.

We find edges. We don't pretend to see the future.

  • Random Forest ML models
  • Out-of-sample validation
  • Traffic light quality assessment
  • Interpretable feature importance
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YaCy

Decentralized web search

A peer-to-peer search engine that doesn't depend on central servers. Build your own search index, contribute to a distributed network, own your search infrastructure.

Search that no one can shut down.

  • Fully decentralized P2P
  • Self-hosted search index
  • No single point of failure
  • Open source (GPL-2.0)
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ABOUT

Prosilient is an independent IT and AI agency based in Germany.

We operate at the intersection of artificial intelligence, investment, and digital sovereignty. We produce clear thinking on complex topics — and we build privacy-respecting tools that embody our values.

The name combines "proactive" and "resilient": we form positions and build tools before the hype arrives, so we're not easily manipulated by fear, greed, or fashionable narratives.

This is not a company seeking scale. It's a workshop for clarity.