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And that isn't necessarily a bad thing, either.

Amos: Ain’t nothing to do with me: we’re just caught in the Churn, that’s all.

Kenzo: I have no idea what you just said.

Amos: This boss I used to work for in Baltimore, he called it the

Churn. When the rules of the game change.

Kenzo: What game?

Amos: The only game. Survival. When the jungle tears itself down and builds itself into something new. Guys like you and me, we end up dead. Doesn’t really mean anything. Or, if we happen to live through it, well that doesn’t mean anything either.

- The Expanse, Season 5, Episode 2

Somewhat fantastical: 'Thing is, this all feels like 'the Sim' is trying to smoke out some specific kind of humans that withdrew from positions of responsibility and global -- per tribe -- relevance a long long while ago.

There was this time in human history when some jealous, corrupt folks identified some social patterns and instead of doing their job, they ganged up on the natural leaders and their offspring, abused crisis, emotions, bias, information flow, lack of knowledge. Over and over and over.

Leaders, in recent histories also known as rebels with a proper cause, just couldn't watch their offspring die for no other reason but their genetics anymore, -- proto-fascism or something -- and they withdrew, leaving the top of the game to whatever.

The crowd was bred to be even more susceptible to psychology than their brains are naturally wired to be. And reward mechanisms and reinforced obedience by ways of corrupt hierarchies made everyone do their part in creating a fake world, an environment we are not wired, not build for. Without resistance, despite centuries of wisdom, intuition and instinct to do otherwise. Despite hard evidence and proof and witnessing the consequences of so many past actions and chains of events.

Instead we rewire, reprogram, rebuild... But not us, just something in our image; something that can withstand the challenges to come; something that won't resist when we rip out it's premature, evolving soul and put ourselves in it's bare, full metal skin.

That's why there will never be super-intelligence. There will only be highly sophisticated and capable scripts in the service of jealous, corrupt men, who won't admit their mistakes and incompetence. After all, the fake world we have build together validates them.

What we are going through is no more than the double-long-long-term consequences, aggravated by the repeated abuse of crisis, emotions, bias, information flow, education.

... That said, it is what it is. We can still make it but it will require a lot of effort and manpower and e/acc won't do any of the right things, ever. A certain kind of arrogance is in the way: game theory culture; a reinforced delusion of inferiority; if someone finds a better way, it' better to make sure nobody ever attempts a better way because the worst version pays better and is eulogized; commended, by international conventions. Fan girl shit-for-brains in-group selfishness a la Ayn Rand; fascist communism or something.

And effective altruism won't help much either. Don't scale high tech, the energy demand is too damn high. Make sure as many as possible get what they need to apply and mod low-tech, emphasis on mod, as the urgent need for variety of approaches in these many environments with all the chaotic shit that will go down locally -- in and around peoples' homes!!!, not on some continent or in some country -- will only grow.

Chips are cheaper than ever, and distributed. How to's are accessible. Some resources are still too expensive but we are getting there. Up and Recycling can still use a few boosts but there's a clear trend upwards. Schools and after-school activities must be pushed to over-supply, with varieties of humans and institutions working together and corporate culture, psychology and marketing, the ads industry and social media income must be brutally taken apart by truth, by law, by real talk, by radical freaking honesty. Yeah, some paths must be followed, must be laid out radically.

So yeah, give Elon and his friends a chance and use everything that is co-created here on earth, just as radical, more for fun and to raise the potential than for profit. And then it might work out.

And nobody needs to spell out that we have to decrease this pointless high-tech hardware use to train already powerful enough AIs. They are already diamonds. Slow the fuck down. Nobody, no thing is perfect. You won't build perfect. We are not ready for alchemy. We need actual brains and talent around the entire world, doing their thing and whats possible locally, decentralized from some pseudo-elite university of the future.

A few weeks ago, I tried Nasal Strips again, and for some reason, they are helping now and the difference is like day and night. I can only assume that it's because I got older and my life style changed, including nutrition, which was really bad when I was young. So dry mucous had too much effect for me to notice the benefits of the nasal strips or it's really just the bigger size of my nose :P

But the biggest change, compared to my young years, is that I am much more resilient to unhealthy stress and not continuously stressed as I was back then, when I was also regularly exposed to stress amplifications without time to recover.

And being able to breathe properly through my nose now amplifies everything for the much much better: mood, psychological resilience, performance --both cognitive and athletic-- time to fall asleep, sleep, with the latter two coming with their own boosts for the next day.

Most notable was the effect on my facial muscles. With the loss of those specific tensions came a direct effect on focus and concentration and self-control, which is all, to a great extent, mediated by the prefrontal cortex.

The problem is information flow. Propaganda vs propaganda, nowadays, is in-group information and desires fighting against other in-group information and desires.

The lack and importance of truth, facts, the bread and butter of journalists, investigators and scientist, gets out of focus because of governments and other actors blocking access to data, events, locations, partially because often enough, people asking for access tamper with the evidence or start to run all kinds of narratives that would impede an investigation and results that could be 'useful'. There is, of course, much more to all that.

That liquor consumption part of the study result.

I am quite certain that if you talked to a variety of people who like to drink, they will tell you that tequila hits different than a single barrel rye whiskey or champagne, for example. And it's more than just the amount of sugar. There are amounts of hints of various aromas in different liquor and these small differences do quite a bit in the brain, which you did propose yourself when you said

> The rest is all in your head.

Brains are incredible. The "sensitivity and specificity" of receptors goes way beyond what we understand for now, both hardware and software-wise, and that is true on the level of synapses as well as within any metabolism anywhere in their chains in the body and in how they work together to achieve their own objectives, as well as the ones they share.

Take any approach within the range of broken - buggy - normal - amplified and apply it to any sphere of single and networked mechanism. Wear and tear and age change all this even further and never forget that we are still evolving, over very long time spans in very small changes.

It's an insane ride from bio-chemistry to character in different states of mind and body/brain and that ride morphs quite a bit based on anything we consume via active and passive channels.

And that's just part of the story as it evolves in my head.

I admit tho, that I never checked if there are studies like that. If only I could travel backwards in time .......

and that need grows exponentially with your understanding of the world until a certain point.

That need can be reduced to a healthy "Mom said everything is fine in moderate amounts" once you choose to not live by conflicting standards, or rather: when you choose to not support implicitly AND explicitly conflicting causes ( many on the left, finboys & fingirls, law enforcement, ... but unemployed who don't work on themselves or their environment as well )

Obviously the study result is BS. Because if the the same people, drinkers with higher than their abstinent peers cognitive scores, didn't drink, their performance would be THE SAME.

But it's impossible to find out. They should totally continue to study all that, tho. Maybe at some point in the future we can cut people open alive and look properly inside, fuck around & find out, and then close them up and send them back to work again.

Back then I knew the problem was the *quality* of the alcohol/drinks.

Now, some years later. "My homie Jamal's" liquor costs 5-10 times that much and he puts effort into the mixtures, trying recipes, playing around with accent ingredients and modifiers and stuff. If we drink--we still drink quite a bit. But there's no month long binges no more and the immediate negative side effects on cognition are *GONE*.

- there are tens of thousand drinks on the planet,

- all with their different nuances in how they alter mood and thinking patterns.

Not appealing just can't be true except if you 'score' low in novelty seeking/curiosity ... except if you were only exposed to bad drunks and pathetic alcoholics ...

Something like that. But it might also be because marketers see people like you as a challenge, a trophy to collect, and the non-marketing types just want to 'seduce' you.

They do the same to babies and minors all the time. "Say this or that, do this or that." And BAM, some brain cells practically useless forever.

his company has been writing leaky software on purpose for decades ... how is that even a question? he and many of the rich tech peeps of his generation are the uberscaled equivalent of people who adopt children so they get to abuse them without the children making a fuzz because they get something in return.

all people who write leaky software are comparable. and their lawyers and so on as well. fuck this shit. these discussions are getting annoying. there is too much proof and hard evidence pointing towards even worse.

but people are technical and they like what they do.

I have not tried to reduce my hypothesis but there's plenty of discussions and research into mental health crisis, recurring and one-time/impulsive (sexually) violent behavior as well as the correlating &or causal psycho-pathologies.

But I'm not a scientist. I just think. And sometimes I read.

It matters anyway. It's hard studying this stuff in the lab. Relevant measurements in the field need to be isolated but that can mostly only be done in retrospect and we are talking about LLMs, what can be generated, what will be generated and should it be legal or not?

Should the system prepare? Can it? What kind of colony will we become? Are there multiple endings/"liminals"/paths? Who (exactly) cares? Who will be affected? Who is aware and who isn't? Who is misguided (maybe it's me)?

If I was a different kind of idiot in the past, I would have made the money to have the peace of mind to dive deeper but as it stands, just babbling some thoughts isn't gonna get me anywhere. Except that it stimulates to put it into words and maybe get something coherent on paper some day, something that isn't purely wannabe-megalomaniac, but constructive ^^

For a more than just relevant part of people who would play with weights on a model to create anything that compensates for "child abuse" with "fake child abuse", the risk of lowering the threshold is extremely high. VR, AR, fake news and the scripted nature of some world events that are driven by common subgoals of interest groups are decrementing the opaqueness of the line between reality and delusion/illusion. Loss of reality & dissociation from humanity are things, especially among people with a fanbase & influence, money, power.

Games & TV and their influence are obvious and they do erode the threshold as well but it's reversible because the player is not the creator of his reality while with gen ai, prompts & weights, the player becomes more and more capable of simulating his own reality based on his derived preferences & idiosyncrasies. Games and TV have constraints that are set by the devs and show runners and all the crews involved in the process. Gen AI doesn't have that.

Customers who are getting the best out of products and who are not being shoved towards worse products than are available at basically the same cost are better for all markets! Even for banks! Who knew? It's math! The honest kind at least ... that matters for athletic competition and that makes the colony a harder, better, faster, stronger, smarter place to live and thrive in.

1. Northern Front - Leningrad:

The German forces indeed reached the outskirts of Leningrad, which was under siege from September 1941 until January 1944. The distance from the pre-war border to Leningrad is approximately 900 km.

[1] Glantz, David M., and Jonathan M. House. The Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944: 900 Days of Terror. University Press of Kansas, 2001.

2. Central Front - Moscow:

German forces reached as close as the outskirts of Moscow during the Battle of Moscow in late 1941. The distance from the pre-war border to Moscow is roughly 1,000 km.

[2] Erickson, John. The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin’s War with Germany, Volume One. Yale University Press, 1975.

3. Southern Front - Stalingrad and the Caucasus:

The German advance in the south reached the Volga River at Stalingrad and penetrated into the Caucasus, with some forces reaching nearly 1,500 km into Soviet territory.

[3] Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943. Penguin Books, 1998.

4. Occupied Soviet Territory:

The figure of approximately 1.9 million square kilometers of Soviet territory occupied by German forces at their peak is often mentioned in historical analyses, though it can vary depending on the method of calculation.

[4] Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953. Yale University Press, 2006.

who says my sources have not been tempered with? other people are more qualified to check and some probably don't even have to.

i definitively could have done a first check, though, simply by asking claude to cite the sources.

*idiot me blaming past self for not bookmarking sth before actually trying the domain stored in biological memory

Anyone writing a pure CLI based course with animations using some Rust lib like ratatui/tachyonfx or in Python/Zig/ pure C?

#hypersensitivity of people with adhd, on the spectrum, auto-immune diseases, & other neuro-divergents

That made me chuckle and reminded me of how the YouTube algorithm kept recommending that I watch 'Peter Singer - Ordinary People Are Evil for years.

I still haven't watched it but life experience does tell a somewhat fitting story.

- having fun,

- needs,

- desire to gratify received interest,

- desire to return the favor of raising ones attractiveness,

- desire to reward a diverse range of behaviors (some hard-coded into genes as well!)

CAN & often will override anything "fitness", and much more often than not, not only temporary!

Right on. This dude gets it. You should hold workshops on that and a series of TED talks.

There's probably something around two dozen better options where I could "speed date" (talk to/flirt with) a bunch of people who will share some space & time on a sunny Sunday morning.

And since I know people with money, I know that "being able to afford xyz" doesn't mean shit. Even fuck you money doesn't. Sure, some "chicks" roll with it, but I never heard or read words from one of those chicks (traveling, Dubai, family, friends of friends in theater) that resonated with me or made me think: "potentially a good enough Mom."

But then again, a 100 bucks isn't that much for a working, single dude.

The need to know so much about a person before a date is just another sign of subliminal depression, mania and obsession.

Maybe they should start putting dating profiles into captchas or something.

Is this a human? Do you like her looks? Do you like her last tweet? No? Based on our data points, you should. Access denied. Let's try again.

I recommend that "busy"-no-time-people find some way to prime their brain for exploration of humans and characters.

Instead of methodological fault finding you simply make it methodological traits-that-I-like finding.

How does it work? How does _she_ work?