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Cake day: March 12th, 2025

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  • The propensity of the average person to simply believe what they’re told is staggering, and I know because I do it all the time.

    It takes effort to seek out information, vet it, consider it, and then make a determination on the next information to seek or the next course of action. Deterministic, trustworthy information and abstracted concepts are extremely valuable to the brain, an organ that consumes roughly 20% of our body’s energy. Before, computers performed tasks that were impossible for the human mind. Now, it is possible for it to automate common human-level reasoning and decision making. In this new sense, directly offloading this cognitive work to a computer is literally letting it think for us.

    The more reliant on this mode of thinking we become, the easier it is to transfer the cognitively expensive work to a device that externalizes that energy cost. However, the trade-offs that are emerging are:

    • Internal electric brain energy is traded for relatively inefficient external electricity production to feed circuits.

    • The ideas generated by LLM’s must still be verified and combined into coherent ideas and actions.

    • The drive and skill required to develop good ideas that have value is degraded without constant practice.

    In the end, it becomes only a slightly less amount of work to perform the same thinking process for checking and mentally processing the output of an AI agent, which defeats its purpose. Machine learning has been automating tasks impossible for humans such as computer vision or large dataset processing, but chatbots are the first technology that has really enabled automating human thought. If you skip that step of contextualizing the output of a chatbot as possibly representing corporate interest and diluting meaning while offering a juicy cognitive shortcut, you’re becoming willingly complacent of your own digital brainwashing. This effect is also emergent and automatic; it doesn’t even have to be of nefarious purpose, it’s a procedural consequence of this mode of thinking.

    What I really fear, and what is also emerging, is that eventually AI agents will become so advanced and trusted that their end-to-end capabilities will make mistakes and ulterior motives impossible to spot, and that they will become completely above the capability and desire for human scrutiny.








  • lifetime of extreme undeserved generational wealth

    commit financial fraud and sex crimes with impuny for decades

    bang/murder underage teenagers on private island whenever

    marry a supermodel who absolutely despises you but can’t do anything about it

    spout absolute narcissistic ego-pumping nonsense and get elected president (wat.)

    openly and continuously betray the United States and nothing happens (lol)

    multiple assassination attempts, literally just a tiny scratch on the ear

    get dementia and fumble through new middle east war just because that’s what presidents do lol

    get impeached twice and nothing happens

    tHiNgS ArE LoOkInG QuItE BaD fOr TrUmP!!!111 hurdrrr!

    This is quite possibly the luckiest, most privileged person who will ever live. If the White House was hit by a giant meteor tomorrow, Trump would somehow survive. Expect this walking talking piece of shit to live to 117, and get elected 5 more times.

    Things are looking BAD for the RETARDS OF THE UNITED STATES who elected this hyper-douche TWICE. Are you fucking kidding? DONALD TRUMP will be just fine. The rest of us are FUCKED, as planned.

    In order for this man to actually see justice, you would need to invent time travel. The mere existence of the Trump family is definitive evidence that the base state of existence is chaotic entropy and that morality is a frail human dalliance on par with the credibility of astrology.

    A new HOLOCAUST is brewing. To flippantly wave false hope with such a headline is at best ignorant complicity. I think I’m going to throw up.