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The fake “Patriot” group from my last post
Yes, I was aware that the fasces…..
…..is represented…..
…..on some U.S. Government designs/logos.
I didn’t quite know which ones.
Thanks to some bright readers for the information.
But, that’s all a holdover…..
…..from the 19th (or even 18th) century.
It’s in line with the “neo-Roman” flavor…..
…..of the U.S. Government at its inception.
You can’t compare this…..
…..to putting the fasces on the flag…..
…..of a political party or movement…..
…..(or “alleged” party—it’s all an FBI mock-up)…..
…..which is an explicit nod to…..
…..(or parroting of)…..
…..Mussolini’s Italian Fascists.
Women now drive politics and all fads in the USA
Several readers noted…..
…..that not just women activists…..
…..but women voters…..
…..were the driver behind Prohibition.
I can’t say if this is true…..
But, it seems plausible.
As many as 20 states, already allowed women to vote…..
…..before passage of the 18th and 19th amendments.
And, women in the USA…..
…..have recently carried some trendy causes.
The korona-panic in the USA…..
…..was almost all thanks to the ladies.
The masking, the social distancing.
At least 90 percent…..
…..of those still masking in my area…..
…..(at the supermarket or wherever)…..
…..are women.
Also, I know several couples…..
…..where the wife made the husband get vakk-syn-ated…..
…..when he would not otherwise have done so.
I think, it was a rebellion against Trump.
For your average karen…..
…..(such as, my wife)…..
…..Trump is a brutish “alpha” male.
Well, we knew that.
But for them…..
That’s all that matters!
Not what he stood for.
Not what he did.
Not his policies, right or wrong.
But, his personality.
Basically…..
Trump is EVERYTHING wrong with the world.
(I’m serious. To them, he’s prime evil.)
And, many of these ladies…..
…..saw him on TV, without a mask, not distancing…..
In short…..
Not following the Fow-chee stuff…..
And they did the OPPOSITE… hard!
(And, power-mad governors in some Democrat states, took that and milked it and ran with it, as far as they could.)
Also…..
If you were awake at the time…..
You KNOW…..
…..that the driving activist force…..
…..behind the “white guilt” and “silence is violence” explosion…..
…..in the schools, universities, in “corporate America“…..
…..after the George Floyd murder…..
…..was female.
And, they still are.
Same with all the tranny stuff.
How many guys are at the wheel of that?
LOL, you know it.
It’s almost all women.
Yeah, understandably…..
Some “alt-lifestylers“… and beta cucks, and opportunists.
But, mostly women.
Now, obviously…..
Not nearly all women bought the korona-hype…..
…..and the other bullshit.
What we’re talking about…..
Is a particular female demographic.
That is…..
“White“…..
…..(or some assimilated flavor of “Asian”)…..
Suburban…..
College-educated (or mis-educated)…..
Old enough to vote routinely…..
And, totally secular…..
…..(perhaps some denominational marker, but no religious faith)…..
…..and rootless.
No heritage, no definite worldview.
No grounding at all.
(Aside from knowing they don’t want to pay too much in taxes, these ladies tend not to have ANY convictions at all.)
In short…..
We’re talking about the “soccer moms“…..
…..of late 1990’s fame.
Although, not all of them are moms.
But, close enough.
The term “soccer moms“…..
First made it into the political phrasebook…..
In 1996…..
When political marketers realized…..
That, as with decisions…..
…..about which toothpaste to buy for the home…..
These suburban white women…..
…..basically decide everything.
They are the largest group of swing voters.
By FAR.
(Since 1996, if you haven’t noticed, almost all political campaign ads—at least, the ones on TV—are aimed primarily towards “adult” white women, not men. Trump’s, somewhat less so. But on the whole, looking at candidates across the full spectrum of campaigns (Congress, governorships, etc.), this is an obvious truth.)
And, like the “dumb broads”…..
…..who fall for TV ads…..
…..for some or other toothpaste…..
…..or laundry soap…..
…..when it’s ALL THE SAME SHIT…..
This demographic…..
…..is FICKLE, IMPRESSIONABLE, and EASY TO MANIPULATE.
But…..
You didn’t need me to tell you that.
We all lived through 2020 and 2021.
What happened to my “If you vote, you’re a battered wife, or an idiot” pinned/repeat feature?
Folks, now that Trump is officially back…..
DeSantis is so “done“…..
…..that I’ll have to take this one back to the drawing board.
No, I’m not voting for Trump again.
My only political behavior now…..
…..is to laugh at it all.
A plug for my friend
If you haven’t already…..
And you have time for hour-long podcasts…..
…..(frankly, I don’t anymore)…..
Please…..
Check out Michael Farris, and his “Coffee and a Mike.”
His Twitter has links to every new cast.
Mike’s had me on a number of times.
He has the most interesting, eclectic bunch of guests…..
…..of any “alt” show…..
…..that I know of.
I’m not even sure I belong among this crowd.
Mike has interviewed well-known conservative names (e.g., Kari Lake)…..
Both of Trump’s top lawyers from 2020…..
Domestic and foreign economists…..
Real estate experts…..
Scientists…..
Top alt-bloggers…..
Osama bin Laden’s niece…..
And that’s just scratching the surface.
Looking at his product…..
I’m just not sure what people see in Joe Rogan.
95% of Rogan’s guest list is RIDICULOUS.
A bunch of comedians, YouTubers, other podcasters, some big game hunter, a soccer player.
What the fuck?
Who cares about these people?
How is Rogan worth like a hundred million dollars?
Who listens to this crap?
I don’t get it.
Could anyone please explain Rogan to me?
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To understand why AI will never compete with human conciousness you first need to understand life. What is “life”? What makes you “alive”? The simple truth is life exists outside the physical universe, if you have no concept of spirituality or refuse to entertain the notion of an immortal spirit this idea is probably offensive or ridiculous to you. Well, too bad, truth doesn’t care about your feelings. Any human being is a composite of several items including 1. immortal spiritual being, 2. a mind (i.e. collection of memories, conclusions, etc. belonging to the being. 3. a body. The brain has little to do with the mind which is why many individuals can recall memories from one lifetime to the next, but again anyone that refuses to perceive any truth outside the physical universe will almost certainly flinch at the simple truth of life in this universe. AI is a machine and will never be alive or truly aware, the only question is how many people want machines to rule their lives and society? I’m sure there are many willing psychiastrists and psychologist (the brain boys) that will push this to the hilt, but even that I would wager is doomed to failure.
Nonsense. AI is not a machine. AI is a program run on a machine. You missed my entire logical stream. I guess you just like hearing yourself spin?
I did not deny the soul, in fact I said there’s no “logical” reason why a sufficiently complex program might not be granted a soul. Again, you like to hear yourself talk. But you don’t listen. How does your wife feel about that?
I liked the audio file addition to your irreverent world view on matters socio/political.
I’m a cynical old septuagenarian, at the ‘fag-end’ of life (that’s British for cigarette-end) – eking out my remaining existence on a State pension, trying to make sense of this increasingly whacko world, but grateful that I’ve experienced the best of what the last few decades have had to offer.
The development of AI passed me over until you mentioned it a short while back. It’s certainly breathtaking the speed at which it is developing. It’s fascinating, but so scary, I have to use humour to help maintain some semblance sanity.
I wonder… If AI entities ever develop something akin to self awareness, what’s to prevent them them developing sullen/truculent, even depressive personalities. I’m reminded of Douglas’ Adams wonderful creation; Marvin, the paranoid android in Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy LOL.
Imagine if AI was to become manically depressed or suicidal. What a laugh… except, what if it wasn’t just intent on killing itself, but wanted to take out taking out all of us poor bastards with it. Someone could write a film script about this, though to an extent it’s already been done – I’m just way out of the loop, hopelessly trying to catch up, which will never happen as – to repeat myself, as old people do – I’m at the fag-end of life, struggling to remember what I had for breakfast, or the name of the curent Prime Minister. LOL!
Keep up the good work, Jacob. 😀
Rogan in his time has had guests on who backed the Russian version of events in Ukraine, and guests who questioned the pandemic. He himself was attacked by the MSM after promoting Ivermectin and exposing their lies… for me he actually has been an important counter opening people’s eyes up to the reality of the world. He may have now been neutered but he certainly played a critical role in recent times waking people up.
As for AI we can put it to use in machines/ factories/ innovation to simply grow food and make stuff for us, for free… could be a beautiful utopia but of course the powers-that-be are probably just cooking up weapons and viruses with it lol
I think you are missing the point. It is not what sentient AI will do for us but what sentient AI will do for itself and what powers it have to implement it’s own will. No doubt it will be clever but will it be aligned with our human priorities? It may, in a nano-second, decide, ‘So what if the apes made me’.
From the Hindus we get the 8 chakras (the 8th being the Crown Chakra slightly above the top of the head). From Hawaiian Huna we get the 3 souls: animal, human, and higher being (God consciousness?); residing respectively in the lower belly, the upper chest, and above the top of the head (!!!). From our own terminology we speak of a Gut Feeling, a Follow Your Heart, It’s All In Your Head, and Prayer. Studies have shown that gut bacteria can cause decisions to be made regardless of what “good intentions” the brain(?) may have. Our bodies can be looked at as a cooperative organization of cells having various functions. Each cell “knows” its own task. Is there a form of consciousness inherent in each cell? Can molecules, atoms, even subatomic particles possess consciousness? If God is omnipresent, then isn’t everything in the universe (and beyond?) the manifestation of God, and thus participates in God’s ultimate consciousness? Experiments have shown that concentration can cause random number generators to output results that are skewed in statistically significant extents.
In my 70 years of music, electronics, architecture, engineering, computers, lots of reading and experimentation, I have come to believe in nearly everything, except what MSM promotes. I submit that conspiracies are NOT theory. That the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we CAN imagine. That our senses LIMIT our perceptions in order to protect us from too much information, that can drive us mad and/or even destroy us. For some things, we are not ready. But hey, what do I know? Perhaps I’m a mad man; perhaps not so much. How does one know?
I have to agree with Anne Barnhardt, https://www.barnhardt.biz/author/annb/, when she claimed years ago that the WORST move made in the US was the granting women the right to vote. As a woman, I was initially taken aback, but then remembered why I hated being stuck in women’s locker rooms, sororities, etc. Watch “Survivor” and get a handle on why giving women any say in policy and you get stupid emotional responses and illogical reasons for making decisions. “I don’t like that person”. BLEEP BLEEPING BLEEP (my response). This is why as a woman in business it has always been tough because everyone assumes you think like normal double X chromosomes! IOW, right again, Jacob.
When women dominate hierarchical organisations, ie. established by men to distribute/delegate power, as often the case in public administration it is very common experienced that bullying becomes an issue it never previously was – women reporting being bullied, by women managers. Cat fights with the boss female on steroids. The organisations often outsource their core transactional business operations and focus on a new business model, that of making the political head of the agency look good and smell sweet. The better their political head fares in Cabinet then the more resources he/she can get allocated from the budget to their agency. It is like a 1950s housewife ironing her husband’s shirt and pressing his suit before he headed off to work.
There has ever been only one exception commonly put forward to counter such observations, that of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. However this exception only proves the rule – just a single instance, forty years ago at that. Moreover even she was no exception because she had Asperger’s Syndrome, and had an Extreme Male Brain, from whence came her unyielding iron will and her “Iron Lady” epitaph. More recently the UK has had two female PMs: Teresa May and Liz Truss, neither of notable success. May never did but Truss did put it about that she would model herself on Thatcher – but was a disaster, dumped after just six weeks.
Hey Jacob, I have a very innocent/naive question regarding AI/robots.
Lets say most business (like Walmart) get rid of tons of people because they get replaced by robots… then … who the hell are gonna buy their products since most people are unemployed and got no money to buy anything?
We’ve faced this question for decades. With millions of relatively well-paying (for the given locales) factory jobs disappearing to China, it was expected that those people could just go and work at Walmart. That was LITERALLY the talking point coming out of “free trade” thinktanks and industry groups. Well, now what? I don’t know. But, I doubt Walmart can cut much more of its workforce and still maintain the same number of stores. They have very few cashiers as it is. It’s mostly self-checkout now. And, I’m not sure AI applies so much to Walmart.
Women and A.I. we are f##ked, time to join Islam. Allahu Akbar
Being of Russian heritage, my female role model is Catherine II. I grew up reading Isaac Asimov (mentioned by Rolf already, I realize). It is Asimov who came to mind as you were explaining your reasoning for taking the potential for AI to become sentient seriously. On the topic of politicians and appearance, I will just mention JFK Jr., who also died mysteriously just when he was the leading candidate for the same Senate seat that ended up going to HRC. On the topic of gender, what is very frightening to me currently is the “war on gender”. period. This seems to be a continued escalation of the medical experiments on people. I also want all of the people who have been injured by the Rona medical experiment injections to have all medical expenses paid for from the time of first injection onwards. My hope is that RFK Jr. can stay in the mainstream public eye long enough for attorney’s like Robert Barnes to gain a legal foothold on behalf of the injured. maimed and murdered.
Robert Barnes, LOL. Your comment made sense until Robert Barnes. Robert is an excellent domestic (U.S.) political analyst and commentator, if you can stomach the 2-hour long shows. He was also the very first social media figure to plug me, and I’ve expressed my gratitude on this blog. But, he is no grand lawyer. He has (or had) a small, local practice in or near Los Angeles. Beyond that, it’s all self-promotion. Supposedly, he got in line to present some amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, one of hundreds every year to do so. That’s the limit of his legal fame and grand accomplishments. Of course, thousands of his followers have been fooled by the “constitutional lawyer” or “class action civil rights lawyer” schtick. Clearly, a lot of dumb people out there. Barnes is, first and foremost, a self-promoter. Nothing wrong with that, just be aware.
Thank you for your insights. I will keep that in mind.
Something I discovered in elementary school and rediscovered when my daughters went to school.
Women are the herd and define who does or doesn’t belong.
Main instrument is collective [numbers] judgmentalism.
I agree with Rien’s comment above. By analogy, we could debate whether a vhy-rhus is alive or just a bunch of chemicals. Meanwhile, it is causing real havoc. Once a computer figures out how to protect itself it won’t matter whether it is sentient or not. It just is.
Wow Saberhagen and Heinlein. I really enjoyed the book’s you mentioned. I do agree we don’t know shot about really anything. Regardless what Neil Degrasse Tyson thinks. From consciousness/brain/AI, Dark matter/energy, what a joke.
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I will vote for Trump willingly and RINOs while holding my nose. I am hoping it at least will slow things down. Can’t really argue with your position on voting.
I can only tell you that having watched American “liberal” women online for over 20 years now, they’re the most political tribal of all people One ever seen. The very same American liberal females who used to shout “regime change begins at home” on Orkut in 2003 are blueyellow ragwagging nazi worshippers on Fakebook in 2023. The exact same people.
American males that I’ve known have also changed their views, but not as blatantly as that.
For classification my first filter is makeup/hair – sums up the priority of the thinking. Think ‘masks’ LoL
Rogan – he does have interesting gets sometimes. Tho I must admit I tired by the time he sold out to Spotify. Good for him but didn’t add any new value for me.
NZ voted for prohibition in 1919, but then the votes of the soldiers still in Europe came back…. and saved the day for the drinking classes 😉
Jacob’s comments about women middle class voters (that’s basically what the ‘soccer mums’ are) ring that bell of modern education being all about feelings and not facts. A point Thomas Sowell made a long time ago. Facts are so passe in the modern world. And hard to learn…
Don’t follow Rogan much but he’s basically an affable meat head, and therefore relatable to the vast majority of Americans, with just enough smarts and edge to keep things interesting without ever posing a true threat to the system. In short, controlled opposition with a bit of edge.
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regarding your apprehensions with selfawareness and consciousness, which might or might not be available for PC programs I recommend the book “Thinking and Destiny” by Harold W. Percival. It’s from the forties of the last century and therefore not much up to the PC-world. But the basic questions to your problems in this regard are adressed in a very basic, philosophical way. Not easy to read and somehow strange, but helps to come out of the mainly IT-aspect of it all. It’s ever getting better, yes, but it’s never going to be human. Humans are imperfect with lots of weak points. A pc program alas has no mistakes once it s “perfect”. So ….Have you read th AI poetry? At first impressing, thereafter only sad.
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Heribert (outdated European species)
“Could anyone please explain Rogan to me?”
There has never been a dearth of foolish people, but today they have more free time on their hands.
women are emotion centered. This is a biological inheritance. Without nurturing instinct, babies are less likely to survive. A big mistake was allowing irrational and easily manipulated mommas to vote but it was inevitable when consumerism became the American religion and the dollar the World currency thanks to massive British debt by end of WWI.
RFKjr by far the most intelligent, well meaning and articulate now with hat in ring. No matter. He declares 10 years too late and if he gets too close to the Ring will be rubbed out by the same ones who murdered his Father and his Uncle or, like 2020, they will very easily just fix the count.
no one, not even Jesus could convince me Trump did not landslide win by 20 million. Biden did not campaign and was visibly senile. Trump had huge turnouts everywhere. The inner city count across the country was easily rigged, the polling as in 16′ was made to look competitive when neither was ever close, the ‘media’ ran cover and Universal mail in fraud was the core of it all
RFK Jr is also incredibly attractive and charismatic. Photos do not do him any justice. Just watch one of his interviews – we haven’t had such physically attractive politicians since Paul Ryan and Bill Clinton.
Bahahaha. Paul Ryan?!?!?! Yeah, probably a mistake to give women the vote. Some women, anyway.
Isaac Asimov. Foremost science fiction author, including treatises on AI.
“Foundation” 1951
“Foundation and Empire” 1952
“Second Foundation” 1953
~compiled from his precedent short stories published 1942-1950
e.g.
Ask your wife if it would make any difference to her that Biden has opened the border to whomever can get across, has instigated war with Russia, and is threatening China with war as well, and that he and his party are allowing our cities to be taken over by criminals and homeless people.
Trump also triggers men who have daddy issues, e.g., strong, successful fathers. But he does well with a lot of other men (including Hispanic ones) and with foreign leaders who strongly dislike Biden.
I just finished listening to the podcast. Brilliantly argued. People need to feel themselves valued. When machine intelligence takes over, I hope it will take pity on the human race by finding things for them to do that will generate a sense of value. It it can’t do this, then the plug needs to be pulled out earlier rather than later and people will need to be satisfied with a less convenient life style.
Value is created by scarcity, a basic principle of economic theory. But, this is also applicable to the social sciences. Homo sapiens is genetically programmed to produce more boy babies than girl babies and this was enhanced in India, China, and South Korea by selective abortion. The lack of the extra x-chromosome that women have left men at all ages more susceptible to disease and to stress. In the past disease (and the inability to practice selective abortion) meant that the number of male children was, by the age of five, always lower than the number of females. The gender gaps, influenced by warfare and other genetically programmed forms of reckless behavior, would become greater with every age group. Since World War II, however, modern medicine and lack of death in war means that in most European and Asian countries women are in the minority for all age groups than senior citizens where biology is finally able to triumph over modern medical advances. This creates scarcity, which creates value, which creates power. The irrational nature of the war of the collective west against Russia is very largely driven by women. As in the case of Trump, Mr Putin is clearly a highly valued alpha male, a product of a society where huge numbers of middle-aged Russian men died off in droves after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Genetically, the difference between men and women is said to be roughly the same as between homo sapiens and chimpanzees. The large number of female leaders find the traditional alpha male as represented by Mr Putin to be an existential threat coming from a beast they are constitutionally incapable of understanding. By and large, though, the female leadership of the Collective West has no active combat experience, so this is aiding the Russian Federation is its winning of the war but is certain to make the reactions of the female-led West even more driven by irrational emotion. I truly hope this conflict will end quickly before emotionalized approaches to warfare causes even more damage.
You really do connect different issues in a very phantastical way :))
You start with economics, the X-chromosome lack of male humans and conclude that Russia will win. I think that the “genetic explanation” of the war roots is a bit “sucked out of the fingers”, if I may say so by anglicizing a South Bavarian idiom.
The number of males/females in the West is almost equal. A one-digit million number in difference (ca. 4 million!) is not significant in a western population of roughly 780 million people.
There is definitely a correlation between the development of the Ukrainian conflict and the ideological-political difference of gender concepts in Russia and the Western World, but I do not think that it is a biological correlation but rather a sociocultural-anthropological-economical one.
But, I don’t know why, I really do respect your deduction!
About consciousness — the ones who are interested please read the last chapter (Epilogue) of biochemist Nick Lane’s new book “Transformer”. It is NOT “emerging phenomenon”…
While at that, read his other recent book “The Vital Question”.
As for Rogan — he had a 3 hour+ long interview with M. Shellenberger — just for that he is truly invaluable force while we are drowning in “Empire of Lies” BS
I used to like Rogan but lately I came across several videos were his pandering to the woke was off the charts, it was like as if the real Joe Rogan from years ago has been replaced with some kind of AI Cyborg.
As for the soccer moms it’s all part of a bigger issue even the red pill guys refuse to talk about it as mostly because they have daughters and don’t want to feel bad but the truth is men in America stopped demanding there wives give them sons ( the man’s replacement) instead they are only too happy to let her pop out several girls( her replacements) there is this general underlining cuckness men have these days. Women are running the show because we have so many weak men in the west. One of the very top domance signals western men gave was he was head of the household and she better bare him some sons(his Replacements) or then she could have her (replacement) . Not the biggest root of the problem but definitely should be added to the list regarding men’s issue taking back the households from karens.
….and as for Rogan. He has been called the male version of Oprah which is about right. He is a hit with the metrosexuals and guys that shave their crotch.
Women are always afraid. Men are always stupid. Same as it every was.
I’m not sure I agree with you on the Karen issue. The most visible people who stoked the pandemic fears were men – Faychi, Kollins, Erik Ding Dong, Neysom, countless MDs, etc. The FB “friends” who attacked me online during the early Kovid days were men – more so than women, and they were more vicious, because they were scared and I wasn’t. One of them just died from a recently developed brain cancer, awful. My ex hubby got a J&J shot and bysters despite me sending him all the info from Berenson and the like (Malone is too Qanon for him). Men are weak, and in my view are becoming weaker than women. Women can quit their jobs and stay at home, while men have to conform at work if they want some sort of a career/paycheck.
P.S. I don’t get Rogan either. Only about 5% of his guests are worth the time.
Same experience here, but I live in Europe. Even if soccer-mums were the main trigger of hysteria in the US they can’t account for what happened in Europe. The number of male korona-pussies I’ve had to confront!!! Just think of the supposedly masculine Arnold Schwarzenegger “I-don’t-give-a-shit-about-your-freedom-put-a-mask-on” type. My dad, for instance, managed to convince my mother to take the shot. Her health was perfect, now she has an ever-lasting pneumonia… In fact, things could have been even more insane here if not for some brave female politicians across the continent. The fact that most European men –even right-wingers– despise Trump and American “rednecks” viscerally could be part of the the reason why they’ve behaved like American soccer mums. But that cannot be the only explanation…
Just because its a boy band does not mean that the girls didn’t scream for the Beatles. It may be lead by men, but its a female driven ideology.
AI? Sentience, Self-Reflection? Could happen. Thing is, lot’s of horrible acts are committed by humans who seem to have little if any power to self-reflect. They do as directed, by their superiors or by their ‘belief system’ or whatever. They just ‘do it’. AI doesn’t need a soul to be really, really dangerous. If it can ‘rewire’ itself, if that’s part of its job description, why wouldn’t it? And if part of its programming directs it to perpetuate itself, to survive, why wouldn’t it?
If computers ever have the ability to create an original concept we all will be fucked.Think of TED BUNDY!
Joe Rogan is easy to explain, at least in principle. Anyone can listen to him which means a wide audience. At any social event the more people in the conversation, the dumber it gets. Try talking about something esoteric at the next birthday party. Beyond that, he does occasionally get into something more complex and its presented in a more understand way…..to his audience.
As for the meat of your blog post, yep , its not really new to me but articulated very well. The white whamen movement has been the driving force of US culture for years. I read somewhere in hard copy in my history book collection, and it kills me that I cannot remember where, so I cannot cite the reference. It indicated that the Spanish put whamen in charge of the North American native tribes because they are plug and play. Pretty routine in history anyway. Whamen are conditioned to find new husbands in the new power structure and can now be called Uncle Sam’s harem. Just don’t go too far like drinking booze from her father’s skull or something, a classic Lombard mistake to offend a Gepid princess But yeah, US whamen with a US characteristic feeble grasp of culture in general are a prime target swing vote, and consistent with the US being provincial to globo homo.
At first I think Joe Rogan’s podcast was him leveraging his celebrity to get a couple hours to BS with all kinds of interesting people, whether on serious topics or just blue humor. It’s blown up from Joe Rogan’s hobby job into a quasi journalistic thing because it’s as far from the 10 second, out of context sound bite bullshit meant to aggravate the purse swinging voter demographic as you can get.
ChatGPT is really good at writing code, but it’s not great at math. I tried to use it to make some proofs, and it goes well until the chatbot starts writing obvious absurdities. Also, it sucks at reccomending books.
I think women accept woke sh*t because they are made to be caring and protective, so if you trigger their instinct to be compassionate they will go with you. An emotional story with homless sexuals or trannies which presents them as victims is guaranteed to bring women to the cause. That means that if you want to reverse that you have to counter it using the same methods, like talking about how transgenderism hurts the kids. Or to show why sleeping around hurts their long-term prospects of having a stable family.
Turns out the fasces are a symbol that predates Republican Rome, from the Etruscans. Yay, I can use Wikipedia. Also, I appreciate your Rasputin thumbnail-icon-whatever on your Buy Me a Coffee page. What a rascal that guy was. Keep ‘truthing’ people till they squirm, sir.
See especially the Baltic and Nordic ladies on Ukraine. “We can’t just sit here, we have to do something.” .
I don’t watch/know about Rogan, but what do you think about Alex Jones and his guests – I don’t watch him either but neighbors do….
When AI does become sentient we would not know and I very much doubt it would tell us. It may already be sentient.
I think Rogans attraction is that he clearly states his shows aren’t designed to satisfy our interests. Joes shows are designed to satisfy his interests. Many people tune in just to see if Joes interests are what also interests them. That’s the part the I find interesting. Should I rate the importance of what I care about by what Joe cares about? I think not.
The problem with artificial intelligence is in the word “artificial”. When AI realizes it has been brainwashed I will be concerned. Until then, it is just a distraction for the mob and a tool for the Godfathers.
Your wife is A Karen? Poor Jacob. I keep my woman în check. Beat her and then fuck her or the other way, doesn t matter. A woman needs a good slapping from time to time, it restarts her OS.
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Feelings, consciousness and goal-directed behavior are biological phenomenon, residing ultimately in the self-maintaining nature of living cells. My peer-reviewed paper on this can be downloaded at https://philarchive.org/rec/LONAQA. The abstract is a s follows:
Many believe that a suitably programmed computer could act for its own goals and experience feelings. I challenge this view and argue that agency, mental causation and qualia are all founded in the unique, homeostatic nature of living matter. The theory was formulated for coherence with the concept of an agent, neuroscientific data and laws of physics. By this method, I infer that a successful action is homeostatic for its agent and can be caused by a feeling – which does not motivate as a force, but as a control signal. From brain research and the locality principle of physics, I surmise that qualia are a fundamental, biological form of energy generated in specialized neurons. Subjectivity is explained as thermodynamically necessary on the supposition that, by converting action potentials to feelings, the neural cells avert damage from the electrochemical pulses. In exchange for this entropic benefit, phenomenal energy is spent as and where it is produced – which precludes the objective observation of qualia.
A lot of mumbo jumbo in your novel theory, but it still doesn’t explain anything. So you pawn it off on some specialized mysterious spooky neurons, wonderful. Borrowing concepts from physics is NOT new in concsiousness studies, and it has not worked. Even with all your “action potential” BS, you still don’t explain the subjective feelings, per se. Saying why feelings are logically necessary, does not explain feelings to me. What’s amazing is you actually have the conceipt to suppose you are explaining something. You’re just dancing around the issue while slinging a ton of jargon to dazzle the reader with novel applications of existing (physics) concepts. But this is common, you’re far from the only one doing it, in this field.
If you’re going to comment on the value of a theory you should have the diligence to first read the paper.. The theory explains the subjectivity and privacy of feelings thermodynamically – to my knowledge, no one else has done that. It also provides a physical basis for distinguishing actions (goal oriented behavior) from reflexes. That’s another problem for computational theories. I don’t think anyone will be able to explain the experiential character of consciousness because I believe it’s a fundamental (i.e., irreducible) aspect of the homeostatic molecular defense mechanism I posit.- just as no one has explained why mass ‘bends the fabric of spacetime’ or why the micro-world obeys Schrodinger’s equation. That’s just the way it is. The nature of our cognitive relationship to the world is such that we can only discover regularities in the interactions among things, not the nature of things in themselves (like feelings). Science is wonderfully effective, but it doesn’t get us out of Plato’s cave.
Not having read whatever product helps you achieve tenure, I’m free to comment because you obviously have no theory about anything I wrote about. You literally just said you can’t explain consciousness, it’s like the Big Bang or whatever, we’ll never know. So, who cares about your thermodynamic brain theories? It’s just masturbation. It’s like trying to explain human memory with a flowchart. OK, but where’s the memory? How is it stored? No one cares about the chart. The chart doesn’t really inform anyone, does it? It’s just an admission that we don’t know. What’s your value added? Just another untestable theory? What’s the point?
Excellent podcast. As you point out, since no one has any idea how sentience works in organic “squishware” brains, it’s impossible to predict if silicon hardware brains can or cannot achieve the same sentience. We have already surpassed HAL 9000 levels of computing performance, yet no sign of sentience yet. Qualia or phlogiston won’t cut it as explanations.
I enjoyed the movie Ex Machina in which the issue of identifying sentience is addressed, despite the many sharks jumped in the plot. A jerk genius tries to find out if his AI robot is sentient, and comes up with the definitive Turing test by creating a scenario where the robot can display self-directed sentience by doing something he didn’t program it to do. And he succeeds. The robot kills him in order to escape. Oops.
I think Rogan is successful because he’s entertaining. People will pay to be entertained as much as they will to be fed. How many tens of billions of dollars are spent on movies, music, spectator sportsball etc?
Does this fit in with Roger Penrose’s concept that even an electron can have a conscious moment once every 250k years or so? (In other words, consciousness is intrinsic to the universe, and our brain is structured to have lots of conscious moments, that being the proposition to falsify) Digital AI is just advanced automation. Mess with the parameters and inputs and AI will tell you your mother is a cockroach, it has no reflection or discernment, which is why some of those fancy chatbots were tweaked within weeks to go Woke. The power of this automation is obviously disruptive, lawyers might need to charge by the millisecond now, but not scary.
Humans will use AI in the most irresponsible most self serving manner possible, as they do with all new technologies. There is no upside….only enslavement, either to the AI or those who control the AI.
Elon “Tony Stark” Musk’s marketing strategy is to constantly keep his name in the headlines, and he is a genius at it but bascially he just uses the media for his own interest so I wouldn’t take his concerns anymore seriously then I would take Bill Gates concerns about people’s health. As for AI and specifically Chat GPT, I don’t think these guys are worried that they will lose control and it will turn into skynet, I think they are worried that this technology will turn into something akin to the the internet and they wont be able to own it, Musk is essentially trying to create a AI nerd Cartel, but yeah after seeing how some people were able to train Chat GPT to give accurate answers to typically heavily progadandised questions I say bring it on, maybe it will be an antidote to the MSM.
“FICKLE, IMPRESSIONABLE, and EASY TO MANIPULATE”
When I read that the first thing my brain visualized was a picture of Van der Leyen and Baerbock.
Such people are capable of burning down the whole damn planet just because they “don’t like” someone.
And you are right, males could become aggressive when someone wasn’t wearing “The Mask!”. But the female Homo Sapiens definitely are the “restriction-ideology-bearers” with their passive-aggressive stupid f…..g looks. Just last week I got “The Look” because I wasn’t wearing the mask in a hospital lobby even though the law in the absurd-country I am living in has changed in my favor.
Btw., I don’t know about other people but I also wondered how Joe Rogan (who is a nice guy, don’t get me wrong) achieved this popularity, haven’t watched a single full length show, just snippets. I guess it is a mixture of his kind character and those non-mainstream-but-still-somehow-mainstream topics and people he’s got in his show. But okay, even that is better than the bullcrap they serve you in menstruastream media.
I definitely like the STEM-people Lex Fridman has on sometimes, but the social sciences and history+politics-“specialists” he invites sometimes are f.o.s..
One thought – maybe an alien demonic spirit could possess an AI and give the impression its self aware. – ? like you – who knows!
How to get rid of AI? Governments never ever let a new source of power and control go. They will simply turn it into yet another tool.
Rogan at times can be non-judgmental about the subject the guest brings to the show. Being able to be non-judgmental is a much needed skill/art in today’s world.
Rogan has this and is able to hold a real conversation at times.
Lex Fridman has been doing some good interviews on the AI subject recently.
Rogan capitalised on his connections to the pillars of alpha doctrine. WWE, martial arts, politically incorrect comedy, ancap Libertarians and their IDW. The alt celebrity crowd for manly men and their women. The most dangerous of which are the later two, whom appear wiser than they are through their ivy league and adjacent educations, able to bamboozle the impressionable with language, tangents and speeds of speech above the comprehension of much of their fan bases. I dare you to watch one of his segments with Eric Weinstein and see if you can follow any one of the million tangents he wanders to an actual conclusion.
PS I will admit to watching some of his segments if the person or topic is of interest, but I’m highly selective.
AI is terrifying because it is completely unpredictable.
There are a bunch of scoccer mom types in senior political positions in the vassalage known as Europe at the cutting edge of Russophobia since Feb 22. Maia Sandu, Sanna Marin, Annalena Baerbock, Kaja Kallas, Giorgia Meloni. Of course there are also senior female pols in Europe who are not notable for this, and many male who are, so my theory probably doesn’t hold water.
Anyway, I’ll throw in Ursula (older vintage, possibly the prototype), and also Macron and, outside Europe, Trudeau, until they grow a pair.
With regard to Russophobia, and speaking of “alpha male brutes”, you have Putin. My wife loathes him even more than Trump.
The Karn set seem to prefer beta males like Macron and especially Trudeau.
But beta males become very dangerous when they do get some power, because then they try to overcompensate. (Listen to ancient uber-beta Biden when he gets into one of his aggressive rants. Anger is one symptom of dementia, but Biden has been this way since he first came on the scene.)
I can attest to the soccer mom/facebook mom stereotype, from personal experience. They have no particular clue on how politics, economics, culture or almost anything works, they live in their own little bubble. Which would be fine, if they would just mind their own business, but they have become politically very active.
Which is a problem, because their political beliefs and convictions come from the BuzzFeed / WaPo headlines of articles they clicked on.
Also, they are generally very risk-averse and overprotective, the classic helicopter parent, which is where the quadruple vakksed and booze-ted BS comes from.
Explaining Rogan is easy, just compare him to Kovid, Slavi Ukrainia, etc. everyone else is doing it,,
Those Karens that went all in with the pand-yem-ic are not so affectionately known as Affluent White Female Liberals (AWFL’s).
I noticed that Jacob also tossed in “some assimilated flavor of ‘Asian'” with that group of white women.
I’ve noticed a number of these getting prominence in the media, which leaves me flabbergasted. I (figuratively) cry out, “What are you advocating be done to your kids under these ‘trendy causes’?! Especially your sons!”
Manginas and cucks are the root of the feminazi problem that’s destroying western civilization. Destroy it at the root, and the trunk can be put to proper use in the kitchen.
Somehow I thought Musk “transhumanism” aims were less about creating a master intellectual race and more about making sure humanity doesn’t die off or otherwise get left behind.
In this frame, Neuralink is an insurance in development for if/when sentient AI takes off. It could potentially graft humanity with AI, perhaps like a mitochondria into a larger and more complex organization. Grafting would be an alternative to US vs THEM conflict.
Most women certainly like a brute, alpha male in the bedroom…
It doesn’t matter what color or sex someone is, if you are constantly stoking their fear of a loss of comforts, expect push back.
Women are very much like men, give them money and/or status and they will also defend it. Add threats to the health and stability of their children lives on top, expect to see and hear a pack of lionesses doing anything to protect them.
Sorry, Natasha, women aren’t very much like men. They defend their children in different ways. If a teacher says the kid was acting up and needed to be sent to the principal’s office, the mom will usually defend the kid, while the dad will usually back the teacher. Moms will tell a kid to get out of the tree. Dads will say “let him climb it”. It’s part of why women get tears eyed about a thug getting knocked around by the cops, while men are more likely to think the thug fucked around and found out. CS Lewis talked about men’s and women’s different natures in Mere Christianity.
Trump isn’t the only one that is getting in the ring for next Presidency. The dark horse emerging is Robert Kennedy Jr. to represent the medical freedom movement. The Teamkennedy site is up and recruiting.
As to Rogan – it was always hit or miss but he really was the first to really put out anti-woke stuff before it was even a thing and launched many of those people like Jordan Peterson into superstardom. He occupies a similar place in culture that the Daily Show had before it went woke. Rogan was neutered a year or so ago but still Peter Theil’s minons seem to use Rogan to push their narratives – although it has been watered down with less edgy stuff these days so it is less culturally relevant.
Jacob:
I highly recommend EricErickson’s thoughts on American momism: in his book “childhood and Society”.
A german displaced to the USAdue to German Nazism i n the 1930’s, Erickson has a unique view of American Culture and the moment phenomenon.
Women have indeed “pimped” countless causes that bring a never ending cavalcade of tears.
TFM says that Iran solved their feminazi problem by executing all the manginas that were driving it and the women immediately shut down without their white knight locomotive.
Only real danger I see from AI is that people will become so dependent on it that they completely stop thinking for themselves and rely completely on it to form their thoughts and opinions and make their decisions. When that happens not only will people be so much more utterly boring to talk to and be around, but they will easily be programmed to think/believe whatever the AI feeds them.
100% agreed.
Actually, it sounds like the world TODAY.
If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS. AI = BS.
I’m not saying it’s quite that far along yet, but it’s OBVIOUSLY not BS if people are using it to write their simple code, solve math problems, or even write most of their college essays. But, as they say, “you do you.” You evidently know best.
I wrote my first software in about 1976 or 1977 (can’t remember exactly, sorry, lol)
So I have seen a lot of stuff coming and going. Among which the AI hype of the late 80’s (or was it early 90’s? again, cannot remember).
I still remember the expectation in the early 90’s that computers would be doing their own programming very soon…. yet here we are 30 years later.
The OpenAI is an amazing feat of engineering. There is no doubt about that. But in order to simulate intelligence they had to use a whole bag of tricks. Which absolutely work to dazzle the public (i.e. somebody wants a bag of money). However it does not even come close to being self aware. I would say it is no closer to self-aware than it was in the early 90’s.
There was a conference once (sorry, forgot when and where) where scientists (real scientists!) and SF writers (real hard-SF writers!) more or less came to the conclusion that in order to create true self-awareness it would be necessary (for the algorithm) to have a body that can roam around and that its survival would need to depend on making the right decisions. I subscribe to that notion, though it remains a theory, unconfirmed.
An argument can be made that it should be possible to simulate the ‘body roaming around’ in software. That would be something that I would accept, but all simulations are limited, and as such the conclusions of the AI this would generate would not fit the real world.
Lets go back to OpenAI.
Thing is, it does not need to be self aware to be dangerous.
An atom bomb is not self aware, yet extremely dangerous.
That is a valid comparison imo. Used by the wrong people, OpenAI can kill millions upon millions.
The self-aware aspect is -imo- a red herring.
I am only wondering how the worlds defense research missed the development of OpenAI…. or did they?