Tell me if you've heard this one, it was my grandma's favorite: A man walks along the sidewalk. He almost steps on a pile of dogshit and says "whough!" practically toppling over. He looks and says "Hmmm, that looks like dogshit!" Then he gets down and smells it. "It sure smells like dogshit." He feels it with his pinkey finger. "Its warm like fresh dogshit." Then he puts his finger in his mouth. "Hmm, it tastes just like dogshit. Good thing I didn't step in it!"

Lies wouldn't have any appeal of they weren't mixed with truths. * Identify the lack of connective tissue between an offered problem and the proposed solution. * Ask whether there are alternative explanations and dismiss those only systematically, but choose not out of preference * Consider the source, reject credentials as credibility, is your source also deceived? * Accept that one can never know some truths without the offender, when too powerful, admitting a transgression and they never will. * If it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck: It IS a duck, even when they say it is a goose. * If an individual, assume innocence. If an institution, assume guilt.

Government: "If you make yourself my slave, then I will respect you."

Why is AI output "slop"? It is because we can sense authorship. Even behind the dryest corporate policy documents, we can sense someone, or a committee, was behind the words. As soon as we sense it was written by AI, we immediately reject it as valueless. Will we condition the next generation to obey the AI through AI driven education? Will they obey it, even if they are forced to? I suspect our dreams of sitting back and doing everything for free with AI will quickly turn into a nightmare of a world of trash.

I had a great time this weekend being trained by SERE instructors

God is spoiling me

Biden's last 6 months in office were perhaps the best period of presidency in America's history... because he was dead.

I'm considering making a follow-pack of fags - people that irritate me.

Experientia docet If you believe you must first learn how others do a thing before attempting it yourself, you will eventually discover that those others learned by doing first. Their methods worked because they were fitted to their temperament, circumstances, incentives, and support structures. Once abstracted from those conditions, the method no longer transfers. What you call “learning” was delay. You would have learned more, faster, by beginning directly and allowing reality to correct you. Experience has no substitute because it cannot be borrowed.