Divisional

Chill Tech

Why opinion on AI is so divided. AI power users are pulling away from everyone else.

It’s not just due to coding. It’s about understanding the tool.

I could mog just about anymore before. But with AI, I can easily be 1,000x as smart as a normie. Whereas a normie using AI is often dumber than before because they do not understand how to use AI well or correctly. Using an LLM, they end up with something worse than if they just had not used it at all.

Someone like me, however, can produce in a few hours with AI something that I could’ve created if I’d spent five hundred hours on it (just did that at work yesterday, though it wouldn’t have taken me 500 hours). It greatly enhances my capabilities and output.

In other words, my arrogance aside, AI (like many technologies) amplifies pre-existing advantages. Perhaps more than any other tech we’ve ever created. This disparity will only become greater.

So, to condense all those words, AI makes smart people tons smarter and normies a bit to a lot dumber. It’ll be interesting to see what falls out of that.

Chill Links

China Seizes An Island While The World Is Watching Iran.

The Iran War Has Finally Shattered America’s World.

More than a quarter of private colleges are at risk of closing, a new projection shows.

For the international left, the world is very small. On one hand, the United States, which must be criticized mercilessly and consumed with the same vehemence. Anything that sounds like capitalism is bad and stinks, but American brands, products, and platforms can't be left out of the left's desires.

Slate Auto raises $650 million as production gets closer and closer.

Uncomfortably high inflation is a real problem and it’s not going away anytime soon.

The ‘affordability economy’ has created a housing market nobody predicted: Prices collapsing in the Sun Belt, soaring in the Rust Belt.

The ‘Annoyance Economy’ Is More Than Just Annoying.

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril.

The genetics of specific cognitive abilities.

Interest in EVs surges in Europe as fuel prices jump after Iran war.

This May Be Our Best Look At Ukraine’s Secretive New Surface-To-Air Missile.

U.S. Navy Destroyer Equipped With New Launcher For Unknown Weapons.

Paying People To Be Unemployed.

They Excel

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

Have you met Gen Z? I’d say that’s accurate. They are terrified of everything, including the outside, sex, each other, and any form of confrontation.

They only thing they don’t seem petrified of is being giant loser weak-ass dipshits. At that, they excel.

Left Path

Chill Evil

Again, I have to stress how insane it is that to a modern Western leftist feminist, it’s not rape if a Pakistani and 39 of his closest friends violently sexually violates you, but it is rape if a white Western man buys you a drink or flirts with you.

We have left the path of wisdom so very long ago.

Multi Int

Chill Amusing, Killin' It

It’s always been odd when people have told me that I can’t be as good as I am at reading comprehension, processing and integrating information quickly and just general language stuff because I am terrible at operational math.

And then I totally mog them them by taking a four-hour 150-question exam with a migraine and passing it — again, with a fucking bad migraine — in 43 minutes1. In fact when I came out the proctor asked if I needed a break. I said, “No, all done.” Then she said, “But that’s the long test!” And then something about how she didn’t think I’d be done for another couple of hours. Don’t remember her exact words there because I was both very nauseous and near keeling over.

Trust me, bro, you can put me up against 10,000 randomly-selected people in those areas I mentioned in my first paragraph and I will tear them all apart like they are made of tissue paper. But I still cannot solve a quadratic equation and never will be able to do so.

  1. If I’d not had a migraine, it would’ve been more like 15-20 minutes. For a signifanct part of the exam, I could barely see the screen. It was too late to reschedule the very expensive company-paid exam.

You Ran

Chill Clowns, Politics, War

Declaring that America “lost” because a dude you don’t like is in political power is pretty weak and pitiful, as well as intellectually bankrupt.

The US achieved its objectives in the Iran war. Israel achieved some of theirs (which were not the same as the US goals). This is and would be true no matter who is president.

Definition Change

Chill Evil

So…men are always expected to approach women, yet anything done to approach a woman is now “rape?” Wow.

I do truly think this is evil. If you define everything from “calling someone a nickname” to “asking someone to have drinks” as rape, then this deeply harms actual victims of rape. We need to defeat whatever crazy shit is going on here and be normal again about all this.

Chinese Characteristics

Chill Politics

Essentially correct. Canada is a loosely-held satrapy of the CCP, with its politics mostly under Chinese control. The Chinese attempted this in the US, but we resisted more and had more barriers to this sort of soft takeover.

Canada had little immune system and now they are another Chinese province de facto.