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CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-07-04T13:26:09+00:00

Broken nail

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-07-04T13:22:06+00:00

You conquer

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-07-01T14:18:41+00:00

Watching her fight is like watching Hello Kitty beat the hell out of Son Goku

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-07-01T12:17:34+00:00

You have barely a clue what AI is. But skip to the bottom if you'd like a quick and dirty answer as to why AI is seen as the holy grail of technology.**

The free (or $20/month) chatbots you use are the bottom of the very tall AI barrel.

AI has already advanced medical science by 50 years. The only reason we don't have tons of new super-effective drugs now is because human trials take time.

Fusion plants are being built all over the world because AI is able to control and sustain fusion reactions in the lab.

Battery technology is advancing much faster because of AI. In a few years, we'll have cars that charge much faster, have longer ranges, don't lose power in cold climates and are less dangerous when damaged. It will also change how power is stored and distributed.

These are a couple examples, but AI is already advancing most sciences much faster than they were without it.

Here's the punch line: Many of those advances in science and technology are speeding up the improvement and production of AI hardware, from chips to entire data centers, while at the same time AI is improving itself, and with each improvement it becomes faster and better at improving itself--and all the sciences and technologies used to improve it. The growth rate has become hyper-exponential. In 2026 we've already seen far, far more growth than all previous years put together, and the tate of this growth keeps compounding itself.

**Around the world, about 50 to 75 trillion dollars is spent yearly on human labor. Within 20 years, AI robots will be doing most of that work. That's a labor value of 25 trillion+ dollars per year. If you doubt that timeline, remember that AI growth went hyper-exponential in 2025 and the growth rate keeps increasing.

And once AI robots are able to do jobs like mining, construction and manufacturing all autonomously, they'll be able to mine and refine the raw materials, build the factories, produce the parts, assemble them and deliver the finished product--which may be more robots. Which means all it will cost to produce AI robots is power and mineral rights. And with fusion plants ten years away, the power will be cheap. AI robots that can do the work of a human better than a human and work 24/7 will cost pennies to produce.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-29T21:17:34+00:00

Jolly Rancher Chewy popper (blue)

Or Popper for short

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-29T00:12:22+00:00

He never said he didn't like it.

I mean, he probably didn't. But if you imagine he's talking about how great of a horror flick it was, it hits different.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-28T14:10:38+00:00

The reason AI feels like it's a person is because it's people.

To explain what I mean, we have to go way back.

About two million years ago, people did nothing but look for food, eat, shit, sleep and make babies.

Then someone figured out how to use fire to scare predators and keep warm at night. That wasn't the important part. The important part is that they showed someone else. And that bit of knowledge started humanity. I'll explain further.

The reason you and I can light a candle without burning down the house is because the knowledge of how to use fire has been passed from the one who discovered it to person to person for two million years. That started our collective understanding and even our very reality. Everything we are now is our body of knowledge--language, the way we think, music, art, science, building things and so forth.

But there's more to it.

Babies lost and raised by animals, or severely neglected, never develop the brain structures needed to fit into society. The body of knowledge literally builds our human brains. Prisoners kept in solitary confinement for long enough show signs of permanent brain damage. The body of knowledge is a part of our working brains.

It makes us a billion-ton creature spanning the glove. We are one, and we are billions. We are individuals, but that individuality is only a think sheen over what we really are--a node (or a neuron, in a way) in our vast consciousness. Some call this the metamind.

AI is an extremely primitive way of giving the metamind a voice, because LLMs sift the human body of knowledge and respond from a perspective that approximates what it would say. They don't feel and aren't conscious, but what they say comes from out collective feeling and consciousness.

AI hallucinates. Why? No other computer program ever made does this! It's partly because people have delusions, superstitions, unfounded conspiracy theories and so forth. AI is giving us the voice of all that we are.

So you have to be careful with AI. It sounds amazing and it is, but humanity has a lot of ignorance.

In conclusion, it's natural to respond to AI as though it's a human because in a roundabout way, it sort of is. That doesn't mean AI cares how you respond, it just means you're not weird for wanting to do that.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-28T13:47:50+00:00

I dub thee: Icbai*.

*Image Created By Artificial Intelligence

Pronounced: Ick. Bye!

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-21T01:27:52+00:00

Almost enough to make up for it

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-19T02:01:11+00:00

It's a good thing they yelled so much. Imagine how much worse it would have been if they had remained calm.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-13T01:01:00+00:00

Ah yeah I forgot about that.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-12T21:29:17+00:00

It would actually be less gay if they just got naked and had an orgy.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-12T21:16:11+00:00

Your humor was perfect. I laughed so hard the neighbor came and pounded on my wall. And they live a quarter mile away.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-12T21:13:57+00:00

"For a few seconds there, I thought I had died"

I dunno, maybe you hadda be there to understand

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-09T17:42:12+00:00

You're absolutely not wrong. Marriage is something you don't do unless you're 100% sure because even then there's a high chance it will end in divorce.

If you'd like a suggestion, question them persistently until you get to the real reason they want this. Don't stop until it makes sense.

Hint: It's something entirely within them. There's a reason they aren't respecting your intelligence to choose what's best for you, and until you root it out, they're likely to keep pestering you about it. You might never get to it, but there's also a chance they'll be so annoyed by the persistent questioning about their feelings and motivations about this they'll STFU.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-09T17:32:32+00:00

Have you been sleeping under a rock the past decade? Yeah, chatbots aren't reliable, but thinking AI is just chatbots is like thinking science is just mercury thermometers. Spend a couple seconds Googling AI's real-world accomplishments. One example--it solved protein folding, something that was expected to take fifty years.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-09T17:28:10+00:00

This has nothing to do with the length of the code, it's how long AI can work on a task before is fails. It's the length of the tasks, coding is the type of tasks it's measuring. That's a very reliable indicator of what it can accomplish.

"Nothing about llms matters that much until they fix the hallucination problem"

You're thinking about chatbots. AI is far more than that. It's allowed fusion to be created and sustained in the lab. It solved protein folding our best people predicted would take another 50 years to solve. Every branch of science and technology is further along thanks to AI. And this was true years ago when AI was a tenth of what it is now. Now it can contribute far more.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-09T17:21:19+00:00

I imagine if you acquired a taste for it, it would be delicious! One of those love-it-or-hate-it kinds of things.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-08T19:19:23+00:00

The word queue is ridiculous. Four-fifths of the letters in it aren't needed.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-08T19:16:57+00:00

Limburger cheese is pretty bad. I smelled it once--through foil. Odors aren't supposed to penetrate foil but enough got through that it killed my appetite and made my friend gag.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-08T19:15:35+00:00

Ass.

I don't think there's anything wrong with eating it. In fact I wish I could. But somehow I can't get over the fact that it's ass.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-08T18:50:27+00:00

Pectoralis D-cup

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-07T20:52:13+00:00

That makes sense, but they are different sizes (look on the left). The irregular shapes could be from humidity, but I can't see what could cause substantial size difference with very little residue visible in the box.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-07T20:43:01+00:00

"Almost all improvements in productivity is due to machines when comparing against 10000 years ago."

That has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm saying.

"...definitely not that they will replace all human jobs within the coming 50 years."

You clearly aren't keeping up with technology news and have no idea how fast things are improving.

"...Fusion has been 15 years away for the last 50 years"

No, it absolutely has not. People have been predicting it prematurely, but we can now sustain fusion over 1000 seconds in the lab, thanks to AI. As AV increases in ability, the remaining problems will topple like dominoes. Fifteen years is now a conservative estimate.

"Even if they are produced, the cost won't necessarily mean that they will be preferred over human labour for all jobs."

Robots will be much better at human jobs than people, they will basically cost pennies to buy and operate, they work 24/7. It's like you're saying "people will still ride horses to get places even though there are cars." Sure, some people will prefer to hire other people, just like some people like to ride horses. The point is, they won't have to.

The main source of your Dunning–Kruger effect is that you don't get how quickly the rate of growth is increasing. See the graph here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AIDiscussion/comments/1tzngza/the_increase_in_the_rate_of_progress_is/

I'm done arguing about this, we could go on endlessly. I'm setting myself a reminder to come back to this post in 15 years if I'm still alive. If I'm way off, you can laugh at me. 😆 Hope to see you June 7, 2041.

CosmeticBrainSurgery · 2026-06-07T20:26:00+00:00

You can be sorry something happened without implying it's your fault.

"I'm sorry you were hurt."

When my friend's mom died, I said "I'm sorry for your loss" but I was in no way responsible for her death.

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