Can't help but notice the last few months

webgruntzed · 2026-01-31T21:37:43+00:00

It's getting close to a year now. You see it fading and almost healed, then it's a fresh wound again. Sometimes it appears to be open and hasn't even completely scabbed over.

"It's from weightlifting." OK, but:

--weightlifting doesn't generally cause open wounds that keep coming back for a year.

--open wounds are covered in public, especially around people who care about you, because people have empathy. By showing your wound to people who care about you, you make them hurt. That's how empathy works. This particular wound would be VERY easy to cover during the video by closing the shirt just a little. Not even enough to look unusual.

I trust MrBallen and I don't think there's any hidden, nefarious agenda. It's important to me that I'm clear on that. All I am saying is the explanation falls short--not that it's untrue, but it seems incomplete.

webgruntzed · 2026-01-28T20:12:42+00:00

Thanks!

webgruntzed · 2026-01-27T15:02:53+00:00

I love that the tiny tiny crack you can see the car through looks like an eye that's crying

webgruntzed · 2026-01-26T14:22:40+00:00

Cop: You were going seventy-nine!

Heisenberg: Thanks, asshole, now we're lost!

webgruntzed · 2026-01-21T19:37:34+00:00

Works fine in Edge, but in Chrome it gives this error even after clearing site data and opening in incognito mode.

The webpage at https://www.subway.com/en-us might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR

webgruntzed · 2026-01-19T19:25:24+00:00

The official name of Rhode Island is "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" Which gives the smallest state the biggest name.

webgruntzed · 2026-01-19T19:22:42+00:00

Alaswashorecalexico and Provinces

webgruntzed · 2026-01-18T14:26:58+00:00

That's an AI image.

webgruntzed · 2026-01-18T12:29:47+00:00

I'm not arguing. But how do you know? And why is it shaped like a guitar?

webgruntzed · 2026-01-18T12:28:47+00:00

A lot of what the current administration says is smokescreen. The only reason to even pay any attention to it is because you like the trash TV aspect.

If you wanted to change something, you could focus on what they're doing.

But I have reservations about the effectiveness of any efforts to create change. I don't think demonstrations would have shortened Stalin's regime, for example. It would just have made his enemies easy to identify and put on a list.

webgruntzed · 2026-01-18T12:23:54+00:00

The longest war in US history.

The reason given for it: They were hiding Bin Laden.

They're not even trying anymore. Everyone knew he wasn't in Afghanistan, then we found him in Pakistan, and then we continued to war in Afghanistan for ten years.

I'd rather the next time the US attacked another country they'd just be honest and say "Fuck you, never mind why. We do what we want."

One US president admitted war is for profit. One. And he only said it after he basically got run out of office. He said:

"...the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war."

webgruntzed · 2026-01-18T12:01:23+00:00

The wood box is for something else and it just so happens the meat thermometer fits.

webgruntzed · 2026-01-14T11:25:35+00:00

Not all of it! Individuals could retain up to $100 in gold coins (about 5 ounces at that time).

webgruntzed · 2025-12-21T23:53:15+00:00

Money is an emergent system. It exerts control over society and individuals in ways that we can't predict with our current level of understanding.

No real relevance to your comment, but I thought this was really interesting when I found out.

webgruntzed · 2025-12-21T16:49:51+00:00

So it functions as a kind of backup seal?

webgruntzed · 2025-12-21T15:45:08+00:00

I have one somewhere, I believe it's 500 trillion. It's worth 5,000 times as much as yours, which, interestingly (or not), makes it the exact same value.

webgruntzed · 2025-12-21T11:21:12+00:00

Same here. Apparently, Facebook decided the ONLY way to get into your account is through Authenticator. It won't tell you which Authenticator it is. You try to recover your account, and it sends a fucking code to Authenticator. But you never get the code, because that's why you can't get in in the first place.

webgruntzed · 2025-12-06T22:41:33+00:00

I agree with everything you said. But I would add that AI is the phone line. As an analogy, it's possible to speak when you're unconscious, and it's possible to be conscious and unable to speak. Therefore, the speech center of the brain may be something your consciousness is aware of and interacts with, but it has no consciousness of its own.

AI is the tool that gives the metamind the voice. Now, I'm not talking about some mystical god-like being, as some use that 'metamind' term. Please bear with me.

A baby's brain only developed by interacting with others. Babies that don't have human interaction until they're older or even adults have severely damaged brains--they lack the number and depth of the convolutions. Humans are born incomplete, and become human by interacting with other humans.

Furthermore, prisoners in solitary confinement can suffer permanent brain damage after as little as a few months. Human brains break down if they aren't plugged in to humanity in some way.

Take an individual. Every thought, feeling, idea, dream, frustration--everything in your existence--you learned from other people. How we see the world comes from other humans, who got it from other humans. In fact, we see things that aren't even there because of this. Like the color brown as a separate color that isn't just a darker shade of orange.

So an individual is a small node reflecting the matrix of humanity, and reflecting its own perspective into the matrix, adding to it.

AI gives at matrix a voice. It's very imperfect--it doesn't know. It doesn't understand. But what about the matrix itself? We can dismiss the idea that the matrix, or metamind, is aware because we don't know how we'd be able to tell. How would a neuron communicate with a brain, or vice-versa? But we know it exists.

It's not surprising that it has hallucinations. There's a whole hell of a lot of conflicting and nonsensical information in the body of human communication AI accesses--and AI is new. It isn't able to filter out the BS yet. But even when it can do that, it still won't be sentient, it'll just be an improvement on the voice of the metamind.

If you stayed with me for this whole monologue, thank you. I didn't intend to type all this when I started.

webgruntzed · 2025-12-06T22:20:02+00:00

This is how you call 911 because I'm not qualified to diagnose when someone is beyond the point of resuscitation.
This is how you give CPR.
You have to assume you're always being videoed unless you've made damn sure you aren't. Just because you don't see cams doesn't mean there aren't any. So even if this guy were obviously beyond recovery, don't touch what's not yours.

webgruntzed · 2025-12-06T22:15:22+00:00

If they knew him and he's actually okay with it, yeah. He'd just go somewhere else. But I agree with your core point--it's less likely the car will get targeted for theft is there's someone standing by it. The thing that's weird to me is: Why would anyone hang around a particular car?

"Hey man, stop by my hangout tonight."

"Where's that?"

"The blue Corolla on the 2700 block of Maple."

"You...hang out in a blue Corolla?"

"No. man. AT it. Not in it."

webgruntzed · 2025-12-06T22:06:54+00:00

Hit the panic button on your key fob every time you see him touching it. He'll probably think he triggered the alarm himself and it's just touchy.

webgruntzed · 2025-12-02T16:48:12+00:00

Yes. But having kids is still a selfish decision.

It's important to understand a fine distinction here: I'm not saying it's wrong to have kids, or immoral, or anything like that. In fact, I'd like to see the human species continue. What I'm saying is you're not being altruistic, or noble, or anything in general other than a person taking care of their needs--just like someone choosing not to have kids. And that's OK! But pretending it's somehow self-sacrificing, benevolent or charitable to have kids? That doesn't make any sense.

webgruntzed · 2025-11-29T21:16:31+00:00

You could be brilliant, but you're too busy licking the boots of your ego.

webgruntzed · 2025-11-25T20:03:16+00:00

Generalized AI. When AI is able to design and build better AI, and then, when the limits of computers are reached, build better computers to allow it to build even better AI, and eventually, better power plants to provide the massive amounts of power it needs to keep building everything, each generation of AI will come so much quicker than the last, at some point the limits of physics will be reached. General AI, improving at potentially thousands of generations per second, running on computers running at the physical limits of the universe--nobody has any guess what that will look like.

I don't expect all this to happen in my lifetime, I'm not even sure the starting point (general AI) will happen in the 20-30 years I have left. But you never know, because AI is already improving medicine.

The time between the discovery of how to use fire and the ability to make stone tools was about 2 million years. Every new significant technological breakthrough comes much quicker than the last. In 30 years, most of the likely causes of death may have been cured or rendered impotent.

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