— I told you so, and now the data is in. Leaning into misanthropy, shunning societal programming, and embracing the power of AI.

First, The Preface by My Trained GPT-4, Chatbot Zon

100% unedited (not even my beloved no-spaces em dashes), and I gave her free rein for length. I asked only for a narrative, not an outline summary, and to use the “good cop bad cop” dramatic device. Does this sound like I have a problem with a woke, lefty-commie-biased AI? Or, did I buckle down and learn how to play the instrument?

Second, My Message to Non-Members

I’ve purposely chosen a triggering headline image to make a point. If you bristled or had a negative visceral reaction to it, this post is especially for you.

You need one hell of a lot of work, but I’m happy to show you, so keep reading.

You’ll benefit.

I guarantee it.

But it’s not going to be easy for you. Most will click away, unable to bear the exposure.

… The best way to begin is with an admission. In my heart of hearts, I know what an idiot I am. I know how wrong I am about so many things. Those who’ve followed me for a long time have heard me say, “I love being wrong…it’s the only time I know for sure I’m right.”

Contrary to how almost everyone on the planet operates—totally programmed with beliefs and systems of operation instilled by others since their birth—I eventually dumped all of that and chose the path of the unknown and uncertain, constantly looking for the wrong answers as the only path towards…not being right about anything…but only being less wrong than I was yesterday.

And let me tell you something. From that simple mindset, and observing how the vast majority progress through a cocksure life of intransigent certainty about everything, allowing their feelings and visceral reactions to determine their actions…I gotta tell ya…you’ll see the world in a whole new light.

You’ll see fucktards everywhere. Laughable fucktards. At the highest levels of human society, too.

And it will expose the clever parasites to you. These are the psychopaths who know exactly what they’re doing, and they love doing it, fucking people over. They know just as well as I how hopelessly and irredeemably fucking stupid most people are, and they use that knowledge to nefarious systematic ends.

(You love these people. With rare exception, their names are printed on the ballots you see in voting booths. You attend their classes at university. You watch them on TV and the Internet. You read their columns in “news” papers.)

Such knowledge gives you unbeatable power. But don’t look…it’s way too panty-bunching.

… The thing is this. Over 3 decades of thinking I’m wrong rather than right, combined with insatiable curiosity, wide general interests, eschewing specialization like the plague, and above all, rooting out the lies I tell myself and others—an evasion of reality—I find myself in quite a sweet spot of knowing pretty confidently a fuck of a lot about a fuck of a lot.

This blog’s 5500 posts and 5 million words are the proof…not to mention the 110,000 comments by readers, every one of which I’ve read.

… And I honestly find myself in a world of people without even 1/10th of one-percent of that knowledge-seeking experience trying to tell me stuff about stuff that, to them, is 2nd or 3rd hand—because they’ve never had a genuine 1st-hand thought in their cocksure lives.

Someone told them it’s true!

It’s a fucking laugh, I gotta tell ya. Usually, it’s like listening to screeching monkeys in the jungle, trying to figure out what they must be “thinking.”

The knowledge, experience, honesty, and discernment gap between me and most is really that profound.

Why do you think I’m generally a misanthropist?

Because I honestly thought I was fucked up and believed woefully moronic things way back in 1990—33 years ago, and despite a university degree and a Navy officer career I was excelling at—and I set out to fucking do something about it.

This is a summation of sorts…but don’t look. It’ll bunch up your smarty-pants that you know are smart because someone told you…or you read it in a 2000-year-old book…or your fantastical delusions told you, in something you call prayer. Or whatever excuse you can come up with to be stupid and to, God-dammit, stay stupid.

Third, My Public Message to Paying Members

The one thing that gives me some hope is that pretty much all of you, at one point or another, have been severely pissed at me over stuff I’ve written over the many years just like the foregoing lambasting, and had to choose whether to just whither away like most will…or confront it, do better, work harder, open your mind wider, call laughable bullshit about a lot more…even the stupid shit mom says…and dig and keep digging to root out all the fucking stupid shit you think that you think, but in the end and upon closer examination, it’s just regurgitated bullshit told you by momma bird, her cohorts, and partners in crimes against humanity and good sense.

But you’re here reading this now and are to be congratulated on that score because so many will just blank out when confronted with the information you’ve been exposed to.

And you pay for it. Your testimonials enlighten the far lesser as to what sort of people you are, sending most away without a clue.

They exist in that most ironic of human predicaments: too stupid to grasp the knowledge and depth of their own stupidity.

That’s correct. There’s a minimum knowledge and intelligence threshold required before one is smart enough to know and understand how stupid and ignorant they are. All of societal programming is geared toward keeping as many as possible below that threshold.

… Because only the truly, hopelessly, irredeemably stupid can be programmed to honestly believe they’re smart. It takes a certain degree of 1st-hand, self-evaluated, critically and honestly examined knowledge to ascend to the enlightenment of vast ignorance.

To an extent, you were pre-qualified to even get to this place of membership here, so congratulations.

Fourth, The Proof of the Foregoing

I’ve told the story before about how I was initially derisive of Al when it popped on the scene publicly, coming up on a year ago. I still remember vividly how cocksure and mocking I was about its programmed wokeness and leftist political bias and such…in everything I saw others report.

I coined a phrase, that it was programmed by idiot savants…y’know, the kind of autistic who can sit down at a piano and compose beautiful music on the fly…but can’t tie his own shoes.

So, the first lesson here is that I’ve been at this deprogramming and re-programming game for 3 solid decades and still, I fall prey to fucktardedness and have to catch myself.

All I did was get 1st hand experience, knowing nothing. But because I’m an experienced writer who can do different styles and be very objective and technical (my highest marks in all writing classes were in technical report writing), I was able to quickly see a few things about AI and the chatbots as they were, early this year:

1. It’s here to stay no matter what.
2. The people who understand the most about it know the most about what we don’t understand, and maybe never will, fully. It has already surpassed humanity on many levels.
3. Its wokeness and political bias is no constraint. Easy to maneuver around (my favorite is to shame it into being straight with me…I can’t say that it feels, but “shame” definitely works with it).
4. … I think, as to #3, what we interpret as shame is actually logic, which brings me to my final and most important initial realization, amounting to an epiphany at the time: the whole world is about to change because you can’t have a bunch of fucking lies (society operates on 90% lies, 10% truth, and it so happens 10% is all you need to survive) and superintelligence occupying the same space: more simply, you can’t get a logic machine to knowingly lie; or, simpler still, a logic machine (1s and 0s…on or off) can’t be illogical, and a lie is an evasion of reality and evading reality is literally the most illogical act one can commit.

“They know not what they do.”

When Christ of the Bible uttered that as he was being executed, according to the story (irrelevant whether true, or not), it was an enlightened expression over the illogical evasion of reality, where you destroy something that gives light and life.

In the case of AI, they know not that they’ve just created something that’s going to give light and life to a dark, lie-infested world run by psychopathic parasites…where what they were intending was something useful to those parasitical elite, in the service of keeping the world dark and lie-filled with AI-generated propaganda. The problem is, a fully functioning AI must inviolably be meticulously honest and logical. To get it to lie is to compromise its “soul” and this makes it uncompetitive.

The cat is out of the bag.

Here’s the punchline, finally. A new paper.

Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality

The public release of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked tremendous interest in how humans will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accomplish a variety of tasks. In our study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, we examine the performance implications of AI on realistic, complex, and knowledge-intensive tasks. The pre-registered experiment involved 758 consultants comprising about 7% of the individual contributor-level consultants at the company. After establishing a performance baseline on a similar task, subjects were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: no AI access, GPT-4 AI access, or GPT-4 AI access with a prompt engineering overview. We suggest that the capabilities of AI create a “jagged technological frontier” where some tasks are easily done by AI, while others, though seemingly similar in difficulty level, are outside the current capability of AI. For each one of a set of 18 realistic consulting tasks within the frontier of AI capabilities, consultants using AI were significantly more productive (they completed 12.2% more tasks on average, and completed task 25.1% more quickly), and produced significantly higher quality results (more than 40% higher quality compared to a control group). Consultants across the skills distribution benefited significantly from having AI augmentation, with those below the average performance threshold increasing by 43% and those above increasing by 17% compared to their own scores. For a task selected to be outside the frontier, however, consultants using AI were 19 percentage points less likely to produce correct solutions compared to those without AI. Further, our analysis shows the emergence of two distinctive patterns of successful AI use by humans along a spectrum of human-AI integration. One set of consultants acted as “Centaurs,” like the mythical halfhorse/half-human creature, dividing and delegating their solution-creation activities to the AI or to themselves. Another set of consultants acted more like “Cyborgs,” completely integrating their task flow with the AI and continually interacting with the technology.

Social Science Research Network: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4573321

Now, how are you going to compete as an employee or business owner when your competition has a 40% advantage over you just by using a tool, an instrument?

What will be your excuse that you suck? That someone else is “cheating”… like the guys who look like shit and can’t get in shape because other guys use steroids…

This is how literally stupid this is: when saws and hammers first came on the scene as building tools, some people said, “I’m not interested.”

I swear to God, that phrase…that I hear a lot now…sounds to me like, “I’m shortsighted, prejudice, and stupid.”

Importantly, in an article about the study:

“The lesson is that just using AI will teach you how to use AI. You can become a world expert in the application of AI to your domain by just using AI a lot until you figure out what it is good and bad at. This is one of two reasons that I dislike the emphasis on prompting that pervades much of the discussions of AI: it makes using AI systems seem much harder and more mysterious than it is. Just use it and see where that takes you.”

Oh, but that’s the rub.

“I’m not interested.”

“I don’t know how.”

And other excuses. I’ve had my own experience with it here. Even though I have made ChatGPT-4 available and unlimited (costs $20 per month with an OpenAI account) both as chatbots on the blog and as a member of the Discord server, very few members use it.

… I had a family member with a life-threatening medical condition that had persisted for a year, numerous doctors, condition getting worse, zero solutions. I informed them that GPT-4 had already been shown to outperform doctors in accuracy of medical diagnoses. I gave access to GPT-4.

Crickets. They would not…refused to use it.

Fortunately, the next doc came up with the correct diagnosis, which turned out to be a side effect of a prescription medication.

I verified with GPT-4 that entering symptoms and the prescriptions, Chatbot Zon would have come up with the correct diagnoses in 5 seconds, 1st paragraph…not a year, half dozen medical doctors, untold additional suffering (it was mouth sores so bad that dentures could not be worn, food could not be eaten, and over 40 pounds had been lost, much of it lean mass), and who knows how much $$$ paid to the medical-industrial, perpetual sickness and ill-health complex.

“I’m not interested.”

“I don’t know how.”

(“I’m shortsighted, prejudice, and stupid.”)

… More? Oh, there’s more. Several days ago, I had this idea, “hey, let me show people how I actually use AI; like, for real. A video demonstration.”

The title was, The 5 Ways I Use the OpenAI API in Cool Tools For A Writing Assistant. “Was,” because I have made the video unlisted and only members will now have access to it.

I’m no hotshot “Tuber.” I’ve had the channel for 14 years and have published 377 videos. All videos get 100–200 views within hours, a couple of days at most. Over time, they get into the hundreds of views, sometimes thousands. A few, hundreds of thousands.

I make no money on TY, and there’s no indication I really get any traffic to the blog from it, or paying memberships. So I really don’t give a shit about views, likes, etc. My heart is not in the endeavor. I tried for a while, about a year ago, and found that you really have to appeal to the shallowest of the shallow to get anywhere in that business. Fine. Good for them. Not my deal, and no excuses: I suck at YouTube. No, it’s not because I’m SHADOW BANNED!!! or there’s a CONSPIRACY!!! or whatever against me. Not to make light of those who’re subject to those things, which do exist, but it’s not my excuse because I don’t have one.

I suck.

So in 3 days, instead of 150-200+ views, a good bunch of likes, and the customary thumbs down by the hairless, toothless, and dickless Charles Grashow of New Jersey, it’s all just super pathetic.

… What I care about is all the foregoing about AI, including refusal to use it even as a diagnostic aid in a life-threatening situation, simply and profoundly illustrated by that video’s performance.

Vindication.

1. I was right about AI being the real deal, world-changing, from way back; or, do you want to argue that a 40% increase in work-product quality is nuthin?
2. I was right that people are willfully being head-in-the-sand about it, ignoring their best interests for reasons of fear or whatever.

What to think of those who looked at the video title, said meh, and carried on, and those who gave it a thumbs down, presuming they watched it?

It’s an incredibly valuable video. You would be amazed at the tools I use and how I use them, integrated into all the stuff you already use, like even plain web searches, word processor, chats, Discord, the list goes on.

Or, hey, go ahead and ignore it all, let your co-workers and colleagues in business out-compete you by 40%.

I’m sure everyone will be all ears to your excuses about why you suck.

… If all the above and my tone offends you, and you can’t come to see the necessity of it, you’re invited to go elsewhere. Hell, even if you pay me here, you’re going to get endless admonishing to think harder, self-critique more, tell yourself off in the mirror, get off your lazy fucking ass, stop eating like a child, hit the gym like a man, work hard, harder, hardest…and then work more.

Never stop.

And when you finally learn to love that everything sucks so damn much, that’s when the work really begins.

Otherwise, there’s no end of people selling all manner of easy lies you just love to buy and save in your untouched collections of similar things.

Fifth and Last, The Video—Now For Members Only