— Here’s What I Think

Celebrate your victories, or at least, celebrate the defeat of those you hate—your enemies. Who do I hate? Who is my enemy? Those would be the people who craft a livelihood out of destroying the values others have created. The set of unique values that we all share is that of civilization, and in particular, a civilization which moves, acts, and progresses in accordance with our natures as male and female human beings, with male and female human offspring. That last sentence is a loaded one, specifically designed to key in a recognition of just how deeply some of our enemies, those we hate, will go to advance their bogus livelihoods based on destroying values rather than creating, enhancing, or adding value to value.

It’s not that they’re just run-of-the-mill nihilists who want to simply destroy everything. These people have the audacity to demand high pay and high status for the things they destroy—the enemies of life, not just human life, but other animal life, plant life, and the Earth itself.

… You may have seen recent news items surrounding the turmoil that Harvard President, Claudine Gay, has gone through because of her long history, as it turns out, of plagiarizing the work of others in her various dissertations, papers, books, and what have you. At first, it was dealt with like most instances of dishonesty, cheating, and plagiarism—just like our current President of the United States. That’s long in the memory hole, his instance of doing the same things. But people are starting to have either long memories or are being reminded, “Oh yeah, that’s just like this thing that’s happened over and over.” And it doesn’t end with Gay because now, apparently, there are increasing numbers of people in high status to whom the same thing is happening.

So, why does this happen? It goes back to the whole idea of the Internet and the computerization of data. Ultimately, you can’t hide—you can’t hide your sins and your crimes, not if it’s in a database, and that becomes increasingly the case. This is why I’ve always been sort of ‘meh’ about all the privacy issues on the Internet. And while stopping short of saying “Well, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about,” I lean a bit that way, actually. That’s one reason this blog is a pretty damn transparent, honest, truthful platform from the standpoint of its author because I know I can’t hide anything. And if I try, that’s a surefire way to get myself exposed—just a run-of-the-mill liar, just like most people out there…or at least they wear two faces, two masks.

Like I always say, the great thing about the truth is it takes no work. You could say that truth is the best policy—honesty is the best policy—for the lazy man. Why? Because you don’t have to do anything. You just tell the truth, sit back, let the chips fall where they may, let the dominoes tumble. Who the fuck cares? If you’re a truth-teller, you have to also develop a thick skin and not give a fuck what people think. “Go fuck yourself if it bugs you. What do I care?” But in the end, people know where you stand, and so if they like you, they like you for good reasons. If they dislike you, they dislike you for their own reasons, good or bad. There’s no bullshit, no fraud, no deception. To tell a lie, man, that takes a lot of work—if you want to keep that lie “clean.”

A curious aspect to all of this, for me, is two things. First of all, I’m wondering what role, if any, artificial intelligence is playing in this right now. How does AI have anything to do with this? Because these large language models are trained on trillions of pieces of data—it’s kind of like it’s a resident brain. So theoretically, it should be able to tell you right off the bat if you ask it, “OK, if you have all this person’s writings in your memory, does it look like copies of other stuff you have in your memory?” So you could have a treasure trove of plagiarized stuff right there. And that’s only going to get either better for us or worse for them—take your pick—as training data expands to encompass all knowledge ever produced by humans with a context window, which is basically processing power, that expands similarly to where it can hold more than any one human brain all at the same time. Then we’ll see—it’s just all about exposing lies because we live by lies.

As I’ve also said many times, some lies are better than others. That’s about the best I can say. Some lies are rather practical. I’ll give you one: “Hey, how’s it going today?” “Oh, wonderful.” Yeah, there’s a lie. Say your dog just died, or worse. Everything isn’t wonderful, but you really don’t want to talk about it, or for whatever reason it’s not their business or it’s irrelevant, and so you tell a lie. That’s a decent, practical lie right there. It’s OK; no moral status. Even some narratives, paradigms, slogans, bromides, stories, and fairytales that we live under—religions—they’re all basically lies too…but it’s kind of how we humans live and thrive. That’s the state of human evolution as we know it right now, and we don’t know whether we can ever transcend that. It may be that hard-core, in-your-face, brash, unfiltered, unvarnished reality—the truth—is just too much for most people.

So what are you left with? Well, you have to evaluate the lies for what they are—as lies—and recognize that they might be necessary. So then you have to say, “Well, which lies are better than other lies?” And then you look at results, and that is, who’s producing value and who’s destroying it?

The final part of this is what the future holds, and the patterns that are being produced to where more and more people every day are waking up to the fact that everything they believed all their lives are a bunch of lies. So it comes full circle. I just read a piece this morning that the number of people since 2020 who believe that Joe Biden’s election was fraudulent is actually increasing. You’d expect over time that that number would decrease; people just let it go, forget about it. No, that number is increasing—in absolute terms, more people believe it was bullshit now than believed it in the aftermath of 2020.

Dominos tumbling. Figure out how to take advantage of that.

That is all. And it’s what I think.