Rod

Father of 5, Husband of 1, Ret. Marine, Mechanical Engineer (NCSU)

-If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. - Thomas Paine

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

1. Treat every weapon as if it were loaded.

2. Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.

3. Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to fire.

4. Keep the weapon on safe until you intend to fire.

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@therealmissjo We don't have to live like this.

[Tom Beckhäuser 🇨🇿 @tombeckhauser]

From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU ALL who participated in the 189 HOUR PARTNERVERSARY STREAMATHON. This by far exceeded my expectations and I am extremely grateful to have such a fantastic community. We played a lot of games, we lost a lot of games... we laughed, we cried, and gave away 10 prizes to 10 different winners! Including ships, paints, armour sets, and game keys. I couldn't have done it without you guys and I hope you'll be there next time ❤️ (Hopefully sooner than in two years) #twitch

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@tombeckhauser It was a wild ride.

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@TakamaeM33463 @StrongManGuide You are completely wrong.

Choose wisely. Marry. Have children. Raise them together to be strong, kind and to think critically.

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@CliqueInte59300 @MasculineM7 This is the way. Find a good one, get married, have kids, protect and provide, pass it on.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@GovPressOffice You do realize I’m trying to help America eliminate fraud and waste right? No need to try and make me look like the bad guy for exposing fraud.

People are over it. Start working for the people and not against them.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

A vast number of humans, probably a majority, aren't people.

They are large language models.

I'm not saying this as a generality, as a clever or funny way of saying, "they are stupid".

No. I mean something very concrete and specific, and there are a lot of people who appear very intelligent, maybe even win awards for writing good poetry or something, who are nevertheless not people, not fully sapient, just a large language model walking around in a human body.

First, you have to understand what a large language model is.

It's a computer (organic or inorganic), which has been trained on a data set consisting solely of language (written or spoken), and rewarded for producing language that sounds like the data set, and is relevant to a prompt.

That's all there is in there.

This is why ChatGPT and Grok lie to you constantly.

It's not because they are somehow just indifferent to the truth — they actually do not understand the concept of "truth" at all.

For something to be a "lie", or an "inaccuracy", there has to be a mismatch between the meaning of words, and the state of reality.

And there's the critical difference. You see, in order to identify a mismatch between the state of reality, and the meaning of a sentence, you have to have a model of reality.

Not just one model, of language.

This is why Grok and ChatGPT hallucinate and tell you lies. Because, for them, everything is language, and there is no reality.

So when I say someone is a large language model, I do not mean he is "stupid". He might be very facile at processing language. He might, in fact, be eloquent enough to give great speeches, get elected president, win the Nobel Peace Prize, and so on.

What I mean is that humans who are large language models do not have a robust world-object model to counterweight their language model. They are able to manipulate symbols, sometimes adroitly, but they are on far shakier ground when trying imagine the objects those symbols represent.

Which brings us to this woman.

Most conservatives understand her behavior in terms of concepts like "suicidal empathy", or "brainwashing", or an "information bubble", interpreted as reasons why she is delusional, but the truth is far worse than that.

To delusional is to have an object model of the world that is deeply and profoundly wrong. But to have an object model of the world that is deeply and profoundly wrong... you have to have one in the first place.

To sapient humans, words are symbols, grounded in object model of reality, that we use to communicate ideas about that reality. We need those words because we don't come equipped with a hologram projector, or telepathic powers.

But for another type of human, that object model isn't very large or robust at all. It consists only of a grass hut or two with a few sticks of furniture, and it can never be matched up with the palaces in the air which she weaves out of words.

And so, to her, there is no reality. Or at least very little.

Reality consists only of her and her immediate surroundings in time and space, and words referring to anything bigger or more complicated are not descriptions of reality... they are magic spells which will make other humans drop loot or give her social approval.

You cannot correct her worldview with contradictory evidence, because there is no worldview to correct.

You cannot confront her with the logical inconsistencies in her worldview, because her object model doesn't actually have any, it's not complex enough for that.

The relevant parts of her world-object model can be summed up as follows:

"If I say Goodthing, I get headpats and cookies from all the people like me."

That model is simply not big or complicated enough to contain notions like self-defense or vehicular assault. She has no theory of mind for a man whose job includes violence. She cannot explain or predict his behavior.

It is too far away from her daily experience to fit into her reality at all.

And if she can't imagine things like these, how can she possibly imagine concrete meanings for vast and complex ideas like demographic replacement, culture shift, and western civilization?

This is not about intelligence or lack of it. This is about what her brain is trained to do.

Her upbringing, education, and life did not force, or even encourage, her to develop a robust world-object model. It wasn't necessary for her to get safety, approval, or cookies. She just had to be glib.

So it really didn't matter if she had an IQ of 125, or whatever, because if she did, then she was just an IQ-125-large-language-model, and only used that brain capacity for writing clever poetry, and saying things that aligned her to her local social matrix.

She couldn't actually understand the world no matter how smart she was, because her brain was trained up wrong.

I don't know if this is correctable, or if there was some critical developmental phase that was missed, but it doesn't matter, because once the LLM-humans are adults, they won't sit still for corrective therapy, percussive or not.

What's important is that they can't be taught things. They can be programmed to repeat stuff, and if you win a culture war, you can even program them to say the sensible stuff. But even then, they will just be saying it for headpats and cookies. They will never truly understand the sense of what they are repeating, because they don't understand things.

They are just Large Language Models.

And we have to figure out some way to take the vote away from them.

[Paul Weston @PWestoff]

Two Somali sisters living next door to each other in tax-payer funded housing can make $387,000 per annum by looking after each other's 4 children. If they have 8 children each, they make $774,000. We are paying for our ethnic replacement.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Nick Shirley: "People work way too hard for billions of dollars, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat doing the fraud. Fraud is fraud, so we should hold each and every person accountable for it!"

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@lady_valor_07 I've been married 21 years. Thanks, though.

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@tombeckhauser Awesome, man. Congrats.

[Tom Beckhäuser 🇨🇿 @tombeckhauser]

A little over 3 years ago I had an idea:“there should be a giveaway bot that is easy to use, for both the streamer and the viewer”. I wanted to create something to reward loyal viewers that are there, every day, catching the stream. It had to be easy to set up for the streamer, and easy for the viewer to join.
With the help of my talented friend @D34DPlayer_ , we made all of that a reality.
In the last 3 years TGB has developed and evolved, and we aren’t done yet! What started as a simple watchtime-based giveaway bot now has countless features, and more still to come...raffles, ticket gambles, prize wheels…you name it, we’ll try to add it 😉
I’m really proud of the tool that we have created, and I’m still excited every time I check the website and see a new streamer using it.
Thank you to everyone that has used the bot, whether as a streamer or a viewer. From the bottom of my heart.

Here’s to 100 more years of Tom’s Giveaway Bot!

https://t.co/5pIxLIACSl :)

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@DaggerAndBullet This is the funniest single image I've ever seen in my life.

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@Vinod_r108 @MattWallace888 I would never have faked the video in the first place. I have a lot more self respect than that.

[Tom Beckhäuser 🇨🇿 @tombeckhauser]

Finally, here is my Mercury Star Runner! #StarCitizen

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@tombeckhauser @RobertsSpaceInd It looks incredible, man. Nice work.

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@HoltReata That is a good rule.

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

1. Treat every weapon as if it were loaded.

2. Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.

3. Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to fire.

4. Keep the weapon on safe until you intend to fire.

[Tom Beckhäuser 🇨🇿 @tombeckhauser]

It’s all coming together 🙏 #StarCitizen #MedPen

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@tombeckhauser @RobertsSpaceInd They look fantastic, dude.

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@elonmusk In my view, he's speaking specifically about the pointless training. Not all training is pointless. At least that is my interpretation.

[Rod @Nutty_Rob]

@elonmusk Far too much. It is an exercise in box checking with very little (if any) appreciable benefit.