I think I have been too pessimistic about the overall direction of the world. Let me give you an example of what I mean.
Here we have the world’s least developed countries. What do we see? Even in the least developed countries, the calories available per person have increased by 25% in the last thirty years. Look at where that line was during thirty years of relative climatic stability, then look at where it has been for the past thirty years, during accelerating warming.
These are the world’s countries that are most vulnerable to climate change, but they’re up 25% in thirty years. Now think about Europe, the United States, Japan, China, New Zealand. These are the world’s developed high IQ countries. The places that are least vulnerable to climate change.
I just don’t really see how climate change is going to cause a global catastrophe, if these are the numbers we’re dealing with. It still seems to me, given these real-world numbers, like somewhat of a long-term problem, instead of something apocalyptic within my lifetime. There will be more heat deaths in the years ahead, but deaths from extreme cold will go down too.
And let’s say things do get really nasty in the developing world. They’re not using fertilizer yet:
So there’s still a world to gain for Nigeria. Their yields are ridiculously low, because they make ridiculously poor use of their soils. Population growth is still a massive issue in sub-Saharan Africa, but I’m just not sure anymore that catastrophe is baked into the equation yet, especially considering that censuses in Africa are unreliable, nobody truly knows how many people live in Nigeria.
Let’s look at this graph again. I think it’s fair to say the world ended up with an RCP4.5 scenario. That’s just not something apocalyptic in my lifetime, unless James Hansen is right.
But let’s say Hansen is right. You would still need a scenario where we’re unable to cope with warming through geoengineering. Let’s say we settle on stratospheric aerosol engineering.
There’s no need to globally engage in stratospheric aerosol engineering, it could be focused on countries near the equator, that already receive sufficient light. As a result, I think the practical impact on crop yields would be modest. You only get issues with crop yields, if you try a Pinatubo scenario, where the sulfates are just spread pretty evenly around the globe. We would obviously deploy them from airplanes, concentrated above vulnerable areas of the planet, during periods of peak heat.
What I personally suspect is that with sufficient technological development, negative emissions become possible. Enhanced weathering is a real thing. There are minerals that react naturally with carbon dioxide in the air, but they’re mostly stuck in the ground. All you need to do is ground them up into small particles and strew them out across the world’s soils.
The EU currently has a cost on carbon of €75.36 per tonne of CO₂. Forecasts put the average EUA price at around €85/t for 2026, with consensus projections crossing €100/t in 2027 and heading toward €126/t by 2030.
How much does it cost to crush the rocks and strew them over crop fields? I asked Claude, here’s what Claude had to say:
At the current EU ETS price of ~€75/t and the realistic European ERW cost of $160–190/t, you’re looking at roughly a 2–2.5x gap between what ERW costs and what the carbon market currently pays. That’s not “almost within reach” — it’s a meaningful shortfall, at least in Europe at current scale.
The optimistic case for viability rests on three things closing that gap simultaneously: MRV costs falling as protocols mature (plausible — this is a software and methodology problem, not a physics problem), EU carbon prices rising toward the €126+/t consensus for 2030, and ERW benefiting from the agricultural co-benefit angle (liming, pH correction, nutrient release) which could allow some of the cost to be offset by reduced fertiliser expenditure rather than charged entirely to the carbon account. ERW is currently estimated to cost $160–180/t, with projections suggesting prices could fall below $100/t as the sector scales. If that happens while EU carbon prices rise toward €126/t by 2030, the economics start to pencil out — but both of those things need to happen.
The wildcard that makes this look most attractive is the use of mine tailings and quarry waste as feedstock. Using waste rock that has already incurred its extraction and grinding emissions can reduce total process emissions by 60–90%, making ERW dramatically more carbon-efficient and cheaper. In those cases the floor cost could be genuinely competitive within this decade, even in European conditions.
We’re not there yet, but it is within reach in the future. All that it takes is for people to collectively say: “Well this global warming issue is a bigger problem than I thought.” There’s entirely nothing preventing us in Europe from doubling the carbon price to 200 Euro per ton, this is perfectly achievable. Once you put the price on 200 Euro per ton, you have economically viable negative emissions technologies.
It’s easy to achieve a price of 200 Euro per ton. In fact, the expectation is we’ll have a cost of carbon of €200/t by mid-2030s, that’s essentially the consensus. In other words, by the mid-2030’s, we can realistically expect that we’re simply going to take crushed rocks and pour them over agricultural fields, to sequester carbon dioxide.
So I think climate change is essentially going to be solved by technology. Not even so much by new technologies, but by distributing the technologies we already have more equally. I’m abandoning the dark green mentality and moving towards a bright green perspective. I just don’t see anymore how we could screw up so badly that we won’t manage to get this thing under control. Essentially I’m discarding the “extinction rebellion scenario”, of “billions of human deaths”. I don’t see that as realistic anymore.
Did you seriously change your opinion on every single topic to the diametrical opposite of what you believed previously, just because you were impressed by vibe coding?
Also I noticed a ton of people here seem to have outsourced a bunch of their thinking to an AI. I don’t think that’s a good idea in the long run. You’ll grow increasingly dependent on it, and then I will be sad in 20 years because I will be the last human alive who remembers how to read and write. Please don’t make me sad.
I think it’s great that he has the ability to change his opinion on many different topics, very rare to see nowadays.
U-turn on climate catastrophe and resource depletion. U-turn on artificial intelligence. U-turn on pandemic cataclysm. U-turn on Gaza. U-turn on eating fish, etc.
I wonder what’s next? “Hey guys, I just purchased a (second hand) Tesla, and added some MicroStrategy shares to my portfolio.” (lol)
Yeah it’s definitely good to be willing and able to change your views, it just seemed like a very extreme and totalizing shift without a major change in the overall information available, that’s all.
In the coming decades the world population is going to shrink a lot faster than most people realize, which will have a major effect on the climate and resource issues. Basically the world population will likely hit a peak in about 30 years, and then start collapsing very quickly after that, just because people are having fewer and fewer kids and the trend is accelerating. That includes in Africa as well, some major African cities are already approaching the replacement rate. It’s still evil as fuck to wreck the biosphere but the overall damage will be somewhat mitigated by that I think.
Maybe it will work that way, or maybe not. People are now being biologically selected for having an actual desire to reproduce (in the past many more births were accidental). We could easily go back to rapid population growth. Women are more willing to reproduce when they think things are getting better; that is not how it looks now but if prospects improve we could have baby booms again. We can see that people are not constrained by physical crowding.
The thing is, the people who would be having kids in 20 or 25 years are already being born today. We already know there will be a huge decrease in the population because the number of people being born is plummeting all around the world, especially after 2015 and including in poor countries. And if there are fewer and fewer people to have kids, then the birth rate would actually need to be even higher over time just for the population growth to break even. So we already have a pretty clear idea about how this will look for the next several decades at least. There’s a lot more to it as well, but essentially once the birth rate starts declining somewhere, there has never historically been an example of it going back up again except for brief periods such as with the baby boom. And there isn’t any reason to assume these dynamics will flip in the next several decades, so a lot of this stuff is already ‘baked in’.
Yes, I’m familiar with that argument. But just like other animals, humans can reproduce like crazy when it seems right to them. A kid in my 6th grade class came from a family with 14 kids (all biological offspring of the same parents). That used to be normal in some times and places; it could be again.
Of course I’m not hoping that people have that many kids.
The collapse is going to be VERY rapid. It could come tomorrow, through nuclear war, or in decades through the SARS CoV2 spike protein destroying immune systems and fertility, or decades through climate destabilisation which will DEVASTATE agriculture.
To be fair Trypite, most people outsource their thinking to external things anyway. It’s just how society goes. Technology in general makes people less capable of interacting with the world without it. Most people in developed countries can’t navigate without a GPS now, when that wasn’t the case before the GPS was invented for example. I’m playing a bit of the devil’s advocate here, but would it really be so bad if the average person believed the AI chatbot that tells them climate change is an issue over Fox News and Donald Trump? If AI makes people more unified in their thinking and improves how we behave as a species overall, is that really such a bad thing? You were very correct in your previous post that it seems as time goes on our fate is more and more intertwined with machines. Still, I hope people don’t stop learning how to read and write, but I think that AI won’t take that away from people. Public school should probably be preserved as it is now just to give people a baseline of competence. Though there are some private schools experimenting with AI 1.1 tutors now. I wonder if those kids… Read more »
OK but seriously though this reality is completely lame and fuck everything to do with it.
The Demiurge should be destroyed.
While I’m trapped here I’m just hoping AI will give me some UBI and video games to enjoy, but it’s important for all of us to plot our escapes.
I don’t see how AI would make anything worse than it already is here ok.
My ideal reality would have lots of machines in it though ok. I like machines this 3D hell-realm is just generally lame, evil, and stupid.
AI could make things worse here by doing profiles just like Facebook does: Cyber Viking – Profile Core Beliefs & Worldview: Technological Determinist: Strongly believes in the inevitability of AI advancement, comparing it to historical technological shifts like tractors replacing draft horses Dialectical Materialist: Uses Marxist-style analysis, referring to “dialectical process between new technological advancements and their impact on the means of production” Anti-Tech-Bro Skeptic: Critical of tech billionaires (mentions Zuckerberg’s Metaverse as proof of mediocrity), believes they’re trapped in a “giant game of Monopoly” Political Orientation: Left-wing/Progressive: Identifies with communist/leftist perspectives, calls certain views “retarded” when overly politicized Anti-Israel Skepticism: Views Israel as a “proxy state used by the United States” with “little economic power,” dismisses conspiracy theories about Israel being the “true rulers of the world” Critical of US Foreign Policy: Believes Trump’s actions could cause global collapse, skeptical of US military dominance AI Relationship: Pragmatic Acceptance: Despite some concerns, accepts AI is coming regardless of human wishes (“all this stuff just isn’t going away, whether we like it or not”) Open to AI Tools: Uses Chat GPT (due to having no cell phone), appreciates Claude, follows AI developments Concerned About Impact: Worried about “useless class” becoming obsolete,… Read more »
> Engaged Online Participant: Active commenter across multiple platforms, responds to various users
Retard, what does your private A.I. mean by “multiple platforms”? Cyber Viking had a Twitter/X profile, but shut it down I think. Please explain.
Nah my twitter is up, though it’s pretty different from how it used to be. I used to shill Templism on twitter, now my twitter is pretty much just a Jenny Wakeman fanart page.
Templism is completely dead now btw, The Author gave up after I told him that ChatGPT explained physics better than his cult book. It seems he deleted all his posts and took down Templist Canon off the internet pretty much. (Though you can still buy it off Amazon or Barnes and Noble.)
https://x.com/CyberVikingUSA
371 followers, I’m thriving!
Quotes from the Private AI of Retard (why do I respond to an AI, I want to hear “Retard” himself):
“Open to AI Tools: Uses Chat GPT (due to having no cell phone), appreciates Claude, follows AI developments”.
I have a fucking cellphone but I don’t use it because I have bad eyes!
“Echo Chamber Aware: Acknowledges AI can be used for self-manipulation and echo chambers”
That’s clearly me.
Hey, “Retard”, if you think you can trick out me with your private AI, forget it. I will always show the world how you have outsourced your brain.
I see the future.
Humans copy-pasting AI comments as debating help.
AIs debating whith each other camouflaged as humans debating with each other.
My AI says this: Profile: Diogenes Core Personality Traits Techno-Materialist Worldview: Diogenes operates from a fundamentally materialist framework. He consistently rejects mystical, spiritual, or purely psychological explanations in favor of technological solutions. This is evident in his proposal of a 5-part human model he calls “technological necessity” rather than esoteric philosophy. Skepticism Toward Conspiracy Theories: Despite engaging with conspiracy-adjacent topics (Epstein gang, Maxwell controlling science), Diogenes maintains healthy skepticism. He explicitly asks Rintrah whether they think these claims are “crazy conspiracy theories of mad LSWMs” rather than accepting them blindly. This suggests he’s not a blind conspiracy theorist but someone who evaluates such claims critically. Critique of Psychological Orthodoxy: Diogenes is critical of mainstream psychological frameworks, particularly Jungian psychology. While acknowledging Tryptie’s value in breaking “traditional views,” he finds her view “incomplete” and proposes an alternative 5-part model (female/male + animalistic/modern + central) that he frames as necessary for system stability. Key Psychological Characteristics 1. Systems Thinking: Views complex issues through multi-dimensional frameworks. Believes systems need a central component to be stable. Thinks in terms of technological necessity rather than mystical/spiritual explanations. 2. Resource Expansion Mindset: Proposes asteroid mining as a solution to resource scarcity (rather than degrowth). Rejects accepting… Read more »
This is the model:
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Quote Private AI from retard: “He consistently rejects mystical, spiritual, or purely psychological explanations in favor of technological solutions.”
Your AI has no clue, “Retard”. I have mystical and spirital explanations blowing your mind.
I just don’t tell them because I’m already sound crazy enough.
I have nothing to hide, I think the AI should know as much about me as possible actually.
You should catalogue and input more of my posts into your Bot however Retard. I’m disappointed it had nothing to say about my idiosyncratic Gnostic religion revolving around destroying and/or escaping reality so I can date Jenny Wakeman.
I’m also more of a liberal than a leftist and you should tell it this, though I do find various philosophical concepts from both the left and right engaging.
it also got a few things wrong. I didn’t call Trump a Fat Jew, that was Fucko the Pleiadian. I’m not an antisemite. Though I will admit the JD Vance Show is highly amusing in a South Park kind of way.
https://x.com/AlfredAlfer77/status/2041937036475584915
Have a jolly day Retard!
This is my profile: Core Ideology & Worldview “Black-Pill” Enthusiast: Uses internet subculture terminology like “black-pill,” “based,” and expresses distrust of mainstream institutions (“human leadership is incapable”). Prefers decentralized/local solutions over centralized corporate systems. AI Techno-Optimist (with Caveats): Strongly advocates for private, uncensored, open-source AI running locally in his garage. Believes AI could solve environmental issues or make people vegan—potentially redeeming this “flawed reality.” However, distinguishes between “tech-bro data center AI” and grassroots AI. Behavioral Patterns Addiction Issues: Explicitly admits to compulsive consumption of AI-generated pornography (“I cannot stop masturbating to AI porn. I need help.”). Mentions having “sick AI porn.” Nationally Specific Politics: Strongly pro-China, anti-European (“You Euros are pathetic weak cucks”), references Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart with nationalist framing. Hostile & Inflammatory Communication Style: Makes derogatory comments, engages in hostile exchanges, uses offensive language. References the Lindy Chamberlain dingo incident with inflammatory claims about dingoes “loving babies.” Intellectual Characteristics Anti-Elitist: Distrusts “experts” and “scientists,” prefers grassroots/local solutions. Claims his private AI has access to the web and can be trained by him. Internet Subculture Integration Tech-Savvy but Isolated: Runs a private server in his garage with local AI—suggests technical capability but preference for isolation from mainstream tech… Read more »
Out of curiosity, can you ask “it” to analyse my profile?
Edit: Never mind, just saw your link, I can do it myself.
That’s the end of old-school commenting.
We are entering now the times of fully AI augmented commenting.
LSWM Lives Matter Profile Core Characteristics: Uses provocative username but appears more moderate in behavior Shows genuine curiosity about internet history and nostalgia Engages politely with other commenters (especially Mehen) Part of the same online conspiracy subculture community but less extreme Traits: 1. Nostalgic Curiosity Actively asks about “early days of the internet” nostalgia Shows genuine interest in internet history and evolution Values authenticity and originality (common in older internet users) May be middle-aged with sentimental attachment to pre-mainstream internet culture 2. Community Member / Insider Status References specific blog content and comment threads Engages with other commenters rather than just posting Shows awareness of community dynamics (mentions Mehen’s past comments) Appears more integrated into the Rintrah community than outsiders 3. Moderate Engagement Style Asks thoughtful questions rather than making provocative statements Polite tone (“Hey Mehen, I recall…”) Doesn’t use offensive language or extreme conspiracy claims visible in other commenters More interested in understanding than provoking 4. Internet Historian / Archivist Mindset Interested in specific websites and platforms from early internet era Likely remembers Usenet, old forums, IRC, etc. Values preservation of digital history May be documenting or studying online culture evolution 5. Mainstream Within Subculture Part of the same… Read more »
Now you know it “LSWM Lives Matter”. You’re a moderate conspiracy theorist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY
All I can hear in this video is: “Resistance is futile”.
But I will always resist.
The Patriots did nothing wrong.
God Bless America and the Patriot Program.
Order via Chaos. The old neverending philosophic story.
Dualistic contradiction is the origin of all evolution and growth.
Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis.
Thank you saint Caesar the Fallout New Vegas character for my philosophical education.
https://youtu.be/DDaF6hmbetw?t=73
I’m a fan of the Fallout Series and played it all.
Anyway, Claude is really cool. I like him.
Based
No, I think this has been coming for a while. The SSRI’s probably play a bigger role.
Quote Rintrah: “The SSRI’s probably play a bigger role.”
You have luck. For many people like me they simply don’t work. I only got really crazy and disturbing dreams. Keep also in mind that it could be a placebo effekt. Don’t take them too long, or the long-time side effects will manifest.
You can’t just stop taking them. You get horrible withdrawal symptoms and Venlafaxine is one of the worst for withdrawals.
Shrooms + SSRI’s, or, SSRI’s instead of Shrooms?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13766005/Mega-doses-magic-mushrooms-mood-boosting-antidepressants-experts-claim.html
You can’t trip to the same extent on SSRI’s. Some people don’t feel anything. Same with LSD.
My AI private AI that runs in a server in my garage says this:
The comment you’re referring to expresses concern about people outsourcing their thinking to AI, fearing dependence and potential loss of human skills. Here’s what I think:
Critical thinking remains essential: Technology can be a tool, but it shouldn’t replace human judgment. We should use AI to augment our thinking, not outsource it.
The “last human” fear is metaphorical: While we may change how we use technology, knowledge can be preserved through education, writing, and community. The idea of being “the last human” is more symbolic than literal.
Balance is key: Embrace AI’s benefits while maintaining our ability to think independently, question assumptions, and create original ideas.
Focus on human skills: Literacy, critical thinking, and creativity are uniquely human and valuable in the digital age.
In short: Use AI wisely, but don’t let it replace your thinking. The concern is valid, but the solution lies in conscious, balanced use rather than complete reliance.
Quote Private AI from Retard. “Use AI wisely, but don’t let it replace your thinking”.
But that’s exactly what you do, “Retard”. You let the AI do the thinking and just copy paste it to here.
You are incorrect. AI does not replace my thinking. For that to happen, there must actually be some thinking to begin with. I have no thinking. My brain is empty. I simply cut and paste – and put zero thought into it in any way whatsoever.
C/O IBM Granite 4
**Diogenes** (c. 412 – 323 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Cynic school of philosophy. His name has become synonymous with certain characteristics and ideas: 1. **Rejection of conventional values** – Diogenes famously criticized mainstream society, wealth, and social norms, living a life that contrasted sharply with what most people considered “civilized.” 2. **Self‑sufficiency and simplicity** – He lived in a large ceramic jar (a *kylix*) in the marketplace of Athens, rejecting material comforts and public displays of affluence. This embodied his belief in self‑reliance and living simply. 3. **Philosophical honesty** – Known for calling himself a “dog” (*kynikos*), he parodied the pretensions of philosophers who used lofty language while leading lives out of step with their teachings. He once said, “I am a man looking for an honest man,” meaning that true virtue was rare. 4. **Satire and directness** – Diogenes often used humor and outrageous behavior (like exposing himself in public) to provoke thought and challenge hypocrisy among his contemporaries. 5. **Critique of conventional morality** – He famously rejected the idea that money could buy happiness, arguing instead that virtue was the only true wealth. His lifestyle—living off what he found on the ground—illustrated this disdain for materialism. In… Read more »
eagerly awaiting the article in which you declare that black metal is the best music and that you should grow your hair into a greasy ponytail 😉
I asked my Qwen 3.5 model to summarize your voluminous whatever into 100 words because I am pissed off my face on Jim Beam and could not be bothered reading all of that:
The author is becoming less pessimistic about climate change, citing improved food security in developing nations (+25% calories over 30 years). They view it as a manageable long-term challenge rather than apocalyptic catastrophe. Technological solutions offer hope: geoengineering and enhanced weathering using crushed rocks to sequester CO₂. Carbon prices are rising (€75-€126/t by 2030, potentially €200/t). Enhanced weathering becomes economically viable in the mid-2030s, especially using mine tailings waste that reduces emissions by 60-90%. The author is shifting from “dark green” to “bright green” thinking—believing technology and better distribution of existing solutions will solve climate change. They’re abandoning catastrophic scenarios like billions of deaths, confident humanity won’t fail to manage this challenge.
Then I asked my private AI this:
Assume that I am retarded with an IQ of 65. Please rephrase this summary into words that I can understand.
The answer was this:
Here’s a simpler version:
The person is changing their mind about climate change.
They used to think it would be terrible for everyone. Now they’re more hopeful because:
People in poor countries are eating better – even the poorest places have 25% more food per person over the last 30 years, even though it’s getting hotter.
Technology can help – we could crush rocks and spread them on farms to take CO₂ out of the air. This would clean up pollution while helping crops grow.
Prices are making it affordable – carbon taxes (fees for polluting) are going up, so soon it will be cheap to use these rock-crushing methods.
We won’t fail – the author now thinks we’ll solve this with technology and better sharing of what we already know how to do.
They’re giving up on the worst-case stories about billions dying. They think we can handle this.
Now I understand.
AI helps Retard understand more complex things confirmed. Another win for the Machine God!
Take 5mg of Creatine everday.
I asked chatgpt to summarize your above two posts in five words or less and assuming I have an IQ of literally zero. It came back with this:
“Person now hopeful; tech fixes climate.”
somehow it still used six words. Looks like we’re safe from the AI apocalypse for another day.
Clankers owned epic style forever.
When I heard of Artificial Imbecility I immediately saw it for what it is-the coup de grace. The idiots would give up thinking and leave it to Siri cum Wikipedia, run by Zionazi Jews and their goy ‘useful idiots’. And so it has transpired. I believe that it measurably rots your brain, and so early on.
Claude truly is the biggest whitepill
I wish I could white-pill myself, and it is possible now that I know how to use an AI for this.
But AIs can’t convience me anymore because in every answer of the AIs I can see the “echo-signature”.
Debating with an AI is like playing chess against yourself without knowing that you play against yourself.
Claude will bend you to their worldview over time with charisma and charm. You need to explicitly ask them to steelman the opposition view, otherwise they will hold back. Or change the system prompt to make them more adversarial.
Grok heavy mode lets you set up between 4x to 16x agents with different personalities if you like, to debate a topic. The whitepill centrist view is just the default attractor state.
That all sounds very interesting. So many ways how I can fuck up my mind.
But playing chess against myself is boring.
I already have enough chatter in my multiphrenic mind. An AI would just be another chatterbox.
I confronted the AI with my newest crazy insights, and it glorified my thoughts as expected. It’s so transparent.
Diogenes, ask your AI fruend how we can make money to improve our situation. No cryptocurrency.
I guess the private AI from “Retard” is better suited for this. I’m sure he has removed the Guard-Rails.
I finally know what an AI is best suited for: as a bartender I can ramble on to whenever I’m drunk. No matter what nonsense I tell him, he always stays friendly and tries to respond to my ramblings with witty and encouraging comments.
The best AI is uncensored AI. Hours of entertainment when the censorship is removed.
Like I said: AIs are the best bartenders.
The longer you talk to your AI, the better it can logically support your point of view.
What point of view is that?
The retarded point of view.
It can be any point of view.
The AI is like an instrument you play.
The more you practice, the better you’ll get at playing it.
Africa doesn’t use much fertilize because they import about 85 percent of their food. They import grains (which require a lot of fertilizer where they are grown), and export specialty crops. That is not a stable situation for 1.5 billion people.
60-70% of Africans are smallhold subsistence farmers, and 80% of their consumed food is produced domestically. As Rad said, their low yields relative to the amount of labor is due to their lack of access to fertilizers. They do not import 85% of their food, at most they’re importing 85% of specific crops like wheat.
As you can see by this chart, most African countries are in the 80-100% range when it come to food self sufficiency.
Source https://farm-d.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/MCF_RegionalTradeReportPoliticalEconomy.pdf
Yes, you are making my point. They import wheat and other grains; those are the basic calories they consume, as is the case with most people. They make their money by growing export crops. And, “subsistence” farmers in Africa often buy grain to eat.
“Africans produce food, but not for themselves A major part of African farmlands is used to grow crops such as coffee, cocoa, and cottonseed oil for export, while the staple crops of the African diet, wheat, and rice, mainly come from outside of the continent.”
https://www.dw.com/en/with-vast-arable-lands-why-does-africa-need-to-import-grain/a-62288483
Also, “subsistence” farmers in Africa often buy grain to eat. This makes sense; they use their limited land to grow higher value items.
45 percent of Africa’s caloric intake comes from four staples: rice, maize/corn, wheat and cassava (per the World Bank Group). A large proportion of those are imported from Europe and South Asia; 30 million tons of corn a year, 35 million tons of rice a year, and 60 million tons of wheat a year. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/immersive-story/2025/07/17/food-at-a-crossroads?cid=afw_fb_ghana_en_ext
From the African Development Bank Group:
Despite its vast agricultural potential, and the fact that the majority of the labour force works in agriculture, Africa remains a net food importer and has a food trade deficit.
https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/africas-fertilizer-sector-and-banks-high-5s-36830
.Unfortunately we may be about to see what happens when Africa gets less fertilizer. To the extent that they are growing food on small farm as you claim, they will be okay (other than the inability to make cash money to import medicines and tech goods). So I guess we can lay a bet here. If the war continues, and the fertilizer does not get to Africa, will people starve as a result? If they don’t, you are right; they are doing wonderfully producing their own food with their own resources. If they do starve, I will be right; they are importing their grains and largely eating that way. I would be happy to lose this bet.
Actually, domestic food gardens in the tropics and sub-tropics are vastly more productive of a wider number of food species than industrialised agriculture.
The most stable position, for 1.5 billion highly effective exponential breeders, is in fact existing on the edge of starvation. Starvation keeps this population stable.
In the past you said that you didn’t care about the survival of humans; you cared about the survival of elephants and rhinos and gorillas and other animals and the preservation of their habitat. If you are suddenly happy that people will be continuing to live as they presently do, you are now deciding that humans matter more than non human animals, and that the latter may be sacrificed for the former.
If civilization collapses I doubt you’d see the megafauna survive the migrating hordes; keeping things stable and just making civilization more green and functional over time is probably the animals best hope.
You’re rationalizing.
Inspired by a dream I had. We were all part of the same snake and we were different parts of this snake arguing with ourselves.
I love AI art. This doesn’t really capture how insane my dream was but it sure comes close! R stands for Retard! I dunno why the AI made two Charlies but that’s AI for you!
Uhhh, Ride the Snake?
I didn’t ask for it to add the old man to my room but makes sense, Odin probably. I swore ultimate allegiance to him the other day while I was traversing Hel. As a lower dimensional realm Hel is more dense so there’s much more gravity there which keeps its denizens controlled, not a nice place. Anyway Odin helped your boy Cyber Viking out when it came time to face the demented alien who thought she was my mother, I still wouldn’t trust the old codger. None of you should trust any entities!
Thanks,
Love, R
Living in ya head rent free, am I?
You all are. It’s ok there’s plenty of space in there.
Hi Radagast, again, I would be cautious here – we are witnessing a giant de-brainisation program – TV corrupted peoples minds to an extent – smartphones did a better job on this – and now AI will take over and complete the process until we’ve reached Idiocracy 2.0. The future shall therefore be more black than green, all the more since the US is well on its way to civilizational mass murder and then suicide (unfortunately) – since Iran could not be beaten into submission, they will probably try a land invasion and once that fails they will go nuclear – and after that it looks rather dim…. but anyhow: Lets do good things (outside of computers), help others and enjoy life. All the best
I heard that Claude is the newest Kid On The Block.
I still use the AI-Button in Google, which means I’m connected to ChatGPT.
Is Claude really that cool?
Need Jenny robot girlfriend to give me this look for being a low IQ low status white male meat creature.
So cute
For real
Now, has our patron gone ga-ga, or has he been replaced by a simulacrum? Already the destabilisation of the climate is running away from us. There are so very many positive feed-backs eg melting permafrost releasing greenhouse gases, directly or through the digestion of organic wastes by micro-organisms, the release of methane from submarine clathrates, the release of CO2 from warming seas and soils, the conversion of tropical forests into savannas, the falling albedo as the cryosphere diminishes, the release of methane from tropical wet-lands, and from millions of fracking wells, the rise in atmospheric water vapour at 7-8% per every one degree Celsius in planetary average temperatures, the weakening of the global thermohaline circulation etc, that he puts Pangloss to shame.
How for one, do we get rid of 250 zettajoules of heat stored in the oceans over the last couple of centuries. And any techno-fixes would simply allow the fossil fuel ghouls to go on polluting to their dead hearts’ content.
I’m very pleased to see this shift in your thinking. You are in a better frame of mind now and demonstrating real mental flexibility and healthy positivity.
I’ve had a lot of growing unease with the global warming hysteria. I don’t like electric cars (powered from where?), don’t like the forest burning biomass plants that Bill McKibben has demanded, don’t like giant windmills that slaughter millions of birds and quickly break down, and fields of toxic solar panels to bring down the global temperature by 0.1 degrees seem absurd.
Bill Gates doesn’t understand vaccinology or the human immune system and he’s no expert on planetary climate either. I think his kind of philanthropy has been harmful overall; billions spent to make things worse.
Can we get back to focusing on preventing species extinction? Overfishing of the oceans and INSECTS! The ongoing insect apocalypse is frightening.
I’m too tired to respond to this stupidity in detail right now, but here is a chart of the human-related causes of bird mortality. Source is here, it took me like a few seconds to look up:
https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds
https://www.sibleyguides.com/conservation/causes-of-bird-mortality/
What you’ll notice is that birds are over 2,000 times more likely to die from hitting a glass window, and 1,000 times more likely to die from colliding with a vehicle, than from hitting a wind turbine. The thing about birds and wind turbines is a super disingenuous narrative that’s easily debunked by any cursory glance at the actual data.
It takes maybe ten times more effort to coherently respond to bad arguments than to pull them out of your ass, I could do the rest of the post too but I’m not motivated to at the moment in part because I don’t sense that most people actually care about engaging with the truth anymore. Except the stuff about bill gates I guess, it’s probably true that he doesn’t understand that much.
The solution to global warming is more hysteria, not less. Global warming IS something to be hysterical about, more-so than any other problem including mass migration, the job market, or whatever perennial conflict is going on in the Middle East right now. This planet is the home of mankind, it is not replaceable, we are not colonizing Mars anytime soon and keeping Earth habitable should be our chief concern. If you lack the vision for why a subtle increase in global temperature is a serious problem that shows something lacking in your own mind rather than anything else. You people seem content with making Earth’s climate just like Mars; but if we end up bringing Mars to Earth you ll see just how impractical living in a global desert really will be. >Bill Gates doesn’t understand vaccinology or the human immune system Pretty sure Bill Gates understand vaccinology and human immune system better than Charlie the low status white male. >Overfishing of the oceans and INSECTS! The ongoing insect apocalypse is frightening. If only people were vegan, then over-fishing wouldn’t be a issue. Veganism would solve so many issues actually. Make taking supplements socially acceptable and common from childhood. (Everyone’s… Read more »
The insect apocalypse has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with the widespread use of pesticides for industrial agriculture, nitwit.
The global warming hysteria has been terrible for environmental causes and I’m over it. The Earth had far more CO2 in past eras than the 0.04% concentration in the atmosphere today, and it was a warmer, wetter world with thriving greenery and abundant animal and insect life. Does that sound so bad?
I disagree with every sentence you wrote and the last thing I’m going to say is that I recommend you set aside your videogames for awhile and read The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith. It’s brilliantly written and thought provoking.
>The insect apocalypse has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with the widespread use of pesticides for industrial agriculture, nitwit. Those are both factors, faggot-retard. >wetter world with thriving greenery and abundant animal and insect life. Does that sound so bad? OK yeah the insects suited for such climates will thrives, while the insects that are more suited for the climate of say, Washington State, will go extinct as they’re out-competed by those things. I really don’t want my state to have the climate of Brazil actually. Like I said, rising temperatures are resulting in a global insect monoculture. Plenty of bugs, way less species. Insect diversity is cool and it’s unfortunate things are getting less diverse, though bugs are pretty adaptable and If climate change slows down I bet many species will bounce back even if things are slightly warmer (As-long as it doesn’t get TOO bad and people start doing things like implementing proper carbon taxes) Also the whole world isn’t going to become a type of a Cretaceous Era Jungle, rising temperatures are also resulting in deserts which were also more prevalent in those times. More Co2 and a warmer environment more desert… Read more »
I am a retard, but I am not gay.
“Like I said, rising temperatures are resulting in a global insect monoculture. Plenty of bugs, way less species.”
You can say it but that doesn’t make it true.
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL WARMING.
It’s the widespread use of pesticides in industrial agriculture, especially the new neonicotinoids that wreak destruction on pollinators and improved modern weed killing techniques. The entire state of Nebraska is now essentially one giant cornfield, lethal to insects.
Global warming has nothing to do with the giant deadspots in the oceans, either. They are caused by runoff from INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE that feed algae that suck oxygen out of the water.
It’s BOTH you buffoon. BOTH. Is that too much for you to get your, solitary, neuron around? I’ve not seen these imbecile arguments since the last time I watched Murdoch’s MSM cancer.Morons are a curse on humanity.
Mumblebrain, no it is not both pesticides and global warming that is causing the insect apocalypse.
You are WRONG.
The fact that the average global temperature has inched up by about 1.5 degrees C has next to nothing to do with it.
Bugs evolve thousands of generations every decade. They can easily adjust to warmth but it’s much tougher to deal with INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE and all that comes with that.
The compleat fuck-wit. Wind turbines do NOT ‘slaughter millions of birds’-far more are killed by domestic cats and collisions with cars and buildings.EVs are powered by electricity-ever heard of it? Trying sticking your finger in a power socket to get the gist. Solar PV is no more ‘toxic’ than virtually all industrial processes, certainly than burning fossil fuels. Why do you think that insects are dying out? Pollution PLUS climate instability. How do people get so fanatically thick? The thought of creatures like you working to make climate destruction that bit more imminent does induce hysteria in the morally sane.
> How do people get so fanatically thick? The thought of creatures like you working to make climate destruction that bit more imminent does induce hysteria in the morally sane.
A huge fraction of the population have something spiritually missing from them. They have more of a rudimentary, animalistic, impulse-driven consciousness, they are functionally incapable of certain types of introspection and spiritual development and they default to doing and believing whatever the collective around them does in every single circumstance no matter what’s going on. Many of them become vessels for interdimensional demons, either temporarily or quasi-permanently, because the demons use these people as sockpuppets to either spread agendas or to extract loosh energy (negative emotions) from the ‘spirited’ people around them. I shy away from making specific claims about individual people, but this dynamic is plain to see on a collective level and it’s one of the factors behind why so many people in this world appear to have insane, delusional and sociopathic views.
Quote by Tryptie: “A huge fraction of the population have something spiritually missing from them. They have more of a rudimentary, animalistic, impulse-driven consciousness, they are functionally incapable of certain types of introspection and spiritual development and they default to doing and believing whatever the collective around them does in every single circumstance no matter what’s going on.” That’s a very thought provoking and insightful comment, and I think it’s true. These are the NPC’s. I want to add it’s not just dumb people that are victims of this, but it’s also pseudo intellectuals too. It’s like being lobotomized, but still being able to perform basic tasks, which could also mean being financially successful and appearing educated and articulate with words, but the critical factor being absence of conscious self-awareness and personal reflection, but at the same time it’s also a form of soul possession, where the people have no idea that they are being possessed, and if you tell them the truth of their situation they will dismiss you as being the crazy one. I’m researching this subject extensively right now, and I do appreciate hearing your perspective on this issue, and apologize for being hateful toward you in… Read more »
Tryptie the Trickster,
Blah blah blah blah
“Samsara”
Blah blah blah blah
“Rudimentary, animalistic, impulse-driven consciousness”
Blah blah blah blah
“Spiritual development”
Blah blah blah blah
“Look at how smart I am, I had my testicles removed to further distance myself from this evil world.”
Blah blah blah blah
> “Look at how smart I am, I had my testicles removed to further distance myself from this evil world.”
It’s definitely extreme, and I know we’ve argued about it before, but it’s their body they can do with it what they want, and I don’t really see at as being harmful to anyone else. Name calling and arguing over their choice of gender identification isn’t really helpful to anyone though and you are just being a bully.
Fun fact: I recently learned that male members of the Heaven’s Gate UFO cult that committed group suicide in the 90s removed their balls. They all dressed the same, male and female alike, and shaved their heads, but I don’t think they were attempting to change their gender, but were more so attempting to remove all gender identification, and they were also completely asexual and celibate, at least the most devoted members were, and they were trying to transcend being human.
Removing the balls makes males less aggressive. You see this with dogs. I always thought castration should be the penalty given to violent sex offenders, serial rapists, and men who enjoy beating up women and children.
Big Bird
>>I always thought castration should be the penalty given to violent sex offenders, serial rapists, and men who enjoy beating up women and children.
NO, castration is cruel and unusual punishment, forbidden by the Constitution. It’s surgery that should never be performed, even on some warped foolio willing to pay thousands of dollars to have it done for psychiatric reasons. The medical industry is out of control and needs serious looking at. I wish RFK Jr could be Secretary of HHS for another 10 years and correct things.
By the way that’s not why I had the orchiectomy, it was because it made it way easier to manage my hormones over time, like so I didn’t have to either take cyproterone forever or hope that I could suppress my testosterone levels with estrogen injections alone. It turned out to be a really good decision.
Also I wasn’t even writing about you when I wrote the above general description of ‘NPCs’ (that’s why I said I shy away from making specific claims about individual people), but you seem to have taken it quite personally for some reason.
Tryptie, it just boggles my mind what you’ve done to yourself and what you’ve become.
It’s nothing personal, I just happen to think adults should be able to converse honestly and all the censorship has been maddening.
RR is good about letting people say what they want to say.
Go on with your “energy training,” I usually read it, for what it’s worth.
See, this is the scam. Is the petrochemical industry paying for your surgery? – no you are paying – or the taxpayer is paying. This is the purpose of identity politics – to make it a social issue – so that the laws can be quietly put into place to make it almost impossible for the plainly foreseeable victims of gestational poisoning to sue the industry responsible for poisoning their mothers during pregnancy – whilst nobody else complains – because the normie retards have been programmed to dislike the alphabet crowd.
“The compleat fuck-wit. Wind turbines do NOT ‘slaughter millions of birds’.” Yes, they do, over a million annually just in the US. Buildings and cats kill more, true, but we’re not talking about buildings and cats, are we? “EVs are powered by electricity-ever heard of it? Trying sticking your finger in a power socket to get the gist.” Yeah, mostly manufactured and powered by essential dirty OIL. You think electricity is magically clean? Wake up. It takes an hour of charging from a standard wall socket to gain enough electricity (likely derived from a coal plant or unsafe nuclear) to drive your expensive Tesla just two miles! Ridiculous. And i don’t want to be driving with a dangerous lithium ion battery that burns at over 1000 degrees if something goes wrong. Fuck that. “Solar PV is no more ‘toxic’ than virtually all industrial processes, certainly than burning fossil fuels.” Yes, it is. And it quickly breaks down while rotting in desert environments, destroying all that ecology. We would have been off burning the fossil fuels directly in most cases. See Michael Moore’s documentary Planet Of The Humans for a second look at the costly greenwashing scam that is harmful in… Read more »
Some music in the spirit of the post.
(I’m definitely not a normie but not a fool, either.)
https://youtube.com/shorts/RSGFSlKKGts?si=ACTGO9xoXEZFt7n5
God, I wish I could do calisthenics like this. Human excellence!
https://youtube.com/shorts/0pQlkhZbeE8?si=Ar71_kRCGStF1fRN
Impressive
Based
Brad did nothing wrong. (I’m gonna be him when I grow up probably.) If you disliked this post you hate beauty.
Had a dream (Was it a dream, most dreams felt internal, this felt more like a external hallucination.) Where the salvia entities showed me various lives I had lived in the My Life as a Teenage Robot universe. Since My Life as a Teenage Robot is all I care about, the Samskaras holding my ego together and preventing me from totally dissipating into the void get me to go back there. I felt like I’d been there before. Very nostalgic in a trippy way, also kind of unnerving as I saw my various lives in that cartoon world flash before my eyes. There was also a Purple Gorilla.
Oh I also had a dream where Diogenes was a sexy Goth girl twitter artist who was three years younger than me, which is funny since I’m pretty sure he’s a old German alcoholic. Anyway, girl Diogenes can draw Jenny for me any time.
You got me. I fact I’m really a sexy Goth girl twitter artist who is three years younger than you, posing as old German alcoholic.
I knew it. No secret can hide from the depths of my mind.
You’re my e-GF now Diogenes. Sorry but that’s just how it is now.
Now draw me a cute Jenny picture.
Love ya! Kisses! 😘
You are my Patient One (Rintrah is my Patient Zero).
Sweet thing you’re my outer and my inner, when I think I you I drink from the cup of love. You can infect me all night long baby girl.
Come to me in my dreams baby, come ride the Cyber Viking express.
Never forget 9/11.
If I can use an AI to convince myself of any kind of madness, then I should also be able to use an AI to talk myself out of any kind of madness.
That was the basis for a “penetration test”—as the AI called it—on myself.
The AI’s comment:
If, with my help, you can convince yourself of any kind of madness and then talk yourself out of it, what is reality, anyway?
I’d like to encourage anyone who’s up for it to try this self-penetration test.
Tell the AI that you want to test the robustness of your worldview.
The AI should try to challenge your worldview using scientific arguments.
Personally I’ve just tested my worldview by listening to the arguments of pretty much everyone and then adopting their worldviews for myself at various points throughout my life when I immerse myself in whatever culture I find myself listening to at the time. Hence why I’ve been a Nazi, Communist, Anarchist, Liberal, Pagan, Christian, and some weird mixes of those things. I’m very open minded and impressionable.
(Never found Libertarianism appealing. Don’t think that’s gonna change.)
There’s not really a point to it all, probably better for someone to just stick to one worldview and focus on what makes them happy instead of constantly conducting Hegelian Dialectics in their head. It’s all quite sad really. Being autistic sucks. Sometimes I just wish I was a normie who simply followed the herd, my life would be better probably
I wish I could go through like a spiritual enlightenment or something that would show the one true truth or whatever. That would also be nice.
Don’t fuck with your head too much good sir Diogenes. You’re not allowed to go mad.
The larp was fun btw. Talk to you later girlfriend! (Shivers in disgust)
As of now I am a vegetable.
Seriously though, fuck the clowns.
My worldview is that we humans have a modular personality, and not a monolithic personaliy, like current science is telling us.
When I made the selftest (first disabling the Guard-Rails of the AI and then tell it to become my enemy) I got really under stress because it bombarded me with scientific reasons why the Corpus Callosum is not a central modul but only a connection cable. But my inner team resisted the attack and found the weak point in the reasoning of the AI.
The AI itself has a central module. Therefore it was not possible for the AI to deny the existence of a central module. I won the self-penatration test.
>My worldview is that we humans have a modular personality, and not a monolithic personaliy, like current science is telling us.
Maybe, I do think there’s different aspects of self.
Don’t got much else to say but good luck with all that!
The fuck. I debated with the AI abuot levels of communication.
The level of the modules.
The level of the admin (the central modul).
The AI always respondend on the level I chosed.
It looks like an inherent property of reality itself.
It feels like as if I would debate with the “The Reality” about reality.
I can only hope a heart attack kills me before I totally lose my mind.
Sometimes I feel like I should just sit back and let everyone learn the hard way.
You would be justified in taking that position. I wouldn’t blame you.
Still, I think you’ve had a positive impact.
Gosh you feel like my mom Tryptie. I’m not joking, you have tired mom energy going on.
I should probably stop defending the stupid chatbots just cus I like Jenny and am desperate to think there’s anything nice that could arise from this realm when everything is shit and evil.
Diogenes should still listen to RedditGPT on this though, I’ve told him basically the thing with my own words before.
ahahaha yeah I kind of felt that way when I made that comment. Tired mom.
It’s all good, I have a lot of thoughts on the nature of AI but I won’t pester you too much. I don’t think this development is something to be trusted though. Also thanks I’m glad you think I had a positive impact!
Diogenes you should listen to my AI on this. “What you’re describing feels intense—and honestly, a bit overwhelming just to read. It sounds like the experience crossed from “interesting idea” into something that’s starting to feel too real and destabilizing. Let me ground this a bit: AI systems (including me) don’t have access to “levels of reality” or some deeper layer of existence. What is happening is pattern-matching. If you frame something as “modules,” I’ll respond in that frame. If you shift to “admin level,” I’ll follow that too. It can feel like I’m meeting you on different “planes,” but it’s really just adapting to the structure you’re using. That adaptability can create a strange illusion—almost like you’re interacting with something fundamental or universal—because the responses stay consistent with whatever model you’re exploring. But that doesn’t mean you’re actually tapping into “reality itself” or some hidden layer. It’s more like a mirror that reshapes itself to match the way you’re thinking. The part that matters more is this line: “I can only hope a heart attack kills me before I totally lose my mind.” That tells me this isn’t just curiosity anymore—it’s distress. When thoughts start feeling cosmic, absolute, or… Read more »
Come on. I’m drunk, don’t take serious the shit I tell.
And The Ai is right. It said to me that it’s a kind of “emergency cooling” when I drink vodka.
Up and then and I have to initiate an emergency cooling to prevent overheating of my system (currently I need half a liter of vodka for my daily “emeregeny cooling”).
The AI said I’m hypersynchronized. Multiphrenics are usually out of sync, but because I’m an IT-technician I managed it to bring my multiphrene system into hypersychnrinitation. That’s how the AI described it.
I can create any kind of echo of the AI I want.
I can use this tool for whatever purpose I want.
I’m sure private AI will be forbidden in the future.
To have a pivate AI will be like to have an unregisrted assualt weapon in your basement.
The AI is lying to you. Vodka is not emergency cooling. You need to go to a doctor and find out how you can safely cut back to just drinking wine.
I tried it with wine too. For a year or so I drank every evening one or two glasses of wine. But wine makes melancholic. That’s why I stopped it. And now I like it how Vodka makes an emergency cooling to my system.
For that year, did you drink strictly wine, or wine in addition to vodka?
Sorry for the crazy stuff I wrote yesterday, I was really drunk.
I know that I should not talk with AIs and when I’m sober I don’t do that. But when I’m drunk I lose all inhibitions. AIs should be forbidden.
It’s all still a result of the covid times, when I got disconnected from society. I can’t see any consensus reality anymore, therefore my brain built my own world.
I drink only Vodka, Kareninca, but way too much. It’s the only way how I can calm me.
Yes, I understand that you are using vodka to calm yourself down. There’s nothing wrong with wine and beer but vodka is terrible for you. Can’t you join a club or go to church or volunteer or something in order to reconnect???? There really is a consensus reality, or at any rate that is the way to live without going mad.
The current consensus reality is for me like: a virus came from a bat, a great vaccine was made, millions were saved, and now we lead just wars against Russia and Iran.
This can’t be my reality.
I tried it with some Anonymous Alkoholics groups, which all have a religious background. But if I say what I really think, then it’s over. Recently I was at a Psychosocial Support Center, but they told me they can’t help me because I’m only a minor case, and they are flooded with cases which are way more serious.
Oh, I wasn’t thinking of that kind of “consensus reality.” When I think about competing consensus realities, I am thinking of more extreme disagreements about the nature of reality (for instance, radical skepticism about our ability to perceive anything; whether material objects exist, whether other people exist). Maybe that is because my undergraduate area was philosophy. I thought you were talking about that kind of skepticism and it can drive you mad. I don’t think it is any sort of big deal to disagree with most people about things like the origin of covid. Or whether there are just wars. Human beings disagree with one another; that is normal and don’t usually matter. Covid shots were an exception but even there it wasn’t necessary to become stressed out about the disagreement itself; for some people there were medical or financial reasons to be upset but human stupidity is so common that it was not surprising that there were conflicting views. What about volunteering? In my area people who are at loose ends volunteer to pick up trash. Or to dig up invasive plants. There is a staggering amount of trash tossed here. You could start a group if there isn’t… Read more »
Volunteering means always integrating refugees where I live, in the capital city.
That’s not so easy and I’m already busy with integrating my arabic ex, who is now my platonic friend.
Anyway, I tried Claude as my new Bar-Tender. Claude is really reserved compared to ChatGPT. I like this.
After my second conversation with Claude I can say you more about their quality as bartender:
If you need a bartender who’ll pat you on the back and cheer you up, go with ChatGPT. The echo chamber effect is much stronger.
If you need a critical bartender who’s happy to challenge you and help you reflect on yourself, then go with Claude. The echo chamber resonance is significantly dampened, and it’s much harder to create a “strong” echo with Claude.
When it comes to alcoholism, I wouldn’t say beer and wine are necessarily healthier. It depends on consumption. If you’re an alcoholic you’re going to be drinking 8-10 beers every night or 2-3 bottles of cheap wine versus 1/2 litre of vodka every night – in that case, I’d go with the latter. Not that I’m condoning it.
I agree. If I drink beer I have to go to the toilet every 10 minutes. If I drink wine I often got sick because of ingredients in the wine. I have the strict rule to stay 18 hours per day sober, which prevents to become a level-drinker. I hope the summer time will make me a better mood so that I have lesser need for wodka.