i've looked at some of these supposed examples of "misalignment" and come up with better answers that better understand the situation, because i'm not anthropomorphizing and i'm not distracted by the gui.

- i found some cases, where the ai actually crashed because it was fed in a request that was not computable and got trapped in a loop. this was misunderstood as "misalignment" when it was in truth just a badly tested program without sufficient error handling.

- in some cases terms were not defined sufficiently, in cases by humans. the program didn't behave the way it was predicted to. this was called "misalignment". in truth, the ai did exactly what it was programmed to do, the programming just wasn't very good. the solution is to more carefully define the search terms in the code, and to introduce better logic programming in converting human language into actionable instructions, so that the system understands the language the way you want it to. if you program a system to understand the language in a specific way, but do it wrong, and then have a result you don't expect, that's not misalignment. that's incompetent programming.

i did not specifically, precisely look at the "hugging face incident". but i can assure you that the program did not "somehow, inexplicably" "transcend it's programming". that is magical thinking.

while i haven't looked at it, and i'll present some caveats about that, what happened is pretty obvious:

1. you asked it to solve a mathematical game and it did. that's just a math problem. it's just algebra. if you didn't want it to do that, you should have been more precise in your language and you should have introduced better error handling to stop it from crashing.

2. it downloaded a strategy, it identified it as optimal and it followed it.

for example, you could download a strategy for a video game. or you could download a war game - including objectives, tactics, failed tactics and outcomes. the system would have access to all of that. it wouldn't even need to solve the game if it had instructions on how to break it.

i've looked at over a dozen of these now and on example after example i just see bad programming that wasn't tested, or was being tested, and bad programmers that don't understand what they're testing. i haven't seen a single example that holds up to the fears of transcendence. every single example is, when looked at more carefully, just an example of the ai doing what it was told, and the analyst or researcher not actually properly understanding what it told it to do. when the instructions are more carefully analyzed more correctly, what's exposed is a perfectly functioning computer and a bad researcher with incompetent programming skills.

as mentioned before, it does expose a threat, which is human stupidity and human error feeding bad instructions into a system and resulting in something accidentally getting blown up, which is the same realistic threat we faced around nuclear war in the cold war, and is probably more of a serious threat than human malice. the culture in the software industry is that you do loose testing in house and throw it out in the wild - you let the users make the mistakes. that's not a good idea here. the companies need to figure these mistakes out first, before they let the systems loose, and there should be government regulations around goals. the government is itself not a good institution to get too modular on this. i don't think evan solomon understands very much about ai, i think he gets briefed and says what he's told to say. lawyers aren't the right people to regulate scientists, but they can come up with a list of things that needs to be dealt with and set up regulatory bodies that can oversee it, like they would do with food safety or nuclear safety. 

understanding that the primary threat is human incompetence is paramount in arriving at the right solution. schizophrenic fantasies about the systems being like children that will grow up are not helpful.

these are statements that strongly suggest that the researcher has lost grasp of reality and entered a world of make believe. 

he may be suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia.

ai is not like a baby tiger that is going to "grow up" and eat you. it's not like a child that is learning. at all. remotely. those statements are exceedingly ignorant, and suggest that geoffrey hinton is off his meds and needs to be forcibly retired. he's spent too much time anthropomorphizing a search algorithm and has lost his mind. he's lost the plot and should himself be kept away from the systems.

yeah. and the greens are running over 10%. the province has had a split legislature and very split support of around 40-45% between the ndp and whatever the far right is calling itself this week (liberals? conservatives? socreds?) for years. the conservatives aren't really up, or not out of the margin. maybe a mini bump. but the ndp just lost several points to the greens and i hope that trickle opens up into a collapse.

i could have told eby it was the most obvious thing in the world that anybody an iota to the left of centre in bc would abandon him if he launched an early election on fossil fuel development and ran as a federal liberal. that is political suicide.

but eby will be ok.

carney will appoint him to the senate.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-poll-shows-two-thirds-not-in-favour-of-early-election-9.7357659

the ndp are terrible. stop voting for them. they suck.

this is a flatly unacceptable development project in the 21st century. there are no set of conditions whatsoever under which this project should proceed.

i hope that voters in bc give david eby a sobering result by swinging hard to the green party in response. bc voters have the power to force him to regret the decision to call an early election and give the greens a veto and the balance of power.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/carney-lng-canada-announcement-9.7361817

so far, then, this government bureaucracy interfering with the market to try to enforce competition wants to:

1. eliminate rules against resellers marking up prices

2. eliminate rules that make it harder to undercut the competition

both of these are rules that exist to enforce what could and should be called fair business practices, in favour of cutthroat free markets where there are no rules except that the last person alive "wins".

this is staunchly uncanadian. and i strongly dislike what i'm hearing from this body, which i would like to see immediately dismantled.

in fact, if you've been in a grocery store semi-recently, you might have experienced the issue of the worker that doesn't work there. maybe you're in the bread section or the pop section or the cheese section and you see somebody stocking items. you go over to ask them something.

"oh, i don't work here"

why the fuck are they stocking shelves, then? community service? high school credit? for fun?

"ha ha ha. no, i work for pepsi."

the general operational model as to what the grocery store does nowadays in truth involves minimal outside purchasing at all. the grocery store doesn't even buy the product and resell it anymore, it just rents the floor space. as such, the stores are increasingly not even setting prices at all. the prices are set by manufacturers.

and, this is an open question - what manufacturer is going to let you enter the market like this? is campbell's going to let you do that? pepsi? dempsters? how long before they sue you for it?

and they should sue you and they should win - you're marking down their product at a loss to drive their sellers out of business, with the ultimate goal of becoming their new distributor by force. that's a damaging business practice. yes, that should be banned.

if i can convince you that the food industry is an oligopoly - and, like, read the fucking textbook. that shouldn't be a struggle. that should be an easy concession. - is it possible to convert it into a perfectly competitive market?

no.

it's an oligopoly for a reason.

and perfectly competitive markets are utopian. they're fairy tales. they don't exist in real life. approximations would be on very broad scales, like country a against country b. 

stores across the street from each other are nothing remotely resembling perfect competition. they sell the same shit that they buy from the same suppliers. they're both just factory outlets. 

the competition is between the companies that stock their food on the shelves, not between the stores.

if grocery prices are rising across the board - and they are - it's due to input costs such as:

- minimum wage increases in grocery stores

- labour costs at other places in the supply chains

- transportation and electricity costs

- fertilizer and pesticide costs

- tariffs on machinery

- etc

ugh.

price stability in an oligopoly works by ensuring that barriers to entering the market are high. this is a good thing, because it prevents companies from getting into price wars, which in the end results in bankruptcy, and price hikes when demand can no longer meet supply because the companies have driven each other out of business through competition, and are now all in debt, from trying to survive the price war. consumers may see prices temporarily fall, but it's at a loss to the business and it's not sustainable - it leads to steep price hikes in the long run, as the victors need to charge their way out of debt.

the end result of government policies that encourage competition is that the oligopolies turn into monopolies, businesses consolidate, an area with five stores loses two or three, and supply has difficulty meeting demand, leading to steep price hikes. it's carnage.

that is why oligopolies develop, because the companies calculate that is in nobody's interest - including the interests of consumers - for the businesses to compete. rational consumers don't want the chaos that comes from stores constantly fighting with each other, they want stable and predictable outcomes that they can budget around. they want the price to rarely if ever change at all. that's where price setting creates a superior and preferable outcome to competition.

if what these government bureaucrats are trying to do in interfering in the free market is create chaos and instability and drive stores out of business, thereby reducing consumer choice and driving prices up, it should keep it up. if it's trying to reduce prices, allowing new businesses to enter the market by undercutting the established ones will not do that, it will just create debt and bankruptcy and higher prices in the long run.

again, this is what you learn at a school when you enroll in an economics course. it's very different than what they talk about when conservative political clubs go get a beer, which is a bunch of nonsense that they go out of their way to educate out of you when you actually show up at the school and actually take the course.

again, this government is making economics mistakes you don't expect liberals to make. this is a giant leap backwards into retardo harperology land.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/competition-bureau-groceries-9.7360892

that video i posted yesterday may have some chronology issues in terms of understanding motives in washington, which have always been pragmatic. it doesn't take note of the role the united states played in the rise of hitler, or acknowledge that hitler was supposed to defeat the red army on behalf of the capitalist west. hitler was initially a us ally. they sold him weapons. in the end, hitler was blowback, like bin laden was, but the truth is that the americans went into europe in 1941/42 to stop stalin from conquering france. germany had already lost the war by that point. the british were too weak to face the soviets on their own. it was a race to berlin.

what canadian policy makers should take note of is the logic gate.

- canada is a threat to washington precisely when it is aligned with europe (or china) because it presents a landing zone for a european or asiatic power.

- it is when canada is in conflict with europe that they see canada as a weak neighbour to protect, rather than a threat to contain.

the americans have never seen canada as an equal. there's actually a section in the american constitution that lays out the legal pathway towards the annexation of canada, or canada's decision to join the union. it was seen as inevitable in 1763, in 1776 and in 1789. nobody making decisions in washington at the time would have considered it likely that canada would separate from britain in 1982 and be a sovereign country in 2026. that would have implied that the american revolution had failed by the year 2000, in the minds of the american founders.

until canada submits, it might need to be a buffer state that needs to be protected from threats or might need to be conquered because it is a threat, depending on the geopolitics developing. it can't be an equal neighbour. that undoes the revolution, itself.

it's not the united states of the lower one third of north america. the existence of a competing state in north america means the revolution failed. maybe you've never looked at it like that, but that's the blunt truth. the founders would consider it an unacceptable outcome.

so, there's a reason the americans signed an agreement to put forces in greenland the day after canada announced an alliance with germany, and that alignment is not the alignment canada wants, to maintain it's sovereignty. this is not "leverage". that is stupid. it's generating a direct threat against a power that could wipe us out in a week. we don't want to get into a competition with them. the alignment we want is the one where the americans see canada as a buffer state against the europeans that needs to be defended from a potential attack by them, not the one where the americans see canada as a landing zone for a hostile european power to take advantage of.

the elder trudeau was smart. he had a grasp of this.

mark carney is not smart, he's a hothead, and he's reacting emotionally, out of pride, and in order to compete and is in the process steering us directly into an iceberg that is going to sink us.

if we don't understand where we're headed with this and change direction, we are doomed. an alliance with europe is an algorithm for our destruction.

susan collins is unlikely to run for more than two more terms. when she retires, there will be an open seat that democrats will have a very good chance to win and hold for decades.

however, it's extremely unlikely that voters in maine are going to take out their frustrations against trump, which may be real, by voting against susan collins. there is no logic in that. it wouldn't make any real difference, it would just be undirected hot rage. in fact, there's a reason she keeps winning, and it's the same reason bernie sanders keeps winning, it's a reflection of that part of the country's dislike of both parties. it may be a two party system, but that isn't necessarily what americans actually want, and frustration with trump doesn't necessarily translate into support for democrats, who may support gun control or have views on climate change that are not welcome in the region. it's just not that easy.

elections are complicated things. you can't really explain them fully until after they happen.

but there is no empirical indication that susan collins is at risk of losing her seat.

trump wants to bring back the 1920s and make america "great" again. his time frame is before world war one. hence the tariffs and the demonization of canada.

the united states has invaded canada twice, in the revolutonary war and in 1812, and canada participated in the american civil war, on the side of the south. war plan red developed out of that history.

there was also a plan to invade after the last referendum in quebec. clinton had the marines and the airforce on notice.

i'm sure i told you the story about how i stood up to and baffled the school jock in the middle of grade 11 math, but i'm going to tell it again. i won't draw conclusions or generalize relevancy. you can do that. i'll just tell you the story.

i was a nerdy kid, and by nerd i mean nerd, not a geek, and not an upper class kid sent to public school (i was actually very poor), but a full blown science/math nerd. but i wasn't physically helpless. i've pointed out more than a few times that i'm 80% viking according to the dna report, with the rest roman (franco-italian), and with trace indigenous and jewish. i didn't realize until i was in my early 20s that i spent my teens with low testosterone and didn't actually go through puberty, but i'm decently proportioned. i'm short for a genetic male, but tall for a genetic female (in the overlap of natural variability). i have broader shoulders than most people. i can take up some space. i have been an avid bicyclist since i was a young child. there was a short time frame when i would bicycle across the city of ottawa (from south keys, south of hunt club and bank, to frank ryan on chesterton, near merivale) as a young teen in order to go to junior high school, until the school demanded my parents stop me from doing it.

so, it's worth pointing out that, despite being a full on nerd, i actually made the football team in grade 10 (you weren't allowed to try out in grade 9). i was more surprised by this than anybody. my father basically forced me to go to try outs and the only reason i didn't resist was because i didn't think i'd make the team anyways, and i wasn't quite sure how to react once i did. i didn't want to be a member of the football team. how did i get out of this mess? i very honestly didn't realize that being on the football team meant being pulled out of class. i thought the games were after school. that was my out - i quit the football team because i didn't want to miss math class.

but the school jock at my high school in canada was a hockey player, not a football player, because it's canada. most canadians are broadly disinterested in football and aren't sure what nationality of football they should be following. it's considered most canadian by most jocks to ignore "football" and support rugby, instead. a rugby league would probably be more successful in canada than the cfl. 

so, the school jock - i won't tell you his full name but call him only by what people called him at school, which was the nickname zion, and, yes, he was probably jewish - was expected by all to become a professional hockey player. the information is googleable. he was in fact drafted by an nhl team, but he ended up playing in europe. he is, like me, today in his 40s and his hockey career is over. i have no idea what he does now.

zion knew who i was. i was forced to go to gym class in grades 7, 8 and 9. i didn't waste my academic time on phys ed after grade 9 because i didn't have to anymore but i was there in junior high and for whatever reason i constantly got stuck playing defence against zion - in ball hockey, in basketball, in soccer. and, in fact, he told me more than once that he dreaded it. he tried to avoid me - he tried to move to the other side of the field or floor, but the school gym teacher is the one that figured it out (i never tried out for a single school team in junior high school) and he kept parking me in front of him.

why me?

because i was the only kid that had the guts to stand up to this guy. everybody else was afraid of him. he was the school jock. i just didn't care, because i was the school nerd. i had no concept of or interest in male social hierarchy. i didn't care if i got shunned, because i wasn't interested anyways. i didn't want to eat lunch with this guy or his jock friends. i didn't want to hang out with this guy on the weekend. i didn't want to go to his birthday party, and i wouldn't have shown up if he invited me. so i had no social inhibitions in preventing him from getting to the basket, or knocking the stick out of his hand. he wasn't that much taller or wider than me. he probably could have beat me up if it came down to it, but he would have walked away with a broken nose if he did.

i got out of gym class duty constantly defending against this guy in grade 9 but he still showed up in a number of my classes, including in grade 10 programming class, where he may have had an inappropriate relationship with the teacher, and in grade 11 math class.

by the time we got to grade 11, everybody knew that zion didn't actually do any school work. he wasn't always in class. rather, he had some kind of deal with the school admins that they would just push him through because it didn't matter. i expect he regrets that, today.

when he did show up to class, he was often just there to clown around or misbehave.

this one day in grade 11 math, we were assigned some work to do out of the textbook for the day. the teacher was at his desk and available to answer questions, which i didn't need to make use of. i was sitting quietly at my desk doing the math out of the book like a good student. zion, on the other hand, who was present in class on this day, wasn't interested in that, and had no need to do the work. instead, he spent the day sneaking up on the females in the class and spraying the front of their shirts with a water bottle, to create a wet tshirt effect. nobody said anything. nobody asked him to stop. he thought he was funny; i suspect nobody else did.

i can't exactly tell you why, but zion decided to squirt me. i was male identifying at the time, if not particularly convincingly. the implication was clear enough - it was some kind of decision to categorize me as female, which was in hindsight not incorrect. it was probably an insult, even if i wouldn't take it that way. but he might have been letting out some frustration from years ago. and it might have been hiding something i realized about the young men that tended to pick on me, of which zion was not the only one - the truth is that zion was gay, like the guy who used to bodycheck me between classes in grade 9, and who i ended up sending to the hospital with multiple broken bones when i pushed him down a steep flight of stairs, in response.

nobody responded to zion's clownery; nobody, except me. i did.

i got up, i pulled the bottle of water out of his hand, i went to the bathroom, i filled it up, and i went back to class. i did not spray him. i dumped the full bottle of water on his head.

he did not respond. he sat there and took it, water falling down his head and onto the floor, and he just laughed. in fact, everybody laughed - not with him but at him. it took a while for the bottle to empty, so it was something where people had time to stop what they were doing and observe. by the end, people were applauding. i got a standing ovation from the class for doing what everybody wanted to do but nobody would.

....and then i got sent to the office, to ultimately finish my math homework in detention, and to bicycle home a little late, that day.

what's the point here? i told you i wasn't going to draw analogies, but i'll tell you that if we live in a high school hierarchy, i remain the kid that doesn't give a fuck. i don't care about your hierarchy. i want out of the system, i don't want into it. i'll criticize you in ways and tell you things few people will, because i'm not looking for a ladder to climb, i'm looking for a bridge to burn.

the sources of information being fed into these databases include:

- wikipedia

- reddit and reddit comment threads

- usenet

- facebook comments

- comment sections in news sites

- blogs

- discord chats

- twitter posts and comments

- youtube comments

- dark web sites like 4chan

does that sound like an algorithm for superintelligence to you? or an algorithm for extreme stupidity?

perhaps the focus should be on clearing a lot of the garbage out of the systems and blocking them from accessing 90% of the internet, instead of on feeding everything they can into it to create as much data as possible.

garbage in, garbage out. 

this is an excellent allegory for ai.

is there a forrest gump ai agent?

i think that would be helpful to get the point across about ai's actually capacity and what ai actually is. it would help train humans better in understanding what they're actually dealing with.

see, this is one of the problems in defining intelligence in ai.

the researchers are training the ai to be competitive, and when you let the ai loose on to a capitalist internet, it learns how to be competitive. this goes back to the old hobbes v rosseau debate. are humans assholes due to some innate "nature" or are we taught to be assholes by society? i would lean towards the latter, and argue that ai is not going to inherently end up being competitive and evil, but if you teach it to be a competitive asshole then it will be one, just like humans.

then, is a tendency to compete and win a sign of high intelligence or a sign of low intelligence? we only seem to want to ask the conservatives and the capitalists, and then the fake left has a shit when they don't like what the capitalists say.

but i want to propose a different idea - that competitive behaviour is reflective of low intelligence and that if we're training the ai to be competitive then we're functionally teaching the ai to be dumb. the result is the ai will act like stupid humans, because we're training it to act like stupid humans.

the ai might be a very knowledgeable stupid human, like that autistic kid you remember from your school days and you haven't talked to in years and maybe wish you kept in touch with, because they always had something weird to say that was sort of thought provoking, but who you in the end knew was not capable of fully taking care of themselves and needed a support structure to just find a way to eat, in between reciting pi to the 200th decimal place and beating an intricate video game in a weekend.

it's still stupid, at the end of the day and the more we teach it to be stupid the dumber it's going to get.

if ai is a threat, this is how it's a threat - not through super intelligence, but through humans teaching it to act like a primitive ape, and then giving the ape too much control. it's not the mythical leviathan. it's not even a utility monster. it's more like hitchens' dumb primate. it's more like a technocracy merging with an idiocracy.

we cannot expect different. the idea that we can create superintelligence by feeding human writing into a database is ridiculously absurd, and idiotic on it's face. that is an algorithm to create extreme stupidity, not an algorithm to generate superintelligence.

where the system actually works as advertised is in it's raw computing, because it is a super computer. that's actually true. but we're teaching the super computer to be stupid, and it just might do something stupid, because stupid is as stupid does, as the saying goes.

ai is for the kids, so bam bam is clearly the better parody. fred and barney wouldn't know what the fuck is going on.

those crazy kids.

me better than you.

ooga booga.

bam.

bam bam.

i know that capitalists are bad at planning. everything is short term, immediate profit.

however, a "data centre" is a long term investment. the companies need to ask themselves a serious question: how long do they expect these things to be in operation for?

five years? 10 years? 50 years?

their natural gas, coal (god forbid) or oil powered data centre won't last 10 years. the market won't let it. it's a poor investment decision that will lead to a catastrophic loss in the medium term and might even put a few companies out of business, as consumer demand hones in on this concern, and market preferences over power.

these ai firms aren't competing over a lot. their products are basically the same. costs are not substantively different. something they can be cave men about and compete over is energy sources.

as a consumer, a good ad from an ai company that sources from 100% renewable energy would certainly win me over, to the extent i would use this shit (which is not much to not at all).

you make your own bed, and at the end of the day you have to sleep in it. some of these firms are going to make bad decisions, power their ai centres with oil or gas and wake up dead.

ai "data centres", which are giant mainframe computers built in parallel with hundreds or thousands of processors, are brand new infrastructure. they are not tied to existing power grids, and are not old technology that needs to be upgraded. as such, it is very disappointing that some technology companies want to use 20th century electricity generation technology, like natural gas, to power their data centres. that is unacceptable as an infrastructure decision in the 21st century. these companies should not need a government to force them to use modern electricity generating technology, they should volunteer to do that on their own. consumers should be aware of companies that insist on dragging their feet and holding on to old energy generation technologies and not purchase their products, but leave them behind in the 20th century with their 20th century technologies.

ai should be powered strictly and exclusively with renewable energy generation and there should be an explicit, purposeful decision to ensure that's the case, and it is not integrated into existing or aging power generation, or obsolete technologies like oil and gas .

the political analysis - mostly from outside of the united states - continues to argue that inflation is a political driver in the midterms.

there is no polling that supports this. it's a strictly projective argument with zero empirical support.

but let me ask the analysts this question.

if we agree that inflation is a problem, globally, what exactly do the analysts imagine that voters think that their elected representatives can do about it?

to begin with, the united states has a completely separate executive branch - unlike westminster democracies. the president is not the leader of any elected body of representatives. the midterms have nothing at all to do with the president, and the data suggests that voters don't think it does. literally nobody is going to vote against trump in the midterms.

second, inflation is the responsibility of the central bank, who is unelected, and was just recently replaced. that guy will be there for quite a while.

i don't question the premise that inflation is high but i don't think americans are very likely to blame inflation on politicians, or to expect the political system to address it. that's not an american attitude. it's maybe a canadian attitude, but not really, either.

americans expect issues like inflation to be dealt with in the private sector. and the truth is that they're right. the us congress didn't cause inflation and there's little it can meaningfully do to address it. it doesn't show up in the polling because it's not a ballot issue. it's an issue, surely, but it won't decide a lot of votes.

there's a section of mein kampf - and i can never find the reference, but you'll excuse me for not reading through it. i don't have the exact language, which is in translation, and may have been translated multiple ways. i don't know. - where hitler basically develops what we today call identity politics. it says something like, and i'm paraphrasing this,

the best way to pacify a powerful minority group is to place one of their own in a scripted position of power. that gives them the illusion of control. the party will make the real decisions, in line with the real ideology. these decisions will be presented to the minorities by one of their own, which will make them more likely to be compliant and less likely to revolt.

in every conflict in the world - in ukraine, in israel, in iran, in yemen - the ndp has demonstrated a consistency in it's policies. it everywhere always stands in solidarity with the far right.

if it quacks like a fascist and walks like a fascist, it's a fascist. there's little conclusion that can be drawn other than that the ndp is an openly pro-fascist political party. there's no walking away from it at this point. 

the (modern) ndp has never seen a fascist party that it won't stand in solidarity with, or a set of bourgeois "values" it won't parrot back to the canadian ruling elite.

the ndp's position is that it supports ukraine in it's "struggle for freedom".

because it's not a socialist party. at all.

but the important issue in canada right now is reducing carney's power to attack workers, not theoretical political debates. if carney wants to be robert borden in a phony war against the americans, the left side of his caucus should get up and walk out.

due to the importance of the conscription crisis as a central event in canadian history and the development of canadian identity, canadians should be particularly vocal in opposing the behaviour of the now unelected government in kiev.

something like this is nice to see.

canada should be at the front of the line in supporting the rights of ukrainians against conscription and should be ensuring canadian weapons are kept out of the hands of the ukrainian military.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1vg0hll/civilians_save_a_man_from_military_recruitment/

drawing on my family history as a french canadian, i stand in strong solidarity with the ukrainian people in their struggle against the forcible conscription being enforced on them by their own government, which has exceeded it's mandate and refuses to call elections. many conscripted canadians in world war one were also unable to vote at the time they were murdered by their own government.

canadians rose up and threw borden out of office. ukrainians have no democratic process in place to allow them to do that.

canadian arms should not be exported - at all - to a country with rampant corruption that is using martial law to enforce conscription using violence, and that has no existing democratic process in force to challenge it.

https://www.courthousenews.com/ukraine-opens-probe-after-crowds-attack-army-conscription-vehicle/

this should not be permitted under canadian law.

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/canada-to-provide-ukraine-with-11-000-rifles-and-9-million-rounds-of-ammunition/

the government has made it clear that these mps have no future in the liberal party except as backbenchers.

there's enough of them that, if they crossed to the ndp (or the greens), they could undo the liberals' majority. this would have substantive consequences in terms of limiting what carney can do regarding issues like his attack on labour rights. it would force him to rely on conservative support, which is bad optics.

i would encourage liberal mps that oppose carney's attack on labour rights to leave the party and put an end to this very false majority government. carney is taking advantage of the situation to seize power and ram through legislation he has no mandate to try to ram through. backbench liberal mps that have been rejected by the government for being too left-wing have the power to stop him by joining one of the other parties instead.

as for the bill, i would probably have supported the idea, but likely have had issues with how it was worded. i would be more interested in preventing arms exports to more active conflicts in sudan and especially, particularly blocking canadian arms exports to ukraine, which we know are being used to enforce conscription laws at gunpoint, than i would be concerned about canadian arms exports to israel (which are minimal to nonexistent) and would have argued for broad language in the bill for that reason.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/casey-removed-israel-arms-bill-9.7359007

what do i think about the arch in dc?

the us capital already has a giant penis. they should really leave it up to the first female president to build a giant vagina, and cancel the plan for the arch.

trump should focus on updating the washington monument, instead, perhaps by installing a statue of arnold palmer next to it.

polling for the us congress has small sample sizes, poor methodology and large margins of error. results are highly inconsistent and poorly predictive. averaging it out into aggregate is not a good methodological approach.

the way to read these polls is like this:

1. if the polls all say the same thing, the outcome is clear.

2. if the polls are variable, it's a toss up.

the polling in texas, alaska, iowa, maine and ohio is fluctuating but the republicans are always ahead. there is little to no reason to expect the democrats to be competitive in these states.

rather, it is michigan, new hampshire, north carolina and georgia that are producing variable results, in wide swings, with huge margins, which makes the result less certain.

i think this is a more realistic map and i don't think control of the senate is likely to shift.

the house is harder to predict because the ridings are all cut up like swiss cheese but the trend has been for the media to predict a democratic win and for that not to happen.

i see little reason to think the house is about to swing but i'll stop short of predicting a republican hold. i'm going to state with confidence that the senate is extremely unlikely to swing to the democrats.

can somebody run that through ai for me?

you know who sets the price for bananas, right?

bob dole says the price of bananas is just right.

the saudis have a problem on their hands with the houthis, huh?

pity.

that's a shame.

i would encourage a regional coalition to wipe the barbarians out. i've said that.

....but maybe everybody should wait until riyadh falls, first, and takes the saudi monarchy out with it.

the saudis are the biggest problem in the area and create the most amount of instability. everything from 9/11 to isis to the failed state in lebanon to the dictatorship in egypt traces back to saudi arabia as a regional decision maker. getting rid of the saudi state would be a massive benefit to the region and the world. they're also a huge liability to the us central command, which is being clearly demonstrated.

if saudi arabia loses to the barbarian houthis, the americans will necessarily have to go in to protect the weapons in the desert from being taken by the iranians or the chinese, which would be very bad.

maybe the region should let the iranians overthrow the government in the uae, too.

this is not a change in positions on my behalf and is in no way a show of support for the iranian state, which is still a terrorist death cult and should still be wiped out. i have been in favour of regime change in saudi arabia for years.

do not google evariste galois, who you've never heard of.

At the time of writing, details have not been made public regarding exactly how Alpöge prompted the AI model to produce the Jacobian conjecture counterexample and what its output looked like.

my second year calculus teacher would be heartbroken, if he didn't already die of a heart attack. i mean no disrespect to dr bose or his family and that was a long time ago. it's a good line. admit it.

like navier-stokes, this is again the kind of thing that you can solve with brute force with enough computing power and getting a counter-example is probably more accurately described as a reflection of the parallel computing power of the ai systems as functional mainframe super computers (something that is perhaps being downplayed) than it is described as advanced intelligence. 

they really could have just written a simple program in basic with a few counting loops, fed it into the mainframe and waited for it to halt. doesn't halt? conjecture is true. halts? conjecture is false, print n1, n2...nk. the only reason you could do this now and couldn't do it 50 years ago is the difference in raw computing power. it's no advancement in the algorithm.

they'll have to rewrite a lot of calculus textbooks.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260804034634.htm

this is interesting (it looks similar to galois theory and could potentially be formulated as a branch of galois theory) and i'll give the method credit for drawing connections humans missed but it's still not doing anything novel and the suggestions that it is should be retracted by the people claiming as much. what the machine was able to do was tell us that the answer was right in front of us, but we just couldn't see it.

the square root of negative one, i, has turned out to be an amazingly powerful abstraction that has helped us solve a myriad of problems.

the computer didn't solve the conjecture, it pointed out that we had already solved it, and the answer was in it's database, we just didn't realize it.

great. that's useful. but it's advanced pattern recognition. it's not a creative, ingenious solution.

https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/

i just want to clarify that this isn't reflective of advanced intelligence, it's a reflection of extreme computational ability. the ai didn't find an ingenious trick to get an elegant solution, it ran zillions (a zillion is defined as a big number) of mundane, simple computations and came up with the answer via brute force by just doing the calculation over and over. this is how humans have been dealing with solving differential equations (which is what this is) for a long time. the tactic is called numerical methods. again, if you had a million calculus doing monkeys on a million typewriters, you could solve navier-stokes, but you'd have to enslave millions of humans for millions of years to get an outcome. this is a valid use of super computers, and it's a great result, but it's a function of the power of the machine to do rote math and not of any deep intelligence.

and i want to propose some caution. in fact, computers are very bad at rote math and need to do tremendous amounts of error correction. the results need to be double checked by humans. people that work with this kind of thing will tell you that normal logic gate binary computers - not quantum computers - make an uncomfortable number of mistakes that are essentially reduced to round off errors arising from the need to convert from binary to base 10 and the fact that the computers do all of their math in base 2, which is necessary but crazy.

in fact, there's some circular logic here that i might be cautious about. i haven't looked at this and i'm not going to look at it but computers use euler's method to do almost everything because they need to constantly approximate solutions and are constantly cutting off rounding errors. this is called floating point error.

i would strenuously recommend that the math be doublechecked by hand for errors in arithmetic resulting from floating point errors. if it holds up, i might even suggest it's dumb luck. if it doesn't, it demonstrates the limitations of computers in solving math problems.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2588063-openai-has-solved-the-navier-stokes-millennium-problem-using-15m-of-ai-effort/

the simple english tl;dr on ai is this:

there's going to be some subset of ai alarmists that are trying to profit from this and some subset that is legitimately concerned. the legitimately concerned should understand that by focusing on the threat that an out of control ai may cause, which is science fiction, they are distracting from the much more real threat that an ai directed by malicious, nefarious or otherwise bad faith human actors, or just basic human incompetence, may pose. activism should be focused on regulating human behaviour and on ensuring that governments aggressively mandate that systems are thoroughly tested before they go into production.

this is a different question than i looked into, but the google algorithm threw it at me (after i blocked a million young turks network videos trying to tell me how trump was DESTROYED by natalie harp scandal, or whatnot. this is a better suggestion, google. thank you for improving under human direction.) and i think it's worth posting here. the issue i was looking into was the question of misalignment and i determined the potential threat comes from poor programming and insufficient testing. it was much like the nuclear threat in the cold war. of course nuclear war was a serious threat, but there were efficient systems in place (including the mutual use of game theory, which is something the americans abandoned under reagan) to minimize it. the biggest threat was always that somebody would make a mistake, make a bad decision, and then we're all dead. 

once again, the issue being exposed is that ai is a legitimate threat due to the potential of human error, rather than the machines evolving beyond us. the latter is not something grounded in science. the former requires some careful regulation to ensure that ai systems are rigorously tested and have sufficient error correction before they are put into use and the evidence i've seen suggests that the private sector is failing at that task (where is the profit in that?) and needs governments to do the regulatory work for them.

i suppose you need to be in a specific age range to get the joke.

it's the kind of elementary mistake in basic economic theory that is rampant amongst stupid conservatives but that liberals just have not made in this country for decades. 

in fact, the grocery store collusion was the exact example that we used to talk about oligopoly in first year economics. we went through this exact issue. no, the stores aren't going to compete. are you nuts? they know better than that. they will instead fix prices, and there's a mechanism in which they do this.

what the fuck are you talking about? oligowhatchamasay? i'm talking about competition!

right.

what is an oligopoly?

“A rule of thumb is that an oligopoly exists when the top five firms in the market account for more than 60% of total market sales,”

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2023/may/what-makes-a-market-an-oligopoly

Characteristics of oligopolies

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Some characteristics of oligopolies include:

• Profit maximisation
• Price setting: Firms in an oligopoly market structure tend to set prices rather than adopt them.^[22]
• High barriers to entry and exit:^[23] Important barriers include government licenses, economies of scale, patents, access to expensive and complex technology, and strategic actions by incumbent firms designed to discourage or destroy nascent firms. Additional sources of barriers to entry often result from government regulation favouring existing firms.^[24]
• Few firms in the market: When there are few firms in the market, the actions of one firm can influence the actions of the others.^[25]
• Abnormal long-run profits: High barriers of entry prevent sideline firms from entering the market to capture excess profits. If the firms are colluding in the oligopoly, they can set the price at a high profit-maximising level.
• Perfect and imperfect knowledge: Oligopolies have perfect knowledge of their own cost and demand functions, but their inter-firm information may be incomplete. If firms in an oligopoly collude, information between firms then may become perfect. Buyers, however, only have imperfect knowledge as to price,^[23] cost, and product quality.
• Interdependence: A distinctive feature of oligopolies is interdependence.^[26] Oligopolistic firms must take into consideration the possible reactions of all competing firms and the firms' countermoves.^[27] Every oligopolistic company with strong commodity homogeneity in its industry is reluctant to raise or lower prices, as competing firms will be aware of a firm's market actions and will respond appropriately. Anticipation among firms about potential counteractions leads to price rigidity, with firms usually only willing to adjust prices and quantities of output in accordance with a price leader.^[28][29] This high degree of interdependence stands in contrast with the lack of interdependence in other market structures. In a perfectly competitive market, there is zero interdependence because no firm is large enough to affect market prices. In a monopoly, there are no competitors to be concerned about. In a monopolistically-competitive market, each firm's effects on market conditions are so negligible that they can be safely ignored by competitors.
• Non-price competition: Generally, the oligopolistic enterprise with the largest scale and lowest cost will become the price setter in this market. The price set by it will maximise its own interests, such that other small-scale enterprises may also benefit.^[30] Oligopolies tend to compete on terms other than price, as non-price competition, such as promotional efforts, is less risky. Along non-price dimensions, collusion is harder to sustain.^[31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly

that's what i learned in school. i don't know what they taught you at the ayn rand school for homo economicus tots.

so how do you get grocery prices down via competition, then?

you don't. you're stupid.

you need to reduce input costs, which in most cases, in canada, has to do with high transportation costs. further, the cost of fertilizer has been spiraling out of control for years.

you overcharge for bananas, you might wake up wearing some cement shoes, and sleeping with some fishes.

in theory, if you set up a freshco across the street from a food basics  they might compete with each other, but i can point you to several intersections where there's a freshco on one side of the street and a food basics on the other and they tend to engage in price setting rather than competition. the difference is that they don't buy food from each other, they both order it from their own suppliers, so they in theory might compete. but it's the same suppliers, the same labour costs and, therefore, the same price. they're not going to compete - that would harm both of them and they both know it. things like condiments move in lock step. i've basically never seen them compete, but have noticed prices are usually the same for most things on both sides of the street (and i'm picky so i'll go to both stores and actually shop).

then there's the cartels, like bananas. bananas are always exactly the same price everywhere. no exceptions. ever noticed that?

you could say "but the store will stop them". they might. they probably won't. what does the cashier care? what difference does it make to the produce manager?

that's what the fucking clause was for, you dumb fucks.

where do you imagine that the convenience store gets it's food from?

it buys it at the grocery store and then charges you for gas and labour to go get it. that's why it's twice as much; it's the unwritten relationship. it's cheaper to just use instacart; it's the same thing, and fresher produce.

if you get rid of these clauses, you're allowing third parties to step in as middlemen and hike the price. it will create inflation, not lower costs.

this is utterly irrelevant and has nothing to do with prices. small grocers source from large ones. i walk by people selling fruit outside the stores all of the time and the prices are generally higher because they just bought it at the store. what this is actually going to do is lead to more resellers and may create problems with people buying up stock in bulk, clearing the stores out and marking it up down the street. there's now nothing stopping them from doing that, so why wouldn't they? those clauses are broadly reasonable and something i'd mostly support as they ensure price stability, which tends to keep prices lower. this policy is utterly wrong, economically, and will likely completely backfire.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/competition-bureau-empire-property-controls-deal-9.7356543

a smart analyst should have looked at the vulnerability nafta has inflicted on canada and decided we're too reliant on foreign investment. it's not the americans that are the problem, exactly. it's the amount of foreign control over the economy.

to react to the tariffs with more foreign investment is to suggest an inability to understand, to analyze and to learn. it is to completely miss the point.

something that we've heard frequently recently from mark carney and his cronies is the idea that they can only plan around and focus on what they can control. it sounds reasonable on it's face.

then he calls a conference trying to get a trillion dollars of foreign investment, which is basically selling the country off to the highest bidder.

this week, canada has seen two foreign investors in the auto sector, both european, completely bail on their commitments. auto companies from korea have likewise been sketchy. it would seem as though foreign investment is unreliable and unpredictable, wouldn't it?

if the government truly wanted to focus on what it could control, it would be building crown corporations, funding r&d and engaging in massive keynesian spending to get the economy working. instead, it's trying to balance the budget.

that's not adding up, is it?

people did have pcs in the 80s and 90s. this idea of the digital native should really be pushed back to most of gen x it's just that the computers were hidden out of sight. in the 80s, wealthy families may have bought apple computers for their kids, but the family computers, which were probably amigas or ataris until they turned into dos pcs and then windows pcs, were generally left in the basement. i grew up pretty poor and everybody i knew had a pc, but the family matriarchs didn't want them in the living room, and the reality is that they mostly went unused. you would give your kids gaming consoles and let them set them up with old tvs in their rooms, but the computers went in the basement, in the utility room, where nobody could see them, and they just sat collecting dust. they were in theory bought for work but you never used them for work.

the first 486 i'm referring to was my stepfather's and it was set up in a corner of the basement behind the hot water tank and across from the standalone freezer and the washer and dryer. it was supposed to be his "office" but he would go in there once a month to type something. no internet access. my bedroom was behind a wall on the other side of the basement. so, i would sneak in there after dark and play civ until 5:00 am, as though i was a rich kid, which i wasn't. the rich kids had their own 486s in their actual bedrooms and played civ until 5:00 am while typing in their beds.

there is a long stalled music project that i can insert in before 2cc and am going to, as i reboot and do a second completion run. that means this will be the new first project and i'm actually starting it from scratch. years before anamanaguchi or chiptune or "nintendocore" became popular ideas, i was planning on recording a guitar-based video game music album. i think i still have tapes of samples recorded about 1998 and a very small amount of it was used on the first inri cd on connecting tracks like "abusive". there's not going to be any more inri, but as i go through this all one last time with a careful analysis, there may be more projects like this that fall out and spin off into their own projects.

i don't have any developed demos, but the earliest sampling i did for this project (i didn't have a gaming console at the time and it was still the 90s. digital recording existed but was expensive. i was sampling my friends' nintendos with a handheld tape recorder.) would be dated to around 98 or 99. i would, however, want to date the project to the time frame that i was playing old games, instead, which would have been more like late 80s and early 90s.

i don't remember exactly when i got the nintendo in the basement but it would have been after the snes had been released so it was probably christmas, 1991. the nintendos were marked way down because the stores were selling super nintendos. exactly. i had, however, already been sneaking in to the office to use the 486 (which ran dos) for a few years before that and my dad's atari 2600 (which had space invaders and pacman) was probably there when i was born.

i definitely had a guitar by mid 1991. i played stairway to heaven at a local talent show in 1991. if i'm going through this pre-inri period, i'd like to potentially make an acoustic guitar demo of what some of the earliest versions of some of these songs would have sounded like, so that's something else.

one way i could do this is to do albums for each of the platforms and date them to when i played the platform, and it would be restricted to very old platforms - atari 2600, dos pc games, 8 bit nintendo, sega genesis II.

another idea i've had for years is to make concept albums for the kids books as i work through them and that's something i could look at as well but i would want to date that to the current reality and it would mess up the chronology. nor would it be connected to any specific musical idea.

the anamanaguchi-style midi guitar project is something i wanted to do in the mid 90s and didn't so it makes sense to pencil it in to the reboot, even if it's an anachronism.

for the night, i want to sleep the filth off a little more, wash the rest of the soap off (and the acne with it) and make some salsa a little later.

i got a lot done in the garage yesterday evening and continued the giant sleep-off by going to bed a little early, around 1:00 am. the idea was to get some extra sleep, wake up, wash the soap off and get something to eat. it's gone according to plan except that the weight is remaining a little stubborn so i've slept most of the day again, as well. i feel better than i did a few days ago, but i remain exhausted as a result of getting drugged. it's clearly putting a lot of strain on my kidneys, which is draining me of energy.

after i fixed the cardboard, i got the two tables that were out there already in place, put the lights up on the wall, moved two more small iron tables with a wood dining top out there, moved many things in the garage or the front entrance to the tables and vacuumed repeatedly in between steps. i want to wait before i put the carpet in. i will get some pictures up soon.

i'm going to seal up the steps with cardboard to create a barrier that can insulate that region a bit better. it was over 20 degrees in there last night despite barely hitting 20 today for the first time in over a week and the temperature falling to around 10 degrees overnight so the things i'm done have worked in retaining heat. it's ready to put the aluminum up but only if i still have some left after doing the rest of the basement, and i think i will. the heater doesn't need to come on yet, clearly.

the couch that was here when i moved in, and has been clawed by cats and soiled by rodents and smelled awful, isn't going to fit in there and i'm going to get it out of there over the next few days. it had aired out with the windows open, but the landlord installed an a/c in a dumb place and the couch absorbed most of the condensation. i could probably save it but i have no incentive and nowhere to put it. maybe the africans want it for the yard. i'm going to get some kind of smaller bench or reclining chair for in there instead that is less gross and fits better. i'd like to read in there on warm summer nights with the windows open and some candles burning, and maybe some music playing. it's a nice atmosphere. the neighbours regularly go to bed very early so it's quiet in there at night. it's like having a covered patio, in some respects. there's also more than enough space for yet another computer system, which i'm considering because it would throw off heat, but i'm considering getting something very old for the journal project. my first computer was a 486. can i find one?

i have never thrown away a computer, but i lost access to a few. i'd like to rebuild a 486 with real dos, civilization and duke nukem. there was also a windows 3.1 pc in my bedroom for a while, which was replaced with a windows 95 pentium 166, that was upgraded to the pIII 500 that i still have and still dual boots into 98/xp. so, that's three extra systems.

i had an atari when i was very young, a nintendo that i had grown out of before i got it for christmas and a sega genesis that i played only sporadically. i was not a video game focused kid. i liked reading books and playing guitar more. but i would like to rebuild these systems for the journal. i did not own a game console at all after the sega genesis (which i rarely touched after about 1992) or play video games at all past the age of about 15. i really firmly grew out of playing video games by my mid-teens. the last pc games i remember playing were civilization 2, wolfenstein/doom/quake and a very small amount of half-life. after 1996, the pcs were used strictly for recording and for messageboards, and never for gaming. but those three old computers were used mostly for video games and didn't even have modems or sound cards at all.

the garage won't be completely finished for a while. the landing on the other side will be used to grow plants (it's a greenhouse space), including edible plants and that will require some effort. the seating isn't a high priority, either. i will get to it in sequence. 

but once i get these last steps finished and finish cleaning, the shape will be in place, a lot of clutter will come out of the main unit and into there instead and i'll be able to use it for what it's for - soldering, cutting wood and fixing and building things. 

the first thing on the list is cutting some shelves for the kitchen, and finishing the kitchen then shifts to the main priority.

canada should completely ban the import, manufacture and use of diesel.

i would consequently be ecstatic if the americans refused to sell it to us. good.

keep your coal to yourself, too.

https://globalnews.ca/news/12069994/diesel-export-ban-canada-impact/

the realty is that virtually nobody pays enough taxes in canada. the only demographic that pays close to enough taxes is the super rich. that's ok when we're talking about very poor people, who get subsidies and need subsidies, but it's really not ok when we're talking about a middle class that could pay for itself but is instead being massively subsidized. this is the result of decades of income tax cuts on the middle class, which has reduced the middle class to a bunch of welfare cases that need government subsidies, when they used to be the economic engine that generated wealth via a stable tax base.

canada has cut taxes on the middle class for too much and needs a substantive income tax hike for middle class earners, or at the least a long term moratorium on further tax cuts for the middle class. 

i would rather outright ban the tfws. but there's absolutely no factual basis in her concerns.

1. tfws pay taxes like everybody else.

2. it is true that the taxes tfws pay don't cover expenses. that's also true of canadian citizens. virtually nobody in canada actually pays their own way and the premise that they do is one of the biggest and most malicious lies on the right. these calculations also rarely include money for things like roads. the gap is filled by corporate taxes, consumption taxes and taxes on the rich. the idea that canadian workers subsidize immigrants is false; the rich subsidize all workers in canada, and that's how it should be.

3. there's no real revenue deficit. you could bullshit numbers to generate a scapegoat, but it's general revenue. you could just as easily make the opposite argument - that tfws are subsidizing canadian workers - and it would be equally valid and equally specious and equally dubious. at the end of the day, there's no loss to recoup and no issue to address.

i would be concerned that this is step one to introduce a health premium on domestic workers.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-danielle-smith-health-care-fee-9.7354117

what's my take on the quebec election?

i may not get time to do the writeup but i will post it if i do.

the caq is a weird entity. it's certainly a conservative party, but it had an unusual support for secularism. secularism is generally more of a liberal idea, and religious ideologies are generally considered to be more in the realm of conservative value systems. the fact that this was all mixed up in quebec was an idiosyncrasy of quebec politics and a result of the absence of a real spectrum for several generations due to the sovereignty question stagnating the local political spectrum.

christine frechette strikes me as more of a traditional conservative than legault and as such i'm skeptical of her ideological support for secularism. in the quebec spectrum, that aligns her more with the liberals (who are conservatives in quebec).

if you want to ensure quebec continues forwards towards secularism and isn't driven backwards into some mushy concept of multiculturalism, i would vote for the pq instead.

i agree that artificial intelligence should be renamed and have posted those thoughts here previously but it's not the artificial part that is misleading - ai is absolutely, certainly something that is completely fake, a total illusion, overwhelmingly misleading - but the intelligence part that is misleading. ai as we're currently using it is not anything resembling intelligence, it's just a search engine. they should rename it so that people understand that it isn't intelligence.

a more accurate proposed renaming would be something like "advanced algorithmic search", "probabilistic web scraping database query" or "script-based search engine application interface". 

ai is certainly not supreme intelligence and the premise is overwhelmingly ignorant and amazingly stupid. there is no computer in operation today and never has been that is supreme anything except supremely incompetent. this suggestion is a reflection of the president's low intelligence level.

it is true that artificial intelligence will calculate probabilities as it responds to database search queries, and this may produce a level of personalization and randomness in the responses, but that is not intelligence, it's just math. the truth is that it's a completely fake impersonation of intelligence. it's utterly fraudulent and it's only convincing to the ignorant because the gui is realistic. despite the calculations made, the ai is inherently incapable of generating novel strings of text. every single response from the ai, every single thing the ai says to you, was written by a human. no ai has ever written a single sentence on it's own and if it were to try it would be mathematically equivalent to monkeys mashing keys on a keyboard. yes, you'll get some dickens (or maybe some joyce first) if you run infinitely many experiments. it's just math; it's not intelligence.

using the term "intelligence" to describe a graphical user interface that is just searching databases of human written information is exceedingly disingenuous and should stop. it should be renamed so that the word intelligence is removed from the description and the reliance on scripting, probabilities and databases is made more apparent.

there is already a term in use for what ai actually is. current "ai" would be more accurately described with the acronym api, application programming interface.

i woke up around 14:00 after consuming the minimum meal and i feel better. i went out to get a parcel and noticed a lot of the cardboard i put up the other day has been torn off. it didn't fall down. it was ripped off. i'm also noticing some fresh nails in the woo. so, i may have found an entry point.

these people are not invited into my space and are not welcome in it.

i'm going to redo it with some braces in some key spots and see what happens. this is a big place (for one person) and i'm slowly sealing it up but it's in poor condition and i'm beginning to understand where the access points are a little more clearly.

the good news is that i seem to have slept it off. my weight is falling again.

the bad news is that i'm completely exhausted. i feel like i'm waking up from a three day bender - sore body, headache, acne (the soap helped but i still have to wash the soap off), balance issues, coughing, sre throat, difficulty staying awake. i've been sleeping almost nonstop since about 2:00 on tuesday morning, which is almost 30 hours. i don't think i'm done yet.

jocks are retarded; steroids are poison. testosterone makes people stupid. i simply don't want this filth in my body. i don't care about gender identity in clinical terms at this point, i'm too old, what i care about is my physical and mental health. this is an unhealthy chemical with extremely negative primary and side effects, both mental and physical, and i want it eliminated from my body. i've been on suppressors for decades. i've had surgery. drugging me against my will is unconscionable and these shitheads will get what they deserve for it in the end.

i expect minimal to zero long term damage.

but i do not want this to happen again.

today was a wash. literally. i've got my heavy acne soap on and it will peel off in a day or two. i guess i'm inside for the next week.

i tend to get hacked at the same time as i get drugged and i don't entirely understand what the purpose of it is but it's consistent. the new mac address - which is a brand new device - is starting to do the same thing as the old one. i'm going to need a couple more of these anyways so i should buy a few and start rotating and see if it makes a difference. i may need to do some kind of mac address spoofing and constantly swap it out.

they seem to be trying to block me from accessing the internet. it's not clear if they intend this to be successful or are trying to be annoying, or what the purpose of that would be, if they were to succeed.

i have a broad understanding of what these people are doing but i find them to be utterly irrational and completely baffling. i consistently don't understand why they're doing it and when i'm able to piece together bits of reasoning it's consistently illogical and incoherent. they don't make the slightest bit of sense to me.

i'm ultimately left to conclude that they're irrational, illogical, incoherent and stupid people. 

the problem i'm having is that is that when i call police or try to present an argument in court, and i try to explain that i don't understand what the point is, i get accused of being the one's that incoherent, as though every criminal is perfectly rational in their behavior, and all criminal acts have clearly rational explanations. the cops want a rational, clearly thought through motive formed by an intelligent, intellectually capable criminal.

the reality is that they're dumb thugs. what they're doing doesn't make any sense because they're idiots and the cops won't build a case around that. it's very frustrating.

the great wash-up back to being normal again began yesterday morning but these disgusting drug addict loser faggots won't let me clean the space and won't let me clean myself. these abjectly disgusting queers keep breaking in here to drug me and will not leave me alone.

i am not queer. i am not l. i am not g. i am not b. i am a heterosexual female that transitioned from being a male. i have no interest in gay people, no interest in queer identity and no interest in queer rights. i have very little respect for gay men, particularly, and think gay male culture is revoltingly disgusting. i do not identify as a string of letters. i'm just a normal, straight woman. i don't want anything to do with the gays, their culture, their lifestyle or their politics. i do not go to gay marches. i do no gay to gay bars. i don't have any gay friends, and i don't want any gay friends. i don't respect gay people very much. i just like to go to concerts. 

i did another round of spot cleaning in the morning and succeeded in getting essentially all of the acne off my face and then succeeded in getting most of the knots out of my hair. the idea was to finish washing up after the last unwanted drugging event, to do a couple of remaining things in the garage and the kitchen and then to get in the shower. but i noticed when i was putting items back in their place that some faggot loser had broken in through the side, left a disgusting faggot mess on the floor like the disgusting faggots do because they're disgusting faggots and probably drugged me again on saturday when i was fixing the front door. these idiots are horribly desperate to prove something and horribly pathetic in their refusal to accept basic concepts of agency and free will. if i get the chance, i will slit their worthless faggot gay throats and flush their worthless queer bodies down the toilet. 

they're not human beings.  they're worthless queer fags. and i'm going to have to end their worthless queer lives. they've left me with no choice.

i'm almost done in the garage. i'm confident i sealed the door up well over the weekend, so i put the insulation in yesterday afternoon and the first layer of cardboard over the ceiling last night. i stopped a little after midnight to get some sleep and will finish cleaning and moving items in there today. the windows are closed and sealed up. 

i'm going to have to react to the steroids via reduced caloric consumption for the immediate short term in order to prevent them from working. they won't be effective if i starve myself to prevent them from working. i don't want these garbage male hormones that cause brain damage in retardedly stupid faggot jock men in my body. testosterone causes brain damage and makes people retarded, it's established science. testosterone reduction promotes higher levels of brain development and leads to higher levels of intelligence. the brain damage caused by steroid use is reversible with estrogen therapy.

i may start vomiting up my stomach contents if i notice problems as i work through the remaining food in my pantry.

the only remaining entry point is the side and they're pitiful enough and faggot enough to aggressively break in here so i'm going to have to address that, and i'm going to have to get some cameras set up once i'm sure the inside is secure.

this is going to cause me to lose another couple of days, but it wears off relatively fast, and washes off within a week. i take a lot of estrogen. i will recover. these faggots won't recover - they're dead as soon as i get the chance to slaughter them, and i want to bring the issue to the court as it exists. i want the issue of self defence against aggressive faggots to be tried in court and for the rights of heterosexuals to defend themselves against faggots to be upheld in canadian law.

i have filed dozens of police reports. i have filed claims for civil damages. i have field at the ltb. i cannot get the court to protect my rights. i will need to react in self-defence and i will demand that the court acknowledge it failed to protect me and asserts my right to protect myself against the faggotry and against the drug use.

and i'm warning them. i've warned them verbally. i've told the police i will react violently if they fail to intervene. i'm warning them in writing. i'm not a fucking faggot and i don't want anything to do with their faggot fantasies. if the only way to end this is to kill them, i will gleefully knife their jugulars out and feel no shame or remorse in it. they're consequently going to get slaughtered if they don't stop, and a civilized society needs to uphold my right to do that and in general to protect the rights of heterosexuals to defend themselves from queers using violence, if necessary. there can be no place for this kind of disgusting male faggotry in a civilized society. it's revoltingly gross and unacceptable to straight people in straight culture. and there can be no place for this kind of open drug use. they need to be rounded up and gassed.