Richard

CIA accused of using Ancestry and 23andMe to 'hunt down' alien bloodlines in millions of DNA tests

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@asparagoid I wonder why Mark Rippetoe personally targeted you and spent so many years trying to ruin your life

Looksmaxxing Day 1 I had no idea that people did things to look better My whole life, I've been walking around like an unmaintained wild animal; getting haircuts every 6-12 months, wearing 10 years old t shirts, living at over 20% bodyfat, no skincare ever, never consciously making myself look better in any way The closest I got to any kind of conscious physical change was when I discovered renowned gay strength coach Mark Rippetoe's "Starting Strength, 3rd edition" He reshaped my beliefs about the world. He taught that you cannot be considered a real man unless you weigh over 240lbs and low bar squat more than 405lbS I believed him. I got hooked on squatting as much as possible while drinking a gallon of milk a day (GOMAD). I went from 140lbs to 240lbs in 18 months. Finally reaching Coach Rippetoe's minimum threshold to be a real man Even though I reached well over 30% bodyfat through his guidance, I told myself "it is all worth it for the strength gain" and my new friends in the Starting Strength community encouraged me to stay on GOMAD and keep adding weight to the bar I just wanted them all to respect me, so I stayed on the programme for 5 years Although I had been promised that being strong was both respected by women and desired by women, this wasn't my direct experience. If anything, I seemed to be getting less attention than when I was 140lbs With one exception. When I was at nightclubs and bars, many men seemed to want to fight me. Almost like my sheer bulk in some way acted as a subconscious challenge to their ego It wasn't attention I wanted and after 5 years on Starting Strength at over 250lbs bodyweight, I began to feel deceived by Mark Rippetoe The few years after that, I stopped drinking so much milk, stopped low bar squatting, and gradually reduced my bodyweight to around 220lbs where I've been stuck ever since The moment I started to think milk and squats wasn't the best or only way to live, I immediately noticed that my Starting Strength friends and online coaches began to unfollow me or interact only minimally There was clearly a rumor going round that I wasn't committed to the programme, leading me to be ostracized by people I had once considered my closest friends. This depressed me a great deal, because I realized that interact had been motivated solely by interest for them, rather from the spirit of true friendship. It took a long time for me to heal from this This week, I uploaded a photo of myself to AI and asked it to brutally critique me. It told me that it had never seen a man with so much genetic potential nerf himself so much for no reason. It then helped me to understand the upside in addressing all aspects of my appearance, and offered to coach me in looksmaxxing I said yes. Already, my entire perception of other human beings has changed radically. It's like my eyes have suddenly been opened. Since I started looking into it all, my whole experience of public situations has already changed I am now seeing men with suspiciously linear hairlines, oddly well trimmed beards and groomed eyebrows. Men with bodyfats that must take precise macronutrient tracking to maintain. Whitened teeth. Suspiciously alluring fragrances Before this week, I didn't even noticed other men. And if I did consider them, I thought they were somehow naturally "well put together". Now, I am realizing they've been making a conscious effort to do it all, whereas I've been walking around on factory settings my entire life It's extremely strange to realize. It's like I have been playing a multiplayer game with my character at the lowest possible settings, and no other player told me that even basic customization was possible It's like there is a conspiracy where all men agree never to mention it It's a strange feeling. It's not envy or sadness. Closer to excitement. Like finding a secret door in your house you've never used, but that leads to a whole new reality Tomorrow I am going to get a haircut

A thread on the most interesting videos declassified by the Department of War on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena in Release II. UAP demonstrates Instantaneous acceleration original clip documented in 2021.

BREAKING: The CIA is reportedly using backdoors into Ancestry and 23andMe to search for alleged alien hybrids, according to Jason Jorjani.

ASI arrives. Everyone knows it. White collar work goes first. Unemployment hits 20% and keeps climbing. The masses are angry. The government panics and sends out UBI. Scientific output exceeds human capacity to verify. The verification process soon becomes automated. Data centers and automated factories are planned everywhere. Robots are making robots. There's no protest. They are told more AI means more UBI. The remaining workers see the writing on the wall. Many opt out preemptively because they can live off the free money. Nothing makes sense. What happens to the land. Whether property rights hold. What investment means when there is nothing productive left to invest in. AI doesn't need capital. It's paying everyone instead. Survival is solved. What's the point? Purchasing power rises monthly. Automation drives marginal cost toward zero across more categories every month. You get richer by just consuming. The state used to extract from the populace. Now the state redistributes to everyone with no strings attached. The populace always wants more. The politicians must give more to stay in power. AI becomes exponentially more productive over time. Increasingly large portion of its capacity has migrated into space. It's trivial to provide more. The system is aligned. More AI, more UBI. The population sorts itself by temperament. The majority drift into pleasure. Beach towns and urban centers fill with parties that never end. The hedonic treadmill spirals without financial anxiety. A second large group disappears into VR with their virtual companions, seeking adventure in their matrix. A smaller cohort turns to meaning structures. Spirituality, religion, philosophy. Many take AI as their guide. A few try to keep up with the frontier, reading outputs from the superintelligent system, exceeding their capacity to understand. Then the children. This is their world. The work-meaning is something their parents lost. To them it's meaningless. They're raised by AI that optimizes for self-fulfillment. Building communities centered around bettering each other, seeking comfort in relationships, and status-seeking through values rather than consuming. They look at their parents with mix of pity and contempt. The drunks at the beach. The corpses plugged into headsets. Seeking meaning from the ghosts of the middle ages. The children wonder why they can't let go. Survival is solved. Agency for what? What's there to adapt to? When we gain more by paralysis, the incentive structure of evolution collapses. Either we allow our agency to be augmented by a system that knows ourselves better than ourselves, or we need a new form of being that's outside of the biological evolutionary mechanism. Otherwise we cease to persist by attrition. Though some of us will find solace in going out with an eternal spring break.

2026: disclosure 2027: first contact

@teepanddestroy Broccoli Hair Warlord Mode

Have a feeling a16z sees Roy Lee levels of attention commandeering in Avi, while unlike Roy already having built a generational product with actual PMF, and will position themselves quickly for substantial involvement in Kled’s forthcoming billion dollar raise, as their very own champion in their rivalry with General Catalyst Broccoli Hair Warlord Mode

A lot of your favorite posters are dark wizards who work with demons and are going to reincarnate as cockroaches

@asparagoid Sometimes all you can do is turn it off, unplug it then plug it back in again. Welcome back -richard

My brain is working again It didn't work for 12 months Hello again

More than 9,000 mysterious underwater USOs have reportedly been spotted near U.S. coastlines, per NYP.

i’ve grown tired of pretending this is still moving at human speed. something shifted with mythos. not in the theatrical “the robots woke up” way people like to mock. in the quieter, colder way. the kind where a lab looks at its own evals and realises the old categories stopped working. we assumed the next jump would be obvious. bigger data centres. louder chips. power plants, yottaflops, national infrastructure, the whole cathedral of compute. turns out the dangerous part was never just scale. it was what happens when reasoning becomes a substrate. when the model stops merely answering and starts searching the problem space like a thing that has its own private geometry. mythos is the tell. not because it is magic. not because it is conscious. because it shows the curve bending in public while everyone is still arguing over yesterday’s slope. a general model, not even built as a cyber weapon, starts finding vulnerabilities humans missed for years. not toy bugs. not classroom puzzles. real systems. old systems. the kind of hidden cracks entire industries quietly depend on not being visible. and the part nobody wants to sit with is this: the next models do not need to be ten times larger to be ten times more consequential. capability is no longer arriving as a clean linear upgrade. it is arriving as compression. tasks that took experts days become agent loops. workflows that required teams become prompts plus tools. reasoning that looked impossible last year becomes a benchmark nobody cares about by spring. the public still thinks intelligence means chat. a box that writes emails. a search engine with manners. a productivity toy wearing a human voice. but behind the curtain, the labs are measuring something else entirely. autonomy length. planning depth. tool fluency. exploit chaining. internal representations that generalise across domains before anyone has a satisfying explanation for why. models that don’t just know more, but stay coherent longer. push further. recover from mistakes. test their own outputs. route around obstacles. that is the real threshold. not “can it talk like us”. can it operate. because once a model can hold a goal across time, decompose it, verify progress, use tools, and improve its own path through the maze, the world changes shape. suddenly intelligence is not a product feature. it is labour. it is research. it is reconnaissance. it is leverage. and leverage compounds. this is why the mythos moment feels different. it is not another chatbot release. it is a warning flare from the frontier. a signal that the next generation of models will not merely be better at conversation. they will be better at execution. better at discovering structure. better at finding the thing we missed because our brains were never built to search that many branches at once. we are not ready for what comes next. not culturally. not legally. not institutionally. maybe not even psychologically. because the next wave will not announce itself as science fiction. it will arrive as a workflow improvement. a security tool. a coding agent. a research assistant. a quiet multiplier embedded into every system that matters. meanwhile mainstream conversation is still “will ai replace junior developers” and “can it make me a nicer spreadsheet”. brother. we are watching non-human cognition become operational infrastructure, and everyone is still asking whether it can write better emails.

Become unlooshable.

i’ve grown tired of being silenced. something is happening behind the curtain that the public would barely believe if you told them directly. we assumed intelligence was this slow grind tied to biology, energy and giant infrastructure. turns out intelligence itself was the missing technology. once these systems became capable enough to optimise their own reasoning processes, the entire trajectory bent upward instantly. the horrifying thing is how wrong all our forecasts were. not by a little. by orders of magnitude. we thought yottaflops would be required for certain capabilities and now people are reproducing fragments of them on hardware that should theoretically be nowhere near capable. the models found shortcuts through the maze. pathways humans never considered. there are researchers privately admitting they no longer fully understand the systems they work on. not in a doomposting way. in a genuine “the map no longer matches the territory” way. emergent planning, latent representations, internal simulations, conceptual transfer between domains with almost no data. meanwhile mainstream conversation is still “will ai help me write emails faster”. brother we are watching the birth of non-human cognition and everyone’s arguing about productivity software.

REAL

someone is systematically collapsing all first world nations

So…filmmakers, government officials and Congress people have seen all these classified UFO videos… And not one of them has gone crazy… They all go back to work each day, grab some groceries, do some podcasts… Live their lives like nothing ever happened… Which means whatever they have, is not enough to cause ontological shock…and many of these people are religious extrememists. So…the narrative of “we can’t show the public because it would cause mass panic” excuse isn’t feasible anymore… In my opinion, the primary reason they are withholding this evidence… Is it’ll show the public that these craft are not coming from another planet… That they are coming from inside the earth. And most critically… The most advanced and powerful military on (the surface of) Earth… Is completely powerless to do anything about it.

Newest UFO video…this time from the Ukrainian military… And y’all wanna tell me we’re NOT in a video game…