Beaubien

We process pictures faster because it's two dimensional. In one dimension we can formulate a "train of thought". You can't reason in two dimensions. But pictures are better for displays of the finished product of reasoning. Some necessary things are consecutive ... others holistic. Both are essential.

The human brain processes visual information 60,000x faster than text. Humans are visual processors, not text processors. Images hit the brain instantly. Words take work. That's why a single SpaceX launch video communicates more than a thousand-word essay—and why your slide decks hit harder than paragraphs. We're wired for pictures, not prose.

___After two weeks of not posting anything, my follower count in analytics went up by about 4. However, the actual count went down by about 20. Also, I paid $10 to boost my post about the method used to move large megaliths for 👉🏼 one day 👈🏼 just to find out if this 'boosting' thing worked at all. For ten bucks I expected a meaningless boost of maybe 1000-2000 impressions. Instead, when the 24 hours was up, I got a notification to that effect along with the big "boost" that I actually got. 👉🏼 33 total impressions 👈🏼 X charged my credit card $10 for 33 impressions 😱 that I would have expected to get anyway for $0 !! Don't use the "X-BOOST" function

I think I may have a 'hard ceiling' of 2550 possible followers. My follower count goes up by maybe ~2 new ones per day ... but they are all clawed back keeping it down. Been between 2540-2549 for two weeks now ... yet I've counted a dozen 'net' new followers ... all clawed back. My blue check follower count has an apparent 'soft limit' of 500, i.e. it can go up higher a dozen or so but then they get clawed back. It's been stuck at ~500 (+- ~10) for a year now. Two years got me to ~500 blue check followers and then no advance for the past year. Very suspicious. I must be in a group type that's permanently throttled by the X algorithm. 🙁 I'm going to disengage for a couple weeks to see if the clawbacks continue or stop when I stop posting. I'll only read and maybe ask questions of Grok.

This method for moving megalithic stones in the 1000-ton range generated a high probability of success from Grok. To move such stones as the Trilithon at Baalbek and the Unfinished Obelisk (in ancient times) may have required only around 300 guys. There is a simple (testable at smaller scales) way to move them without picking them up off the ground (no rollers either). Here is the Grok discussion link: x.com/i/grok/share/b…

I Grokked my proposed method of moving 1000-ton megaliths in ancient times (like the Baalbek Trilithon and the Unfinished Obelisk). Grok agreed that it was doable with only 200-400 men. Thousands are not required. Link here: x.com/i/grok/share/e…

@Aquamariah1 @JamesHu27192912 @RangerWalkin 100 guys to 1 woman. They're not mean enough 😁👍🏼

@el_beaubien @JamesHu27192912 @RangerWalkin Guys? Sir...you disappoint me. Gen X women ate bullets for breakfast and skinned deer by lunch. The men are warriors, but the women are the secret weapon that nobody expects. I promise they don't wanna come our way. 😉

@redpilldispensr That's where the 'injector nozzle' is.

Anyone got a logical explanation for what's going on here? 🤔

@SwissHodler Very good book. Read it a dozen times (mostly decades ago). It's on my top four books to read : (no particular order) 1). Livy - History of Roman Republic 2). Gibbon - Decline/Fall Roman Emp. 3). Solzhenitsyn - Gulag Archipelago 4). Rand - Atlas Shrugged

I'm finishing Ayn Rand's 1000+ page masterpiece Atlas Shrugged (1957), and if you still think socialism works, this book is your required reading. Every page is a masterclass in why collectivism doesn't just fail economies. It destroys the human spirit. When you punish excellence and reward mediocrity, you don't lift people up. You drag everyone down. "Who is John Galt?" isn't just a question. It's a warning. #AtlasShrugged #AynRand #Capitalism #Liberty #Freedom

Most 'real' people can't pass the Turing Test either (because they are biological robots - biobots, i.e. NPCs). To be a "real boy" you must do forced induction. If you only do free induction, you are just an animal ... like a rabbit, a chicken or a cow. The truest human mantra is ... "Think or be Eaten" "Think or be Eaten" "Think or be Eaten" "Think or be Eaten"

Shallowness now wears the robe of eloquence. A calculator never tempted anyone to think that the calculator “understands” arithmetic. At least no where near to the same degree that LLMs tempt people into thinking that they themselves understand what the LLM is outputting. The output was always a proxy. We never knew this until LLMs came along. Many tests are like this. We thought the Turing Test was a test of consciousness (or at minimum machine thinking). Once it was achieved, we moved the alleged goalpost. However, it’s not a fallacy in this case like most people think. It’s not a fallacy because we realized how wretched the measurement was. Unfortunately, much of the time the only way to realize the wretchedness of a measurement is to reach the goalpost. It measures up until a point. Only then do we realize what we thought was God was an idol.

I asked Grok about using variable masers to selectively destroy cancer cells via resonance within the body. It says no experiments have been done along those lines ... yet. What's the big problem? Take mixed samples of healthy and cancerous cells in Petri dishes and expose them to varying maser frequencies to find that special frequency that destroys the cancerous cells and leaves the healthy cells intact. Experiments such as this are cheap and don't put any patient at risk. If it doesn't work ... it's just back to the drawing board. The U.S. government already spends 👉🏼billions every year on cancer treatments and experiments. I don't understand why this obvious tactic hasn't already been thoroughly explored decades ago. I expected Grok to say ... "Yes. It's been tried several times and did not work because of blah, blah, blah ...". x.com/i/grok/share/a…

@scievision369 Since no coating of paint is infinitely thin ... 🥱

Gabriel's Horn ✍️ It is a strange mathematical shape. It is created by rotating the curve y = 1/x, starting from x = 1 and extending infinitely to the right, around the horizontal axis. This action forms a trumpet that tapers endlessly, becoming narrower and narrower without ever touching the axis. Interestingly, even though the horn is infinitely long, the total volume of space inside is finite exactly π units. This means you could fill this never-ending shape with just a small bucket of paint. However, the surface area of its inner wall is infinite. Therefore, no limited amount of paint could ever cover the entire inside surface, no matter how far you go. This creates the famous painter's paradox. A finite quantity of paint can fill the horn, but an infinite amount is required to paint its interior. This paradox shows that infinity allows extremely thin, elongated objects to hold a limited volume while having an endless surface area that keeps expanding. The narrowing occurs too slowly for the added wall area to shrink enough to total a finite amount.

@OwenGregorian Yes. Renege 👉🏼 only on the interest.

@el_beaubien A lot of the debt is held in private pension funds. Reneging on it would be a rude awakening for a lot of retirees.

What is a practical solution to the national debt? Even without any fraud, waste or abuse, we’d still have a massive deficit. We’d have to drastically cut Social Security, Defense, Medicaid and Medicare to balance have a surplus and reduce the debt. How is that feasible?

The amount stolen by government is undoubtedly greater than half ... and of the remainder, half again is misdirected through stupidity. The Constitution of the United States is just another failed document ... an honest, well-intentioned attempt ... but a failure none-the-less. Its failure lies in its principle feedback mechanism ... 👉🏼 Checks & Balances 👈🏼 ... which manifestly do not work. The absolute proof of failure is that the government has been completely taken over by ... 👉🏼 Thieves and Rotters 👈🏼 ... of every spot and stripe. To correct this, the finalized form of government must be instituted.

I suspect our entire almost 40 trillion dollar national debt is due to fraud. I actually suspect the amount stolen from us is way higher. We are being robbed blind and absolutely nothing is done about it

@thecurioustales Sounds like the beginning of a con-game. How much do you think you can take the "mark" for ... a 100 grand?? 🤣🤦🏻

Everything you've ever stressed about existed entirely inside 1.4 kilograms of electrical meat sitting in a dark skull that has never once directly touched the outside world. Your brain receives no raw reality. Zero. It gets compressed electrical signals from sensory organs and then constructs a simulation it presents to you as "life." The color red doesn't exist in the universe. Your brain invented it as a way to label a specific wavelength. The solidity of the floor beneath your feet is mostly empty space interpreted as resistance. The continuous movie of your life is actually discrete frames stitched together by a brain that fills the gaps without telling you. You are not experiencing reality. You are experiencing your brain's best guess at reality, filtered through every trauma, belief, language, and cultural program installed in you before you were old enough to consent to any of it. Now apply that to your suffering. That embarrassing memory from seven years ago that still visits you at 2am lives nowhere in the physical universe. It is a electrochemical pattern your brain keeps reconstructing and relabeling as present danger. Your anxiety about the future is a simulation of a simulation. A story about a story. The harshest truth is not that life is hard. It is that most of the life you are experiencing was authored by processes completely invisible to your conscious mind, and you have been treating that authored fiction as gospel reality your entire existence. You are not who you think you are. You are who your nervous system was trained to narrate. The cage was never real. Only the belief in it was.