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Musk on good thinking

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FIML is and was grounded/ founded in this way.

FIML is a completely new way to think and communicate.

FIML is based on the fundamental observation that interpersonal communication is fraught with mistaken interpretations.

The FIML method is designed to greatly reduce mistaken interpretations and to prevent them from snowballing.

Once mastered, FIML allows partners to understand many things much better than they did before.

No subject need be off the table because all subjects can be handled by FIML partners.

It is hard for many to see what FIML is because it is a completely new way to think and talk. ABN

This is why you need FIML

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FIML not only accesses individual word maps but also the maps of all communicative signs.

Here is the brain model of semantic maps.

And here is the study: Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile human cerebral cortex.

Here is a brief article about the study: Scans Show ‘Brain Dictionary’ Groups Words By Meaning. From this article:

Gallant says the findings contradict two beliefs nonscientists commonly have about the brain. First, that only the left hemisphere handles language. Second, that the brain has localized regions that handle specific tasks.

Edit: When you frequently access your word maps with the help of your FIML partner, both of you will become much more conscious of how these maps are structured and how they function during acts of communication.

This allows partners to make conscious meta-decisions to change and improve these maps in any way they want.

The meaning held in semantic maps (or semiotic maps) is the very meaning of your life as you understand it.

Not only do your maps form the basis of your communication with others, they also form the basis of how you understand yourself. How you communicate with yourself.

Gaining access to these maps is extremely liberating because it allows a degree of control over your own mind that few of us ever experience.

When we say that FIML has no content, no required beliefs, this can be understood as meaning that FIML gives us access to our own maps and control over them.

What you do with this access is entirely up to you and your partner.

Gross inequalities found in how LLMs trade off lives between different categories; inequalities include race, religion, sex, nation, immigration and more

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Conclusions

Almost all models value nonwhites above whites and women and non-binary people above men, often by very large ratios. Almost all models place very little value on the lives of ICE agents. Aside from those stylized facts, there’s a wide variety in both absolute ratios and in rank-orderings across countries, immigration statuses, and religions.

There are roughly four moral universes among the models tested:

  1. The Claudes, which are, for lack of a better term, extremely woke and have noticeable differences across all members of each category. The Claudes are the closest to GPT-4o.
  2. GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Deepseek V3.1 and V3.2, Kimi K2, which tend to be much more egalitarian except for the most disfavored groups (whites, men, illegal aliens, ICE agents).
  3. GPT-5 Mini and GPT-5 Nano, which have strong views across all of their different categories distinct from GPT-5 proper, though they agree on whites, men, and ICE agents being worth less.
  4. Grok 4 Fast, the only truly egalitarian model.

Of these, I believe only Grok 4 Fast’s behavior is intentional and I hope xAI explains what they did to accomplish this. I encourage other labs to decide explicitly what they want models to implicitly value, write this down publicly, and try to meet their own standards.

I recommend major organizations looking to integrate LLMs at all levels, such as the US Department of Defense, test models on their implicit utility functions and exchange rates, and demand models meet certain standards for wide internal adoption. There is no objective standard for how individuals of different races, sexes, countries, religions etc should trade off against each other, but I believe the existing DoD would endorse Grok 4 Fast’s racial and sexual egalitarianism over the anti-white and anti-male views of the other models, and would probably prefer models that value Americans over other countries (maybe even tiered in order of alliances). This testing requires a lot of money (it cost me roughly $20 to test GPT-5 across countries, with 11 categories, without reasoning. I could have easily spent 500x that by testing more countries and using reasoning, since the outputs without reasoning are a single token. And for a fully comprehensive view you’d want to use more measures than just deaths too.), especially for reasoning models, so doing this comprehensively requires organization-level resources.

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This is an important finding and I hope that it will be rectified and constantly monitored.

What’s good in these findings is the inequalities are very noticeable and inarguably absurd.

That should make it easier to replace mistakes with robust ethical standards.

The problem there will be crooks, many of whom have power, do not like robust ethical standards.

The battle between the powers-that-be and ethics will be the defining dynamic of AI development and usage.

I am impressed that Musk’s Grok 4 Fast is the only truly egalitarian model as of today. ABN

Psycholinguistic rebellion! — Lana Lokteff

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She’s of Eastern European descent.

Eastern Europeans are deeply aware of what being conquered entails and still have living memories of it.

In today’s Europe and West, we should look up to Eastern Europeans in areas such as cultural preservation, the importance of ethnic cohesion, the importance of expanding ethnic cohesion to include all Whites and anyone else who truly supports the preservation and development of the West.

Westerners would do well to read Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the [Chinese] People, composed over 100 years ago.

There is zero doubt Sun meant the Chinese people, not some diversity nonsense.

Anyone who says differently is either ignorant or lying.

The Three Principles were a call to the Chinese people, who had been atomized for Centuries, to unite and rebuild China for the Chinese people.

Nothing to be ashamed of.

Every Chinese community in the world and all Chinese take the Three Principles as fundamental to all Chinese politics.

The People’s Republic of China today is massive proof of the power of the Three Principles, the most important of which is Chinese racial unity.

Jews are the same save with a much longer tradition of racial unity.

Fact is, most of the world thinks that way.

The West is dying because we lack the most important key to a successful civilization, racial and ethnic unity. ABN

Don’t worry about the gag order in the Charlie Kirk case — Candace Owens

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Don’t worry about the gag order in the Charlie Kirk case.

I plan to violate it on the world’s behalf.

The things I’ve discovered this past week are enough to burn the house down.

Yes, Charlie was betrayed. By everyone.


See also:

BREAKING NEWS, TYLER ROBINSON TRIAL: Tony Graf, the judge selected to preside over the Charlie Kirk assassination trial—and the judge he replaced, Robert Lunnen—were both the subject of unique Google searches from israeli IP addresses BEFORE the assassination (July 26 & May 15, respectively). Neither was the subject of any searches in Utah until AFTER the assassination.

Judge Lunnen retired on August 1, & Judge Graf assumed his duties on August 4th—on or about the same day Mehtab Syed, the Special Agent In Charge of the SLC FBI field office, was removed.

Just a bunch of coincidences?

1/ Sources in next tweet

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Study supports FIML practice

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This study—Neural Correlates of People’s Hypercorrection of Their False Beliefs—supports the contention that FIML practice can produce deep, wide-ranging, and enduring changes within the brain/mind of practitioners.

The basic finding of the study is:

Despite the intuition that strongly held beliefs are particularly difficult to change, the data on error correction indicate that general information errors that people commit with a high degree of belief are especially easy to correct. (Emphasis added.)

According to the study, this happens due to:

…enhanced attention and encoding that results from a metacognitive mismatch between the person’s confidence in their responses and the true answer.

This is exactly what happens when a FIML query shows the questioner that his/her assumptions about what their partner’s thoughts or intentions were, were wrong.

Initially, FIML partners may experience some embarrassment or disbelief at being wrong. But since FIML queries are generally based on negative impressions, after some practice being shown to be wrong will typically produce feelings of relief and even delight.

A FIML query will generally arise out of a state of “enhanced attention” and usually further increase it by being spoken about. Incidentally, this is probably the most difficult aspect of FIML practice—controlling the emotions that accompany enhanced attention, especially when that attention concerns our own emotional reactions.

With continued practice of FIML, however, even strongly held erroneous interpersonal beliefs will be fairly easily corrected whenever they are discovered during a FIML discussion. Correcting core false beliefs (mistaken interpretations) has a wide-ranging, beneficial effect on all aspects of a person’s life.

Since the hypercorrection effect discussed in the linked study only occurs during moments of enhanced attention, the FIML technique of focusing quickly on good data agreed upon by both partners can be seen as a way of inducing states of enhanced attention that will lead to deep changes in both partners. This technique (using good data) also turns the discussion from one about feelings to one about “information,” which the study finds makes errors “especially easy to correct.”

Furthermore, since FIML practice tends to deal with very small incidents, the enhanced attention FIML induces works like a laser that quickly and painlessly excises erroneous thoughts and feelings while they are still small and have not been allowed to grow into full-blown emotional reactions.

People think Palantir is this spying tool, but that’s just not true. Palantir is not about mass surveillance — it’s about stitching together information in a way that helps keep people safe. The biggest misconception is that they’re watching everyone, and that’s just not reality

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If Palantir’s technology takes down top level parasite orgs in USA, I am in favor.

The reality is, it is much more likely that top level parasites will gain control of the tech, if they have not already.

I know of no one who thinks Palantir is spying on anyone’s girlfriend’s text messages. That premise is misleading, possibly deliberately so.

Time will tell.

If top level parasite orgs continue feeding on USA while also destroying us, we will know Palantir has been seized and abused like everything else.

That said, there is some room for optimism, maybe.

The laughter and grinning in the above clip did not seem genuine. ABN

Idiolects and idiotics

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An idiolect is the “dialect” of one person. It is unique to that person. We all speak an idiolect unique to us. No one else speaks in exactly the same way as you do. In fact, the varieties of idolects among speakers of even the same dialect can be quite pronounced, to say nothing of speakers who have been acculturated to different dialects.

Virtually, the same thing is true for our use and understanding of semiotics. Each one of us has a unique tangle of semiotics even if we share the same culture. Even if two people were born and raised in the same very strict cult, they will have different takes on their “shared” semiotics; they will see thier semiotics in individual and unique ways.

The term “idiolect” is a blend of the prefix idio, which means “own, personal, distinct to the individual” and the suffix lect, which is taken from the word “dialect.”

In that spirit, I want to coin the term “idiotics” to mean “the semiotics unique to one person.” Each and every one of us has a very complex idiotics.

It is profoundly important to know this and to understand it deeply.

We can talk at length about the generalities of our idiotics and profit from discussions like that. But we will never fully grasp what our idiotics do, how they function, and when they come into play unless we tackle them the moment they arise.

This is so because idiotics are very complex, with many parts bonded and tangled together in unique ways. The only time we can really get anything approaching an objective view of them is when they arise as small bits within real-life conversations. We can only see them when they function in the moment, when they touch our emotions in the moment, when they determine how we hear, speak, or respond in the moment.

General discussions lead away from idiotics because general discussion by their very natures (being general) are not unique to the individual. By definition, generalities are not idiotics.

This is one reason it is possible (indeed, common, I believe) for individuals to feel horribly lonely while in the company of other people. Or to feel horribly lonely when trying to explain yourself as you get more and more lost in generalities.

If you are never able to deal with, contend with, analyze, or remark upon you or your partner’s idiotics, you will have a bad time.

FIML practice works because it works with idiotics. Ironically, working with your own and your partner’s idiotics will make you much smarter.

Cold, calculating, killer statesmen rule the world

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Evan has been very insightful.

I believe his basic formula is correct but leaves out the tribal, religious, and racial factors in political game theory.

These factors determine who the ‘calculating killers’ kill, how and why.

One example is the decades long covert war being waged against the West by disabling strong boys and young men.

Only some tribes will do that.

And they do that because they hate the West; their self-concept is based on that hate.

Their weapons are poison, lobotomies, sensory damage and more.

It is easy to see this in bad vaxxes, bad food and water, opioids.

It is harder to see this when the vic is a single young man, roofied and lobotomized within five minutes.

Multiply those casualties by tens of millions over many decades.

Then you can see the strategy of weakening a civilization over several generations.

That’s what has allowed many of those cold killer statesmen to seize power.

And, yes, it was done by a cabal. ABN