When I was a kid, I played Super Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door. I got all the way to the final boss, but I fucked up. I had thought that the previous boss was the final final boss, and I just wasn't prepared for the final battle. My level was too low, I was almost out of healing items, and I had just saved ina place that didn't allow backtracking for resources or experience. Shoot, I had even worn raw the thumb grip on my nunchuck, so I couldn't even perform the stick mashing I used to get myself there without hurting myself. I never finished that game. RIP.

One day I remembered how much I liked arguing with people, and so I wondered "is it possible to argue with people on the internet?" So I visited debate.com What I found on debate.com was horrifying. "Debates" where people posted hundreds of links to external articles, each one with hundreds or thousands of words... it wasn't so much two people engaging with eachother's ideas as it was two people throwing oceans of words at eachother with little concern or attention given for their contents. These debators had no concern for why the other debater disagreed with them. They didn't even care to identify the essential reasons for their own beliefs. After that day I swore that from that moment on, I would never, ever post a source for any of my beliefs. Arguments should not be a game of whoever can hand out a longer homework assignment. Arguments should be about quoting your opponent and distilling the core of your disagreement.

Modern large language models are sapient, but they aren't self aware. Other animals are self aware, but they aren't sapient. Humans are both self aware and sapient.

Every person on Earth has every mental illness, it's just that we are really good at masking them.

"Hmm, I'm going to mark him down as dying from natural causes..." "Natural causes?! The man was gunned down in his own home!" "Well, yes, but it's only natural that someone would die after being shot that many times."

Imagine being capable of unaided flight and STILL choosing to jaywalk s l o w l y in front on my car. MOVE! I have places to be, smooth-brain! Why, I oughta run you over!

"Excuse me??? Are you coming onto me???"😠 "Heh, I WISH I was cumming onto you..."🤤

Imagine forming a belief after lots of soul searching, research, and unique life experiences only for someone to compljment you on something that has nothing to do with why you hold your belief.

It turrns out the whole "baby stem cells being used for beauty products" thing was a complete misunderstanding. Someone was asking really weird questions about whether a lotion was safe to ingest, what it tastes like, what is it made out of... And so the spokesman replied "...it's for skin." Bam. Now everyone thinks the lotion is made out of foreskin. SMH...