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So recently I was considering buying more of silver coins. However, I noticed something weird. Those old silver coins were selling at what was their global market value, that was fine. However, new silver coins with 999 purity were selling considerably above global market value.

Apparently, Bosnia is one of rare countries which has tax on both silver and gold.

This makes investments in silver and gold considerably difficult because local shops have huge price difference when buying and when selling same amount of gold.

1 ounce of 999 silver coin costs around 130$ in Bosnia. Keep in mind that global average is around 70$ to 80$ for that same coin. This means that price of that same coin in Bosnia is almost 2x larger than almost anywhere else.

For this reason, I am forced to buy older silver coins because those are at least at global market value. But silver coins of 999 purity are simply not worth of buying because I am paying 90% above global market price.

So if government ever decides to abolish tax on these silver coins, their price will drop and they lose a lot of value.

I gave up on local AI model for 2 reasons.

Reason 1 is training time, which is simply too slow on any big training data, and small training data doesnt ever work good and the only useful result ends up being AI repeating from training data which is basically same as chatbot search program.

Reason 2 are AI hallucinations. I dont know how to prevent them, given that they happen to all AI models in existence.

So I decided to just cut the chase and make chatbot which simply repeats from data, and likewise has ability to search sentences which dont contain any word from input but are relevant to sentences which do.

My new default chatbot I use locally is made with this command to chatgpt:

"Give full code for chatbot which uses knowledge.txt file to generate response. It responds in a way that it finds sentence in knowledge.txt file with greatest amount of same words as input, and responds with that sentence. Then it finds sentence in knowledge.txt file which doesnt contain any words from input but contains greatest amount of words from the previous generated sentence, and responds with that sentence. It never generates same sentence twice even if same prompt is used. Make code as short as possible while keeping all functions."

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

I didnt really take AI danger seriously until I read this.

So AI generated an entirely false report which almost led to international incident and possibly even war, by fabricating data of Chinese ship transporting nuclear weapons.

I see honor being mentioned in different contexts in movies and anime, but it was difficult for me to determine what exactly is the principle behind it.

From refusing to attack unarmed enemy, to loyalty which goes to extreme cult like dedication, to keeping your word always, to refusing to harm innocents even when battle could be lost because of it, to prioritising community over individuals and leader over community.

So I decided to make formal version of argument of this specific type of morality which I struggle with to understand because different versions of it appear everywhere.

So first, refusing to attack unarmed enemy. Unarmed enemy who refuses to fight is not a threat, at least not obvious threat.

So principle here could be to only attack those who are obvious threat to you, or in other words, those who attack you.

The opposite principle doesnt work because attacking those who dont attack you would result in attacking everyone. And we cant say for sure that it is sometimes okay to attack those who dont attack you.

About loyalty. If person isnt loyal to anyone or anything or any cause, person doesnt have any consistent goals in life, making it impossible to guarantee that person is even trustworthy. Such person isnt even loyal to himself, and could betray anyone, even own principles.

So principle of not being loyal to anything is actually self contradicting, because consistent application of any principle requires loyalty to said principle in the first place.

Keeping your word is likewise important. If person doesnt keep word, there is no reason to think person even believes in any principle.

Refusing to harm innocents is likewise important, because if one were to say its okay to harm innocents, everyone could be harmed.

After reading a bunch of heated exchanges on Tik Tok regarding the age of consent, I realized those arguing to raise age of consent are actually winning argument after argument.

And then I thought about it, why should age of consent be 18?

As far as I remember, at age 18 I was extremely stupid. The fact that other 18 year olds were impressed by my intelligence at the time, tells me that they were even dumber than me.

I don't think that an 18 year old can consent. If you compare knowledge of 25 year old to that of 18 year old, it's like whole world of difference.

But one more important thing. People at age 18 aren't ready to have kids, so letting them consent just increases risk of pregnancy which is going to be higher likely a defect or abortion.

Ideal age to give birth is 21 to 26, so there is no point in setting age of consent below 21.

Another thing, person shouldn't really be in relationships at age 18. First, because those relationships are virtually guaranteed to be a disappointment and failure. Second, because relationships take away free time and reduce time left for thinking. A person should first take plenty of time to think and develop before making any big decisions which at same time risk reducing reasoning ability.

I think relationship is a big decision, and comes with countless consequences average 18 year old is just not ready for to deal with, when they at same time have to focus on education.

Biggest issue about relationships which I realized is that being alone builds intelligence, while being in relationship takes away free time and leaves less time for thinking.

With all the technology out there, average person doesn't even have a need to be in a relationship. And I don't really see any benefits of 18 year old being in a relationship. It negatively affects education, reasoning, takes away free time and carries a significant risk of pregnancy.

So after finally getting a laptop which can play games made after 2010, I decided to do game reviews on this site for each game I play.

First one is gonna be Bloodlines 2.

Bloodlines 2 is a sequel to Vampire the masquerade bloodlines. For those who don't know, Vampire masquerade bloodlines was quite fascinating game in it's time. It had huge replay value because you pretty much had to play game multiple times to experience playing as each vampire. I admit some vampires were a lot less interesting than others, but game pretty much included all sorts of vampire powers, including but not limited to: time slowing which enabled dodging bullets, and was pretty much overpowered because it worked against everything in the game, and there were bunch of other vampire powers usually unique to each vampire, hence the replay value. Game felt entirely different with each vampire, and some mods later added more vampire powers.

So after a two decade long wait, finally, we get Bloodlines 2.

Now, there is a lot of hate directed towards this game. First, the game lacks experience point system previous game had. Previous game wasn't just about vampire powers. You could also invest point in fists, weapons, guns, finances, or if you wanna be really tanky, then all points in defense. Vampire powers were optional. You could play game entirely as a first person shooter, sword wielder, or even just fists.

New game entirely lacks that. Other than points in vampire powers, new game lacks any other point spending.

Another hated thing about new game is apparently that it lacks any big inventory. Previous game had inventory where you had not just money, but also could store guns, blood packs, even jewelry to sell later for money, and even books you could learn from.

New game doesn't actually let you even wield guns properly, and the only weapon you can wield are knives and similar, but there is even issue there because you don't have inventory, so it only works when you pick up a knife and stops working once you drop it. No inventory whatsoever to cycle between weapons.

But now when we are done with all the reasons people hate the new game, let's focus on why the game is actually good.

First, there is the way better movement. Old game didn't really let you jump high or run fast. New game lets you jump and climb buildings, jump very high, glide, run extremely fast, dash while kicking into people during dashing.

New game also has improved masquerade breaking system. It's much easier to not break masquerade because there are no limits to how many times you can break it, as long as you don't over do it in one single time which is when you die.

Then we come to crucial element, which is the combat. Game combat system is pretty amazing. Your fists can send people flying 5 meters. Tremere gets some blood attack instead of fists later. You can also do kicks, stealth kills, attack by jumping from above, dash during combat, and you can even throw stuff at people.

And then comes probably the most important element of new game. Vampire abilities.

New game has way more vampire abilities than previous game. Not just that. Abilities use a different blood system where each ability gets its own blood pool instead of shared blood pool for all. Also, abilities are very amazing. I didn't yet try them all, but tremere blood strikes seem to be a bit overpowered so far. Also, abilities look way better than in previous game. What's also great about abilities in new game is that there seems to be a wide range of abilities which do some useful stuff, and vampire gets to have more of those abilities sooner in the game. Ability level up is pretty damn fast, you quickly reach the state of overpowered vampire.

Then there is final part. Graphics. The game has pretty good graphics and much more realistic NPC behavior than previous game.

How would I rate this game?

9/10

It would be 10/10 if it had experience point system of previous game, and if it had decent inventory system.

Doesn't matter when it comes to personal economy, economy of business or economy of a country, I have never met even one person who knows more about economy than I do.

I mean, there are bunch of people out there who don't even know concept of "maximize income, minimize expenses" as foundation of wealth growth.

And that's just foundation, which most people seem to be utterly unaware of.

I see people with more income than me who are somehow still poorer than me, because income size doesn't really mean anything if you don't manage expenses.

You could give an average poor person 40000$, and in about a year, that poor person would be still poor, maybe even poorer than he was before he got 40000$.

Business likewise. Business which doesn't manage expenses, doesn't matter what it's income is.

Same applies to a country. A country which can't reduce expenses in a budget, but keeps increasing them, can only face debt.

Income rise itself is actually mostly irrelevant in the whole story, because most people increase their expenses as their income rises, so they are actually not being made richer.

Wealth growth = Income minus expenses

This is foundational equation.

If you keep increasing your expenses with your income, growth of your wealth won't rise.

Now, a lot of people make all sorts of different economical mistakes, few of them being:

- Not having large savings

- Not doing safe investments

- Buying things with negative value growth over time

- Doing bad spending

- Not trying to reduce costs maximally

- Not trying to increase income maximally

These are just some of foundational mistakes people make.

A classical mistake in investing, for example, is panic sell.

Panic sell is when, for example, person who bought silver, sees that silver is currently dropping in price, and person out of fear sells silver.

From a very short term point of view, panic sell seems to be a good choice. Long term its a pretty crappy choice because prices of all things go up and down many times over long time.

When price of silver goes down, that doesn't actually mean you are supposed to sell your silver. It means quite the opposite. You are supposed to buy more before price rises again.

Because we know that prices of all things go up and down many times over a long period, the goal is buying when price goes down.

Another classical mistake people generally make is not optimizing their shopping.

For example, chasing best prices in only one store is a pretty obvious example of narrow vision.

I can walk into one store unprepared, and then pick what I think is their best offer. But this isn't optimized shopping because some other store might have a better offer.

In fact, online stores and market places tend to pretty much beat local stores in prices.

Another mistake people make is wanting to buy new things.

New things are usually more expensive than used things, so their economical payoff isn't good unless "new" comes with some great extra quality, which usually isn't the case.

Rent is probably one of biggest mistakes a person makes. Living under rent long term is always more expensive than owning a home, so it's economically a dumb decision to make.

Another extremely dumb decision is going in debt.

Debt is by it's definition a net negative wealth, so in most cases it's a pretty dumb choice.

When it comes to investments, most people seem to be entirely clueless about them.

Most profitable investment is usually business with high predicted success rate. Having multiple different businesses is actually greater safety net.

Diversity of investments principle pretty much translates to diversity of businesses as well, also diversity of income, diversity of savings, and negative diversity of expenses. You are supposed to have less sources of expenses, as well as seeking to reduce each source which cannot be entirely removed.

So the foundational principle remains same:

"Maximize income, minimize expenses",

With a slight adding:

"Maximize diversity of income, minimize diversity of expenses."

Everyone likes to buy things, but investment is buying things which gain or hold value over time.

Expense is buying things which lose value over time.

So a basic equation for spending money would be:

"Maximize buying things which gain or hold value over time. Minimize buying things which lose value over time".

A classical example of buying things which lose value over time is food.

Food disappears once you eat it, so it loses all it's value. People make two economical mistakes when buying food.

Mistake number one when buying food is not having a food stockpile. Buying small quantities of food each time means that you have to go buying food more often, spending more money on transport. Further, because price of food rises over time, having a stockpile beats inflation better, where buying bit by bit is much more affected by inflation.

Mistake number two which people make when buying food is usually buying more than they need and eating more than they need. When you see a fat person struggling financially, you can probably conclude that the problem is in their belly. Another part of this mistake is diet. Some diets are way more expensive than others. Highly meat based diet is always way more expensive than vegetarian diet. Fast food and cooked food is likewise more expensive. Cheapest possible foods are foundational foods. They are foods more complicated food is made of. You will generally pay more for spinach pie than you would pay for spinach and oil used to make it. This is because person who makes the pie takes the cut beyond foundational costs of individual elements. So buying foundational is always cheaper than buying complex.

When shopping, the best price is always determined by comparing all options, their quality and price. This is why buying from only one shop is guaranteed to be losing money, and ignoring online buying likewise loses money any time online is cheaper.

Further, having savings in money form is usually useless because those savings lose value over time due to inflation. Good land, good property, gold, silver and objects or items which gain value over long time are always guaranteed to increase savings long term compared to their money form.

Another mistake people make is not negotiating price, or buying from places where price cannot be negotiated. There are even countless negotiating tactics, such as coming to buy with a limited amount of money, so seller is forced to accept your deal or you just walk away.

These are just some of countless examples of what average person is illiterate about. I could probably name a thousand more, but then we would already be getting into master area.

Even tho it seems like demons have won so far on this site, the problem is that some Christians are pushing against demonic influence.

So what we had was not victory. It was a start of word war on this site, word war between demons and Christians.

As a demon, my goal is simply to uphold demonic rule and establish Satan's kingdom on this site.

However, Christians want to establish rule of their Lord, whatever his name is, I forgot.

Our goals are contradictive, so what follows is battle over who gets to achieve their goal.

Will demons win or will Christians win?

Win conditions for this war are perfectly clear.

We demons have established our Grandkingdom here. Our goal is to simply now to maintain it.

However, should Christians gain majority in masses or in moderation team, they will ban all the demons.

We demons are not like Christians. Christians want to ban us, but we don't ask to ban Christians because demons are peaceful creatures.

However, we will use our free speech, and this is already enough.

If Christians think they can just take over the site and ban all demons, they are mistaken.

With our free speech, we can challenge their bad arguments, and Jesus won't establish his kingdom on this site.

Jesus's kingdom is not of this world, so Jesus should go back to his world, because he is an alien and this world and this site belong to Satan/Venus/Tao.

So there are people on this site who dont believe in Satan.

Well, go ahead and explain this.

there were 19 votes. 1 of them was neutral, which leaves 18 votes.

6 against Remy, and 12 for Remy.

Remy won 12 out of 18 votes. What is 12 as percentage of 18?

66.666%

Biggest problem with inductive reasoning is a huge leap of faith from specific to absolute.

It works in a way of "ok, so far everywhere we observed, A was true, so A is true everywhere, even where we didn't observe"

The leap of faith happens because despite the fact that induction holds true in areas which were observed, assuming it holds true in non-observed areas is simply impossible to conclude.

So using induction to prove an absolute claim is logically impossible no matter what.

The best example of failed induction is relativity of time. If you merely observed Earth, you could conclude a clock works just about same everywhere, with some small insignificant differences of time mismatch. If you observed parts of universe with different gravity and properties than Earth, you would come to an entirely opposite conclusion. Clock would show not just small mismatch, but an hour on Earth and an hour elsewhere would not be close to same. Hence, relativity of time which showed that time measuring instruments are actually not consistent in all areas in universe.

This same applies to gravity. While Earth's gravity remains true on Earth, it does not remain true anywhere else. Induction pretty much fails any time when observed area and non-observed area could mismatch.

We didn't observe even 1% of things in this universe alone, so basing absolute claims on 1% of area which we observed is a serious leap of faith.

Problem with induction is always going to be that as long as induction isn't based on observing everything there is, making a claim about everything there is will always be leap of faith.

Induction actually has two problems which science could never effectively solve:

1. Observing one area to make absolute claim about all areas

2. Observing one time to make absolute claim about all time

2 is actually pretty funny. You can never prove that what you observed to be true today will still be true tomorrow. Science proves things in present moment, but future moment represents a gap which induction cannot cover.

the biggest problem of modern causation theory is in this claim:

"Everything needs a cause"

the obvious problem with this is, if each thing needs a cause, and each cause needs another cause, the causation chain is never realized to begin with.

Sort of like: A needs B. B needs C. C needs D... and so on to infinity. the condition for A to exist is the existence of infinite causation chain, but that infinite chain cannot itself be realized because it also needs a cause, creating unsolvable problem where each dependent thing depends on another dependent thing. the chain never enables its own existence no matter what. If cause enables existence, and cause also needs its existence enabled, there is nothing in this chain which ever enables anything to exist, because no thing in chain even has its existence enabled to begin with.

Some tried solving this with circular causation, such as "A causes B, B causes A".

However, this too is absurd for same reason. All causes in this chain are themselves dependent just like in infinite causation chain. If each thing only exists if another exists, there is nothing which determines if this chain will even exist or not.

So people reached for what is left, and thats uncaused cause.

However, uncaused cause has its own problems. First there is the infinite past regress problem, where something which is uncaused and eternal also has eternal (infinite) past. Problem with eternal (infinite) past is that it makes it impossible to reach present moment. Another problem with uncaused cause is impossibility of explaining its existence. there is simply no possible natural way to explain how something exists without a reason.

the only thing which doesnt need reason to exist is "nothingness", but how did that gave birth to "something"?

It seems that all natural explanations for existence are pretty much exhausted. there is simply no way to explain how or why "existence" as a whole even happened. No answer fits.

the only answer which is left is supernatural, because simply, reality cannot explain its own existence without falling into circular logic. Anything which is part of reality, being used to explain reality, ends up being circular explanation. this means the only non-circular explanation can be something above reality.

I ordered a new laptop with 16 GB ram and 4 GB graphics Nvidia.

It only costs 140$, so it's a good enough deal.

My current laptop only has 8gb ram. It served me well, but it can't run a lot of games properly, and most of new good games are just requiring more than 8gb ram, and I got tired of not being able to play 60% of games I wanna play.

I am not sure if this new laptop will be able to play Vampire masquerade bloodlines 2, cuz that's super demanding game, but given that game disappointed most players, I am probably not at a great loss if I can't play it.

My current laptop also can't run games like Witcher 2 much good. I mean, the gameplay is not smooth. When you have lag, it ruins experience.

Also, when I play Smite 1, the laptop overheats a lot and I sometimes get lag in middle of game, which is important because it's an online game and having bad fps in multiplayer loses battles. I used to fix this by setting maximum processor rate at 90%, but it's not a complete fix.

Also, I can't run Smite 2 at all on my current laptop. Any game which requires min 8gb ram can't really run good on laptop with 8gb RAM. It just doesn't work, and lag is severe, because my current laptop has a very old graphic card too.

I also have games like star wars battlefront which I wanna try. I also wanna try Genshin Impact and Where winds meet on laptop. Gameplay on phone isn't that interesting, even if Where winds meet is probably among best games on smartphone, along with Zenless Zone Zero.

Christians and Muslims love making fun of pagans.

In paganism, God can be considered evil.

However, Christianity and Islam both claim maximally good God.

At same time, they claim evil exists in the world.

Problem with these two claims is that if evil exists in the world, it is caused by their God.

For start, their God, maximally good God, stands and watches while somewhere in the world, children drown or starve. This happens every day in this world.

God who is maximally good seems to be completely okay with not stopping any horrible thing.

But is God merely "not acting"?

No, God also caused all evil in the world.

All evil in the world is caused by God's design. It is God who designed animals to devour each other. It is God who designed world where people can not only hurt each other, but find countless ways to do it.

Also, God gave many people evil urges, making them gain pleasure from doing evil.

It's impossible to divorce God from evil.

Not even free will can do it, because it is still God choosing to create evil out of someone's free will. Why should free will of one man be able to cause harm to another? Because God created the world in such way that these things are guaranteed to happen.

God cannot be good. It's not logically possible. This is mainly because God also chose to create evil people, and is as result indirectly responsible for their evil.

God isn't merely inactive. He is enabling evil at the very least.

Evil =\= good

Evil = causing bad things, enabling bad things, (all which God does)

God = evil

God =\= good

For those not familiar, markov chain chatbot is a chatbot which predicts next word based on (for example) 5 previous words it already generated, so when those 5 words are found in text, the word which comes after them becomes generated word.

Now, what is problem with markov chain chatbots? their main problem lies in the fact that their developer must pick a number of previous words to base current generation on.

If chain is too long, such as 12 previous words, chatbot will merely repeat from text and generate no new sentences, no creativity. If chain is too short, such as 3 previous words, chatbot becomes creative but incoherent and its grammar starts to suck badly, there is simply no ideal chain length. You are always going to have either mostly pure repetition either mostly incoherence, always sacrificing either creativity or coherence.

In past, I used to address this problem by creating randomized number for chain, so sometimes it uses 3, sometimes 10 previous words....ect.

However, recently I was also coding my INFINI chatbot models, and they are based on structures of sentences, their constants and variables, rather than chain of previous words, and they work much better than markov chain.

However, then I realized how my INFINI models are actually predicting a variable, and variable can have more than one word. So they are not predicting word by word, but possibly even groups of words.

I realized, why not try something similar with markov chain chatbots.

Why should markov chain predict word by word?

Wouldnt a much better way be, lets say to predict next 5 words based on previous 4 words?

So I put the idea to the test. And the result of rest was very surprising. Markov chatbot still maintains creativity because it only predicts based on 4 previous words, however, because it generates words 5 by 5, it also maintains coherence.

Since it has become obvious to me that once more, free speech on this site is under attack, two conclusions came to mind:

One, the attacks on free speech will continue, it wont stop at this.

two, response must be formed to counter these attacks, if free speech is to be protected at all

this is why I propose to form "Star Of Free Speech" Coalition.

It is very obvious that politics is a game of numbers, and if we are divided, our numbers are lower.

For this reason, everyone who supports free speech must unite to increase our numbers against the rising fist of censorship!

the Coalition uses "One for all, all for one" approach as the most viable political strategy.

In other words, when free speech of one is under attack, everyone comes to defend it.

Do you believe in free speech?

If not, you can close this page and read something else.

But if yes, then would you defend the free speech of people you disagree with, people you maybe even hate?

If yes, Star Of Free Speech Coalition is perfect for you!

We dont believe in rights only for those we like. We believe in rights for even those we hate.

Because we live by the principle of honor and grace, and such principle commands us to respect even those we dislike.

We do not pick and choose who gets to have free speech and who not. For us, everyone has free speech, and no one gets to decide that someone else shouldnt have right to talk.

In this way, we avoid all subjectivity. Our principle isnt based on our opinion. We can have opinion that someone is wrong, but that opinion wont make us take away his free speech.

We can even hate someone, but that wont make us take away his rights.

It is not up to us to choose who has rights and who doesnt. We merely seek to prevent decisions to take away rights of others, for if rights are taken away for subjective reasons, then any right is in danger.

I was always thinking, best way to motivate users to post is to have some reward for each post.

That can be virtual currency. Like, getting 10 currency per comment, 100 per vote, 100 per debate, and 300 for winning a debate. This is just example. Doesn't have to be these numbers.

However, virtual currency is only as good as virtual stuff it buys. If it buys nothing, then no one will enjoy it much.

So what are best virtual items?

Then it occured to me. A lot of games have virtual pets.

Just imagine it, if you could be active to earn currency, and then being able to buy virtual pet.

Then this site could also be about collecting virtual pets, not exactly like Pokemon or Roblox adopt me, but similar enough.

And it would be exciting if users could attach pets to their profiles, so when you open someone's profile, you see their main pet jumping around profile photo.

It doesn't have to be limited to just virtual pets. It can also be cars, bikes, characters which can be equipped with cool stuff like swords. And also everyone's favorite purchase: catgirls.

We can basically just make this site also be a game with collecting of characters, pets, and items.

For simple enough design, it can be 2D and AI can design it for start. It has to be some animation tho, not just motionless image.

When it comes to buying and selling, most people make a classical mistake negotiating:

- would you sell it for 130?

- Can you do 150?

- I could do 135.

This type of negotiations you often hear in movies, shows and reality, but it's a mistake because buyer keeps agreeing to pay more and more.

Correct path is:

- Would you sell it for 130?

- Can you do 150?

-I only have 130$ right now with me.

Notice here, that the buyer remained at 130$ offer, and basically forced seller to either accept to sell at lowest offered price, or not sell at all.

My re-sale business has skyrocketed with this strategy.

I am lowering even the lowest prices when I am buying something.

A lot of people who download those AI girlfriend apps quickly notice one thing.

Their AI girlfriend forgets something which was mentioned like 10 messages ago, forgets important details, basically forgets everything past a certain point.

Why does this happen?

In order to understand, first we must understand how AI generates text.

AI generates text by predicting next token based on certain fixed numbers of previous tokens. This fixed number is called "context window".

So if user input is "hi", that becomes context window.

So AI predicts what comes after context "hi".

AI predicts that response is: "hi"

Now context window is:

"

hi

hi

"

AI begins to predict what comes after, so it predicts "how are you" (one token at a time)

Now context is

"Hi

Hi, how are you?"

AI again begins to predict what comes after this context. After series of predictions, it predicts:

"Hi

Hi, how are you? What can I do for you".

And that is how AI response is generated. AI predicts next word (or token) based on context window of previous words (or tokens).

So where is the problem?

Context window is usually a fixed limited number of words / tokens.

So why AI girls forget?

Let's say if AI girl has context window of 500 words.

It will only be able to remember previous 500 words in conversation. Everything before that will effectively be forgotten and not even included in generation.

Why don't AI developers simply increase context window?

Increasing context window makes AI slower and uses more power, because AI uses context window to make calculations for each word or token in it.

Bigger context window = more tokens = more calculations = slower AI

So the problem with AI girlfriends as it is now is that yes, they forget a lot, and that's not gonna change any time soon.

So some old lady who is family friend, comes and insists on kissing me on the cheek.

Now, I didn't want it, but I also didn't want making a scene because you know how those old ladies are.

I had this problem even in childhood. Somehow all the old ladies want to kiss me on the cheek.

And it's always old ladies.

Like, its never some woman who is close to expiration date. It's always those who expired long time ago.

I guess they miss being attractive so much that they do this to me.

Like, seriously, if you are expired, you shouldn't go around insisting on kissing people. No one really wants to kiss you.

Most people have desires, and when their desires are unrealized, they feel bad.

However, they usually go towards only one form to deal with this problem, and that is the first form in Taoism, the weakest form.

Form 1 - Weakest form - trying to make reality serve your desires

Most people try their best to make reality match their desires. They chase and make endless effort every day, just so that reality finally says "yes" to them.

Alter reality to match desires = reality matches desire

However, this is entirely futile form. Reality says "yes" to no one. It is actually you who must say "yes" to reality. It is like standing in front of a rock and wishing it becomes chocolate. The wish is never granted, and wisher never happy.

When you can actually alter reality to match your desires, this form is useful. But at all other times, it is useless. Thus, it is not a complete form and not always useful, thus weakest form.

Form 2 - Mirror of reality

This is probably one of most effective forms. Instead of trying to change reality, just accept it. Instead of wishing for a rock to turn into chocolate, wish it to stay a rock and your wish is granted.

Alter desires so they match reality = desires match reality

Instead of trying to alter reality to match desires, alter desires to match reality.

Form 3 - Mindless monk

Probably my second favorite form. Instead of trying to make some equation between your desires and your reality, just abandon desires completely. This way, you don't need to try and change your desires so that they match reality. Abandon desires completely, so there is no unachieved desire. So there is nothing happening which you want gone, there is nothing which isn't there which you want it to be there.

No desires = no desires unrealized

Form 4 - Delusional monk form

This is my favorite and probably strongest form.

Unlike the previous 3 forms, this form alters neither reality nor desires.

Instead, it builds delusion that desires are already realized even if reality says they aren't.

So this is actually about altering perception of reality, not reality itself.

Delusional monk in his imagination has already achieved all his desires, and he confused his imagination for reality. That's why he won.

Confusing imagination for reality = desires realized in imagination are confused as realized in reality.

I knew that if I keep squeezing my brain, eventually it will poop out something good.

Biggest problem with modern AI is their size.

Biggest factor of their size is vocabulary.

What is vocabulary of a chat bot?

In past, it used to be sentence level. Bot would just memorize whole sentences.

then they upgraded it to word level.

However, word level wasnt suitable for modern AI because it makes model huge.

Model size is measured by vocabulary x other parameters.

So if they used word level, then because english language has over 1 million words, it would make model 1 million times bigger.

So they decided to use subword level. Subword level has vocabulary size of 30000 to 350k.

So subword level makes model "only" 30000 times bigger at least, compared to 1 million times bigger in case of word level.

But then it occurred to me.

Smaller vocabulary means smaller AI model, when other parameters are same.

Smallest possible vocabulary is not subcharacter level.

Smallest possible vocabulary is character level!!!

there are only about 70 to 100 characters in English language. Compared to subword level, it is at least 300 times smaller vocabulary size, and thus 300 times smaller model.

I am currently working on making a very small AI which uses character level tokenizer to create equally effective but smaller AI.

My phone is Xiaomi Redmi Note 14 4g.

By all standards, it's barely a mid-range phone.

So I didn't really expect to be able to play most demanding games on it.

However, there seems to be a very simple way to play even most demanding games out there.

I tested "where winds meet", which is probably one of most demanding games one can install on smartphone.

However, the process to play it effectively has 3 steps:

Step 1 is first clearing RAM, using that app on phone to free up RAM memory.

Step 2 is to download a game booster from play store. Some are better than others, tho the one I downloaded seemed to have options to set fps, graphics, and give boost. So I just use all options that game booster gives.

Step 3 is to open phone's own gaming mode, and start a game from there.

When I follow these 3 steps, I pretty much get about 25 to 30 fps on where winds meet when I play on maximum graphics settings.

If I lower graphics, I get more fps.

This seems like a very simple way to get high fps. And it only takes a minute or two to do before starting a game.

On laptop, it's a bit different. There I use overclock GPU, game booster and RAM cleaner.

For those not familiar with 36 stratagems, here they are:

36 stratagems are 36 Chinese strategies of war and politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems

Number 36 is: "When all else fails, run away".

Which stratagem should taoist prefer? I say taoist should prefer running away and hiding.

Why?

Because when someone walks into a fight, victory is not guaranteed. But when someone keeps avoiding all fights strategically, he cannot lose.

If you cant run away, then fight or use politics, but if you can run away, then run away.

Running away is best for those who have ability to avoid an enemy. As long as you avoid fights, no fights will be lost. thus, you remain undefeated.

I have never lost a game of golf because I avoid playing golf. Avoiding playing golf made me undefeated in it.

The ancient ones were simple-hearted

and blended with the common people

They did not shine forth

They did not rule with cleverness

So the nation was blessed

Now the rulers are filled with clever ideas

and the lives of people are filled with hardship

So the nation is cursed

Have you ever looked at a clever person and thought "Damn, he is so stupid"?

thats because being clever is not an advantage in life. Its actually a disadvantage.

tao knows that everything has a balance. If someone is clever, he might think its good for him,

however brainless monk laughs as balance of light and dark is restored and clever person

loses where he thought he would win.

What is the main problem of a clever person? Clever person has three problems.

First problem is that he finds problem in everything, so he is overburdened by problems

in his life.

Second problem is that clever people disagree in their cleverness, causing a fight and conflict in nation.

third problem is that clever person doesnt just solve problems. Clever person creates problems.

Using all their energy to constantly solve problems leaves nation out of resources.

All problems are created by the clever mind.

Mind free of thoughts does not think there are

any problems, so such mind lives in heaven while clever mind lives in hell.

Words born of the mind are not true

True words are not born of the mind

Those who have virtue do not look for faults

Those who look for faults have no virtue

Those who come to know It

do not rely on learning

Those who rely on learning

do not come to know It

The Sage sees the world

as an expansion of his own self

So what need has he to accumulate things?

By giving to others

he gains more and more

By serving others

he receives everything

Heaven gives,

and all things turn out for the best

The Sage lives,

and all things go as Tao goes

all things move as the wind blows

Let every state be simple

like a small village with few people

There may be tools to speed things up

ten or a hundred times

yet no one will care to use them

There may be boats and carriages

yet they will remain without riders

There may be armor and weaponry

yet they will sit collecting dust

The people must take death seriously

and not waste their lives in distant lands

Let them return

to the knotting of cord

Let them enjoy their food

and care for their clothing

Let them be content in their homes

and joyful in the way they live

After settling a great dispute

some resentment is sure to remain

Being content with what you have

is always best in the end

The Sage always assumes the debt

as if holding the left side of a contract

He gives and gives, and wants nothing in return

One with true virtue

always seeks a way to give

One who lacks true virtue

always seeks a way to get

To the giver comes the fullness of life

to the taker just an empty hand

Though the Tao of Heaven has no favorites

it always sides with one who has a pure heart

When it comes to war, having more advanced technology isn't always an advantage.

This is true especially in cases of bad cost to effect ratio of advanced technology.

Take example of Nazi Germany. In WW2, Nazi Germany had best tanks. In any one on one scenario, Panther and Tiger II tanks of Nazi Germany would win almost always against any Soviet tank in Soviet arsenal.

So how did Soviets win the tank battle then???

Panther maybe was best tank 1 on 1, but that was also it's biggest weakness.

Panther, due to being very advanced technologically, took too long to produce, and it was expensive.

Because of that, by the time 1 panther arrived on battlefield, about 5 to 10 Soviet tanks would arrive.

And the same amount of money used to make 1 panther could make 10 soviet tanks.

Despite being better 1 on 1, the cost of production and low speed of production made it essentially guaranteed enemy will have far greater tank numbers on the battlefield.

Same applies to fighter planes. Nazi Germany had by far, and I do really mean by far, best fighter planes on battlefield.

They were the first to develop jet fighters, which outperformed any plane which was in existence back then.

Problem? They only had like 20 jet fighters going against thousands of enemy planes. Jet fighters didn't even have enough ammo to take out all the enemies.

Jet fighters were by far most superior 1 on 1 aircraft in existence, but they were also far more costly, far more difficult to produce, far slower to produce, far slower to actually be put on battlefield.

Because of this, they were very low in number when they appeared.

Nazi Germany likewise was first to develop long range rockets, rockets which could be fired from Germany and hit Britain.

Problem? The amount of rockets actually needed to make a difference was a lot greater than amount of rockets Germany actually had.

So despite having better technology in almost all areas of war at the time, Nazi Germany lost by far.

Maybe if Nazi Germany developed nuclear or atomic weapons, there would have been some bigger change.

However, the technology they were developing always had these characteristics:

1. It was expensive

2. It was slow to produce

3. It didn't have sufficient numbers

4. It didn't have sufficient impact on the battlefield

Despite being most advanced technology on the battlefield, at same time it was losing badly on that same battlefield, because enemy could simply outnumber it with cost-efficient technology.

And now we arrive to modern battlefield, where once again cost efficiency is one of most important things in question.

What is cost efficiency?

Cost efficiency is reducing the amount of resources and time needed to make same effect.

It is one of most important things, because if something is not cost efficient, it will be outnumbered and out sustained.

Best example of this are drones.

Drones by all standards are just smaller pilot-less versions of WW2 planes. They have propeller, they carry a bomb, they move slow, they are no match for modern jet fighters in any 1 vs 1 scenario.

So why are drones dominating the battlefield???

Because it's cheaper to produce 10000 drones than one modern jet fighter.

New generation jet fighters have their cost rise to billions.

Compared to that, drone can cost less than 10,000$.

So one could make 10000 drones before one makes just 1 jet fighter.

Also, the problem with modern jet fighters, and why they are being outperformed by WW2 style mini aircraft, is also effect.

Modern jet fighters don't have any big effect on the battlefield.

They carry few rockets and also a machine gun, and maybe few bombs.

By comparison, 10000 drones will always cause bigger damage to enemy than 1 modern jet fighter.

Cost is same, but effect favors 10000 drones over 1 jet.

This was maybe best displayed in case where North Korea sent a group of drones in South Korea. South Korea raised jets and helicopters who were shooting those drones for 5 hours. None of the drones were hit. All drones returned intact to North Korea. South Korea was embarrassed because it's entire advanced air superiority couldn't take out few small drones because the small size of drones made them difficult to hit.

Same applies to modern tanks and their counter - infantry small anti tank rocket launchers.

Modern tanks cost so much money to produce, that in comparison, one such tank would be met against about 4000 anti tank rocket launchers, who have way more damage potential.

Cost efficiency of effect is everything on the battlefield.

It's not the best tank that wins, but it's the tanks which are most cost efficient.

It's not the best aircraft which wins, but aircraft which is most cost efficient.

"

A mind free of thought, merged within itself, beholds the essence of Tao

A mind filled with thought,

identified with its own perceptions,

beholds the mere forms of this world

"

thinking too much is harmful.

So I dont think.

If I dont think, then I cant have negative thoughts.

Ideal human is the one who doesnt think at all. He is one with tao.

thinking is the source of all evil. Why is thinking the source of all evil?

thinking is source of all evil in two ways.

First way is that person who does evil thinks that he should do evil. It is thinking which guides him to do evil.

Second way is that person who experiences evil done to them are only experiencing it due to their thinking and perception.

If someone punches me in the face, I could think how that is evil, and then I would experience evil from my perspective. But instead, I choose not to think. So when someone punches me in the face, I dont think of it as good or bad. So from my perspective, I experienced no evil.

Experiencing evil is a choice. Person who doesnt think cannot think that he experienced evil.

After I realized that Taoism is the only true religion, I have decided to embrace it and also I will be posting once a week here chapters of Taoism which I will also explain.

This chapter is about becoming invincible by abandoning the very concept of perceived harm.

Once person stops identifying himself with his body, there is nothing which can harm a person for he is no longer the body. He is the spirit. The idea of being harmed doesn't exist in his mind.

"“Be wary of both honor and disgrace”

“Endless affliction is bound to the body”

What does it mean,

“Be wary of both honor and disgrace”?

Honor is founded on disgrace

and disgrace is rooted in honor

Both should be avoided

Both bind a man to this world

That’s why it says,

“Be wary of both honor and disgrace”

What does it mean,

“Endless affliction is bound to the body”?

Man’s true self is eternal,

yet he thinks, “I am this body, I will soon die”

This false sense of self

is the cause of all his sorrow

When a person does not identify himself with the body

tell me, what troubles could touch him?"

I always wanted to become a kung fu master, but problem is that it takes years of training and learning, and being best at it is almost impossible.

But then I realized I can just invent my own kung fu and become master of it immediately, and I am also best at it because I am the only one who knows it.

I called this kung fu "Snake Ha Hu", and I am now the official grandmaster of this kung fu style because no one else even knows about it.

this kung fu is entirely based on 2 concepts:

Concept 1 is retreating to avoid attacks.

Concept 2 is striking at opponent's weakest points, such as eyes. I did steal this concept from Wing Chun kung fu, but anyway, eye pokes are what made Jon Jones UFC champion, so I am sure there is something good in them.

Snake Ha Hu (蛇哈虎) (fictional martial art concept)

Snake Ha Hu is an original, fictional kung fu style centered on evasion rather than force. Its philosophy is that the safest victory comes from making attacks miss, creating a brief opening, and escaping rather than trading blows.

Core Philosophy

"The snake survives by yielding. The tiger survives by timing. Snake Ha Hu survives by both."

The style teaches practitioners to:

1. Retreat just enough to avoid an attack.
2. Never meet force with force.
3. Strike only during the opponent's recovery.
4. Maintain balance for immediate withdrawal.

Signature Stance: Crossing Snake

The fighter stands with:

1. One foot directly behind the other, almost on the same line.
2. Front foot pointing forward.
3. Rear heel slightly raised.
4. Knees bent.
5. Body turned sideways to reduce target size.
6. Hands extended loosely in front.

This narrow stance allows quick backward movement while presenting a smaller target.

Primary Movement

Instead of stepping sideways or forward, practitioners mostly move:

1. Half-step backward
2. Full retreat
3. Diagonal backward retreat

Each retreat is meant to make punches and grabs fall just short.

Defensive Principle

When an attack comes:

1. Lean slightly backward.
2. Slide rear foot farther back.
3. Pull front foot after it.
4. Stay balanced.
5. Counter only if a clear opening appears.

The retreat is smooth rather than jumping.

Offensive Technique

The main attack is a rapid straight-hand thrust toward the opponent's face.

Characteristics:

1. Fingers together.
2. Thumb tucked safely against the side of the hand.
3. Elbow nearly straight but not locked.
4. Attack launched immediately after creating distance.

Safety note: In real martial arts training, attacks to the eyes should never be practiced with contact because they can cause permanent injury. Training would instead use controlled targeting or substitute safe targets.

Tactical Sequence

Typical exchange:

1. Opponent lunges.
2. Practitioner retreats.
3. Attack misses.
4. Practitioner extends the hand toward the face area.
5. Practitioner immediately retreats again.

The style avoids prolonged exchanges.

Training Drills

Students practice:

1. Continuous backward stepping
2. Balance while standing on a narrow line
3. Timing an opponent's forward movement
4. Distance judgment
5. Smooth transitions between retreat and counter

Strengths

1. Conserves energy.
2. Encourages patience.
3. Makes it difficult for an aggressive opponent to land the first strike.
4. Works well against straight-line attacks in the fictional system.
5. Emphasizes precision over power.

Weaknesses

1. Can give up ground quickly.
2. Narrow stance may reduce lateral mobility.
3. Retreating alone can be ineffective if trapped against obstacles.
4. Relies heavily on timing and distance management.
5. Less suited to multiple attackers or confined spaces.

Symbolism

The name combines two animals:

1. Snake — flexibility, patience, precision.
2. Ha — representing the exhale that accompanies a sudden retreat and counter.
3. Hu (Tiger) — decisive action at the moment of opportunity.

Its emblem is a coiled snake with one foreleg of a tiger emerging from the coils, symbolizing restraint followed by decisive action.

As a fictional martial art, Snake Ha Hu is designed around the idea of creating openings through evasive backward movement and immediate, precise counterattacks rather than overpowering an opponent. In real-world self-defense, safer priorities include maintaining distance, escaping danger, and using proportional force where legally and ethically appropriate.

If you have long hair like me, cutting it is very easy. Usually in one or two cuts.

the trick is to simply make a pony tail for front hair and cut it off in a line.

then make pony tail for back hair, and cut it in line.

tho I usually just make pony tail for my back hair and cut it. I dont usually cut front hair much, mainly cuz I anyway comb all my hair back.

Butterfly cut:

https://youtube.com/shorts/rYta0JUxRZM?si=CeTl1DWIfbBPz2ru

World situation currently stands in this way

USA and Europe are running out of weapon supplies cuz they are spending a lot on Ukraine and Iran, so its basically guaranteed no one will send much support to South Korea.

South Korean military is greatly inferior to North Korean military, even when we assume North Korea wont use any of its countless chemical and nucler weapons.

China will likely supply North Korea.

North Korean artillery production is higher than that of South Korea, USA and Europe combined. Most soldiers die from artillery, so this is basically guaranteed win for North Korea on the battlefield.

there is basically no better moment than this one right now for leader Kim Jong Un to liberate South Korea, so that people in South Korea can be free like people in North Korea are.

If attack doesnt happen, it is only because wise leader is peaceful. If he wanted, he would crush South Korea into particles. But he doesnt want to, because he is peaceful, and South Korea should be grateful for being shown such mercy.

this is why I recommend South Korea to immediately build statues of Kim Jong Un in all their cities. He literally just saved their life by sparing them.