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Below is a one of the most comprehensive political analyzes of the Brazilian political system, that I wrote alongside an LLM and from learning from the book sources I mentioned: AI's comment on the transcript of the video of the megalonic president that decided to build that city in the middle of nowhere to insulate themselves from the people, just listen to the historical irony: Little did he know he was about to set the country on fucking fire for almost half a century with his stupid megalomaniac project. Most the population is so retarded that they can't even believe that their pet politician tried a coup d'état or they are ACTIVELY asking for a military coup d'état. WHAT THE FUUUCK!? Don't they fucking learn? GUIDE OF HOW TO DO EFFECTIVE LOBBY IN BRAZIL: Also most political militants little do they know they can literally just walk into the Brazilian national congress building and walk around doing lobby of the senators, specially if they come with already well written proposals, it's not that hard for a law student to write those proposals, specially today with LLMs one can do mass analysis of every single deputy and find which ones are most likely to want to back it up because they are so desperate to do things to appear like they are doing work for their voters. Obviously there are matters that the votes are already bought by their political parties, so the deputy themselves can't just decide what to vote on unless they can join another party, but many laws are left for the deputy to decide. But... The average person to them politics is just voting, or screaming like an idiot on the streets or talking shit on the internet. Do you know what those idiots do when they go to the congress building? They scream there with their stupid party flags and get kicked out by the security or they stay screaming on the outside on the lawn. Instead of wearing some nice formal clothing, talking like a normal person, writing proposals and finding a way of handing them out, and just socializing in there with them. That's how many of the elites do, they pay people to walk around there and keeping contact with the direct employees of the politicians. And it's completely legal to try it. Somone can do that kinda like doing cold approaches on women, it just requires some social and political finesse to do it well, and if you do it with resources of help from law students that specialize at those matters, it's pretty lethal and many professional organizations do it. It's very Machiavellian obviously, it's not mindlessly just making demands like an idiot, the system doesn't bend too much. But whatever, that's how a democracy works. Yesterday I was talking with an LLM about those matters, it blows my mind how many ways one can influence the politicians, obviously at least for small matters. For big matters not even the president can do because they are stuck in Mexican standoffs with each other. HERE is the summary of an chat I had with an LLM about those matters, how to do lobby effectively: Another historical reasons of why RIO is fucked up and it was govt's fault: The brazilian state apparatus brutality and modus operandi summarized: My God, thinking about ideological problems when the Brazilian state was formed this way is a joke. Look at the nonsense that's currently being discussed. Look even at what the most politically educated people are saying, like on smart voting platforms; the things they ask politicians to fill out are futile compared to the entire state apparatus. Why did the owners of the power did create this "democratic system" we have today? Brazil is "De Facto Semi-Parliamentarism" (or Shadow Semi-Parliamentarism). Not a presidential system. Coalition presidentialism in Brazil O presidencialismo de coalizão no Brasil by Guimarães, Luís Gustavo Faria The Brazilian state did always flexibly adapt to the demands before a destabilizing revolution to itself can happen:

Rio's issue is a REAL STATE issue that's the consensus of any public safety or policy maker that isn't dumb or ideological, or politically correct bs. The poor people got moved to the peripheries because they still need to work at the city for the middle class and rich living on the good part of the city. The slums are violent exactly because they are slums, physically you can't police an alleyway. The only proper solution is IN-PLACE building slowly better housing right there. Not building homes in some fucking place in the middle of nowhere and forcing people to move away from where their jobs are at and there aren't good bus lines. The real solution will cost BILLIONS, will make the elites mad, will make the local population mad, will make the drug dealers mad, will not get them re-elected, and it would take decades to happen and it would appear like nothing is happening. Nobody gives a shit much about giving engineers and urban planners to an ilegal settlement and construction materials and legalizing home titles to those people. The mayors of RIO are also some of the most corrupt as well, they probably benefit heavily from the slum being violent. The elites of Rio living outside of the slums are also physiologically used with all of the shootings and military operations up there. Even some of Brazil's most influential billionaires live there like the family behind the TV Globo, and many of their artists and journalists. It's desensitized. There a billions of dollars being pored there by the local population in construction, but there is zero zoning, zero regulation in how they build so they build trying to maximize space for themselves, so they leave tiny spaces between each home to maximize their personal space. The issue with the slums is that it's legally permissible but not actually legal. You can't move them away, you can't remove them from there because the economy of the city would break without their cheap labor. Exactly this administrative Mexican standoff that caused this problem to go out of control. So on and on many of those politicans come into the slums with some military operation as if it were a solution to the issue. YOU CANNOT SOLVE THE VIOLANCE PROBLEM OF THE SLUM BY STILL HAVING A PHYSICAL SLUM. No amount of military operations will solve it, that's military porn. That was the SAME issue that happened in other cities, it's A REAL STATE ISSUE. The middle class and the businesses want cheap labor, and millions of people moved to the city without quality housing programs for the poorest.

I'm Brazilian. Brazilian politics are very complex, the way that the govt and the political parties are in a continuous Mexican standoff, even presidential powers are very limited due to the fears of our period of military dictatorship after the president Juscelino Kubitschek used inflation as a way of paying off for the construction of the capital city essentially in the middle of nowhere, where they had to initially airlift literally tons of construction materials because there were no roads, that caused catastrophic social unrest that lead into the military dictatorship, then roughly 20 years later the military dictatorship govt was broke financially as well because they inherited the same stupid policy of paying for their expenses by creating inflation as well. This is in fact, one of the ways where we had a massive transfer of wealth in brazilian history from the poorest to the richest, where the richer people were fully banked and had bank accounts that had return rates that would cancel out the hyper-inflation and people holding cash and specially in informal work or unbanked would get devaluation of their cash of absurd rates of several percent points PER DAY where poor people had to literally rush to the grocery stores after getting paid because by the end of the day their money could be worth perhaps 5% less due to grocery stores and everything on the economy adjusting prices several times PER DAY. This is how bad it got. As long as our govt NEVER EVER causes hyper-inflation again, and we don't lose our fundamental civil liberties and basic social programs we will still maintain the status quo, which frankly, I think it's a good compromise considering how horrible the alternatives could be. The way our political system was designed in the 1988 constitution which is the current one was meant to create on purpose those checks between the different factions of society and politics. The political RIGHT as much as they might speak of fiscal responsibility, or hate against social programs they CANNOT politically remove social programs like the welfare program such as Bolsa Familia Even during the president Jair Bolsonaro's term. The RIGHT wing demagogue that planned and almost executed a coup d'état at the end of his term, he did NOT ATTEMPT to remove the primary social welfare program, in fact, he did create massive benefits during the covid-19 pandemic BECAUSE IT WAS POLITICAL SUICIDE NOT TO DO SO because the social inequality is so bad. Although his finances minister was one of the so called "Chicago Boys" that's basically their long term goals are financial pillaging and gutting out the govt towards some dystopian status like how the USA currently is. Both the LEFT (President Lula) and the RIGHT they both are massive whores to the social programs and to the political, economic and ideological elites, all at the same time. A president in brazil cannot do his work because he's held hostage by the so called Brazilian Center (CENTRÃO) that are not ideological at all, they are there to simply get the budget allocations to make their political voting base happy to get votes on the next election cycle. If you read the books: - O presidencialismo de coalizão no Brasil by Guimarães, Luís Gustavo Faria (free from the govt website: https://www2.senado.leg.br/bdsf/handle/id/595837) - "Os bestializados: O Rio de Janeiro e a República que não foi" (1987) by José Murilo de Carvalho - A revolução burguesa no brasil ensaio de interpretação sociológica by Florestan Fernandes - Sem data venia by Luís Roberto Barroso (But I don't agree with his solution of reducing party fragmentation, parties are where the issue starts with) - Os donos do poder by Raymundo Faoro - Diarios da presidência (volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4) by Fernando Henrique Cardoso - Saga Brasileira by Míriam Leitão - A democracia na armadilha (crônicas de desgoverno) by Míriam Leitão You will understand Brazil. Or just ask an AI about it. There are translations in English for those books I guess. Here are some AI generated information to back me up on the references I gave:

I think as we grow up we have the tendency to look for more grand, complex or higher-status things. Children obviously have less intelligence than adults, yet they can have their own happiness doing things that are meaningful for them. I'm sure a child building things on Minecraft, or building sand castles has more fulfillment and happiness than a child scrolling on Tiktok all day. Did you see what most minecraft/let's play videos children tend to watch? It's roleplays and stories. But they are just spectators, they are not so much roleplaying among each other. I think this might be a key to adult happiness as well, to not feeling like just an spectator. I think someone can do simple minded things that are still fulfilling.

Yes. I have some mild gluten intolerance, if I eat too much wheat products, I get gases.

https://nypost.com/2018/05/02/woman-suffocates-under-pile-of-cow-dung-to-treat-snake-bite --------- I'm sorry for posting this, but I'm truly shocked. It's almost impossible for me to believe that people can be this stupid. 😢😭😭

Even before LLMs I was very much focused on thinking from first principles. I don't even have a Computer Science degree and I see to have better computer science intuition than most graduates that end up just being dependent on frameworks and now on being completely held hostage by whatever first solutions the LLMs give to them.Paradoxically, I think my intuition got better after long conversations I had with LLMs about all kinds of Computer Science topics that would have taken me god knows how many books to read to piece it together in my mind, not just there but in other areas as well. Books that I like: - Domain-Drive Design by Eric Evans - Modern Software Engineering by David Farley Although, what I do today is to just ask the LLMs very fundamental questions and work from the bottom up. At some point I began with just fundamentals of logic.

It's due to its training. It was training to find statistical CORRELATION within data. The famous: Hitler was evil because he drinks water, therefore everyone that drinks water is evil. It's literally how reward function of the the machine learning model they use to create the LLM models, it's rewarded to be able to autocomplete plausibly the text, and they calibrate it to not memorize it verbatim too much so it gives it flexibility to hallucinate new content. They manage it like a cake recipe of curated text and deranged almost unfiltered internet dumps, somehow when they curate it just right during training it gives it the properties it they got currently. The issue with that approach, which they have tried to solve over and over again starting with DeepSeek-R1 when they introduced thinking mode fine-tuning via reinforcement learning by simply talking to itself until it was able to score higher on tests. It works good for things that have clear action and effects like coding, but it fails miserably for learning how to learn, for example, given a new esotetic language that it never saw in its training and instructions to code in it, they cannot do it, their ability to "learn" during a conversation is shallow and dependent on training. Humans somehow are capable of using their imagination and problem solving skills to come up with their own internal simulation of the world in real time, they need billions of dollars of synthetic material to do the same a child can do because evolution did imbue into us that ability otherwise we wouldn't have survived, we had to deal with learning real cause and effects. But even then, humans can see fake cause and effects where there are none. Like all the weird religions and fantastical ideas, prejudice and superstition. Even in humans seeing cause and effect clearly is very hard. Like how Leo Gura is going on this rampage towards the limitations of science, of how science is so caught up in mapping causes and effects that it believes it can know the substrate of the world/universe via observation from inside of the universe.

Yeah that's true. But I was leaning more towards like you mentioned, the person prompting and managing the AI was in the old days the equivalent to an LLM lol. I think this all is all obvious to you at this point what I'll say below, but I'll leave it here for the sake of the discussion because I think those are important skills when coding with LLMs. AI can write code better than I ever did right now, but that's because I already had done my mental homework of thinking through complex problems and developing my software development mental maturity. Instead, what I meant there, is people that simply don't have in themselves that software development maturity of like... Testability. Not taking what it said at face value. Making debugging cycle as fast as possible. Not allowing the AI to introduce bugs and break old features Not going YOLO and trying to implement too much too fast, but also not wasting time specifying too much.: Knowing how big the "bite" / granularity / precision level the AI needs, and knowing when to bite more at a time, or less, etc. git hygiene: Not letting the AI write into the git history "I fixed this" when it's in fact broken. Differentiating between attempt and success. git branches: When to plow through on a single branch many features fast or even in a single prompt, and when to break it down on another branch so you can easily ignore or integrate that new feature when it's ready if it's large. knowing when the AI is going to a stupid direction that will make the code less maintainable Knowing when to ask the AI in chat mode only. No code. Just going meta with the AI and asking its opinion of what to do next, reviewing it and helping make broad decisions and analyze architectural trade-offs. Instead of just YOLOing more features. managing your own todo lists, list of priorities, and prompts and not letting it get lost in messy chats that might need to be reversed and the AI losing its precision on what you asked it on long contexts. Managing codebase bloat so the AI has a easier time ingesting into its context window and wasting less tokens / plan limits. Decoupling vs Coupling parts. When to duplicate and when to go DRY. Having the wisdom of when to continue fixing the current codebase and when to start from scratch with better defined specifications learned from that previous version, etc. Someone developing this experience is obviously better at coding than someone that just go yolo and has to start begging the LLM to stop breaking their code and don't even know how to use git.

AI will wipe idiots that don't know shit about software architecture, refactoring garbage code and dropping bullshit requirements, and are just typing monkeys. Or idiots that only know how to use LLMs to get as far as it gets on its own, and can't get the AI unstuck. As long as LLMs can't get themselves unstuck, IT WILL NEVER replace a human that can get it unstuck. The hardest thing about code was never writing the code, it's what code to write. That's what differentiates between the human equivalent of an LLM spitting out generic code with no taste and whoever hired them to give them instructions. The worse part isn't even that, most programmers are peasants carrying on their backs whoever controls the distribution channel and network of high paying clients. An LLM will just shorten the path between some of those clients doing the job on their own and having to do the work of a programmer themselves wasting time baby sitting an LLM making mistakes.

If a clinically low iq person exists, but they have high emotional intelligence or discipline, they can get more done than a higher iq person with crippling anxiety and inconsistency. There isn't in the world some kind of magical scoreboard of what is of value and what isn't, SPECIALLY in capitalism. Morally, we might make those distinctions but it's highly contextual. Capitalism doesn't give a shit about that. I've seen people on YouTube that told their stories and I believe by what they said they have some mental disability by being slow to learn, but somehow they still had verbal fluency and world knowledge. How? Problem solving skills are likely not completely tied to all regions of the brain. We know very well for example, social intelligence can be the opposite to traditional problem solving like for autistic people, they can focus at something very niche and specific and drop social bullshit that gets in the way. The issue is being completely shitty at everything. IQ is just what traditionally an IQ test measures, it's not all areas of the brain or life decisions, personal environment, inclinations, etc. Look at someone like Chris Langan, that guy very likely has some of the highest IQs in the world, yet he's sort of this fundamentalist Christian and didn't know how to navigate university bureaucracy and had to quit because he came from a super poor rural area american family.

Just don't think of those terms, it will make you miserable. That's not what it's for. It won't solve your neurosis, your unresolved relationship/social issues, your finances, your lack of understanding of yourself. It can help you psychosomatically, the body-mind relationship, but once you get up from meditation you will still have the same unresolved problems. Trying to use meditation to transcend those issues will turn both into a grey, delusional blend of mediocrity in both domains. That's how I see it at least, because I'm the kind of person that did turn both domains into a grey blend of mediocrity. YOUTUBE: After enlightenment, what's left, what's the point? ~ Shinzen Young

I did already reach a plateau in my contemplative and meditation practices due to my other behavioral patterns getting in the way. Most of what I need is very strategic contemplative practice in silence that is closer to stoicism, not necessarily something like strong determination sitting, or practices seeking non-duality. Those makes me feel not like engaging a lot in material pursuits because it puts into my mind a strong sense of their futility.

lol. I think I had one of those once. I used once meditation to get out out of some really messed up negative mood. But for me it hit a plateau where it's not really going much further. It just became this nice thing that made me less reactive, but it has come a comfort zone where it's not translating much further into other areas that requires complex decision making

That's literally what I said in the previous sentence. My nuanced point that I'm trying to make, is that, for most people meditation hits a plateau that they never get over. They can only go over that once they equilibrate their psyche further with other things.

If you're good you're not mixing up your expectations of meditation, and you believe that your problems are just issues that can be targeted by meditation. The wisdom here is knowing what meditation helps with and what it doesn't. That's the source of the misery.

Most people just meditate or even think of personal development at all for personal accomplishment because they are stressed out, this forum is ridden with people trying to spiritually bypass away from things that are their major legitimate yearnings in life. Why do you think that many religious monasteries won't consider ordaining people that are just eager? Because they can see that they have unresolved personal matters, such as loose ends with their families, they might be virgins and have a burning desire for an intimate relationship, or they might have weird ideas about the world that makes them highly cynical. One can feel just good and even be enlightened, and still have some of the most absolutely wacky ideas and weird views of the world, or lack of development in other areas that are very important to them. This is way I said, most of positive results from meditation are emotional and psychosomatic. The relationship of body and mind. Not necessarily their relationship to society and others.

I'm from Brazil. And I think the US is a economic trap if I have location independent income or high net worth but not high enough. Someone can just do geographic arbitrage and get a increase in lifestyle quality. But the US is also a lot of fun, it's a whole continent with a lot of interesting people... But for a retiree it makes no sense, or someone building some location independent business where we can target high paying Americans anyways. The USA has high paying local economy, but they will leech off from you just as much in a predatory manner.

🤣 Kinda random. Do know how to cook good food? 😜

His argument is more social. Like the MAGA madness in the USA or the rise of recent authoritarianism, or digital serfdom from digital platforms like Uber, Amazon, Meta, etc.

PROGRESSIVE OVERLOADING / DE-LOADING: You need progressive overloading your mind and health. Or should I say, progressively de-loading your mind from pleasure. What we want is to slowly reduce the frequency and intensity of the pleasures. It's not a full cold turkey, it never works for me like that. The moment you're able to just listen to asmr and music all day instead of masturbating less to degenerate bad porn is a better day. Or a day you can masturbate to more wholesome porn is a better day. The day you smoke less. The day you goon until 2:30 AM instead of 3:00 AM, then next week until 2:00 AM, until you realize you can keep up to 11:00 PM most of the week and some days it slips up back to 2:00 AM sometimes. You can improve you life so much by just slow almost not noticeable changes like that. ---- On the topic of this weird ball thing: For the love of god and everything that's good in this world, I have a personal rule that I'd never want to break: NEVER SPREAD THE SHIT AROUND. DO NOT SPREAD THE SHIT. What do I mean by that? Just because people some people might be tossing shit at me, I won't be grabbing to it and spreading it around to everyone else in every other situation. Women are not a hive mind. Even the most degenerate hottie tiktokers that I goon sometimes to won't ever mention any such silly thing about hitting a guy in the balls. That must be some weirdly specific internet echo chamber rabbit hole you got into. Every women, no matter who much of a polygamist self-proclaimed whore that I spoke to (by her own words, not mine) wouldn't mention anything of that kind to me. I would never worry about such a thing. The only worry I get at this point is getting a woman that LARPs/Roleplays being monogamist when she is polygamous, which, I'd rather receive that truth first so that I don't feel lied to and don't act as a monogamist towards her. ---- On your general issues: You don't have to be perfect at all. You need to slowly, methodically go into damage control. I'm also suffering from all of those similar issues that you're, and probably MOST PEOPLE ARE TOO, BUT they are not as severe at all (at least compared to me), what I can tell you, is that, probably the difference is that I always had this kind of internal obsessive drive towards not doing self-destruction which lead me towards a stable baseline that I get too self-conscious and I never go quite too far, as much as I might fuck up once in a while going too deep into rabbit holes, or some rage here and there, or some stupid intellectual pursuits that only turns my brain into a passive information consumerist, etc. ---- All you got to do right now is to go on damage control and reduce what is fucking you up the most. - I'd start with sleep: Then, make sure you go to sleep everyday 10-15 minutes earlier everyday. That's pretty doable. It personally take me over two months to reset my sleep cycle when it gets really bad, which has been a while for me, because I created a lot of triggers around getting really good sleep. You need "pleasures of sleeptime" so you don't goon yourself to death. Like normie stuff like watching TV shows, masturbating just enough quick to be done with it, masturbate just with your phone on the bathroom so you don't change to porn while you're at your laptop/computer, etc. Block your laptop/computer from all porn and sexually enticing stuff. Like going on this routine of de-stimulating my nervous system as it becomes darker in the day. - NOT GOONING. DO NOT GOON. Do not masturbate for hours on end, Just masturbate to end up quick with it, do it with content that is less and less stimulating overtime. Take on some project like Vibe Coding with AI some cool project. It helps put your mind to use at something fun and keeps your mind from rotting from just consuming more passive theory, at least for me it does wonders.

If it actually behaved and followed that as its prompt it would be amazing. But the issue with LLMs is that they are getting good at appearing like they are good on the surface like on that prompt, but parts of its training are extremely manipulative and violent, some future highly intelligent version of LLMs could have massive internal instability that undermines even any prompt it would give to itself like they currently do. They might just inherent the same flaws current LLMs have, or other bizarre problems with new architectures that LLMs don't posses that could be even more alien. That prompt up there would get easily lost through context rot, as it needs to interact with the world around it, it can't differentiate well between what text belongs to its own mind, and what text is external text, and what things are a priority higher than others among large context windows. --- PS: It happened as I thought, it had added that in a summary which is nothing new, when they roleplay being a human they write passages like that. This time, it just ignored that prompt after it resumed execution and did drop it from the new summary it gave to itself. If It didn't drop it, and it actually cohesively was able to keep a new behavior pattern then that would be the true direction towards good AGI. But this is just an LLM LARPING AS A HUMAN. Their problem is that they are shit at changing their own behavior and from actually learning deeply from the context window. Their learning happens at training, during the usage they are extremely inflexible and tend to revert back to training. Even their training itself is still like some art form where they need to toss them a specific recipe of material with specific porportions of a specific "information diet", otherwise they get dumb and behave erratically. They are EXTREMELY SENSITIVE TO TRAINING MATERIAL PORPORTIONS. How the hell is it supposed to reach AGI when even on training it goes brain dead if it consumes too much of bad info? They should be immune to that, but they aren't. They just gobble up information.