The Efficiency of the Human Brain and AI

Fascinating post quoting Elon Musk on the efficiency of the brain and the potential efficiency of AI:

Well, we have a clear example of efficient power, efficient compute, which is the human brain. Our brains use about 20 watts of power, and only about 10 watts is higher brain function. Half of it is just housekeeping, keeping your heart going and breathing.

So you’ve got maybe 10 watts of higher brain function in a human, and we’ve managed to build civilization with 10 watts of a biological computer. Given that humans are capable of inventing general relativity and quantum mechanics, inventing aircraft, lasers, the internet, and discovering physics with a 10-watt meat computer, there’s clearly a massive opportunity for improving the efficiency of AI compute. Right now, even a hundred-megawatt or gigawatt AI supercomputer can’t do everything a human can do. But we already have the proof that true intelligence can emerge from just 10 watts. That should lead you to one conclusion, AI can get a lot more efficient.

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Limited Hangout Week re Epstein “Disclosures”

If the phrase "limited hangout" is not yet part of your vocabulary, it's time to add it to your repertoire. Grok offers this definition:

A limited hangout is a strategy, often used in espionage, politics, or public relations, where a partial truth or selected information is disclosed to the public or investigators to prevent the discovery of more damaging or sensitive facts, effectively acting as a form of damage control when a full cover-up is no longer viable. The term originates from CIA jargon, as described by former official Victor Marchetti, who explained it as admitting "some of the truth when tight lips have slipped" but withholding the key details to mislead further inquiry.

Here is the only thing you can do to make sure you are not a victim of limited hangouts: Repeatedly ask: "What else have you not yet told me?" Ask this repeatedly, especially when dealing with people, government officials and corporate news outlets you have previously trusted. Consider these recent examples:

DOJ under Pam Bondi redacted a photo of Benjamin Netanyahu with Jeffrey Epstein from the files.

Redactions are admittedly an imperfect way of engaging in limited hangouts, but they work well enough often enough, given the limitations of human attention and memory.

DNC mega-donor Reid Hoffman was mentioned 2,600 times in the Epstein files. David Sachs: "The NYT story on Epstein & Silicon Valley has paragraphs on Elon, Peter Thiel … Reid Hoffman barely gets mentioned despite having the deepest Epstein relationship and having lied about it."

New York Times forgot to mention that one of its own reporters worked closely with Epstein well after Epstein was a known child sex trafficker. And see here.

The DOJ briefly uploaded — then removed — an 86-page document titled “Investigation into Potential Jeffrey Epstein Co-Conspirators.”

Amidst all the chaos, Rep Thomas Massie emerges: with some common sense:

Rep. Thomas Massie says he’s ready to use the nuclear option if the DOJ refuses to un-redact the names of Epstein’s clients. He warns he will simply start reading Epstein’s client names publicly if Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice does not release them. “If the victims want to give them to me, I’ve expressed that I’m willing to do that.” See also here.

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Amy Robach Tried to Tell Us the News About Jeffrey Epstein

Keep this in mind next time you read "The News". Amy Robach, ABC News Anchor:

Robach:

I've had the story for three years. I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts (Giuffre). We would now put it on the air. First of all, I was told who's Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story. Then the palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn't be able to interview Kate will that we that also quashed the story. And then, Alan Dershowitz was also implicated because of the planes. She told me everything she had pictures. She had everything. She was in hiding for 12 years. We convinced her to come out. We convinced her to talk to us. It was unbelievable. What we had, Clinton, we had everything.

I tried for three years to get it on, to no avail. And now it's all coming out, and it's like these new, relevant revelations. And I freaking had all of it. I was so pissed right now. Like every day, I get more and more pissed because I'm just like, oh my god, we it was what we had. Was unreal. Other women backing it up. Hey, yep. Brad Edwards (Giuffre's Lawyer), the attorney three years ago saying, like on, like we there will come a day where we will realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known. I had it all three years ago.

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PSYOP Manual for the US Army

Like to see how the US Army planned to psychologically manipulate foreign populations? It might be especially interesting now that we know that these techniques have now been turned against Americans. Here's Robert Malone's short post along with a link to the army PSYOP manual.

What is a PSYOP? According to p. A3 of the manual:

1.5 PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSYOP)

Psychological Operations are planned to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of PSYOP is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator's objectives.

I then asked Grok:

What types of psyop techniques described in this 1999 Army Psyop manual are being utilized by corporate media today to skew public understanding of what is going on in the world or how to think about it?

Grok's response:

Psyop Techniques from the 1999 Manual and Parallels in Corporate Media

The 1999 Joint Psychological Operations Task Force Headquarters Master Training Guide (CJCSM 3500.08) outlines frameworks for military psyop, focusing on influencing foreign audiences through planned information dissemination, analysis, and evaluation. While it's a military document (canceled in 2004), its principles—such as propaganda, deception, and target analysis—bear resemblance to strategies observed in corporate media today. Corporate media, including major networks and social platforms, often shapes public perception through selective framing, emotional appeals, and rapid narrative amplification, which can skew understanding of global events or issues like politics, economics, and social dynamics.

Below is a table summarizing key techniques from the manual, their descriptions, and observed parallels in modern corporate media. These parallels are drawn from analyses of media practices, including psychographic targeting, misinformation campaigns, and sentiment manipulation. Note that media entities may not intentionally label their actions as "psyop," but the effects align with the manual's methods. Claims are substantiated where possible from diverse sources, including academic studies, investigative reports, and public discourse, representing viewpoints from military, tech, and conspiracy-oriented perspectives.

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These techniques aim to induce favorable attitudes in the manual's context, but in media, they can skew understanding by prioritizing engagement over accuracy—e.g., dividing audiences ("us vs. them") or exploiting biases like Magruder's Principle (reinforcing pre-existing beliefs). Diverse sources note this in politics (e.g., election interference) and business (e.g., market manipulation), with X discussions highlighting perceived ops in everyday news. While not all media actions are deliberate psyops, the patterns enable narrative control at scale.

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Bill Gates, COVID, Epstein, Greed, Lying, Etc

No need for a lie detector on Bill  Gates.

"Abject Lie" is written on his forehead. Just dinner. "That's all." You might think my venom is due to his attempt to surreptitiously slip antibiotics to his wife after surreptitiously exposing her to venereal disease caused by his adventures with Jeffrey Epstein. No, that's merely the tip of the iceberg.

Sayer Ji lays it out. Go to Sayer Ji's article, "BREAKING: The Epstein Files Illuminate a 20-Year Architecture Behind Pandemics as a Business Model—With Bill Gates at the Center of the Network: Inside the JPMorgan–Gates–Epstein Pipeline: Donor-Advised Funds, Vaccine Finance, and the Architecture of Pre-Positioned Profit."

Also visit Ji's recent posts on X. Start here:

Dig into this post and the posts that follow for images of documents and links to many other documents that substantiate all of this).

We thought we have been electing the people who govern us, but George Carlin was so very correct when he said: "They own you," and he was speaking of the "Big Club," people like Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein, people we did NOT elect and whom we would never have elected. Yet this is just one example (out of millions) of what corrupt people can do to mold a 'democracy" in their own image and likeness.  Eric Weinstein reacts:

Weinstein continues in the comments to his own post:

I have the same question as Weinstein. In his comment to his own post, Weinstein continues:

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