PS: I got to the imgur site, Adam, but could not see any image.

PS: Good morning, Mr. Hail!

We all long for this "low-Stupidity condition" of which you speak.

'cause all this stupidity...

https://i.imgur.com/9xrEv0X.jpeg

is getting kinda old. ☮️

PS

Re: Adam Smith's "Artbot" images,

It seems to me that the amount of time it takes the Artbot to get a vision even something 'near' correct, a skilled sketch-man could get it all done by hand. With time left over for a stroll through the Stupidity Institute's vast complex, and long chats with some of the sharpest and friendliest of the Stupidity researchers, whom the sketch-man can find in the employee lounge at times that low-Stupidity condition prevail (slow days).

PS: "I agree with you, Mr. Hail, that Steve might have gotten - : tired of Ron Unz' sensationalism à la: I rewrite the history of the world and the world then will (have to) follow me in my footsteps to the new frontiers of rational world-politics..."

Yes, Unz's theories and writings are too much for someone like Steve Sailer. You could take that 2 ways.

I look forward to checking out your ArtBot images, Mr. Smith. Thank you.

PS: M, I very much agree with that comment. A Deep State gets a lot of help from those do-gooders (I know that great quotation), but then too, they are picked for their stupid ideas and that mentality.

"As an example, there's a lot of people here in Canada suggesting that Trudeau is a sock puppet of Xi.

Myself, I think there's something to that, but Trudeau *also* believes that what he's doing is actually helping people in the end." Right, but if Trudeau believed in a few other things the Deep State really wasn't down with, they'd find a way to squash them or him.

I've got 3 posts coming on the Deep State: 1st will be about the confusion between the actual Deep State as most people USED TO understand it and then the "Administrative State" that is being called the Deep State now, especially by Steve Sailer. There is indeed some overlap.

The 2nd will be on that Administrative State and the 3rd on the Deep State.

PS: Yes, Mr. Hail, I've seen mostly handles I recognize - so glad I've not seen that Corvinus. I'm not sure if Steve would be glad too. It's always good to have more comment that others reply to or get suckered into replying to. However, you don't want the conversation to get tedious.

So far it's been good. Then, though, I don't like the format so very much.

Yes, it's anti-Social-media-like in that there are "likes" by other commenters (maybe subscribers who don't comment?) and Mr. Sailer. Again, I think I like Ron Unz's way better with the 4 different responses, till we made up some of our own, haha. You get a LIKE from Steve - I see plenty for Mr. Hail - and it'a kind of a rush, I suppose. That's I guess like his writing to you directly on the Unz blog (though he did get unreasonably snarky doing that sometimes - maybe too much effort doing that moderation/reading job).

He can't "LIKE" them all, and that might get some people upset after a while.

I will make the effort later on to first, find the post, and then see if I can remember who I was trying to reply to. I'm sure, if I'm on the right post - 1 out of only 3 or 4, I think - I'll remember then which comment it was.

This has been my problem on TUR, writing mostly to commenters as opposed to just commenting on the post.

PS: Hello, Dieter, and sorry for late replies, everyone. I have a good place to write for a 1/2 hour here - not long enough to write my post on the Deep State, but I can do that later today.

I saw the deal with Mr. Sailer's substack subscription, Dieter. You can tell that this guy may have taken a marketing class or two! It's $10/month, or $100/yr, but here's the key interesting part of the deal. Mr. Sailer knows there's inflation, and he admits that prices will likely go up yearly. However, if a subscriber lets his next year's money get put automatically onto his card, paypal, what-have-you (12 different ways or something?), his cost will stay the same.

That's pretty clever. I do see a problem in that the scamming going on now is so heavy, that lots of people will have new card numbers by a year later. That won't affect so much some of the other payments, in which the user has already updated, for example, paypal, with a new card # anyway.

I've written about a thing called "Visa Card Updater" too. Anyway, I have no idea how many of the 3,000 as of now are paying subscribers. If it's even 1/4, that's still nothing to sneeze at money-wise.

As he's written, they will soon have to be, or that will mist out a lot. (Probably they won't be able to comment, but also, they will miss lots of posts.)

You all may have missed this last part. I see nothing wrong with his business model, and I wish him well.

PS: Good morning, Everyone!

Greetings to you too, Dieter!
(I hope you've been well and are enjoying your summer!)

Mr. Hail,

𝐻𝐸𝐿𝐿𝑂! 𝑀𝑌 𝑁𝐴𝑀𝐸 𝐼𝑆: 𝑆𝑇𝐸𝑉𝐸 𝑆𝐴𝐼𝐿𝐸𝑅

As you and I both know, the ArtBots have a most difficult time with words. As far as "forcing" an image, well, the AI calls it a seed image.

https://i.ibb.co/Xz3HS66/Sailer-Seed-1.png
https://i.ibb.co/4FQ9Ftx/Sailer-Seed-2.png
https://i.ibb.co/zHBMkgD/Sailer-Seed-3.png

The images above are ArtBot generated "photos" of the seed images that I used with the "likeness score" turned up to near maximum. (I'm sure you'll recognize the seed images as you've undoubtably seen the originals.)

https://i.ibb.co/rwWPZ2q/Sailer-Name-Tag-1.png
https://i.ibb.co/60CgcPk/Sailer-Name-Tag-2.png
https://i.ibb.co/Lppv86z/Sailer-Name-Tag-3.png
https://i.ibb.co/K9x6ZvJ/Sailer-Name-Tag-4.png
https://i.ibb.co/GHdL446/Sailer-Name-Tag-5.png
https://i.ibb.co/0BysFKC/Sailer-Name-Tag-6.png

Much like your idea for a political cartoon with a gang of hyenas to the left of Sailer shouting "Racist!" while Steve berates ordinary people to his right for being so stupid and believing in conspiracies, this name tag photo idea is something that will require some photoshopping when I have the time and the creative inclination to make it happen. (They are both a bit more difficult than erasing a swastika and changing the color of a shirt.)

If I had more time today, I think I could get in the mood to do these. Unfortunately, time does not permit such luxuries today. Mrs. Smith and I have some family coming in to visit this weekend so I will be a bit busy for the next few days. (Busy in a good way.)

I do think that with a little proper tinkering I can perhaps force the ArtBot to do a better job and then I'll just photoshop the name tag into the photo. The hyenas image will be the more difficult of the two and will take a little more creative energy.

One thing that is surprising to me about the ArtBot is that even with a seed image the ArtBot doesn't really do a very good job of drawing Sailer. I find that a little weird. The ArtBot has been doing a fairly impressive job of drawing Trump, Joe and Jill Biden, and even Kamala Harris without any seed images, so I would think it could do a better job of drawing Sailer.

I don't know. I still think this is more of an interesting toy than a real tool, at least for now while this technology is still in its infancy. Maybe I should install my own bonafide ArtBot on a computer with an impressive video card and see what I can do with that. I think it would give us some better results.(?)

So, for now...

I hope you all have a great day!

I'm off to clean the fountain and feed the garden. Cheers! ☮️

PS: Great comments, and I’d sure like to reply. Keyboard has gone temporarily missing, I’m waiting for someone to fix the hotel computers, and I cannot write much on this telephone. ;-{

I’ll be back. /Ahnold

PS
I think Sailer's posts on the deep state and conspiracies are not so much saying there aren't any such things.

It's more that there is a deep state and there are conspiracies, but they're not responsible for everything in the world, like some people have been shouting.

The deep state and the "visible state" (i.e. the component that is actually supposed to rule) are *both* doing bad stuff.

As an example, there's a lot of people here in Canada suggesting that Trudeau is a sock puppet of Xi.

Myself, I think there's something to that, but Trudeau *also* believes that what he's doing is actually helping people in the end.

He's wrong, but he's sincere about it. Which is much worse. There's a quote to the effect that a thief will go away after thieving to enjoy his ill-gotten gains, but a do-gooder will never leave you alone.

PS

To Adam Smith: Is there any way to force one of the AI-art apps to imitate an image of Sailer, or at least put an AI figure similar to Sailer who wears a big name-tag saying: HELLO! MY NAME IS: STEVE SAILER.

PS

After reading something, if you ask: "What's the point?" It's a sign something is wrong. Maybe what you're reading is not for you, or the writer didn't get to any particular point.

In the age of easy-publishability, and in cases of a built-in loyal audience, this can be a big thing. Another contributor can be the demand for constant "content" to churn out and toss at people through an "algorithm" (a term every idiot now uses without understanding what it means, like a magical incantation, more often seen as "The Algorithm").

The good thing about Sailer or others doing that kind of writing is, at least it's writing. Imagine if Sailer were one the youtuber-generation, his loyal audience all interacting with him through video. A point that can be made (or NOT made despite many words) through 3 minutes' reading time could take 15 or even 30 minutes video-time. Talking is usually not a disciplined or efficient medium at all.

PS

Greetings Adam! -

Mr. Hail - my guess would be that Steve looks at Jack D and HA as top-notch commenters.

The book of Mr. Sailer is a shortcut to his ideas. - It makes the blog a bit less important.

As so many bright loners, he does not so much know which of all the oh so many thoughts that shoot through his brain - are worth it. So he writes at times quite uninteresting stuff.

And since he has grown into a perfect writer, the not so interesting thoughts make the same splash as the others.

Lately he even made a meta-remark, that the saturday evenings are reserved to write about stuff he loves - like basball-stats and rock'n'roll.
The thing is that this remark comes close to a self-paarody - or self-revelation. - The blog-post was quite boring. I mean: Saturday nights reseved for WRITING about R'n'R - - -



I don't quite know what ot make of all this.

I agree with you, Mr. Hail, that Steve might have gotten - : tired of Ron Unz' sensationalism à la: I rewrite the history of the world and the world then will (have to) follow me in my footstepps to the new frontiers of rational wolrd-politics...

OTOH: John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs JOINED Ron Unz in his fight of US unilateralism: They both .p.u.b.l.i.s.h.e.d. on the Unz Review.

That came for me as a big and welcome surprise: These two really don't suffer from the contact-guilt idea.

PS: Greetings, Dieter, Hail,

O quam cito transit gloria mundi! ☮️

PS

"I decided to reply. It turns out, one needs an actual real email."

What was the post; what was the intended reply?

PS

"(Steve Sailer has) got a quiet voice in his ear, a guy with a funny 3-letter last name whispering 'All glory is fleeting'."

But 'Newman' has six-letters!

PS

I didn't know that Mr. S started the Substack back in Dec 2023. At that time, the strategy he's taken hadn't yet fully formed, I think. I am not sure I fully understand his current strategy. But what I think I understand of it, he wants to fully distance himself from Unz.

The Sailer-Unz commentariat is often praised, and there are many good people there. But there is also a cadre of bad people, people like Jack D and HA, who subtly cause problems. (Corvinus, "bless his heart," tries to be like this but ends up just a buzzing gadfly.)

The Substack commentariat is far too new to make any definite judgements on, and anything I could say now might be obsolete soon. Many of the best commenters on the Sailer-Substack, that I've noticed, I believe are direct migraters from Sailer-Unz.

A problem with Substack in general is that it is half-way between a blogging/essaying platform and an overtly, Twitter-modeled social-media site. So some of the problems of that kind of social-media site can and do pop up.

PS
Mod. - it shall soon be 100+ bucks / year for the Steve Sailer substack. - But only for the early birds - later the prize will go up.