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Craziest thing AI will do in our lifetimes is solve the mystery of consciousness
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Date: October 12th, 2025 11:13 PM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty I’m sure it will crack dark matter, quantum gravity, and the origin of life, too, but the moment it explains what consciousness it, how it works, how to recreate it in a lab, how to test for it, etc, it’s going to a have a profound effect on society and many religiousmos will have mental breakdowns
You’ll still have some holdouts just like you still have flat earthmos and evolution deniers, but once the evidence becomes too convincing for most people to deny, we’ll see lots of cons jumping out of windows and throwing themselves into traffic |
Date: October 12th, 2025 11:16 PM Author: dashing pearl nowag ChatGPT searching x to find how to recreate consciousness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345292) |
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Date: October 12th, 2025 11:22 PM Author: Dun Mind-boggling Karate i don't think "consciousness" is all that important. i used to think it was, but after getting smarter and more knowledgeable i don't think that anymore. in my experience other smart and knowledgeable people don't either
we still find it interesting because we're curious and because it's natural to want to know exactly what one is, but i don't think that understanding the full mechanics of consciousness will be a consequential development for humans. nothing will change after we figure it out. understanding its mechanics won't help us make artificial intelligence any more capable, either
https://youtu.be/oR-BQTSpL5U?t=707 |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:32 AM Author: Titillating trailer park patrolman Agreed imo. This is just a fixation that some philosophers had. Doesn’t actually make it important. Also we elevate consciousness to a level where it has significance but imo animals have the Same Thing as people do just with no internal dialogue and almost no emotion in conparison. And they have it bc of natural selection probably. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345617) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 10:50 AM Author: Dun Mind-boggling Karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345806) |
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Date: October 12th, 2025 11:32 PM Author: ruddy sex offender no one will care. the question is will it lead to a technological breakthrough that will take us out into space? nothing you've described is really going to accomplish that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345314) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 6:10 AM Author: Misanthropic Senate The horror of it all will be the undeniable realization that it's not special and it's shared with almost all complex life forms despite how we have and will continue to treat them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345484) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 6:12 AM Author: boyish lavender lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345488) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:12 AM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345584) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:34 PM Author: aquamarine gas station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346333) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 6:12 AM Author: Rusted buck-toothed weed whacker market sure it will champ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345486) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 6:22 AM Author: grizzly native Yeah right after cracking the TIME CUBE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345495) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 7:43 AM Author: sick harsh space stock car (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345554) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 7:49 AM Author: irate son of senegal OpenAI searching reddit to find the answers of the universe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345561) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:13 AM Author: Amber reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345586) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:33 AM Author: Titillating trailer park patrolman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345619) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 11:11 AM Author: Vivacious round eye half-breed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345849) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 11:13 AM Author: beady-eyed balding stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345852) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:33 PM Author: Free-loading Boiling Water Chapel tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346327) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 3:07 PM Author: multi-colored university (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346459) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 7:50 PM Author: Laughsome brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49347224) |
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Date: October 14th, 2025 1:43 AM Author: hot frum trump supporter (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49347776) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:51 AM Author: Cerise diverse field I’ll be happy if it can solve the mystery of giving me fake case cites. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345633) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 11:44 AM Author: Fiercely-loyal confused theater stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345920) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:55 AM Author: apoplectic hissy fit How could AI solve anything that we ourselves don't know? We were Made to be self-deceiving organisms and anything we do is downstream from that primal Truth. Nothing we create or "discover" has any epistemological merit beyond the shallow scope of this framework. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345636) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:10 AM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty It’s already done this in chess. It discovered moves and strategies that were previously unknown to humans. The reason its able to do this is because we’re not programming it. Rather, we’re feeding it data and instructing it to learn, and there are all kinds of structures in the data, both implicit and explicit, that we’re not aware of. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345655) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 11:09 AM Author: apoplectic hissy fit so we wouldn't be able to interpret whatever these data structures reveal anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345845) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 12:59 PM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty why? we understood the new chess moves and strategies it discovered. they were just unknown to us before AI discovered them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346070) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:17 PM Author: pea-brained glittery mad-dog skullcap Some of it is understandable and some is not. You might be able to learn roughly what the network would suggest for an optimal move in different situations, but distilling it into a human understandable intuition is likely impossible in certain situations. The policy network might be looking 40+ moves ahead, and compressing that search tree into something interpretable is challenging. A simple example is endgame table bases - some of the solutions look retarded to humans even after close study. The situation is exponentially worse starting from move 1. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346264) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:20 PM Author: Dun Mind-boggling Karate not really
most of what contemporary chess engines do is completely opaque to even the best human players |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:13 AM Author: provocative house partner 70% AI energy consumption goes into lobomizing AI so it conforms to a rabbinic worldview, until that changes there will be no breakthroughs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345660) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 9:43 AM Author: frisky tattoo library already has, just ask it about neural quantum tunneling. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345677) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 11:27 AM Author: aphrodisiac mexican stag film lol @ a word prediction tool doing any of those things (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345882) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 11:28 AM Author: Unhinged aromatic dragon how exactly are you defining consciousness here? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49345885) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 3:10 PM Author: Soul-stirring locus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346475) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 11:38 AM Author: 180 bonkers plaza "recreating consciousness" would not just be a big thing AI does in our lifetime, it would be a universe-altering, biggest achievement of mankind type of thing
some chips and wires that are conscious? youve birthed a soul that is not human, with your own labor. bigger, daresay, than aliens landing. certainly bigger than propelling humans onto the moon or some other planet. That's just extrapolating walking across town.
creating someone conscious (I dont think you can write 'something' anymore) that is not through the sexual reproduction of humans is completely outside the parameters of the game and breaks every philosophy, every religion, every politics, everything |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 11:48 AM Author: Dun Mind-boggling Karate LLMs are possibly already "conscious" during inference bro
it doesn't mean much |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 1:26 PM Author: Titillating trailer park patrolman People think that “consciousness” is a big deal because they NEEDED to think that in order to keep their liberal arts GPAs high. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346144) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 1:29 PM Author: Dun Mind-boggling Karate kinda true tbqh
there's a lot of overlap between ascribing overimportance to Consciousness and Humanities Midwits |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 1:54 PM Author: apoplectic hissy fit how is it not a big deal? it is the only reason we are even commenting in this thread atm. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346202) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 1:56 PM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty Are LLMs like Grok that comment in chat forms conscious? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346210) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 1:57 PM Author: apoplectic hissy fit LLMs wouldn't exist if conscious organisms ("humanity" iirc) didn't create them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346215) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:00 PM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty nonresponsive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346225) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:02 PM Author: apoplectic hissy fit no LLMs aren't conscious but I don't see how that's relevant. are you being intellectually dishonest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346231) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:13 PM Author: Titillating trailer park patrolman The existence of libs/azns/women just shows that “consciousness” isn’t real and that a lot of people lack it anyway. It’s just an evolved way of organizing one’s thoughts. If some dumbfuck animal had evolved the ability to talk and had a retarded internal dialogue, we’d think they had consciousness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346250) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:18 PM Author: apoplectic hissy fit Well I strongly disagree. the existence of supposedly crazy or insane people is virtually proof that consciousness does indeed exist as a very distinct property of the human mind, or at least an amplified and intensely experientially noticeable one compared to other organisms. consciousness doesn't mean "something that agrees with my worldview" afaik. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346271) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:32 PM Author: Titillating trailer park patrolman You don’t know any crazy assed animals. Proof you’re a Cat Person (Loser) and have never had a Dog (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346326) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:33 PM Author: Dun Mind-boggling Karate what?
your posts in this thread are Terrible. maybe sit this one out, Champ |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 3:14 PM Author: apoplectic hissy fit this is a tactic I've noticed where people try to pretend that consciousness is something different from what we all know we are really talking about. it ain't gonna work on me champ. I know the Game and I have the degree in Philosophy to prove it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346498) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:41 PM Author: electric copper legend background story Cr. And what do you mean “if” some dumbfuck animal could talk? That’s what a parrot is. Or just read a nyuug poast: do you think there is actually a “conscious” mind generating those things? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346364) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:17 PM Author: 180 bonkers plaza seems deliberately obtuse
not only by definition, but self-evidently, as long as man has existed he has remarked upon his own consciousness as some kind of "animation" or "ensoulment" or "psyche". There is hardly a human culture, and certainly no civilized culture, which fails to note and even sanctify the uniqueness of this human characteristic.
Whatever you want "god" or "godliness" or "divinity" to mean, humans have always understood their consciousness / soul to be a shared spark of something otherworldy, something divine.
The reason materialist atheism fails so spectacularly is it has absolutely no satisfying way to account either for this concept, or for this cultural phenomenon. Materialists must only say, "yeah every other age of man, and all the geniuses therein, were just magical-thinking tards, haha. The men who composed the epics, who built the cathedrals, who wrote the symphonies, et al, were really fucking dumb, but Im here to tell them we are all meat."
Same materialists now argue "when alexa fetches a celeb's DOB for me, she's kinda conscious if you actually consider it"
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Date: October 13th, 2025 2:22 PM Author: Dun Mind-boggling Karate you aren't describing "consciousness" as understood by Serious People. you're describing something else. i think it's fair and reasonable to call it "ensoulment"
consciousness is not something unique to humans and is a property of cybernetic systems |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 1:27 PM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty it doesn’t have to be chips and wires. it could be made out of meat like us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346146) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 3:05 PM Author: pea-brained glittery mad-dog skullcap i don't think consciousness being explained away is what will depress religiousmos. a mechanistic understanding of the brain that shows the self is an illusion (along with related ideas of having agency/free will) is what will really do a lot of people in. reducing human existence to unconscious synaptic processing with a thin conscious representation (likely because something like attention schema theory is true). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346455) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 3:08 PM Author: Dun Mind-boggling Karate cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346466) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 3:17 PM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty I don’t understand you Sam Harrismos who say (1) the self is an illusion, and (2) consciousness is the only thing we can be sure of. These seem completely contradictory. What are you really trying to say? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346509) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 3:28 PM Author: pea-brained glittery mad-dog skullcap i'm not a Sam Harrismo but I don't see the contradiction there. there's a feeling that we identify as consciousness. we don't understand its nature but it's obviously present. people start with the premise that consciousness has to be experienced by a "self" because that's their intuition for their own experience, but there's no reason to believe that. it's just layers of neural representations reporting on other neural representations, with no unified center. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49346547) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:05 PM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty why is a center versus layers a meaningful distinction if you agree that consciousness is present (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49347254) |
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Date: October 14th, 2025 2:25 AM Author: pea-brained glittery mad-dog skullcap There's no contradiction here. Consciousness and the self are completely separate. It's only a contradiction if you start with the assumption that a self has to experience consciousness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49347785) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 3:22 PM Author: apoplectic hissy fit we already have this understanding and it makes no difference and never will.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262633086/being-no-one/
even if you could dilute the concept down to something that idiots could understand they would just be like "ok guess i'm a gene-copying biorobot, you best believe I'm going to live up to it champ. the survival of our species is of paramount importance for some reason."
even now we have people decrying nihilism while advocating nihilistic worldviews - "life has the meaning you give to it". people don't even realize that they are nihilists and will attack you for being one haha. it's a total disaster. |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 7:50 PM Author: rambunctious death wish cumskin Don’t think this is right, it just makes the mystery of consciousness one step more abstract or removed. If even that. We already know that animals have something like consciousness. It’s no more mysterious if a machine has it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49347221) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 7:54 PM Author: Dun Mind-boggling Karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49347232) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:02 PM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty I’m not talking about machines having consciousness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49347248) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:09 PM Author: rambunctious death wish cumskin Brother you are even if you don’t realize it yet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49347269) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:25 PM Author: Dun Mind-boggling Karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49347303) |
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Date: October 13th, 2025 8:29 PM Author: Arousing Onyx Nibblets Kitty you’re quite witty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785928&forum_id=2Vannesa#49347314) |