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the closest computational equivalent to writing that sentence we have today involves executing a model with 1.5 billion parameters. (and I couldn't find an estimate of the energy cost of that)

Nor should we accept false equivalencies.

Interesting implementation detail

while "pigs" != "fly":

Citation needed.

Agreed. I was definitely expecting a reference, and I was confused that the table of contents listed the authors & their positions before mentioning the title of the chapter.

I lived in China for 6 months and saw plenty of cops with guns and saw undercover cops roughly throw around a street vendor who had gotten too close to the forbidden city for their liking. Your view here seems to be willfully obscured.

Having your opinion formed by the media is a necessity of living in a world where you can't get first hand information for everything, i.e. a constraint imposed by reality. the difference is that in the west you can choose what media you want to pay attention to, and the media itself is free to report what it wants.

Maybe this works for people in finance, but I can't see it being useful otherwise. The concept you're using as an analogy just isn't widely known.

It should be noted that public github repos are _not_ public domain and not even necessarily open source unless the author specifies a license.

Nice! Now I just need someone to make an emacs mode that does this.

I like the look of your mountain ranges. Is that done using a published method or something of your own devising?