akimball

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Comment · 3 years ago
It can be said, but whether it is true requires that the invariants of consciousness are satisfied by the LLM. Until those in variants are well defined any such claim will be subjective at best.
Comment · 3 years ago
If the internet stops working, you will have bigger problems than money.
Comment · 3 years ago
MP Materials is doing this in a big way, in the US.
Comment · 3 years ago
Taiwanese fabs would become rubble in the event of an invasion.
Comment · 3 years ago
There is no scenario in which PRC invades Taiwan and the taiwanese chip fabs remain intact
Comment · 3 years ago
Not really. You just blockade Taiwan. Move the circle out a little bit.

Moreover, attacking Taiwan guarantees that a blockade will occur.

Besides which, Taiwan probably has nukes inside the PRC. If not they are dumber than dirt.

Comment · 3 years ago
You're thinking of the Alabama and Ohio Senate races.
Comment · 3 years ago
Which is how both FDR and Mussolini defined fascism.
Comment · 3 years ago
Somewhere between jellyfish and mouse, because there lies the level of neural connectivity required for neural processes to observe and predict the interactions between other high level neural processes, to integrate the information about the "self".
Comment · 3 years ago
Ads are redundant when the user is literally asking you what to do. You just tell them what to buy and they buy it.
Comment · 3 years ago
Russia is a gas station that can't sell gas. It is being bankrupted. They can't make stuff without German engineers repairing their German machinery. Russia might not last the year. Look at their own ministry of finance budget numbers.
Comment · 3 years ago
No, it was Roger Stone and SCotus that overturned the vote in Florida.
Comment · 3 years ago
Finland seems obvious.
Comment · 3 years ago
Correlation is not causation. Perhaps right makes might. Or perhaps both are caused by another factor entirely, such as brane interactions.
Comment · 3 years ago
Stating facts is a common technique employed in propaganda.

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