unification_fan

From what I know about terminal lucidity in alzheimer's patients it seems to me that these plaques act like electrical resistors that increase the impedance for neurotransmission. But chemically of course. So if you push more current through the system, such as when you're dying, you can suddenly access memories that were locked off. Is my understanding correct?

The top comment could have been prevented had the OC read the article...

What I don't understand is this:

Whether they are gullible, corrupt, or simply pieces of shit and sociopaths... Why are they allowed to keep their job? And how can we fix democracy to make sure that they are held accountable?

Let's be clear about one thing: Hanlon's razor is bullshit. Globally, only about ~30% of humans think that "people are generally trustworthy". Even fewer think that "strangers can be trusted". So it fucking IS malice, and people are not trusting because they know that it is malice. In fairness you can look at nord-european countries for some counter-examples, but 30% is a good approximation.

I don't even care if politicians are stupid or malicious. They're probably both anyway because they're human. But what I care about is that they don't fuck with my hard earned civil liberties. So much blood was shed to get where we are... have we learned nothing at all?

That's like trying to stop a hemorrhage with a band-aid

Daily reminder that traditional AI expert systems from the 60s have 0 problems with hallucinations by virtue of their own architecture

Why we aren't building LLMs on top of ProbLog is a complete mystery to me (jk; it's because 90% of the people who work in AI right now have never heard of it; because they got into the field through statistics instead of logic, and all they know is how to mash matrices together).

Clearly language by itself doesn't cut it, you need some way to enforce logical rigor and capabilities such as backtracking if you care about getting an explainable answer out of the black box. Like we were doing 60 years ago before we suddenly forgot in favor of throwing teraflops at matrices.

If Prolog is Qt or, hell, even ncurses; then LLMs are basically Electron. They get the job done, but they're horribly inefficient and they're clearly not the best tool for the task. But inexperienced developers think that LLMs are this amazing oracle that solves every problem in the world, and so they throw LLMs at anything that vaguely looks like a problem.

Is this distributed and peer to peer? Because I don't want to pay the cost of 50 agents myself. And we truly need something that can't be centralized

Pretty cool. I just wish it had its own identity and didn't look like Walmart Discord.

The UK has been seriously going downhill ever since it left the EU. Not that it was doing great before, but damn. I wouldn't want to be one of its citizens right now, knowing that all my compatriots are such fucking idiots. There's no other way to say it, I'm sorry.

Hey it's not like I feel superior or smug about it. I'm affected too, in my own country. The world is slowly but surely giving away all of its democratic rights. One by one...

But the problem is that all the uneducated, easily manipulated dumbfucks are letting "them" do it. As if they actually understood what they voted for. As if their opinion actually mattered. They're just pawns and nothing more. Sigh. Let me out already I don't deserve this.

So what can we do to prepare? Like how do you protect against a drone swarm? Can you hack them from afar? Make them unable to communicate? Anything??

I'd better start carrying fish nets with me. If this is how it's going to be then I'd rather go down trying.

In other news, MANHAAAAAAACKS

> pregnant people

I'm usually not a bigot but that one is dumb

The older one is the more pointless it is to try. Not because it's impossible but because of all the friction and inertia required to get someone to change their habits and mindset. You quickly reach diminishing returns.