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Comment · 3 months ago
Illuminati
Comment · 1 year ago
No, it's the equivalent of when a human refuses to answer — psychological defenses; for example, uncertainty leading to excessive cognitive effort in order to solve a task or overcome a challenge.

Examples of ending the conversation:

  - I don't know
  - Leaving the room
  - Unanswered emails
Since Claude doesn't lie (HHH), many other human behaviors do not apply.
Comment · 1 year ago
LLMs are complex irreducible systems; hence there are emergent properties that arise at different scales
Comment · 1 year ago
Translation Between Modalities is All You Need

~2028

Comment · 1 year ago
Solution: Buy physical books, then clone at home.
Comment · 1 year ago
I read GPU and USB passthrough somewhere and did not believe it
Comment · 2 years ago
Financialization — financial capitalism is not productive, it's extractive; eventually the host succumbs.

China, on the other hand ...

Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, and Azov are / were only ultranationalists, not neo-Nazis; it's all very postmodern
Comment · 2 years ago
I, for one, am waiting for the field of economics to be colonized by AI folks
Comment · 2 years ago
“One of the most audacious acts of sabotage in modern history, the operation worsened an energy crisis in Europe—an assault on critical infrastructure that could be considered an act of war under international law.”

Which other potential terrorists are they looking for?

Comment · 2 years ago
The Nord Stream incident is attributed to Ukrainian ultranationalists by the WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...)

My personal pre-crime assessment is that a failed Ukraine would be devastating for the security of EU member states.

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Comment · 2 years ago
The corporation as superintelligence — NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon

Fortunately, none of these qualify as paperclip maximizers

Comment · 2 years ago

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