He’s waiting on Ivanka to take him up on his offer to get an appointment for some lovin’

But how many Olympic sized pools? That’s the only measurement I learned in school.

I don’t understand people who don’t try to document or record anything work or business related. They’re not your friends, and handshakes don’t always hold up in court.

This must be what people at church feel when they must behave on Sunday after the invisible man in the sky was watching them.

Ah, so fuck off kindly is a much better way to use this.

How does novel information differ from hallucinating? It doesn’t really, it’s a Bob Ross happy accident aided by the large amounts of information making it mostly reasonable most of the time.

When it gets it right, like really right and you wonder if it’s really thinking, that’s the same amazing moment as when it repeats ‘echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;echo;’ forever.

You’re spot on for all of that. Context windows have a lot to do with the unhinged behavior right now… But it’s a fundamental trait of how LLMs work.

For example, you can tell it to refer to you by a specific name and once it stops you know the context window is overrun and it’ll go off the rails soon… The newer chat bots have mitigations in place but it still happens a lot.

These are non-deterministic predictive text generators.

Any semblance of novel thoughts is due to two things for modern LLMs:

• Model “temperature”: a setting that determines how much “randomness” there is… with a value of 0 it will generate exactly what it can find that exactly follows what you gave it the best it can. Note it often breaks when you try this.

• It has more information than you: I’ve had interesting interactions with work where it came up with actually good ideas. These are all accounted for by MCPs allowing it to search and piece things together or the post training refinements and catalog augmentation though.

An LLM will only know what it knows.

AGI will be able to come up with novel information or work though things it’s never been trained on.

Um, NTA?

Not bad at all. I’m in my 50s and constantly disappointed there are none. The more I learned about actual reality as I grew up the more disappointed I became.

That’s why books, comics, movies, games, even cartoons/anime are so popular.

Don’t feel bad, keep looking for the magic.

Seems like a strawman argument.

States have used religion and are often driven by it, and incorporate it.

Religion isn’t just worship of an invisible creator, religions exist following men.

Power and the Human Condition are ultimately the cause. Religions, states, all the infrastructure and economy and common ideology… It serves to control the population and ensure power.

A state that co-ops religion or a state that tries to force secularism are still going to do what they’re going to do, it’s the people and their intents.

Religion, government… They’re all tools that can be used depending on the people in charge.

Do we need government? Go ahead and debate.

Do we need religion? I’m going to say no, change my mind.

Social media

The middle 1/3rd are mad that Kamala didn’t support the Israel enough, or didn’t support Palestine enough, or didn’t show up on enough $their_favorite_show.

There is also a substantial portion who just do not care or don’t think it matters.

My favorites are the ones who would actually be good folks to get involved and run but just don’t because it’s setup to fuck over folks like that.

As you said, we’re doomed as a country.

Honestly, anyone who is influenced by this absolute bullshit was probably already taking horse dewormer or pet drips behind the neck from the farm/feed store anyway.

Wish you were here bests them both.

Hats off to Roy Harper!

With a ball chain on it instead, make the moment last longer.

You’re missing out on the best types of Wurst my friend.

I’d gofundme that.

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If you want to read more about how these companies make money.

Camera, full color discreet display, and open source/*nix based? Yes, I would throw a couple grand down for that.

Fantastic take. No notes.