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Cake day: March 4th, 2024

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  • This is a downfall, you guys haven’t even reached the lowest point yet. You already talk about getting back up. This is what’s great about America. But the real answer is: Trump isn’t alone and was openly racist, misogynistic, dumb and indecent about it all. It’s the fact that he was able to even start considering a career in politics that needs to be addressed.

    Showering the world with gifts and promises isn’t going to change anything. If we’re all just waiting for the next fucker to arrive. You have to do something far more substantial like giving up veto rights, or something stupid like that. Which would be completely idiotically desperate lost-the-war type of concessions in peace time.

    The fact of the matter is that this isn’t going to happen and all the world can hope for is that things calm down and the internal temsions in the country come to a conclusion the world can support.



  • Maybe skip the fortune teller career.

    The people who are peddling AI are exactly the people who would actually do all these things if they could get away with it. Most of them already do a lot of shit exactly like your evil AI already. Why do you think you have such a negative view on the future of AI?

    Secondly, AI, as it currently stands as LLM and the broader token based AI. Are fundamentally incapable of everything you are saying. So, I’m not saying that they could reach high levels of intelligence in the future. I’m saying that the limits of the technology are prohibiting any form of actual self awareness. And evidently so, as they lack perception and the capacity to experience, as well as mental experience itself.

    Thirdly, this is not just a fundamental problem for AI but a fundamental problem in general. And why that self awareness isn’t ascribed to the animals you eat, even though they are clearly and obviously showing signs of intelligence, awareness, perception and complex language beyond our comprehension. But AI is assumed standard access to awareness, perception, subjective experience without apprehension.

    It’s the world upside down. And maybe it’s just that as soon as we imagine something non human perceives humanity, that for sure they will treat us exactly like the way we treat animals. That there are no redeeming qualities and nothing to be gained by letting us be humans.


  • LLM’s have now had a pretty decently long period of proving their worth. Which turned out to be very limited in scope and depth, at least compared to the promises given beforehand.

    For example, it was predicted that it would be able to write and inject code into itself, generate data to train on for itself, not need any/minimal human intervention to do so. This clearly is impossible.

    As a tool for people to use natural language to interact with software, it’s proving to be quite effective.

    As a tool for accurate dissemination of factual information it isn’t reliable at all. And can’t be made reliable, LLM’S are at least incapable of reliability at a fundamental level. As language in itself is a subjective human invention we describe the objective reality with, the objective reality is only known through perception. A LLM doesn’t in fact perceive anything, it’s not alive. So fundamentally LLMs can’t know if they are actually being factual, this requires something more than language.

    People who peddle AI bs, don’t know, or wish to remain ignorant about, the fundamental limitations of language.


  • I can pretty much guarantee there are no plans.

    I don’t see the US getting kicked out of anything, unless they actively start attacking allies. This isn’t the first time they did shit like this. Anyone with any knowledge of history will understand that what happened was pretty tame. Incredibly stupid and reckless has been the MO for most of US actions abroad.

    The US has made enemies for life out of some groups and will suffer many terrorist attacks. The US has again damaged its own reputation in a lot of areas. There will be a very big movement away from American companies. And lastly American culture is no longer particularly seen as fashionable/marketable/leading.

    The world will simply move on as it must. The US and its citizens can’t be removed from the map. History can’t be erased. Apologies won’t do anything. Turning America around, towards a more inclusive, equal, just, society is the only thing that can ever hope to help return to good relations. Otherwise its relations will only ever lean on capitalistic relevance to the oligarchy.





  • The consequences will be felt. The common people feel them already, they’re just a toad in a pot of boiling water. People in power being prosecuted isn’t undoing the damage but will help in rebuilding reputation.

    There definitely will be lasting effects in how the world deals with the US. It’s no longer a reliable partner. And its dominance on the world stage is greatly diminished as ties between other powers are strengthened.








  • I’m missing something though. I feel that a deja vu has a different quality. A feeling of familiarity with something that you’re not supposed to be familiar with, almost predictive not quite a prediction. While having a flashback, traumatic or not, is a familiarity with something that you’re actually already familiar with. And it invokes different emotions of anger, fear, disappointment, joy, etc.