A useful way of thinking about it is that "training a model" means "building a statistic." A system like ChatGPT is in essence an enormous statistical dataset of which words followed which words in the 35 TB of text it is a summary of.

It doesn't plan or learn or understand, and when it appears to be doing that in response to what people write, it is an illusion based on loosely-similar sequences of words in the training texts.

GPT will fundamentally never scale past that. But that doesn't mean other algorithms won't.

Nothing says tyranny like building something and not letting angry mobs take it.

Crypto can be exchanged for goods and services?

Not serious, since an even remotely comprehensive rebuttal would be long enough to read as a leftist meme.

The regime would basically have to shut down the internet, and possibly electricity, to make it game over for crypto. And then the world would have larger problems.

Meanwhile their own fiat currency scam has been decoupled from gold, is being inflated out of any semblance of value as fast as they can get away with, and they routinely prohibit bank transfers from and to individuals as well as organizations and countries. And their current project is to shut down fiat cash. These problems can only be solved with an insane number of impalements.

Lets hope central banks never turn off conversions from fiat to gold so it'll be game over.

But does it seem like a future city because people can stream 8K videos to their phones, or because they don't have belligerent democrat policies running around defecating in the streets?

Yeah I know, thanks man, it's nice to be able to come here and vent.

Is that the worst you thought? They also blatantly in-your-face rigged the election and barricaded themselves behind guards and fences thinking Americans would rise up against them over it, and then continued to systematically dismantle national energy and food infrastructure, printed money as fast as they could in order to trigger inflation to erode the wealth of the middle-class and then use the newly-printed cash to buy up everything, and unleashed a flood of welfare migrants on America such that there are now more non-white than white children. We could go on, but...

Edit: By "they" I mean the group that runs the democratic party, and the republican party, and the media, and the banks and other asset management institutions.

I have no explanation for straws, or know if they are faked at all, but have seen some of those pictures yes. But there other examples, like wooden planks that get shot through or deeply embedded into trees which have the same densities - you wouldn't be able to make them penetrate that way at low velocities or by hammering on them; they'd splinter first, but at high speeds they shoot through. I don't think those are faked.

If there were some unknown physical phenomenon that could increase the strength of chemical bonds, we should all drop what we were doing and research that, since it would mean near-infinite money for whoever figured it out, and might start a new technological leap forward similar to when we tamed metal and electricity. Are there fringe research out there looking at that? I don't remember ever coming across it.

Exactly. People who are confused by this can spend a little time googling hurricane-pictures of high windspeeds making various objects shoot through trees etc.

But which group of people is consistently for unchecked immigration everywhere except Israel?

And which group of people have been driving the leftist train since they invented communism?

We're not in the post-abundance age. You'll know when we are.

They work for the same people.

Next we'll need common sense nail gun control. How many nails does an American need anyway.

I don't know if it's true, but if it were, they're not saying it replenishes locally as fast as you pump it up right there, but that the global rate of oil generation is larger than the global rate of consumption.

The first rule of the new world order is that you don't talk about the new world order.

At this level of tech, passing the Turing test is mostly about the gullibility of the human.

If people included image links in their posts, it wouldn't be too difficult to add a Greasemonkey/tampermonkey script that converted it to an image. But yeah, ideally the board itself would support it, probably with it being opt-in so people had to click some icon next to the link to expand it into an inline image.

They keep raising the stakes, assuming their own real roles will never become mainstream knowledge.

I'm going to lose several hours to this now. Thanks, man :-)

Mature AI would be able to produce a post-scarcity world for everyone, not just the currently rich. Anyone claiming it'll only be for the rich is either naive, i.e. not knowing better, or cynical, thinking the rich want to kill everyone, or evil, thinking this is their own chance to screw everyone over.

Edit: This guy seems to fall into the third category...

Exactly, and if you turn of the tv,. the smallhatted people are still coming out of the newspapers, magazines, radio and internet.

Neither side has it right, in my opinion.

For weeks after conception, the fetus really is just a clump of cells, not much different from an unfertilized egg or a sperm cell. A woman should absolutely be free to abort it, with the only concern being the medical and emotional toll it takes on her. Sure, it's a sign of being irresponsible if she does it for most other reasons than for example if she was raped - but as an adult that is her problem.

At some point neurons begin to form and link up, when that's gone on for long enough, the fetus becomes able to feel pain and must be said to have some level of consciousness. I don't know exactly when this is, and believe nobody really does. It could be 7 weeks, or it could be 15, but it's a question that ultimately has an answer. After that the fetus should have human rights, and it's no longer an abortion but a killing. Sometimes it might not be unethical to kill it, for example to save the life of the mother, but it would then be the same kind of decision as being in a falling plane with two people and one parachute.

We can all relate to missed deadlines.

(((Nina Jankowicz))) Every. single. time.