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by estearum 3mo ago
Your ego and confidence would do wonders in the Russian military! After all, they had tons and tons of combined arms, counterinsurgency, and standoff experience. Way more combat experience than Ukraine did. Unfortunately it turns out differ
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by estearum 3mo ago
Nobody cares about the war in Iran.
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by estearum 3mo ago
The claim above is that neither side has experience that's all that relevant to the type of conflict we'd expect in a China/US conflict. Nothing to do with "validity." Your lived experience (or whoever's you&
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by estearum 3mo ago
Uhh yes. I am sure. A smash and grab in Venezuela is not Iran and Iran is not China. The closest analog we have to war with China is Ukraine/Russia. All evidence from NATO exercises and investigations is that Ukr/Rus conflict has
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by estearum 3mo ago
If the US were ruled by a dictator and had no market forces, the US could obviously conquer any of the above. It would just come at such immense cost and require such horrors that a voting public and a responsive market make it politically
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by estearum 3mo ago
Wrong. Health insurance company margins are meaningless. All the large insurers are actually "pay-viders", meaning they own huge (and growing) chunks of the physicians (providers) they pay out. Go read STAT's Colossus investi
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by estearum 3mo ago
The distinction between political resolve and military might is relevant specifically to the "what has all this money gotten us?" All the money in the military has gotten us, almost certainly, the ability to conquer virtually any
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by estearum 3mo ago
NATO exercises and, ya know, the war in Iran, seem to suggest there's limited applicability of the US's experience.
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by estearum 3mo ago
No, the problem is that nobody actually gives a fuck about this war. The reason we don't have industrial capacity dedicated to this war is because everyone knows we're fighting it for no reason, there's no plan, it stops and
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by estearum 3mo ago
Aren't you describing the current state of affairs, and GP's suggestion would enable the ideal state (i.e. food products can compete on implied quality based on state of origin)?
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by estearum 3mo ago
The brain is the source of intelligence The brain solely does probabilistic conversion of inputs to outputs Therefore the thing that makes us intelligent is our probabilistic conversion of inputs to outputs Ergo GP's assertion is wrong
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by estearum 3mo ago
Formal mathematical systems are not physical objects. The brain – which is presumably the source of natural intelligence – is. By "everything" I was referring (obviously) to things in the universe. Mathematical systems are not
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by estearum 3mo ago
Yeah, that's ultimately this whole conversation and people just don't have the courage to acknowledge their own beliefs. The brain is a (very complex, incredible) input → output machine. That's it! It's incredible! I don
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by estearum 3mo ago
Sorry your example of overbearing suppression of Internet rights is a law that requires OS developers to collect broad age information and then to pass that information to any app developer that requests it (with user permission)? Sheesh, t
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by estearum 3mo ago
Well no, you changed the definition. LLMs don't just mimic what they've been trained on. They mimic what they're rewarded for. Like a brain! Pre-training is just direct mimicry. A pre-trained LLM is very stupid and mostly
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by estearum 3mo ago
Of course we do. Unless the brain is an object unlike anything else in the known universe, then it's an input → output machine.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Okay, then what part of the brain is doing anything other than transforming an input into an output based on what inputs that part of the brain has previously been exposed to?
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by estearum 3mo ago
Yes that is the item (2) parameter described above.
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by estearum 3mo ago
~25 states (almost all of them red) instituted porn restrictions, including internet age verification laws, in the last few years. Another handful of states across the red/blue gamut, but actually still red-bent, are pushing for social
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by estearum 3mo ago
> But brains do much more than just predict tokens based on previously seen tokens. I think all the other things brains do are probably important for our intelligence. Like what? What specific biological structure in the brain could be d
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by estearum 3mo ago
Quantum is not bullshit and yes, classical is deterministic. That's why the brain cannot possibly be anything other than an input → output machine, which is functionally deterministic (with maybe some fully random components), but is
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by estearum 3mo ago
I am saying that there is no categorical distinction to be made on functional grounds between artificial intelligence and brains. You cannot say an AI model cannot be intelligent because it's a probability machine, when all available
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by estearum 3mo ago
Looks interesting (added to my list, thank you for the recommendation), but not actually relevant to the topic at hand. We know that the brain is a probabilistic input → output machine because the universe is a probabilistic input → outpu
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by estearum 3mo ago
Nothing in the universe is anything other than a chain of reactions, amigo. The brain is an object in the universe. The universe has quantum behaviors (fully random, not a source of intelligence) and it has deterministic behaviors (fully
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by estearum 3mo ago
Probabilistic and deterministic are not opposites. The brain is deterministic at the level of specific interactions, which process inputs in a highly chaotic (but still deterministic) manner into probabilistic outcomes. The opposite of dete
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by estearum 3mo ago
> Are newly born babies reacting due to statistical probabilities that they have derived, or are they using something other than their brains? The answer is obviously yes lol. The creature is an assemblage of electrical, chemical, and ki
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by estearum 3mo ago
That's bad ass
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by estearum 3mo ago
Are food labels required to identify where they're sourced from? I don't think so?
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by estearum 3mo ago
> but being able to generate probabilistic outputs based on inputs is not what makes us intelligent. ??? Of course it is. The brain is mechanically not capable of doing anything other than that. Do you believe the brain is something othe
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by estearum 3mo ago
Can you identify specific blue state legislation that creates or attempts to create open borders? Are you referring to sanctuary policies which just say a locality won't expend local resources to enforce federal immigration law? Not su

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