watutalkinbout

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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Re: Eastern Europe - I was referring to the Pew Research Center survey conducted across 34 European countries in 2015–17. Re: attitudes of younger Jews I'm really referring to Non-Americans (Americans are a special case). With America
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Maybe you haven't got sufficiently developed imagination... https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/business/jetblue-x-post-sparks...
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Yes, but within Eastern Europe acceptance of Jews is generally higher than acceptance of Muslims, based on polling. Many non-Israeli Jews view Israel's actions as abhorent, particularly younger Jews. Being associated with Israel over t
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
One pertinent issue is that the US isn't providing billions in arms funding every year for all the others on your list. It's one thing to see bad things happening. It's another to know they are being directly enabled by your
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Debating my level of concern is a distraction.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
They jumped the shark. You can't openly bomb a bunch of women and children into the dirt, on a daily basis for months and years, and smooth it over with some think tank articles. Might have worked 20 years ago, but not now.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
Yep, it's a facsimile of a filtered subset of all human behaviour.
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by watutalkinbout 2mo ago
I agree. The end goal is unlimited abundance (for a handful of people). Let's not pretend that capital is actually directly efficiently, tulip.
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by watutalkinbout 3mo ago
LLMs traverse an assembled surface of human knowledge. You can't find things on a map that aren't there, but maybe you can draw a route nobody used before.
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by watutalkinbout 3mo ago
It isn't an implementation for neurons, unless you believe in a designing god. Matrices are an implementation detail in reconstructing the surface of human knowledge. It's a complex surface, but it's a regurgitation.
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by watutalkinbout 3mo ago
It's like Musks duplicitous argument about unlimited abundance. We have a lot of abundance now, we just keep accelerating it all into the hands of fewer and fewer people - whose response is only to want more, and more, and more.
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by watutalkinbout 3mo ago
Empirically, yes. You seem to be equating flatness with surface hardness. Tarmac isn't unforgiving to walk on because it's flat, it's because it has no give.
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by watutalkinbout 3mo ago
Sure, but I'd imagine the average human could walk substantially further on flat modern roads in modern footwear than on cobblestone with ancient sandles. You use 10–20% more energy for just mildly uneven surfaces - probably more for r
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by watutalkinbout 3mo ago
Cobblestones aren't walk friendly.
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by watutalkinbout 3mo ago
That said, as someone who has walked on cobblestone - a modern road in modern boots is different to an ancient road in ancient boots. I'd bet money the 'real' travel times would differ.
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by watutalkinbout 3mo ago
Dived with them in the Red Sea. They can get pretty massive, and it can be slightly unsettling close up. They are odd creatures.
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by watutalkinbout 3mo ago
We don't allow kids to smoke, presumably that's also something to do with limiting their agency?
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by watutalkinbout 4mo ago
I think you completely missed my point.
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by watutalkinbout 4mo ago
Maybe don't just 'inject' it. Maybe use it to increase outcomes.
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by watutalkinbout 4mo ago
'Fooling', essentially to deceive or trick, is defined as causing someone to believe an untruth - at least in British English it does. LLMs don't hold beliefs (neither do mechanistic processes), and they aren't a someone
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by watutalkinbout 4mo ago
They simply appear to "exhibit intelligent processing". The intelligence is in what created the data. It's a surface that's being traversed in a complex way. The LLM doesn't 'understand' that surface in
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by watutalkinbout 4mo ago
You can't fool an inanimate object. An LLM is (effectively) just a really, really elaborate "choose your own adventure" book. It's not "working through" problems, it's just tracing a route through an pre-d
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by watutalkinbout 4mo ago
Copyright is about exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution. An LLM is just a really, really big, really, really elaborate "choose your own adventure" book. You aren't a book.
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by watutalkinbout 4mo ago
An AI company stealing intellectual property?! Oh, the inhumanity!
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by watutalkinbout 4mo ago
These aren't the same thing. You can't fool an AI because it isn't using its own judgement.
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by watutalkinbout 4mo ago
You're describing a tool. Tools can do very useful things, but they aren't intelligent.
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by watutalkinbout 4mo ago
Algorithms and data that emulate responses aren't smart. A 5 year old knows if you want to wash your car, you need to take it to the car wash.