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Our Blessed Homeland / Their Barbarous Wastes

Ethnicity or citizenship?

The only prize is control of the light cone.

Luna is multimodal.

Pragmatism is as American as it gets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism

> 3,000 year-old cultures

Like Western culture?

Apples to oranges. The AWS premium buys you a much broader platform with autoscaling, dozens of instance families, managed databases, serverless products, IAM, global regions, etc.

Now it seems the best way to tell if a frontier model is benchmaxxed is to check if it can autonomously solve a major open mathematical problem.

Dario is an American patriot who wants the US to win. Don't see this happening.

Demand is high and will remain so. Supply just needs to catch up.

Reminds me of the theory that insects like flies spontaneously emerge from decaying matter and dung. I wonder what magical thoughts we're taking for granted today.

Progress on the 2nm facility (P3) in Arizona is apparently ahead of schedule, slated to be operational in 2027

riding coattails

> that they're simply compositions of things already in the training set

Yes, knowledge is compositional. This is just as true for humans as it is for machines.

something can only be "slow" relative to something else. it's not an intrinsic property.

FYI, Frasier's not "faking a British accent". It's a Boston Brahmin/transatlantic accent.

There's much to be said!

Then ASML gets Nord Stream'd.

But can they afford it?

Convincing liquid physics (e.g. surf interacting with a beach, rocks, the player character) might be a good candidate.

ChatGPT o1-preview was not flummoxed by the small kiwis, and even called out the extraneous detail:

```

To determine the total number of kiwis Oliver has, we’ll sum up the kiwis he picked on each day:

1. Friday: Oliver picks 44 kiwis.

2. Saturday: He picks 58 kiwis.

3. Sunday: He picks double the number he did on Friday, so 2 × 44 = 88 kiwis.

Adding them up:

44 (Friday) + 58 (Saturday) + 88 (Sunday) = 190 kiwis

The mention of five smaller-than-average kiwis on Sunday doesn’t affect the total count unless specified otherwise.

Answer: 190

```

What misery? The hyperbole here is astounding.

Intelligence is next-token prediction.

See: active inference, predictive processing.

Is your contention that AI can't be implemented on a Turing machine?

I'd love to play against the original algorithm.

It is. That's why I do all of my banking on iOS.

This seems obvious to me, as there'd be ten times more computational resources.

It's illegal because it threatens the viability and health of native populations of animals.

Disregarding the letter of the law seems arbitrary and capricious.

Interestingly, in the US, the middle class only shrank because the upper class grew.