@romanhelmetguy And capitalism is a techno utopia by autistic nerds.
"If we ever run out resources we'll just invent more", except it keeps working
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Tim Portantno
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Tim Portantno
@TimPortantno
Copacetically pathetic, aesthetically ascetic Cryptic, esoteric, gnostic & vedic So acerbic it's practically acetic And bitter & spicy like a prophetic turmeric
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Communism is the utopian delusion of the proletariat. Libertarianism is the utopian delusion of the bourgeoisie.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ @webdevMason He's just saying he's fortunate though, he can't be wrong for an ontological reason he never invoked any more than you can't for reasons you never mentioned, except then the criticism that your argument doesn't falsify what he's saying is correct.
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One of two things will inevitably happen with every post I make:
1. If I am talking about a type of person, that exact person will immediately show up in the comments as if the post were a magic spell which summoned him.
2. If I am talking about an idea, someone will respond by raising an objection which I already addressed in the post itself.
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"What if you were a seagull?" is not a nonsense question
You can ask "what if a human mind that had all of your ideals and preferences were inside a seagull?" and it might not be a *useful* question, but it's kind of an interesting one and definitely not incoherent
Or you can ask "what would it be like to be a seagull?" which is also not hard to parse, if a little harder to answer reasonably. I guess you can argue that it's nothing to be like a seagull because seagulls aren't experiencers, but that's not terribly well supported
What taoki is presumably saying is that some lives seem awfully unpleasant, and like, yeah? They do? Working from extremely basic principles about pain and being prevented from fulfilling instinctual drives, we can say that it's probably not fun to be a rat that drowns in a bucket or a person whose babies all die or whatever
Devon Eriksen@Devon_Eriksen_
Put a 100 marbles in a jar, 14 blue marbles to represent the population of the West, and 86 red marbles to represent everyone else. If you draw a marble, blindly and at random, from the jar, you have a 14% chance of drawing a blue marble. This how @justalexoki sees the moment of conception. He thinks he is a random generic soul, fresh from the Well of Random Generic Souls, drawing a marble from the jar. 14% blue, 86% red. But you don't draw the marble. You are the marble. A blue marble only has a 14% chance of being selection in a random draw. But, in or out of the jar, a blue marble has a 100% chance of being blue. This is the Seagull Test, which is an inversion of the Breakfast Test. The Breakfast Test requires you to describe a hypothetical timeline where you skipped breakfast this morning, to prove you can imagine hypotheticals. The Seagull Test requires you to reject the question "What if you were a seagull?" as a nonsense question, to prove that you understand the difference between valid and nonsense hypotheticals. You can skip breakfast and still be you, but there is no version of you that can be a seagull, and no seagull that can, in any meaningful way, be you. To pass the Seagull Test, you must reject the question and refuse to answer, or, better yet, reframe the question so that it asks for the intended information in a coherent way, i.e. "What does it feel like to be a seagull?" Which is a very, very different question. I can, with good observational data and some intelligent speculation, possibly understand the thoughts and feelings of a Pakistani brick layer. But I cannot be one in any coherently possible universe, because I am, by definition, me. A blue marble.
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@webdevMason "Isn't it nice the things out of my control are in my favor?"
-"Ackshually, you control everything, and everything is against you"
"Oh wow, I had no idea"
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@AshtonForbes They are "phase singularities", what happens if you phase energy in the same spot, over and over and over again, till it's "too dense for space", like an arc fault for AC power(also technically known as a "singularity", for the same exact reason)
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Conditioning the vacuum requires more than one plasma orb, that's why you see them in formation like this commonly.
UAPWixy@UAPWixy
🚨3 ORBs captured cruising the sky... 12th August, 2023..
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@HowToAI_ Except current consumer LLMs are blind to the probabilities, they always pick from the top for any sort, like Google's "I'm feeling lucky", so any accurate conception of "probability" it has is technically a hallucination, but it should generally help
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Stanford proved that ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are all secretly running at a fraction of their real creative capacity.
And one prompt unlocks the version they hide from you.
This paper reveals that the multi-billion dollar process of "Alignment" (RLHF) has accidentally lobotomized AI creativity.
Researchers discovered a phenomenon called Typicality Bias.
When humans rate AI responses, they have a deep psychological drive to choose the most "typical" or familiar-sounding answer.
They don't want the most creative story; they want the one that sounds most like a generic story.
The AI learned this.
It realized that being truly creative actually hurt its safety and preference scores.
So it entered a state of "Mode Collapse", it effectively hid its most original ideas to stay within the safe, boring boundaries we set for it.
But the creativity is still there. It’s just locked.
Stanford researchers found a "master key" to bypass this training and it is ridiculously simple.
They call it Verbalized Sampling (VS).
Instead of asking the AI for one answer, you ask it to verbalize a distribution of responses and their probabilities.
Ex: "Generate 5 unique jokes about coffee and the probability that each one is actually funny."
The results are staggering:
- 2.1x increase in output diversity.
- 25% jump in human evaluation scores for creative writing.
- Zero loss in factual accuracy or safety.
By forcing the model to calculate its own probability distribution, you "unlock" the 66.8% of generative diversity that was suppressed during training.
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@AshtonForbes For what it's worth, they're not "making a wormhole" as much as "shrinking the space between the matter".
It's not "location based" because space doesn't exist, only matter.
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Exactly. Someone will discover wormholes are real.
And I’m the only person on the planet saying we can engineer a wormhole and explaining how.
So it’s going to prove those videos real.
Get it? I’m not out of moves yet.
kyle@Bonkhead_actual
@AshtonForbes @AdamKinzinger Hey pseudo science boy, if physics allows for it then we will eventually discover it and subsequently how to harness it. And it won't be given to us by aliens and certainly not by anything you do.
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@Kekius_Sage It's literally just scalar and FFT, you can reconstruct everything from physics to electrical engineering, chemistry, biology, it's just harmonics again and again and again
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Nobel Prize physicist Frank Wilczek says matter, energy, and even reality itself may ultimately emerge from information.
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@AshtonForbes As far as I can tell, the plasma is just to use ionic propulsion to spin an element with a big nucleus really fast. Attaching the low Z-density/high periodicity hull to the high Z-density/low periodicity plasma in the center works like a ballast and the hull do in a blimp, but 4D
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Macroscopic quantum tunneling won a Nobel prize last year for proving large objects can exhibit pure quantum behavior.
They’ve using plasma to create an electromagnetic system that can produce such effects.
Ashton Forbes@AshtonForbes
Unlabored acceleration requires constant momentum. That’s why the plane is flying in a straight line at a constant speed. Constant velocity keeps the de Broglie wave length the same, lowering the energy requirement for the jump. They literally wormholed a plane.
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@xwanyex You can engineer a "feedback loop" where instead of checking with you each step, it checks in each time it "finishes a task", so it's fewer prompts, but your "feedback loop prompt" has to be really good...
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> hit my limit with prompts
> programmer buddy tells me about this new thing called “agents”
> ask my buddy if this is something new or just more prompts
> he doesn’t understand
> i pull out an illustrated diagram explaining what is code and what is prompts
> he laughs and says "they’re good agents"
> try agentic programming
> it’s prompts
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@AshtonForbes I kind of get the complaint of being reductive with the term "interdimensional" to dumb it down, possibly even to make it sound ridiculous. Maybe "Supradimensional" is better, but it'd only confuse people more...
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Our top math communicator Eric Weinstein can't figure out why congress keeps mentioning 'inter-dimensional.'
Well, one solution to physics is an extra dimension. All the top historical physicists believed in it and called it the Aether until one day some stupid people decided space is an empty vacuum.
I refuse to believe this is hard to understand. It's not lack of intelligence holding Eric back, it's science denialism.
You're just not that important Eric. You were never invited to the club. That's why you weren't told.
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@uncle_deluge I have a theory that linguistics being dominated by Germans at it's outset in the 18th and 19th century, maybe "under emphasized" the connections between Greek and Hebrew/Phoenician.
"They borrowed many words, concepts, the entire script and also the religion, but that's it..."
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Wait til you find out how to say Jove in the classical Latin pronunciation
History Druid ☘︎@HistoryDruid
I just found out “Zeus” is pronounced as “Dias” in ancient Greek and i just ascended into enlightenment.
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@yacineMTB You probably want a "physics informed neural network"(PINN) but I couldn't tell you which, so I asked Grok
x.com/i/grok/share/c…
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@AshtonForbes Instead of an "anchor" I think of it more like a "ballast" (like for a submarine or a blimp), and we can use the "buoyancy" of the universe to go "up and down"(dimensions) without much "weight" (except with this, it's still literally mass, just not literally buoyancy)
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These orbs aren't demons, aliens, and they're not sending this plane to another reality.
Look at the orientation of the heat signatures.
They're creating a coherent, phase locked electromagnetic system.
The Poynting vector is not zero in 5D space. They're aiming where they're sending the plane.
The way this type of wormhole works is a point to point system that requires an anchor.
This is how it also gets around the no communication theorem, which restricts faster than light signaling.
Jordan Crowder@digijordan
Remember folks…spheres don’t just float around aimlessly… Sometimes they suck entire planes full of people out of our dimension. I wonder if we’ll ever get this level of ‘disclosure’
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@justalexoki The Talmud says the same thing, but the exact opposite:
x.com/i/grok/share/b…
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@StuartHameroff Where does this leave hive insects, like ants or bees?
They can scale those neural connections across, not unlike our brain, but with less "form" at any given time(abd less entropy to fight to keep that form)
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Potentially yes, but at a lower frequency and intensity. Humans can have 10^7 conscious events per second, the worms maybe a few per second, low intensity. But still, feeling good is feeling good. It makes sense that primitive feelings motivate even the simplest of creatures. Probably sparked the origin of life.
Eddie Chu@eddiechu888
@StuartHameroff So the worm is conscious?
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@esrtweet "Why is Communism bad?"
-"Because it killed 100 million 'Communists'..."
It's not really coherent...
China is evil for repressing their own citizens, and that repression is what let's them do everything else to keep their status quo
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I'm not with Gano.
The tragic and dangerous thing about Communists is that they *are* human beings. If they weren't, the mind virus that turns them to evil would be less infectious.
The stakes are high. Communism slaughters hundreds of millions of people at a time in its acute form and corrodes civilization in its chronic one. This makes dehumanizing its carriers correspondingly tempting - easier to contain and kill them if we mentally model them as a kind of plague-rat or zombie outbreak.
The problem is that dehumanizing your opponents is not just morally incorrect, it's a habit that rots the brain and clouds judgment. It will make you less than you are, and less able to fight them effectively.
Memes like this don't do the defenders of liberty any favors.
Linuxhippie@linuxhippie
@IsaiahLCarter @esrtweet @hasanthehun I'm with Gano
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@FlyaEther33 "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
But who determines what is "sufficiently" advanced? It's just our perception of what is possible
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"This thing isn't about "Aliens", Never has been, It's been about Physics that has been kept suppressed from humans that leads to effects that we see as "Alien",That we see as Magical,That we see as impossible" 💯
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@mitchellvii Consider a "holographic computer", something that can run using the functions of the universe itself(measure square waves to solve primes, etc.), at the same speed.
If we built a simulation that way, it would be 100% accurate and always scale.
Would it be a half-simulation?
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What if this is all just a simulation, and everything we know is just a big, lazy rendering holodeck? I mean, you don't have to render the entire universe because you're never there. The big question is: are you the main character or an NPC?
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@Write4Republic I'll give you a hint: There are many more ex-Communist countries than ex-Muslim countries(even some overlap in Eastern Europe)
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@matthewstoller @PalmerLuckey Oh, and how many monopolies have you taken down? How does someone get this pompous about something with no experience doing anything but writing?
Oh right, I guess "no experience doing anything but writing" answers that...
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You’re missing my point. You compared yourself to JK Rowling who sold 600m books. You never did anything close to that even though you could and should have. Why? A billionaire stopped you from redefining computing.
I know you created products, you are enormously impressive. You didn’t *ship* lots of products, Facebook bought your company and ruined the space before you could do that.
My point is what is impressive about you is that you build, not the financial gamesmanship. Financial bullshit is something a lot of mediocrities can do. I mean doesn’t it bother you to see a guy fuck up your work just because he captured a monopoly? Don’t you see how we’re going to lose to China? Don’t you realize the massive over-indexing of power for someone like Zuckerberg - who actively transferred tech to China - is horrific? Of course you do.
You would be a massive rock star in any social system. Why do you support one that puts your talents beneath so many fools?
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