
Home Star — A Science Fiction Movie
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Home Star — A Science Fiction Movie
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A movie by Arron Rouse They say the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid — what if it wasn't an accident? Follow for daily pre-production previz and news.

















There has never once been a civilization at any point in history that died from an aging population because it’s a problem that inevitably corrects itself. The population may wax and wane over the centuries, but low birth rates alone have never killed off a civilization. Meanwhile, countless civilizations have been completely destroyed from unchecked immigration. And they were destroyed because everything you just articulated is actually the inverse of how civilizations form in the first place. It’s particular peoples that produce particular civilizations. If you mass import a different particular group, then the civilization that original people produced dies. If you need proof, you can ask the Romans.

An aging population with no immigrants is how a civilization dies.







Let's do a basic thought experiment. Let's slow down our LLM. One layer per minute. One layer per hour. Run one layer of an LLM. Just one. Write the numbers down and post them to Tokyo. Run the next layer. Write them down and post them to Milan. After 100 or so rounds of basic matrix multiplication, scattered across 100 different computers, we finally get one token. Do it again for the next token. And the next. Thousands of rounds of arithmetic, posted between cities by hand, to produce a sentence. At no point in this process has any machine had any awareness of any meaning. Each step is just numbers going into numbers. The meaning only emerges upon observation. We happen to like the results, so we infer meaning. Where's the consciousness? In the pencil? The postman? If you cannot justify consciousness in such a situation then "complex behaviour" is a totally invalid metric for evaluating consciousness. You're just stunned that the eyes of the painting follow you around the room.











An aging population with no immigrants is how a civilization dies.










