Mike

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.

R.I.P Chuck Norris. Forever not a retard.

'democracy is bad bc educated get the same voting rights as the uneducated' There's a really simple solution to this you retards.

People will hate this but it has to be said.. Genghis Khan is vastly overrated. Yeah, the Mongols conquered a lot of stuff. They were good at war. But that's it. They didn't contribute to human society in any measurable way that affects anyone today. I will bet money you've never eaten a buuz dumpling or listen to throat singing. A large part of the Mongol's success comes from their sheer brutality towards common folk. And brutalize the common folk they did. Sack a castle and kill everyone. Come back two weeks later when people are rummaging through the wreckage and kill everyone again. Capture a bunch of men, women, and children, and make them march at the head of the army's assault, taking the casualties and filling up moats with their corpses. So sure, the war machine was impressive but the slaughter of millions of peasants is (aside from kind of sickening to consider) entirely unimpressive. And in exchange for the slaughter of so many the world got.... ? Mid asian food and terrible music? Weird horse products? "They are inhuman and beastly, rather monsters than men, thirsting for and drinking blood, tearing and devouring the flesh of dogs and men, dressed in ox-hides, armed with plates of iron... bulky, strong, invincible, untiring... They are without human laws, know no comforts, are more ferocious than lions or bears." - Matthew Paris (English Benedictine monk in the 1240s) "They should be called monsters rather than human beings, thirsting after and drinking blood, tearing apart and devouring the corpses of dogs and humans... Devoid of human laws, they have no knowledge of clemency.." "They are extremely arrogant toward other people, [and] tend to anger... easily... They are the greatest liars in the world in dealing with other people... They are crafty and sly... [and] have an admirable ability to keep their intentions secret... They are messy in their eating and drinking and in their whole way of life, [and] cling fiercely to what they have. They have no conscience about killing other people..." -John of Plano Carpini (1240s) "One cannot sufficiently defame the cruelty and artful ability for deception of that people... a certain ill-bred breed of inhuman humans, whose law is lawlessness, whose wrath is furious... overrunning countless lands, which it is dreadfully devastating, killing and horribly exterminating by fire all who stand in their way." -Ivo of Narbonne (1240s) A disgusting people who happen to get very, very good at warfare but highly overrated by people who value martial excellence.

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England- USAF ground crew remove the cruise missile launchers from a B-1B Lancer, and replace them with a full load of 2,000 lb GBU-31 JDAM guided bombs.

The production of interesting X articles has now officially outpaced my ability to even bookmark them

I’m just glad I lived long enough to see someone call an Airborne Ranger a POG. IS THERE NO DECENCY ANYMORE!?!?