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@JoelLeonardHam1 @ChristianHeiens Plato's Republic was actually a textbook on how to transform any society into a tyranny. Many of Plato's students became tyrants. His most famous student tutored Alexander the Great. This is the dark liberal art, any society that allows liberty will transform into tyranny.

The Founding Fathers all understood that Democracy leads to Tyranny. That was clear from classical writings. They tried to avoid it at all costs. That's why we have the upper and lower houses in govt. The great power given to the people's representatives was the power of the purse. All spending bills must begin in the house. Over time they surrendered that power by allowing mandated spending. The $^&%$# Warren court, I believe, erased the distinction between those two houses at the State level (They could not call the constitution unconstitutional), and that explains the total mess in California, New York, and Illinois. The landless mobs in the cities now call the shots for the entire state, with predictable results. That, and giving the vote to women, of course, has pretty much doomed the American Republic. But, we had a pretty good run.

If you build a system that either explicitly or implicitly argues that all people are politically equal, all human rights are universal, and all political authority is derived only by the voluntary consent of the governed (a mythic impossibility that has never truly existed anywhere on Earth at any point in history), then it’s basically inevitable that you’re going to sooner or later get mass democracy. And mass democracy ALWAYS leads to forced wealth redistribution and endlessly expanding bureaucracies, along with an infinite expansion of new made-up “rights” that actually attack things which were once considered universally necessary to the maintenance of civilization. And to secure all of this, ever more coercive amounts of centralized power have to be wielded by the state, often to a degree that would make the absolute monarchs of the 17th century look like anarchists by comparison. The power the Jacobins wielded over France in 1793 was infinitely more absolute and totalitarian than anything ever wielded by the guy who literally called himself the “sun king” and once declared “I am the state”.

@dave_dg1111323 @FamedCelebrity "Your mind is a specific arrangement of atoms" is an odd statement as the mind retains its identity give or take any number of atoms. Likewise it is absurd to say the number "5" is just this arrangement of pixels on your screen.

@FamedCelebrity Your mind is literally a specific arrangement of atoms. The permutations are incomprehensible, but not infinite.

Next time someone says AI has reached AGI or true intelligence, ask them if it has passed the paper test. THE PAPER TEST 1. A computer is a collection of states, 1s and 0s. At a set time of the clock, get a big piece of paper and write them all down, in some proper order. 2. Move the clock forward one tick. On a new piece of paper, placed over the old one, write down the new state of the computer. 3. Do this again for the next clock tick. Then again and again. 4. At the end is a sequence of the computer, on paper. Now flip those pages, like you did in notebooks as a kid, creating animations. 5. If the flipped paper alive? Has it reached true general intelligence? Is this a mind? Is it conscious? If so, where is it? In the flipping? In the paper? The ink? Just where? 6. Obviously none of this in intelligence. But the computer is just the same. Exactly the same, but instead of you flipping pages, electricity does it. Which changes nothing. 7. AI will not reach AGI. 8. Thus, there is no reason for panic or even "concern".

@FamedCelebrity More interestingly is following this cybernetics path alongside the regression of philsophy to panpsychism, you end up reconstructing the ancient pantheons. If a machine can be conscious then why cant a body of water? Poseidon et al? And why shouldn't AI have the right to vote?

I stupidly neglected to show why our minds are not like this, since many think they same test could be applied to us. There is no way, even in principle, to write down the state of a mind, as we can do with computers, where we know the full cause and conditions of its state. The mind, which is to say intellection, is not material, and anyway the brain has many parts that are in quantum states, which cannot be written with precision. We are not machines, we are not just neurons slapped together. We are more than sum of our parts, like all substances. Computers are nothing but the sum of their parts. Just machines.

@FamedCelebrity Cybernetics established this equivalence between man and machine by eliminating all metaphysical concepts such as soul, choice, will etc. So from that you have all these AI defensive posts arguing that men are just meat machines, no way to prove you are conscious, etc etc

@FamedCelebrity Yes. Anything ant computer any software can do you can yourself compute by hand with pen and paper given enough time. Pen, paper, and symbols don't become conscious no matter what computations you do with them.

@Suryanshti777 LLM

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@gaulicsmith @smallgovlizard Abolish public schools. Replace with subsidized homeschool, corporate schools, trade guild schools, religious schools, military schools, government supplied AI tutors. Most kids going through public schools dont end up educated. Rest are inhibited by having to share their space.

@smallgovlizard So you want to abolish public school ? What would be the effect of that do you think ?

Why not just make the schools not woke ? Have any Republicans considered this

@gaulicsmith Public social education is intrinsically a Marxist project. Problem with Marxism is that after 100 years its institutions appear as natural normal and indispensable. They are not.

@TheMindScourge The dimb uses appear to be grok being asked "is this true" for every post on twitter

When it comes to new technologies, you’ve got to be thinking dumber Consider the phone. Everyone’s walking around with a supercomputer in their pocket, and it’s used mostly to play Clash of Clans and watch TikToks What is the dumb application of AI? That’s what I want to know. That’s where the money and the majority of user minutes will be Everyone else is out there wondering if they can get AI to write Shakespeare or invent new physics I want to learn what the best dumb uses for AI are

@romanhelmetguy Is Claude male or female?

Anthropic put this woman in charge of teaching killer robots right from wrong.

@curtis_yarvin So why in such a case should the university be on the hook to pay back a loan of an individual who never gave them the money?

@curtis_yarvin When you are granted a student loan the money doesn't go directly to the university, it goes into your bank account. You can then just never pay the school, never go to class, take the money and go home to thailand and never pay back a dime or worry about credit score.

If Trump’s plan was to make student loans dischargeable and stick the university with the bill, he would never lose another election

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

Because in our greatness there are yet margins. The idealists imagine a world wherein there are no margins and believe such a world to be greater. Their utopia is a Rousseau/Avatar/Noble Savage world wherein there is no natural evil, that evil only occurs as a symptom of oppression or is the system of oppression. "The psychopath does not murder because he is a psychopath. He murders because society refuses to respect her pronouns."

@MizDonna69 Why do they want us to decline? It seems to me we are the greatest country that has ever existed.

People often ask me, "Why do people hate Trump so much?" I have been thinking about the managed decline talking point. Apparently, the establishment, whatever that means, thought America should fade into history through managed decline. The problem? The American VOTERS, who have a long history of being the home of the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, disagreed with them and voted for @POTUS That is one of the main reasons they hate him. He refused to acknowledge that America was on the decline. Instead, he painted a picture of a future that said "The best is yet to come." People were inspired by a hope in the future that was based on our basic values. That is ONE reason they hate him so much. There are many others. But this is a big one.

@ChristianHeiens Well theh do want the USA to have an origin story, just that it should be civil war/ww2/civil rights blend, not the founding but the reforms that converted America into a neo-Marxist tax farm where any opposition can be dismissed as racist/fascist/nazi.

It's bizarre that this is even controversial or has to be argued with someone. The United States started off as a British colony. It was settled, organized, governed, and functioned as an extension of English culture for nearly 200 years before gaining its independence in the late 18th century. Of course our common culture is English culture. It couldn't be anything else. But just look at how incredulous these other panelists are as they listen to Scalia explain this. It's like he's trying to explain quantum mechanics to an illiterate Afghan sheep herder. This is so hard for such well-educated intellectuals to grasp because the implication dismantles their liberal priors. They don't want to accept this obvious truth because it means that America was founded on a bunch of particularities, not a bunch of abstract universalities. This is utterly intolerable for a liberal, who wants more than anything else for his ideology to dissolve all particularities in the hope that doing so will eliminate the possibility of conflict. So they have to pretend like it's a fringe position to argue that the United States has a particular origin story that continues to influence its social and political structures to this very day.

@esrtweet @Thisisbensmith Language and coding dont have deep structural rules in the way chess does? That can't be implemented in an LLM varient? Sure about that?

Kasparov was wrong of course. But the analogy doesn't hold, because the kind of reasoning LLMs do versus a chess program is very different. A chess program actually knows all the deepest structural rules about its domain and reasons within that knowledge. An LLM doesn't know anything in that sense - it's just a next-token predictor surfing statistical gradients. The analog of an LLM training set in chess programs is the opening book. A chess program can be better than its opening book by applying its structural knowledge. An LLM is exactly its opening book, now and forever.

Briefly, after some recent positive experiences with Chat-GPT 5.2, I was bemusedly telling friends that at the micro-level it writes better code than I do. After a bit more experience I've realized that that's not true. It doesn't write better code than I do; what it does do is get to similarly good code much faster and with less debugging along the way. What it really excels at is not making mistakes in the fiddly bits. This morning I was able to tell it to parallelize two for-loops doing moderately tricky bashing of data structures, and it wrote all the required mutex locking correctly Could I have done that? Sure. Could I have gotten it exactly right the first time? Doubtful... There's a kind of ceiling implied by the fact that these models are prediction engines trained on large corpuses of human-generated code. They can't be better than the best human coders - they can only be consistently as good as the best humans. Which I think is what I'm seeing - not superhuman performance, but peak human performance. On one level this is reassuring; it suggests that us software engineers aren't about to be made instantly obsolete by transcendent god-minds. Not in the near term, anyway. But peak-human performance from the AIs can still be a subtle problem if you're not a near-peak human performer yourself. My workflow is usually 1. Think. 2. Issue a prompt. 3. Wait. 4. Review. 5. "Oh, yeah, that makes sense!" 6. Commit it. 7. Goto 1. But if you're an average programmer, step 5 might very well look like "Wut? I do not comprehend what it just did." I worry that pressure to ship and flinching away from the concentration cost of actually reviewing code will habituate average programmers to committing code they don't understand. Which would be a new, Singularity-era way of piling up technical debt that will eventually come back around and bite us on the ass. I don't have a solution for this problem. And it's certainly preferable to the problem of having unassisted human beings generate code with a much higher defect frequency. But it bears watching. With new tools come new challenges, and everything all over again at higher complexity levels. It was ever thus.

@CynicalPublius "They/them do the us/them, we/us don't."

I get angry a lot when I hear Democrats lie, but I'm not sure I've ever been angrier than over the below video clip. No one in the history of the USA has purposely caused more hateful division in America than Barack Obama. For Frankfurt School Marxists, hate and division is THE necessary element of power. A true Frankfurt School disciple, Obama's singular purpose was to create hate and division along demographic lines. Racism was on life support when Obama took office. He gave it life once again, deliberately. Virtually all of the hate and division we experience in the USA today is directly attributable to Barack Obama. Other than Woodrow Wilson, Obama is the most objectively evil man ever to sit in the Oval Office. Shut up Obama. Everything you are bemoaning was created by YOU, you lying narcissistic Marxist filth.

I don't recall who the first blackface cancellation targets were, but the method was clear that the operatives picked the targets first, then researched for something in their past to attack them with. They found blackface photos, so they made bf an outrage and used it to cancel the targets. People like Trudeau and Kimmell though were immune because the issue wasnt bf as such, it was just using manufactured outrage to cancel targets. Likewise Trump had a campaign rally planned, operatives researched to denigrate it, and invented Juneteenth to call Trump racist for having a rally thst day. They then carried on the big lie by making it a national holiday.

Blackface as a joke was culturally acceptable until 2018 when over night it was considered the same level as unironically supporting the klan. Our society went through this strange spasm removing it from every sitcom of the last 60 years, putting up warnings on the series that couldn’t delete episodes. It was very strange.

@UnbrokenKR The capacity to decode and recode suggests will is higher than code.

Biohub is feeding human cell data into AI to model and edit immune responses. It looks like medicine — but it’s actually programmable biology. Healing can be salvation — or another name for control. Biohub는 인간 세포 데이터를 AI에 입력해 면역 반응을 모델링하고 수정하려 한다. 겉으론 의학 같지만, 실제로는 프로그래밍 가능한 생명이다. 치료는 구원이 될 수도, 통제의 다른 이름이 될 수도 있다.