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”It can't happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
- Karl Popper
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.
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Sebastian Arnström
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Sebastian Arnström
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Musician. B Sc. in Environmental Technology, M Sc. in Sustainability Science. https://t.co/1MjBU7ToQ2
Stockholm Katılım Ekim 2010
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Finally, a big name has the courage to tell it: we are nowhere near AGI.
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold, put it neat and clear:
"Today's systems are nowhere near [AGI]. Doesn't matter how many Erdős problems you solve… I think it's far, far from what a true invention, or someone like Ramanujan, would have been able to do."
This is the elephant in the room that many AI enthusiasts prefer not to see, or are actively trying to hide.
Erdős problems are well defined, often combinatorial, on finite spaces. They are exactly the kind of problems on which current AI can achieve spectacular performance with a lot of compute and knowledge.
A neural network can search a huge graph of possibilities. It can recombine existing knowledge at unprecedented scale. It can discover surprising solutions inside an already defined conceptual space.
But true invention is something else.
True invention is not only solving a problem.
It is inventing new objects, new dimensions, new connections. It is inventing new problems.
From resolving to inventing there is a discontinuity that we don't know how to bridge.
We are making extraordinary tools.
But we are nowhere close to AGI.
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So the US policy of taking Russia’s side and trying to force Ukraine to surrender to occupation and slaughter has stagnated thanks to the fierce resistance of Ukrainians and their allies in Europe. Good.
Alex Raufoglu@ralakbar
NEW!! Sec Rubio tells me Ukraine peace efforts ‘stagnated,’ U.S. ready to mediate if talks progress Washington does not want to “waste time” on unproductive diplomacy after renewed strikes, but remains open to helping broker a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv, Rubio says 👇
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As I’ve said since that first Trump term, we may never know why Trump is so loyal to Putin. Bribery? Blackmail? Affinity for dictators & oligarchs? KGB asset? All of the above? More important is stopping him, because if he were a Russian agent, what would he do differently?
Jim Sciutto@jimsciutto
Trump has been threatening such reductions to a number of European and Asian allies going back to his first term. This particular announcement comes the same day he spoke with Putin - and it’s a development Russia would certainly welcome.
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No system in human history has allowed more people to sit in their garden making art than capitalism
𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉@OrevaZSN
I just really, really hate the concept of capitalism. I don’t want to work my job every day. I want to make art. I want to be in my garden. I want to feel something.
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I guess that’s what freedom looks like when you worship authority.
Alexander Dugin@AGDugin
The West is pure and absolute evil.
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Whatever you think of this war, if this doesn’t give you goosebumps, you have never experienced tyranny and the universal euphoria a promise of freedom holds.
All can still go very wrong but the joy and power of hope can be reality-shifting.
Thomas Rid@RidT
M Street and Wisconsin in Georgetown taken over by a large crowd of celebrating Iranians, chanting USA USA … not what I was expecting during my run today.
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@noa_lange She should be unelectable after making noises like this. But I’m guessing she won’t be.
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@simianghost Regime apologists on the TL in this historic moment are wild.
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You can free people by killing their oppressors.
Rashida Tlaib@RashidaTlaib
You cannot ‘free’ people by killing them and destroying their country.
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As usual, a dictator's people celebrate his demise, his long-suffering victims dance in the streets, and Western pols and pundits who have never known repression or hardship, let alone torture, criticize for partisan reasons of their own.
Thomas van Linge@ThomasVLinge
Syria 🇸🇾: celebrations erupt in the Damascus suburbs as reports of the death of Ali Khamenei spread across the region
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Persian and Jew celebrating together in London
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Amazing.
Iranians are playing music and DANCING IN THE STREETS.
Everyone waited for this day.
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People are celebrating Khamenei's death in Tehran.
Chants and whistles are heard.
Javid Shah, Long live the King!
Khamenei, the oppressor, we toppled you!
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The animating force behind the American Right today is hatred of immigrants (the Other) and foreigners more generally.
In service of that hate they are wiling to have masked, armed thugs with Federal badges roam American neighborhoods -- harass, intimidate and sometimes kill Americans. They are eager to see hard working immigrants hide away, or leave the country. Happy to see brilliant scientists and engineers (non-white) walk (fly) away. They are happy to pay higher taxes (tariffs) on the goods they buy. Overjoyed to see the very idea of America (Individualism, individual-rights) trampled underfoot in the name of blood and soil.
Hate is a powerful emotion. When it becomes the guide to action, freedom and liberty are easily sacrificed.
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You know that feeling when you look at old images of Nazis, with their totenkopfs and swastikas and black uniforms, and wonder: ”How could anyone convince themselves that these were the good guys?” Well…
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Trump applying stronger sanctions on the genocidal Russian dictatorship, an active enemy of the US and its allies? No, he’s raising taxes on Americans to punish European allies over the vast irrelevancy of Greenland in order to destroy NATO to benefit Russia.
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
JUST IN: Trump says he will impose a 10% tariff on on goods sent to the U.S. from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Finland on Feb. 1, rising to 25% on June 1, “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”
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Evolution produced many wondrous things - especially human minds - but it did not produce the F-22. And likely could not produce it, even in ten trillion years.
And it’s not because it’s complex. It’s actually much, much simpler than a cell.
It’s because reaching this point in design space is probably unreachable by:
1. Changing only a few genes at a time
2. Requiring every individual to meet strict criteria of survival and reproduction
It might be possible for *humans* to design a strand of DNA that constructs an advanced fighter jet.
And that would be partly because, unlike evolution, we wouldn’t destroy our failed attempts along the way, but save and learn from them.
Humans can make arbitrarily sophisticated changes to a genome - things which never happened in evolution. And we don’t require every step in our problem-solving process to meet any fixed criteria. However bad the idea, we can keep it and learn from it.
In other words, evolution does variation and selection, but humans do it better. Our variations, our steps in design space, are more sophisticated. Our selection criteria are richer and more flexible, less restrictive.
In other words, a raptor can evolve, but a Raptor must be designed.
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
F22 Raptor filmed with a camera so fancy, you can see the vertical stabilizers get all wobbly
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