Linus Mixson

@NesumAbum Agreed that it would be funny.

@LinusMixson I am not saying there is one … but that I hope we will find one because it will be funny.

All of them are … and since Arabic numerals are descendants of the Brahmi script, that means even numbers are ultimately derived from Egyptian. And today we think that Chinese script is born independently … in the future we will maybe learn that it’s also a descendant

@NesumAbum No, I can say with extreme confidence, on multiple grounds, that there is no connection here.

@LinusMixson Correct for now … but you never know and maybe one day a major discovery will reveal old contacts that we still don’t know. History has already reserved many surprises.

56,000+ tokens/sec at just 80 MHz. 🤯 I burned a full Transformer with KV cache into a custom chip. Designed gate by gate as a 100% digital integrated circuit. Prototyped on a FPGA. (No GPU. No CPU) Just pure digital silicon running @karpathy microGPT, spelling out names on a tiny LCD. This is GateGPT 👇

@JohnSmithhd8 You can line Phoenician up against the Egyptian uniliterals and they are clearly and obviously the same. This is really beyond dispute.

@LinusMixson Makes no sense that Phoenician alphabet descended from Egyptian alphabet instead of the older Sumerian alphabet

Anyway did you guys know that the Thai alphabet is a descendant of Egyptian hieroglyphics

@vellalarel88260 @yajnadevam Indus was definitely independently developed but has not been decoded and its purported connection to Brahmi is inchoate nonsense people claim for emotional reasons.

@yajnadevam @LinusMixson Saw that Is it recognised internationally or even at national level? Anyhow, indus script again would have came from Egyptian, right? Or independently developed?

With all due respect, what the fuck are you talking about? The Latin alphabet you are using RIGHT NOW came from the exact same abjad you think it's impossible for Brahmi to have come from, despite the fact that it's a much greater leap from a system in which vowels following consonants are elided and interpolated by the reader to a system in which they're explicitly written than to a system in which they're simply made explicit as part of the same character. Abjads in fact routinely mark vowels explicitly, using vowel points placed within the same character frame, creating glyphs that have an "inherent vowel." An abugida like Brahmi is markedly more similar to an abjad like Aramaic than an alphabet like Latin is, but no one argues that Latin isn't a descendant of the exact same parent script. Is this really the best argument you people have? Shouldn't you be out there deciphering Indus rather than making idiotic comments about linguistic evolution that can be disproven by even a brief exercise in comparative thinking?

@LinusMixson The easiest way to differentiate between an unbiased anthropological study and a biased one is by seeing the claim that a script that consonants with inherent vowels came from a language with an emphasis on just consonants.

@yajnadevam No it is not.

@LinusMixson Brahmi is descended from indus script

@melqartvantyrus To me a big part of art in general is that it's unreal. If you want a fully-realized, highly-consistent world… you're living in one.

@LinusMixson i don't think it's a good thing though

One of the things that makes the Harry Potters series [deep breath] extremely good is that J. K. Rowling does not give a single fuck about worldbuilding.

To me SF culture is rolling into the office at noon, leaving at 10 PM, selling drugs to your coworkers, and doing some other things that I've been advised to not talk about.

Oh, Jesus. This is "SF culture" now?

Realizing that this can be read as a diss on a specific individual. For once that's not true. I simply strongly believe this.

@ChrisExpTheNews Its indigenous origin continues to be defended by scholars who are plausibly more motivated by Hindutva than truth.

Have they actually decided on Brahmi's origin yet?

@kiwi00578 Latin is unquestionably descended from Aramaic and is, as you can tell from reading this very sentence, also written left-to-right. This is a rather poor grounds for dispute.

@LinusMixson 0 proof btw. Aramaic is written right to left and Brahmi from left to right, for one. So it is still debated and not at all conclusive.

@Lib9860 It's technically disputed, but disputed mostly by a minority of scholars, generally ones with (what appears to be) a rather extreme political bias. The alternative is indigenous development, which is a difficult pill to swallow given e.g.

@LinusMixson The brahmi aramaic connection is disputed iirc so there's no unfortunately

@nobodyatallbros @spandrell4 That's true. Point remains.

@LinusMixson @spandrell4 Cyrillic was based on the Greek alphabet, not Latin.

Every single living writing system besides Chinese is descended from Egyptian through Phoenician.

Doesn't this read as a bit sarcastic, even catty, to you? "If this standard were applied across the industry, it would stop all new model development… Now wouldn't that be terrible!"

it’s almost as if the finding of a narrow potential cyberrisk landscape should not have been cause for gating the commercial release of a model that could have been agi uplifting hundreds of millions of people for months now or something

Is this real

@spandrell4 Can't criticize you for that one.

@LinusMixson Well you're more patient than I am. If someone said that to me I'd block them for being retarded and disagreeable.