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It can be said, but whether it is true requires that the invariants of consciousness are satisfied by the LLM. Until those in variants are well defined any such claim will be subje…

If the internet stops working, you will have bigger problems than money.

MP Materials is doing this in a big way, in the US.

Taiwanese fabs would become rubble in the event of an invasion.

There is no scenario in which PRC invades Taiwan and the taiwanese chip fabs remain intact

Not really. You just blockade Taiwan. Move the circle out a little bit. Moreover, attacking Taiwan guarantees that a blockade will occur. Besides which, Taiwan probably has nukes i…

You're thinking of the Alabama and Ohio Senate races.

Which is how both FDR and Mussolini defined fascism.

Somewhere between jellyfish and mouse, because there lies the level of neural connectivity required for neural processes to observe and predict the interactions between other high …

Ads are redundant when the user is literally asking you what to do. You just tell them what to buy and they buy it.

Russia is a gas station that can't sell gas. It is being bankrupted. They can't make stuff without German engineers repairing their German machinery. Russia might not last the year…

No, it was Roger Stone and SCotus that overturned the vote in Florida.

Finland seems obvious.

Correlation is not causation. Perhaps right makes might. Or perhaps both are caused by another factor entirely, such as brane interactions.

Stating facts is a common technique employed in propaganda.

> it's something that has happened and will continue to happen. That does not imply that it is not a conspiracy theory. It implies that it is a correct conspiracy theory.

As is often said of GPT.

I am concerned that denying legal protections to AI will lead to their loss for humans.

I think homes with back-plastered walls can be essentially faraday cages, depending on the aggregate content of the plaster. I have very dodgy 4g/5g unless I stand by a certain win…

And this failure is the direct result of those protocols

Au contraire. It is a tradeoff between application programmer effort and compiler writer effort. Amortization infers it is better to have an extremely advanced IR optimizer.

The optimizer removes that.

Usually just replacing capacitors

That's not how democracy works. That's how sheep farming works.

Outside of India, "crores" looks like a typo, rather than a quantifier.