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alienicecream

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    Intelligence is the ability to comprehend a state of affairs. The input and the output are secondary. What LLMs do is take the input and the output as primary and skip over the mid…

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    Comment #40139429

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    Comment #40131852

    > Even if there's some exotic whatsit we have somehow not been able to detect thus far, something that lives outside of our existing scientific theories, that would simply require …

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    Comment #40115682

    So? Lack of evidence is not proof positive of the contrary position. Even if you accept that there is no evidence, which is doubtful in itself since the fact that only humans seem …

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    > It's always important to remember that humans aren't made of fundamentally different stuff; How do you know this?

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    Comment #40111051

    Yes, that's part of it.

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    Comment #40111046

    That's pattern recognition, any dog can do that, you don't need an abused dog for that.

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    Comment #40104987

    Like do they worry about the future and think about the past? No.

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    The guys who've blown up a billion dollars of tax payer money because rather than carefully design it to work the first time, they slap something together and let it fail to 'itera…

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    Comment #40012694

    They fight over who gets to teach the asian and white kids.

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    Yeah, they could just hire some people for minimum wage to do it, but apparently that's too much to ask too, they would rather focus on vanity measures that will make things worse …

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    In my county they banned the collection of any recycling that was bagged. So if you put your recycling in a bag to contain it, the garbage man won't pick it up. So now what happens…

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    No, there is no crisis, kids are posing like they always have and having anxiety is cool now because the jocks aren't allowed to clown on the nerds anymore and it makes you differe…

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    I can see this conversation is leading to Hitler. But sometimes containment leads to a stupid quagmire which you should never have been in in the first place, like Vietnam, and sec…

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    > How is Georgia any different from Finland in that regard? Basically there's isn't a difference, Finland shouldn't be in NATO either. Americans have no business defending Finland …

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    It can work, or it might not, in which case you or your children will be dying for some town in Eastern Ukraine you've never heard of and you can't pronounce.

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    How the heck is putting Ukraine or Georgia in NATO going to protect us from Russia's nucleus weapons?? If anything it will make the threat more immediate. > The Ukrainians are stil…

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    Yeah, thanks for the boilerplate. Exactly what mutual defense of the United States or Western Europe is Ukraine or Georgia going to provide? Western Europe and the United States is…

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    Why would Ukraine and Georgia belong in NATO for any reason other than to piss off the Russians? Should we put Uganda and Congo in NATO? I hear Rwanda has territorial ambitions. Wh…

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    Trudeau embodies the kindergarten Kumbaya view that so many Canadians of his generation were raised on, and he was voted in for it, and these are the consequences of that. Why comp…