Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

> By that same token, you could identify any poorly-understood corner of human perception to be evidence of simulation.

I don’t think that is what I was saying.

The simulation hypothesis is not based on things being unexplained, but rather by the probability of existence in a root universe or in a spawned simulated one.

This presumes a condition where life evolves and creates simulations, and those simulations then create simulations.

The idea is the probability of being in the single “real” universe versus being in one of the infinitely more numerous simulations. Basically infinity vs infinity^infinity.

It’s much more likely to be in the n=infinity^infinity set, rather than the mere infinite set. It’s purely a statistical proposition, with charitable assumptions about the possibility of creating simulations of arbitrary complexity.

If you were interpreting my religion reference, what I meant was assertions adjacent to statements like “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Which are found in many religions. In my understanding this would seem to mean that information was the foundational underpinning of all reality, physical and spiritual.

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What is Palestine?

TALKIE-1930

Palestine is a small country in Southwestern Asia, lying between 31° and 33° north latitude, and 34° and 36° east longitude. It is bounded on the north by Syria, from which it is separated by the valley of the river Leontes or Litany, and a line drawn from that stream to the head of the Gulf of Akabah; on the east by the same gulf and the Desert of Arabia; on the south by the peninsula of Sinai, and on the west by the Mediterranean Sea. The greatest length of the country, from north to south, is 140 miles, and the greatest breadth, from east to west, 80 miles. The area may be estimated at 6,000 square miles. The principal towns are Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem, Jaffa, and Acre, on the west; and Jericho, Hebron, and Ghazzeh, on the east of Jordan. The maritime plain, which stretches along the whole length of the country, from north to south, has an average breadth of 10 miles, and the elevated tableland which forms the interior has a mean height of 2,500 feet above the sea. The river Jordan traverses the holy land, from north to south, in a course of 150 miles. The climate of Palestine is warm, but healthy, and the soil, where cultivated, remarkably fertile. The chief productions are grain, fruits, and wine. The inhabitants are Arabs, speaking a peculiar dialect of the Arabic language, and professing Mohammedanism. The total population may amount to 200,000. Palestine was first occupied by the Canaanites, and afterwards passed under the dominion of the Israelites, from whom it received the name of Judæa. Under the Romans it formed a province of the empire, and, in the fifth century, became the seat of a Christian patriarchate. In the middle ages, it was subject to the dominion of the Crusaders; and, in more modern times, it has been ruled by Tartars, Egyptians, and Turks. At present, it is governed by a pasha, who resides at Acre, and whose authority extends no further north than Nabloos, the ancient Shechem. The holy land was long regarded with veneration by Christians of all sects, and pilgrimages were made to it from Western Europe. Since the establishment of the Turkish power in Syria, these have gradually fallen off, and Palestine has now lost much of its interest in Western eyes

Iirc, the model is still pre-trained on modern text before being fine tuned on 1930's material, so it's possible it still has some knowledge of words that didn't exist back then. Edit: looks like they make some attempt to filter out documents from the pre-training but it's still possible some sneak in.

In my view of the transcript:

> claude · reflection 10:20 AM

> The model has completely ignored Lindbergh (1927), the first England-Australia flight (1919, Alcock and Brown's Atlantic crossing),...

Which is funny to me that Claude chastises it about a fact it (Claude) gets wrong by attributing the England-Australia flight (Smith brothers) to Alcock and Brown, somehow getting there by crossing the Atlantic.

Now I want to see this implemented via vacuum tubes, similar to running Eliza on punchcard-driven mainframes...