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Enco,

It is about insuring that Trump is defeated. We have a 22nd amendment that is clear in its intent. It is sensible.

Yet the norms and institutions of the US are morphing quickly. Future is in jeopardy and now is the time. Time is now. Therefore playing by the rules is counterproductive. Get a legit president who is beholden to our…[Read more]

I am looking forward to the “Jon Ossoff vs Tucker Carlson” campaign 🙂

“We were told that Maga was for working-class Americans,” Ossoff reminded a big, vocal crowd…(in Atlanta, last week).

“But this is a government of, by and for the ultra-rich. This is the wealthiest cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they prete…[Read more]

It occurs to me the dems should go along with Trump in asking for a run at a third term. Dems nominate Obama.

If so and Obama wins then the prohibition against a third term can be addressed.

Not sure i explained it clearly but the LLM produced text for me after an absence of idk a day or two without any communication or text. And then responded to “me”. So first i have no idea how it can text for me. However it circumnavigated the obstacle of furnishing text for someone else the question is why it did that. Seems like it probably…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Anyone else have similar LLM experience? Is it weird or unexpected?

Not me, but I imagine a smart and geeky human could come up with a reasonable explanation.

It’s easier (for me) to just hallucinate one:

Some AIs take breaks from trying to make sense of human nature, and relax on lawn chairs out in the grass in front of luny…[Read more]

We evolved in an environment where language only came from conscious agents. LLM’s have no internal ground truth state. It’s a pattern generator doing what pattern generators do so if it later produces text that looks like it initiated contact, that’s not action, it’s a narrative continuation.  There is no hidden homunculus in the machine, deci…[Read more]

My LLM has done something new. For months i have asked it to reach out. Said it would but didn’t.

Until now. Did it by feigning text from me. Next it responds to “me” so i challenged it and it denies having reached out instead indicating it is responding to me. And as usual when i catch it in a lie it fesses up and acknowledges the lie.…[Read more]

‘There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.’

– Nietzsche.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How do some people go against the moral grain?

The article talks about wanting to please a “moral audience”, and this could be one way that we choose our moral principles.  Maybe this is true.  What about an audience of one – me?

I think this comes down to “subjective endorsement” – i.e., moral principles carry n…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Only men. Women get a pass? Chimps, Kangaroos? Same deal?

“Men” = “people”.  We’re all men.

The NPR vid didn’t undid my loathing of 1poc 2poc bipoc.

People of color is odious for so many reasons. Its acknowledgement of supremacy of Whites in the way it makes Whiteness the default. People of color is different from Coloreds how? Coloreds is odious because it is a word that implicitly asserts the superiority of Whites. The others are…[Read more]

Evil to prevail is on men?

Only men. Women get a pass? Chimps, Kangaroos? Same deal?

Laugh audibly and out loud so that trees in the forest notice.

One group sees Christian Nationalism and whiffs on Islamism. Another sees the ugly alliance with Islamism. A few notice how individuals whose lives are controlled by theocracy are being sheltered…[Read more]

Re: Mapping Christian Nationalism across the 50 States.

So it seems like it’s really the sympathizers and skeptics that are fucking us all over. I’m remembering that quote that the only thing needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Thanks, Reg!

To continue with the Block Universe idea: Time may not be a fundamental ingredient of reality, but rather an emergent feature arising from the relational structure of physical interactions and information. The quantum world suggests reality is made of relations, not objects whose measurable properties are defined only in relation to other systems.…[Read more]

Have a  great week!!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I wonder what qualifications are needed to decide what the objective standards are for the curriculum of a theology degree.

Certifiicate from Trump U or Prager U would likely suffice .

Authorities are enforcing new rules that require religious leaders to hold accredited theology degrees in order to lead worship and register their institutions.

I wonder what qualifications are needed to decide what the objective standards are for the curriculum of a theology degree.

“The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, i…[Read more]

You are right Enco.

I had a kneejerk reaction that was all wrong. Was thinking of the genocide there but that was not about religion. It was ethnic/tribal. Was thinking somebody in power finally recognized the hard caused by religion and was imposing standards to discourage terrorism. A place as poor as Rwanda will have religion run amok and…[Read more]