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I think the exodus is related to surveillance possibilities. Pattern matching is a scary thing on this scale https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/03/31/microsoft-and-openai-partnering-on-stargate-a-100b-us-data-center/ I wonder who is going pay for a 100 billion dollar version... Who has t...

But isn't there some money to follow that could also explain some of this exodus from OpenAI? As for Artificial Super Intelligence, I would put my money on Artificial Super Foolishness on the human side. It makes all tech look super smart almost for free and a simple creepy crawler bug like a direct...

Looks like the Germans should just make good cars and give up all other ambitions.
For me also the idea that there are Dzjermanz between me and Eastern Europe + Russia is a feel good.

Conversation between Sam Altman and the AI model in my left brain hemisphere asking some questions that seem relevant. "What is the biggest risk of AI?" "Bad actors training their own AI in dark basements, to evil ends." "How should we be dealing with these risks?" &quo...

Nobody knows 😆... the Rumsfeldian truth range. ChatGPT4o looks fun. I'm sure there will be relationships emerging (!) between especially female AI and males. To train the woman of your dreams, put her in some sexy robotic hardware with enough latex and holes to enjoy, with modes and moods activated ...

I should pick up on this and probably need an update. In the late 90-ies I gave it all a big shot, from emerging behaviors, complexity, to active information in Bohmian quantum physics, epistemology vs ontology, quantum physics where god does or doesn't play dice, quantum consciousness, the hard pro...

Hegel :

“In Persia first arises that light which shines itself and illuminates what is around... The principle of development begins with the history of Persia; this constitutes therefore the beginning of history” (Hegel, 1857, p. 147).

Nothing much left of that light, unfortunately.

I'm a big supporter of economic divestment, boycots, disengagement, whatever one calls it. There is this annoying religious-like dogma that the free market is the healthy default, and selective boycots to be used in exceptional situations. This needs to be reversed: the healthy default is to not do ...

HP, you truly are a hustler in irrelevent nonsense. The truth cannot reach your brain: there are millions of reasons*, circumstances, why people end up in a territory. Same is true for Israel. You make idiotic claims about which people are allowed to live in that territory, who should decide about i...

The question "was it worth it" suggests that the Jewish state was planned like Ikea considers building a new location in a not ideal, actually very risky environment. Of course, if despite all the bad projections Ikea's board of directors decides to go ahead with it and it goes south, such...

It is undeniably true that Hamas needs to be destroyed. First things first. What should happen after that can wait a bit longer. There will be no 2-state solution, nor a 1-state solution for as long as these types like Hamas exist in Gaza and Westbank. When they are gone, the same old question and h...

While your lines of coke dry up with the last drug addicted whores going home soon too, taking their asses with them (where you go now, eh?? :D )... of course there will be collapse. What where how much remains to be seen. And it has little to do with wordsalads about cultural traditionalism vs prog...

. Tucker Carlson Aleksandr Dugin Interview Very Interesting what he says , AND , unfortunately, TRUE His book is banned in US , probably in Europe too .. silly, as if Americans minors There no banned books in Iran , you read anything you want (they say Khomeini's book is banned in Iran, they embarr...

HP, Normal and average people don't primarily think in terms of geopolitical power maps. They judge people whether they behave like (criminal) a-holes or as civilized citizens and go from there. Putin is a psychopath killer: that you can't see it or disagree means you are member of a collection of c...

IN 2017 it was discovered that Speech predictive AI had, from learning words, developed the emergent behavior of being able to conduct research level research in chemistry. No one had instructed it to learned chemistry It learned simply by studying words about chemistry. This says a lot of things. ...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_KvuJI5EIeY I agree, never forget nor forgive. Would extend that also to all personal relationships. Any relationship. Just look and hope to learn something. The past can't be changed, the future always invites. You don't need to consciously make the right decisions. ...

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That's rather... accurate

Iran-Persia as a whole just failed to keep its act together. A systemic deficit. Thousands of rockets and annoying Jewland won't compensate for that. Neither will sending drones into buildings where Ukrainian grandmothers live, or destroying powerplants Ukrainian citizens depend upon. The trans Mull...

Amazing. Well, maybe it's time we accept reality is never exactly what it appears to be. Or not at all. Reality=deep fake. Seems to me all this is a net positive development. It forces everybody to not believe everything you see and hear on a screen. That healthy chunck of salt and critical thinking...

HP, you keep defending the indefensible. USSR fell apart. I need to ask, before continue wasting more time on you: this was a good thing? Or you side with thug Putin who considered it a disaster and wants to restore as much as possible? NATO never threatened Russia proper. Just wants make sure that ...

HP, you miss the point entirely. No matter how people got there... once they are facing off each other over territory they become apes. Everything that West thought about rights during British mandate, what peoples in the neighborhood opined... it is all completely irrelevant and can be thrown out o...

Warmongering is not a solution. Stable borders are always the result of territorial wars, that burn themselves out like bushfires. This particular war started in 1948 and is not yet over. There are people who apparently love to drag this conflict along for as long as possible, I suspect for enterta...

Indeed we rationalize, interpret, analyze the world around us. A thinking process adding subtitles to sensory experience. The whole package. What is it, how does it come about? This theory of living in a simulation arises during that hypnotic state called direct realism, and for that reason deserves...

What will happen is as predicted; this conflict will slowly but steadily escalate until it starts to tip-toe into a WW3 nuclear holocaust. Then ceasefire and negotiations 1st round. Then 5 years after that cold war stabilizes. Time will resolve final Russia Ukraine borders post-Putin. Just another t...

Claiming to be willing to retaliate gainst "British targets in Ukraine or elsewhere" is not a very daring and precise statement. More like sending a fart into space and threaten to do retaliation poopoo "somewhere". No lavender! Just be a man and attack a NATO member. See what ha...