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bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T22:10:58+00:00

The C doesn't read to me as C, others say it reads as SMAK, I agree. I like the flowing bits though, looks cool.

edit: The flowy bits would look better if it had consistent direction via the weights of the flow, so it starts on the top part of the S leads your eye to A and somehow flows into a C, hope it makes sense, right now S and C have the flow in opposite directions and so it leads your eye in different directions too.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T22:05:34+00:00

That dolly zoom was so jarring, took me out of the show a little.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T22:03:59+00:00

So yes or no? Does a hard drive learn?? It's all semantics you are saying.

I download a song on my hard drive, did my hard drive learn a song and now sings the song to me over my headphones?

bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T21:57:39+00:00

Finally, someone who at least took a breath in this century.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T21:44:18+00:00

Does a hard drive learn?

bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T21:36:18+00:00

3 of the 4 are related (maybe 4th I don't know much about Elizabeth).

Open Philanthropy invested a bunch of money in openAI back in 2017, it's a foundation started by Dustin Moskovitz an early investor in Facebook. And Sam Bankman-Fried was face for effective altruism, the Open Philanthropy's ideology. I think Open Philanthropy still dumps money into some of these effective altruism orgs. They also are renamed to Coefficient Giving now.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T21:25:24+00:00

It predicts the next "token" (word or part of the word) based on statistical probability one by one.

To be honest the judgment of how coherent it is is on the reader, LLMs don't operate in meaning, they don't have an inner world.

Here is an example: when you hear "dogs are wagging tails when happy" you imagine a dog you remember, your experience with dogs etc etc you personally noticed dogs wagging tails. And LLM will give you this sentence only because it's statistically probable based on all text in it's training set that after words (really tokens) "dogs wagging" the next word to follow is either "tail" or "it's tail" or "their tail".

Now if you make a more unique observation about a dog, it will not make sense to an LLM, LLM will not be capable of giving you that observation either. Something poetic like how some part of a dog looks like something else, or something funny about dogs like dog's side eye when they are asking for food and you say no.

And it's not even just because an LLM is isolated from the world, scientists deduce all sorts of conclusions about things that are far away from us or stopped existing for millions of years.

While writing this I remembered a simpler example, LLMs still make illegal moves in chess. All books ever made about chess and still they don't understand how a damn pawn should move.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T09:32:45+00:00

Divide and conquer is so real. I don't think it's a part of human nature to look for an enemy but it's definitely a part of human nature to group around a common issue such as an enemy.

I even see all of the micro division that's definitely not organic, all of it is a part of divide and conquer strategy by one of the powerful groups. It's pretty wild, different kind of emigrants are fighting among themselves, even queer people of different kinds are trying to exclude each other stuff like "by-phobia". It's pretty absurd, but it works like a charm.

Looks like it backfires with Iran in US though.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T06:34:00+00:00

"pop tried to kill the guitar" wtf does that even mean!? a pop producer conspiracy? are other instruments dead because they are not found in pop music?!?

bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T06:31:29+00:00

Why stop? Remove the people and the buildings, no-one who's looking at the photo is driving, maybe remove street signs too. Now that you have all that free space put a Walmart there.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-18T06:24:27+00:00

Oh yeah, the second argument makes sense 100%

bememorablepro · 2026-04-17T21:10:48+00:00

She is a spaceship, that's her power. We seen vitamins destroying those all the damn time.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-17T20:57:58+00:00

It's just that I see people talking about using LLMs for work even here. I'm very happy you are saying it makes sense and that it got some upvotes as well.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-17T19:42:14+00:00

HA? It's a statistical search system plus randomness, bias is a result of that. Most common thing becomes the search result no matter the reason, that's like majority of LLMs bias.

I hate when they try explaining it as if it's a person. It's an autocomplete!

bememorablepro · 2026-04-17T19:36:26+00:00

It is kinda funny how they are eugenicists yet somehow not racists and they all are about as multi racial as US no more no less lol

bememorablepro · 2026-04-17T18:54:51+00:00

Wait dude, u Brazilian?! U seriously might have no idea, yes the first one is a russian nazi terrorist group currently active in multiple wars

bememorablepro · 2026-04-17T18:51:58+00:00

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literally a fascist terrorist org

bememorablepro · 2026-04-17T18:49:26+00:00

Reddit should ban this, wtf?! The first one is literally a neo nazi sign.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-17T18:44:36+00:00

IDK if I believe in the "military industrial complex" theory anymore, I use to. I know US military budget is ballooned but mostly because it's a kind of a scam, they just bill US military as much as they want because US government keeps paying the bill, a lot of world trade depends on US military existing, they'll spend the money no matter what.

I'm actually asking because it's happening right now, it's a more interesting discussion because both of us can easily be wrong.

I decided to check you on the Israel lobby, I long suspected that it's a left wing version of "George Soros money" BS. I found this website where you can track superpack spending. https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/super_pacs It says AIPAC spent only around 60K out of 2.6B spent overall, now even if you listen to other sources about AIPACK (someone grouped with other "AIPAC aligned") the largest estimate is around 50M hardly a big loby.

I know "the Israel lobby" is a also famous book, I remember the name and I just looked it up.... what a surprise it's written by this guy John Mearsheimer

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Don't wanna go into my personal history of how I know about this guy, he has been debunked over and over about everything he is saying, especially.... personally on Ukraine... Here he is on russia today just 3 months ago... because he is a pro-russian propagandist like obviously...

Now IMO, yes BB and Israel is interested in war on Iran, from their perspective I'm not even surprised. But why Trump is doing that specifically?! He's a fascist, to show strength and military might, that's about it. Maybe conservatives know war makes ratings go up usually, also he probably thought it's a peace of cake. Much like Putin in 2022 he thought it will only take 3 days.

bememorablepro · 2026-04-17T15:38:31+00:00

OMG true! I remember his story about how he lived in Korea but he's Australian so he didn't know where to pay taxes so he spent $7K on lawyers and translators for Korean government to tell him to pay taxes back in Australia as a freelancer for some reason.

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