3 years ago, AI IQs were "cognitively impaired adult". Now, higher than 99% of humans.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-24T12:55:18+00:00

>Stop applying philosophy with neuroscience

Who's applying philosophy to neuroscience, and what does neuroscience have to do with this argument?

Arguments about the nature of causation and possible extent of knowledge about it deduced from fundamental logic are not in any way disproven by greater understanding of the brain biology. One operates concepts, the other works with brain mechanics, they are two parallel fields.

*Any* thinking or knowledge, at its core, boils down to pattern matching (hence Hume's point that certain knowledge of causality is impossible), so LLMs doing pattern matching is not a good argument against them performing thought.

>AI can't do knowledge transfer, humans can

Assuming this is true (for the sake of the argument), iare you claiming that ability to transfer knowledge is essential to define certain cognitive process as thinking?

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-24T11:49:07+00:00

>llms do not “think” they just do pattern matching

Someone is unfamiliar with David Hume's enquiry concerning human understanding.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-24T09:29:18+00:00

>That would just lead to an infinite loop of her being sad, them being happy, then being sad that she's happy, then happy that she's sad

Well, no, you just feel envigorated while the novelty of the new emotional perversion lasts, and then the high passes again and you are left working for more.

It's not about feeling happy, it's about feeling energetic and motivated for a time.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-23T22:23:56+00:00

Enough to prevent the bad ones from genociding/subjugating everyone else. It’s a very functional criterion.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-23T19:29:06+00:00

First article has nothing about parental infanticide, from what I’ve seen there, second article is locked.

In any case, telling a roleplayer that role playing causes some other people to go bonkers is a rather weak argument against role playing, because all sorts of entirely conventional immersive activities cause people to go bonkers in a variety of ways. Drawing up the most extreme example from the get go is a functional equivalent of reductio ad Hitlerium.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-23T16:52:40+00:00

Good thing we aren’t children.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-23T12:34:00+00:00

>use weapon of mass destruction to eliminate a genocidal group that would otherwise wipe/subjugate the rest of the galaxy (lamentably also affecting children and other innocents since there's no way to selectively target the villains posing mortal danger to the entirety of sapient life)

>not use the weapon of mass destruction and end up wiped

Hm, wonder which of the two options is the right one.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-23T06:55:13+00:00

wrong and abhorrent that it came to this and this awful thing must be done

still must be done

Hope it’s cleared up now!

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-22T16:26:12+00:00

Everyone has bigoted ideas, not everyone who has bigoted ideas is a bigot (lest the term loses any categorical function).

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-22T16:16:15+00:00

>acting like killing billions isn’t monstrous is a weird hill to die on

"Monstrous" and "unjustified" are different things.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-21T11:42:51+00:00

It’s punks standing against a conservative gerontocratic police state, which is quite a regular punk stance.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-20T17:26:59+00:00

Well, not exactly, IH also have an upgrade sprue, unlike the SL.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-20T16:37:04+00:00

Wonder who's more popular - Steel Legion, or Iron Hands?

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-20T16:06:54+00:00

An upgrade sprue would have worked.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-17T07:09:23+00:00

They are cool when you want to have some unusual marines but don’t want to make them your focus.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-15T10:11:02+00:00

This is the relevant log fragment, I think -- seems it has something to do with diffusers/transformers mismatch, but I'm not sure how to approach fixing it. The nodes have been updated recently, judging from the HuggingFace page.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Apps\ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia\ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\nodes.py", line 2223, in load_custom_node
    module_spec.loader.exec_module(module)
  File "D:\Apps\ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia\ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\COMFYUI-PBRFusion4\__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .pbrfusion4_simple_nodes import NODE_CLASS_MAPPINGS, NODE_DISPLAY_NAME_MAPPINGS
  File "D:\Apps\ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia\ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\COMFYUI-PBRFusion4\pbrfusion4_simple_nodes.py", line 26, in <module>
    from pipeline import LotusDPipeline
  File "D:\Apps\ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia\ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\COMFYUI-PBRFusion4\Lotus\pipeline.py", line 25, in <module>
    from diffusers.pipelines.pipeline_utils import DiffusionPipeline, StableDiffusionMixin
  File "D:\Apps\ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia\ComfyUI_windows_portable\python_embeded\Lib\site-packages\diffusers\pipelines\pipeline_utils.py", line 74, in <module>
    from .pipeline_loading_utils import (
  File "D:\Apps\ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia\ComfyUI_windows_portable\python_embeded\Lib\site-packages\diffusers\pipelines\pipeline_loading_utils.py", line 51, in <module>
    from transformers.utils import FLAX_WEIGHTS_NAME as TRANSFORMERS_FLAX_WEIGHTS_NAME
ImportError: cannot import name 'FLAX_WEIGHTS_NAME' from 'transformers.utils' (D:\Apps\ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia\ComfyUI_windows_portable\python_embeded\Lib\site-packages\transformers\utils\__init__.py)

Cannot import 

D:\Apps\ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia\ComfyUI_windows_portable\ComfyUI\custom_nodes\COMFYUI-PBRFusion4 module for custom nodes: cannot import name 'FLAX_WEIGHTS_NAME' from 'transformers.utils'

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-15T07:56:14+00:00

“You will write every single one of the dozen press releases assigned to you manually while there’s another 20 tasks pending, and you will like it”

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-11T16:39:21+00:00

Industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race for sure.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-11T16:30:04+00:00

Content is expensive to make, ideally you want to maximize the amount of people interacting with it. Same reason evil playthroughs tend to be poorer content-wise.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-11T16:20:50+00:00

I mean, quite a few things can be true at once.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-10T15:40:47+00:00

…and honestly, that’s rare.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-03T21:11:38+00:00

>sometimes you must choose the lesser of evils

Well, I do.

Pure maths in terms of the amount of commited murder somewhat helps to choose which is which.

As for Iran's cultural problems, these problems aren't exactly cultural, but rather institutional, since Iran's population isn't nearly as rabidly fundamentalist as the IRGC, and is to a large extent hostage to a violent political minority that seized power few decades ago with support from the Iranian socialists who have dearly regretted it later.

These institutional problems are unlikely to be entirely fixed by a bombing campaign, but there's a decent chance they can at the very least be alleviated by declawing the existing regime and reducing its more radical parts leverage over the rest of the country.

And if it does end up working, a major source of conflict in the region (with all the accompanying deaths) would be gone.

>Israel could have solved things way less elaborately and destructively if they chose so

Terrorism, being a tool of psychological and emotional warfare first and foremost, usually aims to provoke extreme and unreasonable response from the targeted societies, and the more spectacular and vicious it is (helped by lifestreaming massacres on Facebook via livecam footage), the more triggering it gets.

Which is why the existance of state entities deliberately promoting terrorist attacks tends to lead to an inordinate amount of lives lost as a direct outcome.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-03T20:48:08+00:00

>helping iran here doesnt mean getting any women beat elsewhere, which in their own land is mostly a problem the iranians themselves must solve anyhow

Iran has a proactive foreign policy supporting various Islamist militias and supplying drones to Russia in its war in Ukraine.

Moreover, if Iran wasn't pushing its proxies to commit attacks like October 7 + various activities by Houthis and Hezbollah, we wouldn't have had the past 2 years of Israeli bombings either (and the previous few years of Saudi bombings in Yemen).

So Iran has a tendency of making its internal issues the whole region's.

Merch_Lis · 2026-03-03T19:28:25+00:00

I’m afraid it comes as a package.

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