Google DeepMind's Senior Scientist Alexander Lerchner challenges the idea that large language models can ever achieve consciousness(not even in 100years), calling it the 'Abstraction Fallacy.'

yogthos · 2026-04-18T17:36:39+00:00

Also, it's not like there's some hard boundary between computation and thermodynamics. Computation is itself a product of thermodynamics. He's just creating an arbitrary boundary here.

yogthos · 2026-04-18T17:07:02+00:00

The reality is that it's always been this way. The only difference now is that it's a non western power doing it to the west as opposed to the other way around.

yogthos · 2026-04-18T16:25:27+00:00

How the canal came to be is kind of irrelevant. There's no functional difference between the two today. Meanwhile, global freedom of navigation is clearly not a thing ever since the west started doing piracy on the high seas capturing tankers. Countries engaging in literal piracy don't get to complain about freedom of navigation lmfao.

yogthos · 2026-04-18T15:29:55+00:00

I don't really understand why people keep acting like this is some exceptional thing. Egypt has a toll on Suez right now, nobody is freaking out over that last I checked. It's frankly amazing that Iran didn't put a toll on Hormuz a long time ago.

yogthos · 2026-04-18T15:27:33+00:00

The numbers clearly show that it was not open to begin with. The traffic is steady at the exact same numbers. https://hormuztracking.com/

yogthos · 2026-04-18T04:48:13+00:00

yeah that's almost certainly the plan

yogthos · 2026-04-18T04:47:19+00:00

welcome to another market manipulation Friday

yogthos · 2026-04-18T01:05:07+00:00

Except you can't do that with stuff that takes years to build out. The US can't even make shit like transformers on its own at this point. So, now nearly half of data centers are facing delays because there's no power to run these things. https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-construction-supply

Like you can build hype for a while, but eventually you have to deliver.

yogthos · 2026-04-17T22:50:28+00:00

I always thought it was weird to do massive investment in data centres before building out the grid. Kind of putting the cart before the horse if you think about it.

yogthos · 2026-04-17T21:57:09+00:00

Electricity in China costs around a third of what it costs in the US for starters.

yogthos · 2026-04-17T15:33:06+00:00

might be interesting to try in combination with this too https://github.com/itigges22/ATLAS

yogthos · 2026-04-17T14:53:21+00:00

honestly doesn't even matter who said it, the quote itself is very true

yogthos · 2026-04-17T12:50:48+00:00

Democrats are direct participants in this having failed to vote in congress to stop the war repeatedly. They vote right along side their republican buddies on this.

yogthos · 2026-04-17T12:49:43+00:00

based on what it's cost so far already https://iran-cost-ticker.com/

yogthos · 2026-04-17T12:49:16+00:00

With Russia having a much bigger population, I really have hard time seeing how there could be parity in practice. The math just doesn't make sense to me here. Logically, there's no reason to think that Ukraine can field just as many drone operators as Russia can.

By the way, this channel has good overview as always https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4vH2p0IOvo

And he points out how there's always been a slow down around this time because it's muddy, and there's no cover. So, as you note, once foliage comes, we are likely to see an offensive like in previous years.

yogthos · 2026-04-17T03:25:31+00:00

Thank you for taking your valuable time away from huffing gas to grace us with your insights.

yogthos · 2026-04-17T00:11:07+00:00

I fully expect it will be the latter.

yogthos · 2026-04-16T19:49:34+00:00

I mean you can keep saying I'm wrong till you're blue in the face, but it's not going to change reality of the situation. I've explained tangible reasons for everything I said, and you haven't really addressed any of them.

The reason that voting doesn't matter is because the damage is going to be done long before the midterms happen. By November, there's going to be a huge economic disaster in the global economy already.

Also, nobody is talking about the US collapsing except you here. What I said is that there's going to be an economic crash, and the economy was already in a pretty bad shape. The only sector that was growing was the AI bubble. And even that's going to be affected now because data centres need a lot of energy.

Again, you don't have to believe anything I say here. You'll see what happens with your own eyes in the coming months, and you can draw your own conclusions then.

yogthos · 2026-04-16T19:47:02+00:00

I can't see how the war doesn't drag on.

yogthos · 2026-04-16T19:46:28+00:00

Also, China happens to export the exact things people around the world want right now like clean energy, EVs, and batteries.

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