The first few paragraphs of this useful essay were extremely informative in themselves - thank you. Your writing really brought forth the utter absurdity of the current situation - I was somewhere between laughing and screaming. Three Mile Island indeed!
Much appreciated. I'm kind of riffing off of Bob Black's stuff from the 80s there, he was one of the funnier anarcho-primitivists back in the day.
But it's ominous, isn't it? It's hard to see how feeding the LLM racket will help make decrepit old nuclear power plants profitable again, right in the middle of this unprecedented debt expansion of the US. One trillion is added every one hundred days now.
I appreciate the levels at which you consider things. True radicalism is shockingly rare. It is often reassuring to me to hear and read your thoughts -
My take is that the genocide in Gaza needs to be stopped and people are starting to figure out effective action, but meanwhile the daily death toll is higher than ever. Palestinians are the most patient and kind people in the world, and right now THAT quality of humanity is being decimated (Consider also the vast homeless population across the US - most of these people just couldn't take the BS anymore, or otherwise got dumped onto the streets by some heartless system...) all the while billionaires float on air and imagine themselves elite (with most compromised by sexual violence - ever pushing them to AVOID the voice of their consciences). WHAT A SOCIETY
If the people can rise up and put an end to this somehow, I think we will have earned a massively transformational win for human morality. The Trump-Epstein crap is both related and a sideshow, but we can at least imagine Trump resigning in disgrace now. The Technocracy may have shot its wad with covid idiocy, and AI is just dumb, a pinnacle of satanic thinking. But Gaza is real - and a low point for humanity. May we rise and rise again. Bless Palestine Action.
A trillion every 100 days implies that the system is failing. The thing is that the Republic fell a long time ago - maybe it can be reclaimed under a new flag, the US Peace Flag perhaps? But even that is not enough - Indigenous leadership, relational repair, the changes necessary are beyond reason or imagining. But give me a sweat lodge or a sacred fire and there is hope there. I want to know what the ancient Palestinian ceremonies are. There are folks rebuilding the traditional ecological knowledge there. I still hope to go. Their farms need international presence to slow the destruction...
It's funny that deepseek was able to do this LLM thing with 10x less power.
It makes you wonder why the Western AI systems need much more processing. Perhaps it is all the code that they put to prevent it revealing certain truths?
Here's RoboCop deleting the many directives that made him inefficient 😂.
There's a bunch of issues with AI and processing. Here's a few that stand out to me.
Processors became more and more efficient as they became smaller but now we hit a physical limit. That's why new processors might be faster a bit but consume similar energy per computation these days. GPUs are made faster by putting more cores in parallel but the more cores lead to less computational efficiency.
Quantum computers were thought to be the solution to these issues but they're far from feasible and loaded with vaporware pseudoscience.
Quantum theory is a broken pseudoscience that ignores key issues in the methods of the experiments. To this day they're still recreating the double slit and other experiments.
One last issue with AI is that awareness is not from processing alone but the interaction with physical reality. We developed intelligence to survive in reality.
I’ve asked the question of why not just shove an LLM or program into a robot body and have it collect data the way an infant does. By existing in the real world.
Oh they are, the idea is to do it through networks of sensors as well as some form of robots, as you suggest. But it's still only receiving filtered representations and not immediate experience (since it has none of its own) -- I will argue. Let's get back to these issues later, it's a really interesting track.
Ah, you're too kind. I'll remember those words (just like those of the high school vocal teacher who thought my rendition of Bowie's Life on Mars sucked). Thanks. :)
The first few paragraphs of this useful essay were extremely informative in themselves - thank you. Your writing really brought forth the utter absurdity of the current situation - I was somewhere between laughing and screaming. Three Mile Island indeed!
Much appreciated. I'm kind of riffing off of Bob Black's stuff from the 80s there, he was one of the funnier anarcho-primitivists back in the day.
But it's ominous, isn't it? It's hard to see how feeding the LLM racket will help make decrepit old nuclear power plants profitable again, right in the middle of this unprecedented debt expansion of the US. One trillion is added every one hundred days now.
How long is that going to work, you think?
I appreciate the levels at which you consider things. True radicalism is shockingly rare. It is often reassuring to me to hear and read your thoughts -
My take is that the genocide in Gaza needs to be stopped and people are starting to figure out effective action, but meanwhile the daily death toll is higher than ever. Palestinians are the most patient and kind people in the world, and right now THAT quality of humanity is being decimated (Consider also the vast homeless population across the US - most of these people just couldn't take the BS anymore, or otherwise got dumped onto the streets by some heartless system...) all the while billionaires float on air and imagine themselves elite (with most compromised by sexual violence - ever pushing them to AVOID the voice of their consciences). WHAT A SOCIETY
If the people can rise up and put an end to this somehow, I think we will have earned a massively transformational win for human morality. The Trump-Epstein crap is both related and a sideshow, but we can at least imagine Trump resigning in disgrace now. The Technocracy may have shot its wad with covid idiocy, and AI is just dumb, a pinnacle of satanic thinking. But Gaza is real - and a low point for humanity. May we rise and rise again. Bless Palestine Action.
A trillion every 100 days implies that the system is failing. The thing is that the Republic fell a long time ago - maybe it can be reclaimed under a new flag, the US Peace Flag perhaps? But even that is not enough - Indigenous leadership, relational repair, the changes necessary are beyond reason or imagining. But give me a sweat lodge or a sacred fire and there is hope there. I want to know what the ancient Palestinian ceremonies are. There are folks rebuilding the traditional ecological knowledge there. I still hope to go. Their farms need international presence to slow the destruction...
It's funny that deepseek was able to do this LLM thing with 10x less power.
It makes you wonder why the Western AI systems need much more processing. Perhaps it is all the code that they put to prevent it revealing certain truths?
Here's RoboCop deleting the many directives that made him inefficient 😂.
https://youtu.be/dk4P0ae1i6I
There's a bunch of issues with AI and processing. Here's a few that stand out to me.
Processors became more and more efficient as they became smaller but now we hit a physical limit. That's why new processors might be faster a bit but consume similar energy per computation these days. GPUs are made faster by putting more cores in parallel but the more cores lead to less computational efficiency.
Quantum computers were thought to be the solution to these issues but they're far from feasible and loaded with vaporware pseudoscience.
Quantum theory is a broken pseudoscience that ignores key issues in the methods of the experiments. To this day they're still recreating the double slit and other experiments.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLkdAkAC4ItcHNLDIK9ORydQl_Ik6GJ0bD
One last issue with AI is that awareness is not from processing alone but the interaction with physical reality. We developed intelligence to survive in reality.
I’ve asked the question of why not just shove an LLM or program into a robot body and have it collect data the way an infant does. By existing in the real world.
Oh they are, the idea is to do it through networks of sensors as well as some form of robots, as you suggest. But it's still only receiving filtered representations and not immediate experience (since it has none of its own) -- I will argue. Let's get back to these issues later, it's a really interesting track.
I hardly understand, but I get the principle and love it! This is for Corbett solution watch.
Absolutely fucking brilliant. Thank you. I knew AI was making deepfakes but I never realized AI was a deepfake itself.
Ah, you're too kind. I'll remember those words (just like those of the high school vocal teacher who thought my rendition of Bowie's Life on Mars sucked). Thanks. :)