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I am not a linguist but the deafening silence from Chomsky and his defenders really does demand being called out.

Syntactical models of language have been completely crushed by statistics-at-scale via neural nets. But linguists have not rejected the broken model.

The same thing happened with protein folding -- researchers who spent the last 25 years building complex quantum mechanical/electrostatic models of protein structure suddenly saw AlphaFold completely crush prior methods. The difference is, bioinformatics researchers have already done a complete about-face and are taking the new AI tools and running with them.

believing that a large language model has any kind of awareness or actual intelligence is absurd

I (as a person who works professionally in the area and tries to keep up with the current academic publications) happen to agree with you. But my credences are somewhat reduced after considering the points Hinton raises.

I think it is worth considering that there are a handful of academically active models of consciousness; some well-respected ones like the CTM are not at all inconsistent with Hinton's statements

IMO PeerTube would be much larger but grifter sites like Rumble and Odyssee/LBRY are sucking a lot of the wind from the YT-alternative ecosystem

Long term IMO PeerTube is the only sensible architecture. federated.

Some of us adults are tired of other adults having imaginary friends and expecting to be treated like adults

This Nobel Prize winner and subject matter expert takes the opposite view

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IkdziSLYzHw&t=2730s

PeerTube

Most porn is much much more wholesome and tame than the pestilence, genocide, fratricide, infanticide, racism, sexism, and slavery that is recommended by that disgusting ignorant book

Gods don't rape kids

People with gods rape kids

"The camera is the new gun"

https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/~clay/classes/spring2010/os/inthebeginning.pdf

Hacker with bullhorn: “Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour while getting a hundred miles to the gallon!”

This. Independent of whether a local AI is desirable on your computer, an AI on someone else's computer has no goddamned business with any of your personal data. That should literally be illegal.

Police unions hate legalization, it takes away one of their "most powerful tools" -- ie, ways to pull people over, search their persons, cars, and houses, take their assets, and have a made-for-TV press conference with a big pile of drugs, guns, and money

finally I can play Solitaire on my HPUX

Trump could demand congress legalize weed and instantly double his support base.

Easy wins, avoided

8647 ... just like it says on my bumper sticker

Seems like popping open WSL in a Windows VM running inside a Linux host

Is "No Hamas" allowed?

George W.Bush: "When I first met with Putin I saw he was wearing a cross [...] He started talking about his mother, the cross, and what it meant to him [...] I looked into his eyes and I saw a soul. I trusted him."

STOP. FUCKING. ELECTING. PEOPLE. WITH. SKY. DADDY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g1sOHgNgbo&t=50s

IIUC Epstein's Island didn't have underage boys, so Theil never paid a visit. I assume he has his own island and tries to keep under the radar