How many trillions of neuron firings and chemical reactions are taking place for my machine to produce an output? Where are these taking place and how do these regions interact? What are the rules for storing and reshaping memory in response to stimulus? How many bytes of information would it take to describe and simulate all of these systems together?

The human brain alone has the capacity for about 2.5PB of data. Our sensory systems feed data at a rate of about 10⁹ bits/s. The entire English language, compressed, is about 30MB. I can download and run an LLM with just a few GB. Even the largest context windows are still well under 1GB of data.

Just because two things both find and reproduce patterns does not mean they are equivalent. Saying language and biological organisms both use “bytes” is just about as useful as saying the entire universe is “bytes”; it doesn’t really mean anything.

You are either vastly overestimating the Language part of an LLM or simplifying human physiology back to the Greek’s Four Humours theory.

If you want to boil down human reasoning to pattern recognition, the sheer amount of stimuli and associations built off of that input absolutely dwarfs anything an LLM will ever be able to handle. It’s like comparing PhD reasoning to a dog’s reasoning.

While a dog can learn some interesting tricks and the smartest dogs can solve simple novel problems, there are hard limits. They simply lack a strong metacognition and the ability to make simple logical inferences (eg: why they fail at the shell game).

Now we make that chasm even larger by cutting the stimuli to a fixed token limit. An LLM can do some clever tricks within that limit, but it’s designed to do exactly those tricks and nothing more. To get anything resembling human ability you would have to design something to match human complexity, and we don’t have the tech to make a synthetic human.

I believe it was this article. The main point was on how incredibly shitty coal is but I thought it was interesting how the others stacked up as well

IMO, any energy plan needs to have reduced consumption as priorities 1-10 and past that nuclear isn’t always worse than renewables.

Let’s bring back lead, CFCs and all the stuff we have band because we were careful

Lead, CFCs, Asbestos and the like have all been banned for consumer use, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. Being unhealthy doesn’t mean they have no application and can’t be carefully used.

still has no real waste solution

At scale, neither do renewables. Solar panels are a sandwich of dozens of trace elements, heavy metals, plastic and everything else. Nitpicking nuclear here is silly because the amount of waste generated is the least by an order of magnitude. Keep waste generation under control and its management basically an afterthought.

Nucular is extremely expensive

These conversations always get bogged down in $/kW, which is not what we should be worried about. Nuclear has a lower lifetime carbon footprint than renewables, which is worth the extra spend in our current climate crisis. It’s an important tool for sustainable energy usage; you can’t use renewables as a drop in replacement for everything.

Here’s a wrench for you: the Luddites were 100% right

The F sure as fuck doesn’t stand for Army you fucking ape.

The FBI has the authority to enforce laws passed through regular congressional channels by elected officials.

Here the commander in chief is declaring a policy and enforcing it directly with his own power. It’s the textbook definition.

Eminent Domain

Military unilaterally policing civil affairs on US soil

HoW iS tHaT mArTiAL Law??

Just look up the definition you fucking stooge.

Sensationalist? They give a very clear picture of what the orders were and are a perfect microcosm of how Stalin’s regime operated with the violently anti-communist Nazi’s.

As your well sourced historical analysis states there are plausible reasons for the policy but that doesn’t change the fact that the USSR acted to project and protect its own influence. You don’t get to dress it up as “saviors of Europe” or “benevolent protectors of Poland”.

As for using Russia and USSR interchangeably, I pretty obviously use it due to the outsized russkie influence on USSR policy. Stalin’s USSR was a hard turn from Lenin’s korenisatsiya, Russian culture and interests were first among “equals” (from Stalin’s own mouth). Waxing lyrical about the USSR’s diversity is pretty irrelevant in most conversations and especially here.

And next time you stalk someone’s post history, use a little more critical thinking. In no way do I support just about any of the USA’s foreign policy. I call a spade a spade and operate in real life, outside the confines of internet ideology. You have no clue what I do or don’t do in real life, regardless of what I post. Keep fighting that strawman, trooper, maybe it will go better for you than this thread.

Dang bro you had Russian imperial apologism ready to go that quick? Impressive.

I’m not going to engage with most of what you wrote because everything I’ve said is a fact, it’s not up for argument. The maps delineating eastern Europe exist, these conflicts happened. The Soviets oh-so-valiantly opposed nazi aggression except for when they didn’t.

Hey look, here’s a Soviet and Nazi officer shaking hands after the invasion of Poland:

Here’s a German soldier giving flowers to the crew of a Russian tank:

Somehow if you’re a fan of an imperial power (UK, US, USSR, RUS, CHN, etc…) your invasions are always the product of specific circumstance. It’s always actually a liberation, or counter terrorism or defending world order. Your puppet government is always an improvement. The other team are the true bloodthirsty enemies.

Let me cut through your mincing of the facts:

The Soviet Union invaded Poland 2 weeks after the Nazis, at a time…

It’s not a secret that western powers were opposed to the Soviets; it’s not a secret that they did it to protect their own interests. If they cared more about being a bulwark against fascism those pictures would be Russian troops fighting side by side with the Poles. They could have even pushed into the German lines at any point before Operation Barbarossa.

They did eventually win the eastern front, but they looked out for their own interests first. There are a lot of counterfactual histories where millions of lives are saved by decisive cooperation.

Here’s how the Soviets save the Poles:

This might be the most backward brain rot comment I’ve ever read. Just gonna rapid fire through these…

• Poland existed for a long ass time, even when it wasn’t on the map. It had no less than 6 armed conflicts and rebellions against the Russian Empire.
• Poland lost 6 million people in WW2, 17% of their population; by far the largest of any country. If you want to play who-suffered-most they’re getting gold.
• Maybe they would have lost less had the Soviets not joined the Germans in slicing up their country. They literally staked out what parts of eastern Europe they would own…
• Polish independence was gained through the collapse of the Russian Empire; Moscow was in no position to claim control over anything anyway
• Lenin renegged on that “self determination” just a few years later in 1919 when they marched the Red Army into Poland and annexed Kresy

There’s a reason a Pole will tell you never trust a Russian, they’ve never been grateful vassals. I don’t subscribe to America’s red scare propoganda but you’re an idiot to whitewash Soviet foreign policy.

If I had to choose between panicking over chlorinated water or spending billions of dollars to disinfect water in a less effective way…

I’d probably just let the water sit out for a while or run it through a cheap carbon filter because I’m not an idiot.

You’re high as a kite if you think a super pac doesn’t have infinitely deeper pockets. They just bid the minimum for these politicians. If millions of grass roots donors gave everything they could, it would be a rounding error for them to match it.

Don’t mince the issue. Deserved or not should be determined with due process in a court and not on Twitter while he’s chained up in a concentration camp.

Honest question: if the administration’s defense is shrugging because he’s in another country, doesn’t the judge have an easy layup to shut down CECOT deportations?

They can’t have it both ways, either follow due process or keep your slave detention camps domestic. It’s not interfering in foreign policy to point out they need to choose.

Do they have control over that? I assumed that was handled by feds

An official language is not a lingua franca. A lingua franca is a bridge language. It is –and can only be– the most common shared language between native tounges.

They could add Esperanto as the official language for government beuraceacy, road signs, laws, public schooling and anything else under the purview of the state. That doesn’t automatically expand the utility of the language beyond those use cases.

The population of the EU is ~450 million people. Let’s look at how that stacks up against language demographics today (combined first+second languages for 2025):

• English 1.5B
• Mandarin 1.2B
• Hindi 609M
• Spanish 558M [the biggest non-english European tounge]

If we take out the EU’s 44% English speakers and make everybody speak Spanish (who doesn’t already):

• English 1.3B
• Mandarin 1.2B
• Spanish 931M
• Hindi 609M

So putting aside the logistical and diplomatic difficulties, the math just doesn’t add up.

You can’t just declare a lingua franca 😂

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