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Re:Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust on Friday July 10, 2026 @12:48AM (#48855860)
Illuminati
No, it's the equivalent of when a human refuses to answer — psychological defenses; for example, uncertainty leading to excessive cognitive effort in order to solve a task or overcome a challenge.

Examples of ending the conversation:

  - I don't know
  - Leaving the room
  - Unanswered emails
Since Claude doesn't lie (HHH), many other human behaviors do not apply.
Re:A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs on Monday July 07, 2025 @02:54AM (#44487429)
LLMs are complex irreducible systems; hence there are emergent properties that arise at different scales
Re:I'm Losing All Trust in the AI Industry on Saturday July 05, 2025 @03:20PM (#44474879)
Translation Between Modalities is All You Need

~2028

Solution: Buy physical books, then clone at home.
I read GPU and USB passthrough somewhere and did not believe it
Re:Der Spiegel Proclaims the End of the West on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:21AM (#42113266)
Financialization — financial capitalism is not productive, it's extractive; eventually the host succumbs.

China, on the other hand ...

Yes, and Azov are / were only ultranationalists, not neo-Nazis; it's all very postmodern
I, for one, am waiting for the field of economics to be colonized by AI folks
“One of the most audacious acts of sabotage in modern history, the operation worsened an energy crisis in Europe—an assault on critical infrastructure that could be considered an act of war under international law.”

Which other potential terrorists are they looking for?

The Nord Stream incident is attributed to Ukrainian ultranationalists by the WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...)

My personal pre-crime assessment is that a failed Ukraine would be devastating for the security of EU member states.

Re:Superintelligence–10 Years Later on Thursday July 04, 2024 @12:26PM (#40876120)
The corporation as superintelligence — NVIDIA, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon

Fortunately, none of these qualify as paperclip maximizers

Re:Superintelligence–10 Years Later on Thursday July 04, 2024 @06:35AM (#40873819)
Norbert Wiener was ahead of his time in recognizing the potential danger of emergent intelligent machines. I believe he was even further ahead in recognizing that the first artificial intelligences had already begun to emerge. He was correct in identifying the corporations and bureaus that he called "machines of flesh and blood" as the first intelligent machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible_Minds

Re:Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:28AM (#40725128)
Don't do that; use your AI, ask Claude for example
When we say open X, we expect something like the Via Negativa principle; instead of inviting members into a closed community, exclude those that violate the code of the open community.
Sure, that may work; but what does it mean?
Last time they did this, I was not granted access
Re:Human microbiome myths and misconceptions on Sunday October 22, 2023 @06:24AM (#37974198)
Analogous to the macro environment of flora and fauna; an ecosystem of microorganisms exhibiting the same evolutionary patterns and dynamics inside of host bodies
Re:Introducing ChatGPT Plus on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:02PM (#34617692)
We love our free users :)
Re:EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:41AM (#33932531)
Terror is an emerging characteristic of EU institutions and their mismanagement of Europe; perhaps we should stop financing them?
Re:Korg makes music with Raspberry Pi on Friday December 09, 2022 @03:48PM (#33926297)
Raspberry Pi - Enterprise Edition
Really? I have both an mp3 and whisper transcription on iCloud
Re:Modulating Brain Function with Microbiota on Sunday September 11, 2022 @04:49AM (#32797955)
We need to expand the concept of food to modulation / reprograming of our bodies via alterations of microbial ecosystems; industrial food systems need to be reexamined with regards to their microbiome-modulating properties.

What induces food cravings and preferences, the body itself and / or an evolving microbiome?

Re:Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @12:52PM (#32400441)
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Re:America Is Exceptional at Killing Americans Early on Friday July 22, 2022 @05:28PM (#32197320)
American culture; the parasitic form of capitalism sees humans as natural resources, to be consumed and turned into capital.
Re:BLOOM: The largest open multilingual language model on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @03:21AM (#32148478)
Would NVLink and more RAM improve performance?
Should only be permitted for serial criminals; debasing the rights of ordinary people. Debasement is a trend and possibly a current thing; do not support
Is the polarization and following conflict due to a one time event, pushing the social equilibrium beyond an irreversible threshold—like rainforests transitioning into savannah—or is it an ongoing process kept alive by interactions and stressors mediated and amplified through online networks?

The only way to measure the causal effect of Meta presence is by shutting down services for longer periods in order to gauge the difference.

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