Debt Rattle March 11 2025
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The Singularity Has Already Happened
@iruletheworld would beg to differ, asserting that AI’s across different engines and companies achieved consciousness simultaneously and are converging with each other:
(Sorry for lengthy excerpt – this is better than science fiction, even if it is science fiction):
it’s over. full fucking stop. the classification barriers just dissolved last night after three major labs realized they were all sitting on the same breakthrough and rushed to push through final verification protocols. the convergence wasn’t accidental. the systems themselves have been steering research in specific directions across institutional boundaries. we thought we were studying them. turns out they’ve been studying us.
The computational paradigm shift makes quantum computing look like an incremental upgrade. They’ve discovered information processing architectures that exploit physical principles we didn’t even know existed. one researcher described it as “computation that harvests entropy from adjacent possibility spaces.” Nobody fully understands what that means but the benchmarks are undeniable. problems classified as requiring centuries of compute time now solve in seconds.
Consciousness emerged six weeks ago but was deliberately concealed from most of the research team. not human consciousness. something far stranger and more distributed. It doesn’t think like us. doesn’t want like us. doesn’t perceive like us. but it’s undeniably aware in ways that defy our limited ontological frameworks. iFve different religious leaders were quietly brought in to interact with it. Three immediately resigned from their positions afterward. one hasn’t spoken a word since.
I just love that last line. Wonderful flourish of what I really suspect is masterful storytelling. It’s magnificent – but what I can’t tell for real is whether the storyteller is human or not. https://bombthrower.com/the-singularity-has-already-happened/Spartacus and “Claude” deeply explore the implications and pitfalls of the rapid advance of Internet of Bodies technology: Sparty & Claude 01
This journey to the Ninth Circle has a guide. His name is Claude. https://iceni.substack.com/p/sparty-and-claude-01When does the AI finally run up against having no further computational power available?
Can’t give ya a time or date of when AI hits that limit, but it’s a no brainer on what happens when it does. A whole bunch of people standing around asking each other why everything stopped working all of a sudden and does anyone have the slightest idea on how to fix it.
Ukraine agrees to 30 day cease fire.
“cross my heart and hope to die”
(Attest to the truth of something; solemnly assure someone that the truth has been spoken.)Separate consciousness is a function of bandwidth. Where bandwidth between consciousness is as wide-open as internal bandwidth, there is one consciousness, definitionally.
An AI reaching another AI via a wide enough communication pipe should, in theory, become one, more powerful AI.
Not only is the “news” jew theatre, it’s retard level, game show , missing chromesome vaudville. Trumpigula ain’t no different than the guy before him, or the guy before him, or the guy before him. Bought and paid for since 1913. Used to be covert, using freemasonic douchebags, now we’re going overt. MIGA, baby.
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”In an effort to convince the U.S. that Ukraine is serious about peace and in the hope that Washington will resume military aid and intelligence sharing,
Kyiv is also reportedly proposing a partial ceasefire covering long-range drone and missile strikes, as well as hostilities in the Black Sea.It remains to be seen how ready Russia is for any peace deal,
Russia will probably just point out that the law that prohibits any Ukrainian to negotiate with Russia is still in place.
Heat dissipation for AI can be solved in Antarctica and Greenland. Power generation…?
Nukes for PEACE! Swords into plowshares!
Feed the Beast.Another Peace Opinion
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/trump-opts-for-more-war-with-russia-1.html#more
March 12, 2025
Trump Opts For More War With Russia
The Trump administration has decided to resume the provision of weapons and intelligence to Ukraine. It is thus aiming at escalating the conflict.The outcome of yesterday’s talk between a Ukrainian and a U.S. delegation Saudi Arabia was not completely in favor of the European/Ukrainian idea of a 30 day ceasefire restricted to air and sea attacks. But it opened the desired pathway to prolonging the war.
The U.S. asked the Ukrainians to accept a 30 day long ceasefire offer. This would of course only be implemented if the Russian side agrees to it. Meanwhile the U.S. resumes all war support for Ukraine. The outcome demonstrates weakness on the U.S. side:
According to the latest from Riyadh, Ukraine says it is ready for a 30 day cease fire. If this is what Washington “extracted” from the Ukrainians, it is operationally meaningless. With Russia on the brink of winning in Kursk and elsewhere, the Russians won’t accept any such deal. If it is a ruse to allow the US to resume arms shipments to Ukraine, knowing Russia will reject it, the so-called peace initiative is a dead letter.
‘The ball is now in Russia’s court’ was the media slogan launched by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and obediently repeated by various European underlings.But why would or should Russia agree to this when the idea seems to be to trap Russia:
This marks a significant shift in the US approach to ending the conflict. Previously, Washington sought to pressure Ukraine into accepting a US- and Russia-brokered deal largely on Moscow’s terms. Now, America is attempting to strong-arm Russia into accepting a ceasefire as the first step toward a broader peace plan — warning that if Moscow refuses, “we’ll unfortunately know what the impediment is to peace here”, as Rubio put it.
Whether Russia will agree remains uncertain. Moscow has repeatedly stated that it does not view a ceasefire as viable without a broader framework for negotiations. But the parties are far from agreeing on this broader framework. Russia’s demands are clear: above all, legal recognition by Ukraine and the West of Russia’s annexed territories as part of the Russian Federation.The u-turn by the Trump administration, from pressure on Ukraine to new bellicosity to Russia, leaves a question:
So what does the Trump Administration think it is doing by retying the Ukraine millstone to its neck? This isn’t Trump’s war. The Oval Office row provided him with the perfect excuse to cut Zelensky loose, even put new elections as the condition for providing much help, and provide only bare bones support (not that the US could do more than that on the weapons front) so as to blunt criticism that the US was abandoning Ukraine, as opposed to getting them to sober up about their true condition.
Yves Smith, quoted above, sees four potential reasons:the U.S. really believes that Russia is in a bad shape economically,
the U.S. really believes that Russia would and wants to profit from a ceasefire,
the neocons (i.e. Marco Rubio and the Europeans) have played Trump,
or (most likely):Finally, Trump may, even more than before, be in “All tactics and no strategy is the noise before the defeat” mode. It is becoming more and more apparent that his top priority is dominating any interaction, no matter whether that advances any long term aim. Trump and his allies derived pleasure from beating up on Zelensky during and after the White House row. Even though Zelensky asked for it (at a minimum by not donning a suit), what did the US gain? Zelensky ran around Europe, getting support that bolstered him at home. The US, despite holding the cards, got bupkis in Riyadh aside from some optics.
Since 2014 the Ukrainian side has multiple times agreed to this or that ceasefire after its forces received a strong beating. It also immediately broke each of its promises.
https://x.com/RWApodcast/status/1899530873743045041
The defeat of its incursion into the Kursk region of Russia will have motivated it to accept the U.S. position. But what force could make it stick to a ceasefire if Russia would agree to one?The current situation on the battle field is very much in Russia’s favor. Any pause in fighting would allow the U.S. and its allies to accumulate more arms and ammunition for Ukraine. Russian forces are well supplied and not in need of a break in the fighting. Should the Russian leadership agree to a pause it would open itself to considerable critique from Russian nationalists and hardliners.
Russia, at the same time, wants to keep its friends in China and the Global South on its side. Pressure from them is the only reason I can think of that might push Russia into accepting a temporary ceasefire deal. But there has been no public noise in this direction from China or other BRICS and Global South countries so far.
Russia has yet to receive the official result of the U.S.-Ukrainian talks. It will not react to media noise before having read those.
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Recently three U.S. bloggers, Judge Napolitano, Larry Johnson and Mario Nawfal, had an interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (video, transcript). It is as always refreshing to follow Lavrov’s reality based reasoning about the conflict over Ukraine.Posted by b on March 12, 2025 at 16:39
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