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To paraphrase Catherine Austin Fitts let’s pretend there’s a red button on your screen and if you push it the American empire disappears and the wars in Iran and Ukraine end. But if you push it the price of gas is $10 a gallon and rising, your food bill doubles, you can’t get a new laptop or get your current laptop fixed and you can’t afford to fly on airplanes anymore. Donald Trump would not press the button and he believes that inaction is equivalent to pressing the button (and this may be true). I’m not saying he’s right, just that I think this is how he sees things. I think he’s miscalculated and that what he is doing will be equivalent of pressing the button soon enough.
I appreciate the many videos posted here even though I sometimes don’t trust their content
Since I don’t have time to watch them all I
1) Click on the arrow at lower right in the video and copy the URL
2) Open https://notegpt.io/youtube-video-summarizer
3) Paste in the URL and press Enter
This provides a useful summary and if it looks interesting I can then watch the entire video
I thought others might like this“That silly tweet from Newt Gingrich about by-passing the Straits of Hormuz by blasting a new canal to by-pass it”
This reminds me of my uncle’s neighbor who needed to get coax cable up to the roof to connect to a dish. He thought “It’s about the same diameter as a 308 slug” and proceeded to shoot his deer rifle through the ceiling of his living room in the direction where the dish would be. He got a nice clean hole in the living room but when he went up on the roof the slug had hit a truss and the exit hole was a splintery mess the size of a grapefruit. Seemed like a good idea.
Here’s a pro-Trump take on Kharg Island
tl;dr US marines will capture Kharg Island so the US can control the flow of oil through the straits and force the world back onto the petrodollar.
She may be right about the strategic logic. Can’t say for sure. But what stands out is that she is totally unapologetic about this use of raw power half way around the world to keep the petrodollar because it keeps America in the driver seat. The world we live in.
Two quotes from “Why Nations Go To War” by John Stoessinger
The primary cause of war is not the impersonal forces of international politics but the personalities of leaders
and
Wars frequently begin because human beings misperceive reality. They misjudge the power and intentions of others and miscalculate their own strength. Wars end when reality finally asserts itself
How much death and destruction is required this time before reality asserts itself and overcomes the personalities of
ourthe leaders?In the 1970’s students at MIT made a computer out of Tinkertoys that could play tick-tac-toe:
“The Tinkertoy computer is not fully automatic: a human operator must crank the read head up and down and must manage its input. After the computer’s opponent makes a move, the operator walks to the front of the machine to adjust the core piece inside the read head, registering the contestant’s move. The operator then pulls on a string to cock the core piece for its impending whirl of recognition. When it discovers a memory that matches the current state of the game, the core piece spins, and the computer indicates its move.”
Tinkertoy ComputerTheoretically you could build a computer like this large enough to run any LLM. To claim that an LLM can be conscious you have to believe that if you put enough tinker toys together the right way, adjusted their core inputs, pulled the string, waited a long time and read the output, that mass of tinker toys gave you a conscious response.
Will an Optimus robot be able to build and repair an Optimus robot? If not it may require billions of humans to build and keep 20 billion Optimus robots running.
@DBS
You didn’t answer my question. Can the WHY be extracted from the billion coefficients in an LLM or is there something going on beyond coefficients and matrix multiplication. This is a simple question and doesn’t require an exposition of life, the universe and everything. You claimed that LLMs compute a WHY in some secret way and I’m asking you to explain how that works.@DBS
“The LLM, that is to say the “model”, and complex software which interfaces with the model doesn’t just pick the best next word. It has computed WHY that word is the best next word.”Neural nets do a bunch of matrix multiplications. At the beginning they map language to vectors and at the end they map vectors to language. As far as I know that’s all they do. The WHY is embedded in the weights or coefficients of the matrices involved. In a large model there are billions of those coefficients. The fact that intelligible results come out is amazing. So what is your WHY claim based on? Are you saying someone understands all those coefficients in some meaningful way or is there some other neural net technology that does something besides matrix multiplications that they aren’t telling us about? I am most interested in your answer.
He also promised that “help is on its way,” and deployed a “beautiful armada” to the region…
Yes, he’s calling it an armada. But then history never was Trump’s strong suit.
Isaac Asimov wrote The Feeling of Power in 1958. In that future humans forget how to do arithmetic and when a guy discovers it no one believes him but eventually they see its military potential.
https://ia800806.us.archive.org/20/items/TheFeelingOfPower/The%20Feeling%20of%20Power.pdf
Here’s an excerpt:
“Computing without a computer,” said the President impatiently, “is a contradiction in
terms.”
“Computing,” said the Congressman, “is only a system for handling data. A machine
might do it, or a human brain might. Let me give you an example.” And using the new
skills he had learned, he worked out sums and products until the president, despite
himself, grew interested.
“Does this always work?”
“Every time, Mr. President. It is foolproof.”
“Is it hard to learn?”
“It took me a week to get the real hang of it. I think you would do better.
“Well,” said the President, considering, “it’s an interesting parlor game, but what is the
use of it?”
“What is the use of a newborn baby, Mr. President? At the moment there is no use, but
don’t you see that this points the way toward liberation from the machine? Consider, Mr.
President,” the congressman rose and his deep voice automatically took on some of the
cadences he used in public debate, “that the Denebian war is a war of computer against
computer. Their computers forge an impenetrable shield of counter-missiles against our
missiles, and ours forge one against theirs. If we advance the efficiency of our computers,
so do they theirs, and for five years a precarious balance has existed.
“Now, we have in our hands a method of going beyond the computer, leapfrogging it,
passing through it. We will combine the mechanics of computation with human thought;
we will have the equivalent of intelligent computer, billions of them. I can’t predict what
the consequences will be in detail, but they will be incalculable. And if Deneb beats us to
the punch, they may be unimaginably catastrophic.”
The President said, troubled, “What would you have me do?”
“Put the power of the administration behind the establishment of a secret project on
human computation. Call it Project Number, if you like. I can vouch for my committee,
but I will need the administration behind me.”
“But how far can human computation go?”
“There is no limit. According to Programmer Shuman, who first introduce me to his
discovery-”
“I’ve heard of Shuman, of course.”
“Yes. Well, Dr. Shuman tells me that in theory there is nothing the computer can do that
the human mind cannot do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and
performs a finite number of operations upon them. Then human mind can duplicate the
process.”
The President considered that. He said, “If Shuman says this, I am inclined to believe in –
in theory. But in practice, how can anyone know how a computer works?”
Brant laughed genially. “Well, Mr. President, I asked the same question. It seems that at
one time computers were designed directly by human beings. Those were simple
computers, of course, this being before the time of the rational use of computers to design
more advanced computers had been established.
“Yes, yes. Go on.”
“Technician Aub apparently had, as his hobby, the reconstruction of some of these
ancient devices, and in so doing, he studied the details of their workings and found he
could imitate them. The multiplication I just performed for you is an imitation of the
workings of a computer.”
“Amazing!”
The congressman coughed gently. “If I may make another point, Mr. President – the
further we can develop this thing, the more we can divert our federal effort from
computer production and computer maintenance. As the human brain takes over, more of
our energy can be directed into peacetime pursuits and the impingement of war on the
ordinary man will be less. This will be most advantageous for the party in power, of
course.”Here is the article called Sadly, Trump is Right on Ukraine referenced in the video
π
If every possible numeric sequence is found in π you could digitize the entire universe in 3D down to the Planck length over its 14 billion year history in femtoseconds and that digitization would be found somewhere in π. Actually it would be found an infinite number of times in π. Humans can’t comprehend what infinite really means.The multiplication trick only works if the first two digits sum to 10 and the last two digits are the same:
(10a+c)(10b+c) = 100ab + 10ac + 10bc + cc
= 100ab + 10(a+b)c + cc
= 100ab + 100c + cc
= 100(ab+c) + ccA trick of limited use
In my zip code there were 1047 loans totaling $75M of which $42M were forgiven. A lot of the loans were to private individuals who were self employed and all kinds of businesses from restaurants to dog groomers also got money. The bigger the business the more you could get. Some got hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Here’s a link to where the Covid Payroll Protection Plan (PPP) money went.
I found that my neighbor got $20K for his renovation business and that a local collection agency got over $100K. The number of loans in my suburban zipcode was astounding.
I’m all for free speech but only if it’s human speech. Any comments that are AI generated should be deleted. I don’t want to read your interaction with AI. I prefer trolls to ChatGPT. AI posts are the margarine of online content.
“Explain to me again why student loan debt shouldn’t be cancelled.”
We don’t know the terms of the loan but using a mortgage calculator to find a similar situation if a 50 year $70,000 loan has an interest rate of 8% the payment would be $475 per month and the principal will still be $60,000 after 25 years. But if you pay an extra $100 a month you’ll pay of the entire loan in 21 years. I am guessing their degrees didn’t involve much math.
I was a math nerd who liked sports but wasn’t that good at them. Playing sports back then it was beaten into you that you had to play fair and follow the rules. Having worked in high tech for a long time with people from a lot of other countries they often don’t have that same ethic and take advantage where they can. I knew an immigrant (Celticbiker’s guess of her ethnicity would be correct) who said “You Americans are so stupid. You follow these stupid rules and get taken advantage of over and over.” Of course Americans following stupid rules is what made the working country she got to come to and take advantage of and her attitude will turn America into the hell hole she came from.
RKF Jr. has set up a website where you can suggest people to be part of the Trump administration. You can also vote on other people’s suggestion. Suggestions now include Peter McCullough (Health), Catherine Austin Fitts (Economy ) and Douglas McGregor (State).
“If you can remotely detonate a pager then you can remotely detonate a cell phone.”
And an electric car. Anything with a Lithium Ion battery and a remote connection.
When I saw the pictures of the opening ceremony I didn’t think of the last supper, I thought of Bacchus
If Josh Shapiro really is the Democrat VP nominee and Harris/Shapiro are elected they can quickly dispose of Harris and Israel will finally have the US president they really want.
Back in the day a WW2 vet I knew as a kid said that in the pacific theater if you left camp and tried to return there was a daily password to get back in. One day the password was “What is the third verse of the Star Spangled Banner.” Anyone who could answer was shot. That’s a good Turing test too. Anyone who knows that is not human.
Of course if the order is not A – B – C – D -E you just reorder to columns and the same logic holds.
Impressed by apsnaz’s analysis I drew this to illustrate why his 7 horse solution is correct:
After the first 5 races and the race of the top in each group only the horses above the double line can possibly be one of the three fastest. A1 is already proven the fastest and there are only 5 other horses that need to be in the 7th race to determine 2nd and 3rd.
This just might be the most American thing I have ever heard of.
The “most American thing” was not the self-immolation itself but the peace officers responding by drawing their weapons. Reminds me of Fouad Kaady who was found naked and bloody in the road with his car on fire and who was then tazed and shot by peace officers within a minute of their arriving on the scene.
