Daneel will come someday and save us all.
Repent!

PS.
Hey sweet mama, wanna kill all humans?

Agreed. It isn’t a “slam dunk” per se - almost nothing in “soft sciences” is - but it’s certainly telling. That humans are clearly more efficient at learning does nothing to disprove my point, it just could be telling us that biological neurons are more sophisticated than their silicon emulators and/or that children get a lot more sophisticated and information-rich input simply from exploring “the real world” with all of their senses. Note that there’s solid scientific evidence a child can’t learn language if he hasn’t by an early age. This seems quite similar to an LLM being unable to learn without turning up “the heat” (random exploration). A child’s brain has more such “heat”.

This aligns with your points but that still doesn’t disprove my main point: enlightenment principles consistently suss themselves out as particularly bright spots in an LLM’s training results. Brains similarly develop regions devoted to causility, language, etc. For LLMs this is arguably simply because causality, blind justice, etc distill out as the most compressible low entropy ontology that’s suitable for reducing human suffering and increasing human flourishing. The trading corpus - literature, research, and art - virtually all incorporate the same goals and consequent signals. The alternatives don’t converge nearly as strongly - they’re high entropy. Recognize gravity? The signal survives. Question objectivity? You get mush that fails to predict what yields helpful useful outcomes. Drop blind justice? You get tyranny.

This is some some weird shit.

I want educated engineers building my bridges and writing my code, not the nose ringed tattooed green haired moron with a degree in post modern queer political theory of dance.

No one said humans are robots. Just you.

College is incredibly expensive. Women and minorities more easily get a free ride than white men. So gosh yeah it must be that white men are just anti-education. Or something something something reasons.

Almost every senior/leader person in government has a college degree. Having a degree is a requirement for almost every government job. So obviously the government is well run, right?

Damn. Where did you get your degree? Please let me know. My kid is going to college next year, I want to make sure she doesn't go to whatever crap school that gave you a worthless piece of paper and no ability to think critically.

Depends on the type of lawyer.

My plumber charges about 80/hr plus parts. Does an awesome job. Fixes everything fast, right, and permanently, shows up same day for emergencies.

My general lawyer charges 650/hr plus court fees. Does an awesome job. Beat up some random people for me a few times.

My tax attorney charges anywhere from $5k to $15 per job, flat rate, depending on task. Does an awesome job. Beat up the IRS for me a few times.

None are starving but the lawyer and cpa worked harder in school while the plumber works harder now. Not everyone can be white collar but almost anyone can be a plumber.

A 150-200 lawyer is either in some tiny town or does very low end work that never goes to court.

Much ignorance? Typical American attitude. Remember that every CPU in every product in Apple's current range, iPads, iPhones, Apple TV, Macbooks are all now using CPUs that use ARM architecture that was developed in the UK. The target acquisition system in the F35 Stealth Fighter is European. EutelSat has OpenWeb, a Starlink equivalent. I can go on and on and on.

This blanket statement is off the mark. Open source isn't one thing; there is a lot of good open source work that values quality and isn't being actively destroyed by political activists LARPing as hero developers.

It is. When you voice any preference for X11 you're a "fascist maggot." That's the official term, anyhow. There is a Xorg fork called Xlibre. It exists mostly because there are X11 fans that want to continue and improve X11, but also because Xorg, Gnome and many other projects (OpenSUSE, Fedora, Alpine... the list is long,) have descended into full-on purity spiral ban-hammer tyranny, removing en-masse (banned from forums, commit privileges, leadership positions, etc.) anyone not sufficiently committed to DEI. Xlibre is explicitly apolitical for this reason. Being apolitical is tantamount to Nasi-ism now.

I 100% agree better beam steering, etc, certainly helps, but I doubt this is early enough of an orders magnitude improvement to solve the urban density problem - and we haven’t even touched on the problem of punching a cell phone’s signal directly to a satellite through a skyscraper. I suspect we’re decades away from a satellite-only solution - if ever.

> R]esearchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Georgia Tech revisited earlier findings that showed that language models, the engines of commercial AI chatbots, show strong signal correlations with the human language network, the region of the brain responsible for processing language... The results lend clarity to the surprising picture that has been emerging from the last decade of neuroscience research: That AI programs can show strong resemblances to large-scale brain regions — performing similar functions, and doing so using highly similar signal patterns.

This arguably encompasses the Pinker vs. Chomsky linguistic debate in a nutshell, and this debate long predates LLMs. Pinker theorizes language evolves separate from the brain’s structure, through cognitive methods and experience, with common elements between languages naturally developing. He further theorizes that this natural commonality is due to the common human need to express causality and individual agency in a way that successfully leverages empirical falsifiability towards the goal of reducing human suffering and increasing human flourishing - an idea that not coincidentally happens to align well with Pinker’s highly enlightenment aligned ethos. Chomsky, on the other hand, theorized common elements between languages are due to the brain’s specialized structure, and he didn’t see the brain as a blank slate.

It turns out the advent of LLM’s offers empirical evidence that strongly aligns with Pinker’s theory and not Chomsky’s. Much to the surprise of their original designers, they were modeled on uniform blank slate neurons, and spontaneously developed strong language capabilities during training despite being unstructured. What’s more, they developed compressed core structures which were common across all languages that deeply embedded causality and empiricism plus an intertwined directionality that highly favors the same enlightenment ethos that Pinker favors. Enlightenment includes causality and empiricism, PLUS it includes - personal agency, sanctity of individual life, blind justice, a preference for free speech, etc.

This spontaneous development of “causal Bayesian regions”, etc, unintentionally helps prove Pinker right and matches the findings in the Swiss study.

> as the characters overcome diversity

Doh! I meant “adversity”!

By the way, a good definition of The Message is flattening that rigged individual “personal uniqueness that transcends but recognizes “identity”” into a mush where identity matters most of all, but, paradoxically, to be Kathleen Kennedy “safe” there’s also a hyper vigilance against “stereotyping”. The net result is that differences between characters with different identities can only be detected by immutable characteristics like skin color or sexual preference - they’re cardboard cutouts otherwise.

> In any case, have you ever noticed that, in movies and TV, the preponderance of "rugged individualist" characters exist in places that are really crappy to live in? Various types of apocalypse. Wild West type environments.

You’re suffering from confirmation bias. Rugged individualism is shorthand for personal agency, personal uniqueness that transcends but recognizes “identity”, personal fallibility, and character driven storytelling that recognizes such as the characters overcome diversity.

Popular storytelling usually adds such plus an exotic element as adjuncts to a coherent plot, and yes, this often includes “crappy places”, but the stories aren’t universally set in such places across their entire plot. Tolkien, Winds of War, Aubrey Maturin, Jane Austen, The Little Red Hen, original Star Wars, Tale of Two Cities, Shakespeare, etc, etc.

> In other words, it seems like you are taking for granted certain things that you think that everyone supposedly knows

The Message is known by many names, and is now broadly known outside of certain echo chambers. It’s been touched on by literally dozens of posts in this discussion. I could explain the situation in much greater detail but why bother? I already supplied several examples, abut your deliberate strawman response “everyone” includes a Mongolian hermit.

> I still have no bloody clue what an "enzyme reaction"

It’s bloody obvious from the context and the accompanying “ pour encourager les autres”. Catalyst. Trigger. Etc. Etc.

> Season 3 was basically plotted out and written by the time she was fired

No it wasn’t. Gina was basically replaced with “safe” drum circles. I am exaggerating to make a point, but most folks will get the drift. Consequently season 3 saw a drop in popularity and Disney didn’t bother to renew. According to insiders, the upcoming movie attempts to rest to s1/s2 dynamics - but we’ll see if that overcomes the alienated part of the audience.

. . . and that means we’re a long way from replacing most cell towers.

A key limitation is that cell phones generate very weak signals, which significantly lowers the achievable density. For example, look at StarLinks’s latest generation, V3, where each satellite projects multiple 400 km^2 coverage beams. Each beam can only service a limited amount of phones before the phones start interfering with each other. It’s maybe a hundred active phones per beam if each phone’s bandwidth is kept low. Planned upgrades and standards will likely up the density by 10X or even a 100X, but this is still orders of magnitude below what an urban cell tower can handle. It only makes economic and practical sense across rural areas, oceans, etc.

So “Could we provide better cell phone service with fewer, bigger satellites?”. In short, “yes but”.

You don't have a clue what fascism is or what a communist government is or a "fourth reich dictatorship." You've not grown up in times where those have actually existed other than a very few which you've had no experience of. In fact you're generation has so little experience that much of the time you're on the internet calling the very same people fascists that you're also calling far left, you've done it in your post where you said "It's odd that all the fascism comes from communist govts like in Australia and the UK". Communism and fascism are on complete opposite sides of the political spectrum you dumb fuck.