It’s truly inspiring to watch the political theater of Western imperialism, where the supposedly sovereign government in Kyiv has its peace terms drafted by Washington in consultation with Moscow, and delivered by the US Army Secretary, with an aggressive timeline for signature that would make any colonial administrator blush. The sidelining of the delusional Kellogg, who actually believed Ukraine could win, for an envoy who produced a plan that agrees with Russia’s territorial objectives, finally pulls back the curtain on the entire charade. The key victory for the US is in engineering a situation where the puppet must publicly express his constructive and honest gratitude for the privilege of surrendering. A textbook example of a proxy war, where the client state’s role is not to win, but to lose on a schedule and with the appropriate groveling gratitude to its masters.

The US accounts for over 70% of actual military production in NATO, without the US it’s just going to be a hollow shell.

lemmy.ca is basically a white supremacy instance, get a load of the kinds of fash that frequent it https://lemmy.ml/u/Glide@lemmy.ca

Nothing says “we’re the good guys” like diverting your entire explosives supply to bomb a besieged population, leaving your own arsenals empty.

They already did back in 2014 when the US ran a violent coup to overthrow the legitimately elected government.

yeah it’s a frustrating trend, if archive site ever goes away news would be completely unaccessible

wasn’t archived yet when I found it

Except this time they’re not even really bothering with any credible pretense.

when time comes to hang the capitalists, the capitalists themselves will sell the rope turns out to be an evergreen quote

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oh look it’s NBC manufacturing consent for the latest color revolution

amusingly golden toilets were touted as the sign of endemic corruption during the original Maidan coup

Does anybody take that seriously after they used negotiations with Iran as a distraction while preparing the strike?

The Chinese room thought experiment is deeply idiotic, it’s frankly incredible to me that people discuss it seriously. Hofstadter does a great tear down of it in I Am a Strange Loop.

That’s like asking what’s the difference between a chef who has memorized every recipe in the world and a chef who can actually cook. One is a database and the other has understanding.

The LLM you’re describing is just a highly sophisticated autocomplete. It has read every book, so it can perfectly mimic the syntax of human thought including the words, the emotional descriptions, and the moral arguments. It can put on a flawless textual facade. But it has no internal experience. It has never burned its hand on a stove, felt betrayal, or tried to build a chair and had it collapse underneath it.

AGI implies a world model which is an internal, causal understanding of how reality works, which we build through continous interaction with it. If we get AGI, then it’s likely going to come from robotics. A robot learns that gravity is a real, it learns that “heavy” isn’t an abstract concept but a physical property that changes how you move. It has to interact with its environment, and develop a predictive model that allows it to accomplish its tasks effectively.

This embodiment creates a feedback loop LLMs completely lack: action -> consequence -> learning -> updated model. An LLM can infer from the past, but an AGI would reason about the future because it operates with the same fundamental rules we do. Your super-LLM is just a library of human ghosts. A real AGI would be another entity in the world.

It’s powered by a miniature nuclear reactor meaning that it can stay airborne long enough to fly around the world and approach targets from any direction.

You gotta love it when people start commenting on a topic they have no clue about. There is no reentry, this is a low flying missile. The whole point of it is that it’s a loitering missile that can fly around for months on end. That’s the whole reason for the panic in NATO, it’s not possible to track it at all. Time for you to stop embarrassing yourself in public.