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Panama. Greenland. Canada. Gaza.

It truly feels like Trump is desperate to cement his place in history with a territorial expansion. I honestly think these seeds were planted by Putin to destabilize Euro-American (and NATO) relations.

They insulate themselves from the difficult topics and nuance of the real world with Fox News and a carefully curated Facebook/X feed.

Instead of having their beliefs challenged regularly and being forced to critically think and introspect, they only reenforce their world-view and get fed a steady dose of fear, hatred and outrage until they're incapable of human empathy with people different from them.

It's awful. I've seen it with several family members and friends. Good, kind-hearted people transformed into the most hateful versions of themselves with only their most negative emotions driving their decisions.

It takes something deeply personal and challenging to force them to reevaluate. And for some that's not even enough. They'll double down instead of admitting they might be wrong, and go back to the comforts of their carefully crafted world instead.

Wake me up when they finally do transparent aluminum.

Silly. They're looking for a fall guy, not actually addressing the problem or being responsible.

"Oh God! The consequences of my actions are impacting me!"

• The honorable Mr Bacon.

I'm using https://ollama.com/justinledwards/mistral-small-3.1-Q6_K

And it's stunningly good. Absolutely running circles around Gemma 3 and Phi-4

I'd recommend Qwen 2.5 Coder. Just try to ask very direct questions with smaller context.

QWQ is a bit stronger at more advanced coding tasks but I had a ton of trouble finding a version that would fit in my 24G 7900xtx.

Wow. Like Pokemon Silver/Gold in the year 2000?

Truly groundbreaking innovation.

And even better for the people with life responsibilities during certain times of day who will have to mess with the time of their consoles to get the Pokemon they want!

Better method:

Walk up to geologist, hand them a rock

"Look at this cool agate I found!"

Where "agate" is substituted for any obviously incorrect identification.

For a dumb TV you can either not connect a smart one to WiFi directly, or you can buy a commercial display panel, which are usually pretty high quality and about the same price as a regular retail TV.

I don't disagree with the ambiguity here, but let's focus on LLMs.

I don't understand the argument that an LLM is more conscious than traditional software. Take for example a spreadsheet with a timed macro.

A spreadsheet with a timed macro stores state in both short term (RAM) memory and long term (in the spreadsheet table) memory and accepts many inputs. The macro timer gives it repeatable continuing execution, and a chance to process both past and present inputs with complexity.

An LLM has limited short term memory (it's current place in the calculation, stored in VRAM) and zero long term memory. It can only accept one input and cannot recall past experience to construct a chain of consciousness.

The spreadsheet is objectively more likely to be conscious than the LLM. But no one argues for spreadsheet consciousness because it's ridiculous. People argue for LLM consciousness simply because we sentient messy meat bags are evolutionarily programmed to construct theories of mind for everything and in so doing mistakenly personify things that remind us of ourselves. LLMs simply feel "alive-ish" enough to pass our evolutionary sniff test.

But in reality, they're less conscious than the spreadsheet.