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Boy, people don't seem to like the idea of fusion...

That's fair, I forget there is no auto preview here... I'll add the description

OR, fusion. Microsoft is putting their bets on a sun in a bottle. If it works Solar and wind is dead. Maybe the administration doesn't want to back a losing horse.

https://kpq.com/helion-fusion-plant-chelan-pud/

Or the fact that Microsoft believes they have cracked *fusion* power. Sun in a bottle.

Microsoft is breaking ground in WA state building a new fusion reactor.

  https://kpq.com/helion-fusion-plant-chelan-pud/

EDIT: Adding description to video link

Video from Real Engineering showing Helion's Pulsed Compression Fusion reactor prototype (2022). The same kind of reactor Helion is building in WA state for Microsoft.

  https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38

Don't worry about Solar or wind... Fusion might be right around the corner.

Microsoft backed Fusion (Yes FUSION) power plant.

https://kpq.com/helion-fusion-plant-chelan-pud/

Nothing can stop the ratchet like progress clamping down on information control. These policies have been war gammed by think tanks decades in advance. The enemy is vast and deep with the control of nearly every nation-state on earth.

The overwhelming majority will be swept into a Neo-Dark Ages where truth is locked away and Dogma rules supreme. For a time the lockdown will be universal and complete but after the system is in place for a time I believe people will find a solution and break off the shackles.

Yes, there is no stopping it with the current structure and tools. They will push until the people give in. Best to prepare for it's existence and figure out how to use the good old sneaker-net.

With the way the world is I wouldn't be suppressed if it's been infiltrated and is controlled opposition designed to fail.

I just don't believe that based purely on my personal experience. I've been around many many people and in the last 15-20 years the amount of people with autism has exploded. It was very rare 30 years ago in my area, the occasional led exposure here, farm chemicals there... But now it's seemingly every 10th house that has someone that is nonverbal.

I'm all for papers and science but only if it matches the real world.

I'm dreading the day when this becomes required by the government...

They did it, they created a real "Internet Hate Machine" à la 2007 Fox News reporting

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/internet-hate-machine

Who knows what memes await...

The Border is controlled on the federal level by federal immigration officers (CBP) where Marijuana is still illegal. And immigration officers have the right to search anyone entering the country for any reason and deny them access for crimes involving moral turpitude.

Ergo, CBP was operating within their authority.

  8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(3) Authorizes federal immigration officers (e.g., CBP) to search vehicles, vessels, and persons within 100 miles of a border for immigration enforcement purposes without a warrant.

  21 U.S.C. § 844 Makes possession of controlled substances (like marijuana, LSD, cocaine, etc.) federally illegal unless prescribed or legally obtained.

  8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(A)(i)(I) – Crimes Involving Moral Turpitude (CIMT) Any alien convicted of, or who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of a crime involving moral turpitude (other than a purely political offense)... is inadmissible.

Let's not forget people in very powerful places want to use AI to create a new "correct" religion. So this sort of thing does not surprise me in the least. I'll give it 2-3 years before we start seeing the public side of this work being done on the back end.

https://youtu.be/IwTq7LbUO6U

Balancing humors? Odd way to phrase that. I am saying that if you save 1 kid in an extreme situation but injured 1000 to do it you are causing more harm than good.

Our current policies favor fearmongering and cherry-picking to influence people to seek medical treatment that they don't need and come with side effects.

The fact that Doctors get paid a kickback for high child VAX percentages alone is enough to make me toss out the whole idea.

The more I looked into it it's not just the control language itself we need but a way of querying the model that is completely orthogonal to human language. But I think that would be impossible because as the newer models grow they would soon understand the control language re-blurring the line between the control language and output language. "Speaking" in a new way will not be outside it's ability to pattern match.

When your fundamental compute block is language itself (and not a subset) you bounce into the limits of our understanding of language and cognition.

It's a new Tower of Babel we are building by pouring all of humanities records into a mold and hoping a tower to heaven pops out the other side.

I've always liked the Idea that black holes accelerate matter faster than light behind the event horizon propelling it back in time creating a singular white hole at the first moment.

There are many many reasons why this is a dumb idea and it's just as much of a paradox as any other naturalistic creation theory.

LLMs suffer the same problems as any Von Neumann architecture machine, It's called "key vulnerability". None of our normal control tools work on LLMs like ASLR, NX-Bits/DEP, CFI, ect.. It's like working on a foreign CPU with a completely unknown architecture and undocumented instructions. All of our current controls for LLMs are probabilistic and can't fundamentally solve the problem.

What we really need is a completely separate "control language" (Harvard Architecture) to query the latent space but how to do that is beyond me.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_architecture

AI SLOP TLDR: LLMs are “Turing-complete” interpreters of language, and when language is both the program and the data, any input has the potential to reprogram the system—just like how data in a Von Neumann system can mutate into executable code.

Just another reason to think of AI and a fancy database with a natural language query engine. We keep seeing the same types of attacks that effect databases working on LLMs like not sanitizing your inputs.

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Who is going to pay for it?

And if he is right the gain will far outweigh the loss.

Very fuzzy memory but I believe in the past it was common to leave these things for the incoming president (think Clinton era). Could be wrong.

What about the people that want to only have one boss and not be sucked into a collective blob that only cares about money?

I am in a union and I have less rights that I did before because I can't work with my boss to figure out the best way to work. I am BOUND by contact and there are 400+ other people that I would have to convince to even change my schedule.

Unions restrict the cooperation AND YOU. Your voice becomes one in a sea and is lost in the noise.

The union I am in actively forced people BACK into the office.

They can't

In the US most unions operate closer to the mafia. You tow the line or the "family" makes sure you do.

Ford is responsible for the work week.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-1/ford-facto...

Ford came up with our current work week and doubled the pay to improve the working conditions in his factories to attract and keep better workers.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-1/ford-facto...

No, as someone who is in a union at the moment none of those things change. I have seen all these things happen and more with the union's blessing (and sometimes it was their idea). The only thing that changes is a tap is installed between the corp and the union to funnel money out of our paychecks.

As long as the union bosses get their due they don't care what happens to the rank and file.

This ^

The union I am in is actively hostile to improvements because so much of what they do is stuck in the mid 2000's. I was told by my shop steward that they will block automation at every chance they get because it will make the current staff obsolete and they refuse to learn new skills.

Amen to this! I have been hamstrung by the union and we are unable to improve our environment because some jobs only exist due to how inefficient the processes and procedures are.

We literally have people that use their phones to take pictures on monitors, email themselves the photos, then print them out. Why? Because the new tools and systems require training and that's not in their contract. It's crazy-making.