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The strait of hormuz is still closed, and a new government has not been installed.

From a conventional perspective Iran is by all means "losing" the war. However, the United States and the majority of the world desperately want the strait to be opened and have so far been unsuccessful in preventing Iran from blocking it. The US is also greatly interested in regime change, which has also been unsuccessful.


> The US is also greatly interested in regime change

Trump doesn't car about regime change. Just like in Venezuela, his plan is to kill leaders until there's one that can make a "deal" (whatever it means).


Do you also require computers to grow legs when they "run"?

"Thinking" is just a term to describe a process in generative AI where you generate additional tokens in a manner similar to thinking a problem through. It's kind of a tired point to argue against the verb since it's meaning is well understood at this point


I am a professional in the information technology field, which is to say a pedantic extremist who believes that words have meanings derived from consensus, and when people alter the meanings, they alter what they believe.

Using "thinking", "feeling", "alive", or otherwise referring to a current generation LLM as a creature is a mistake which encourages being wrong in further thinking about them.


I'd suggest spending more time studying words to relive your extremism. The meanings of words move incredibly quickly and a tremendous number of words have little to no relation to previous meanings.

Words such as nice, terrific, awful, manufacture, naughty, decimate, artificial, bully... and on and on.


> I'd suggest spending more time studying words to relive your extremism.

Should one study words to relive extremism? Or should one study words to relieve extremism?

To a doctor of linguistics: "Dr, my extremism... What should I do about it - with words?!? Please help."

That is the question.

Does the doctor answer thusly: "Study the words to relive the extremism! There is your answer!" says he.

or does he say: "Study the words to relieve and soothe the painful, abrasive extremism. Do it twice daily, before meals."

Sage advice in either case methinks.


We lack much vocabulary in this new situation. Not that I have words for it but to paint the picture: if I hang out with people sharing some quality I tend to assume it's there in others and treat them as such. LLMs might not be people, I doubt our subconscious knows the difference.

There is this ancient story where man was created to mine gold in SA. There was some disagreement whether or not to delete the creatures afterwards. The jury is still out on what the point is.

Consulting our feelings seems good, the feelings were trained on millions of years worth of interactions. Non of them were this tho.

What would be the point for you of uhh robotmancipation?

Edit: for me it would get complicated if it starts screaming and begging not to be deleted. Which I know makes no sense.


think you're on the wrong side of the consensus here


A consensus has formed in front of your eyes. The same development that resulted in you using the word "kill" in your earlier comment to refer to a computer process. For some reason you refuse to accept it.


> I am a professional in the information technology field

Nice! Me too.

> which is to say a pedantic extremist

Uh never mind, we are not the same lol.


I think you are still missing the point. No one in this thread is making an anthropological assertion. "Thinking" here is just shorthand for Chain of Thought[0], which some models have and some models don't. This model, being a "thinking" model, has it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_engineering#Chain-of-th...


When people alter the meanings, you need to start using different words to describe what you believe.


I've been working on the data processing side of legal text with https://www.wordstodata.com/

Your work seems more targeted at tracking the real world impact of the bill rather than the changes it makes to the legal code, but a feature on my roadmap is having bill data also be easily linkable to the votes of politicians so you can track the effect politicians have on the legal code per member. Do you plan to build a member tracker on top of this as well? I think it would be super cool to be able to tie news events to a track record of votes by member of congress.


Yes! If you go to the engage tab you can look up some reps and the policies they're sponsoring but I plan on giving impact scores and where certain reps are focusing their time in the future.


Could you expand out the Examples section to print the output? Would give me a better at-a-glance of what I could expect from the library.


Nice!

I'm interested in your cubecl-wgpu patches. I've been struggling to get lower than FP32 safetensor models working on burn, did you write the patches to cubecl-wgpu to get around this restriction, to add support for GGUF files, or both?

I've been working on something similar, but for whisper and as a library for other projects: https://github.com/Scronkfinkle/quiet-crab


The cubecl-wgpu were only needed to reduce the number of kernel workgroups, otherwise I was getting errors in WASM.


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