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Comment Re:What is thinking? (Score 1) 243

The problem with this line of thinking is that you are ignorant of the fact that we CAN say what is not thinking, and we've narrowed down the problem quite a bit.

We've not narrowed it down nearly enough to determine which portions of LLM behavior are and are not thinking.

Comment Re:Oh, Such Greatness (Score 5, Insightful) 278

Not just Lincoln, the North made a mistake after the Civil War, like Congress and The People made a mistake after J6. Insurrectionists who are put down, we now know, can't be forgiven and allowed to make nice. We see that they with their misguided culture breed and grow and rise back to cause a load of trouble. Rather we have to prosecute insurrectionists severely, to show everyone that this was serious, damaging, deadly, and they can't be allowed to break the law with impunity again - because they've been executed or imprisoned for life.

Comment Re:Surprising! (Score 1) 59

Telescreen monitoring would have required a crazy amount of manpower.

Probably the closest real-world analog was the East German Stasi, which may have accounted for nearly 1 in 6:

The ratio for the Stasi was one secret policeman per 166 East Germans. When the regular informers are added, these ratios become much higher: In the Stasi's case, there would have been at least one spy watching every 66 citizens! When one adds in the estimated numbers of part-time snoops, the result is nothing short of monstrous: one informer per 6.5 citizens. It would not have been unreasonable to assume that at least one Stasi informer was present in any party of ten or twelve dinner guests. Like a giant octopus, the Stasi's tentacles probed every aspect of life.

— John O. Koehler, German-born American journalist, quoted from Wikipedia

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