"We've finally managed to create the Demiurge from the Platonic dialogue 'Do Not Create The Demiurge' "

Impressive as that sounds, thermal engineering has lagged behind transistor density improvements.

Thermal envelopes significantly cap current chip performance.

Any "breakthrough" in cooling technology (think microfluidics) will have disproportionally large effects on human progress.

this continues to live rent free in my head

"I WARNED YOU ABOUT STATES BRO!!!"

Why do people do this? You know what the error was! You know where I'm the software stack it occurred! Even if you don't know *why*!

It feels like a UI designed built a placeholder "error notification" pop up, and no one cared enough to actually tie it into the systems that drive it.

it would probably be fun to calculate the effective annual ROI on that deposit

He's right, could be anything /s

Yup real and for me as important for the skin underneath as anything else. Also you get to feel like a Persian king putting it on

"What if we created some bullshit tech hustle to milk the VC crowd, but then it turns out it is not only very real but critical to society and we have to get our shit together to deal with it?"

But also Venkman was also basically a con man who never fully believed in or understood the science, except that it turned out it was actually all real. There's an SV analog there to be sure, but it's probably more of a funny one than some piece of slick libertarian VC propaganda.

I mean they do have a point, if only as an interesting window into how medias relation to political culture was very different!

The Longhouse (laudatory)

Ham or no

... But that difference also means an AGI mind would just be so alien in terms of its relationship with the time and physicality that I'm not sure we'd recognize it if it existed? And as a thought experiment I wonder if the the same would be true about an emergent "societal mind".

It's an interesting contrast. What role does embodiment have? A hypothetical AGI model exists as an architectural is conceptual and mathematical that could be realized on whatever substrate can crunch the numbers. It seems undeniable dualistic. The human mind is not, as far as we can prove.

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I do find it interesting that we evaluate computer model cognition at the interconnected core/data-center level, but not human cognition. You can make human-cognition-with-unbounded-energy! It's called a society! But there's a phase shift there that causes new constraints to dominate.

Relatedly I found this graph on some tech progress for computers, just to show how things don't always just go up forever necessarily.

To be fair I think that Trump would take a UK-style "largely ceremonial head of state with official if perfunctory oaths of fealty generous holdings and stipend" deal in a heartbeat, so in this *specific* instance the "no kings" part is actually important vs decrying general executive overreach.

this is fascinating. It's like they're doing the physics meme!

Sure, I mean *gestures broadly at the entire Russian economy since 2022*

I think the efficacy is somewhere between "iron clad lockdown" and "literally does nothing". The friction restrictions could impose is probably substantial, depending on how motivated the state is to investigate and enforce.