The real question is what percentage of GDP is directly created (or continues to exist) because of the increased debt.
When this metric was created the GDP was more authentic and not debt driven.
It is an open question just how much of "social media" has been similar to moltbook for many years. Or maybe Zuckerberg being an android himself just finally found his home.
I've been hoping someone can make a text based modern version of Lord or TradeWars. Having LLMs generate a lot of the gameplay and text dynamically would be one idea.
I wrote some BBS door games back in the day and was thinking of making a new one today, although not multi-player. It would be in the style of the old games (ANSI-style art and text) but for a single-player and with a daily play limitation as well. You'd only play a few minutes each day and if you died, you'd have to come back the next day. Nothing concrete yet, but I definitely would like to make one just for old time's sake.
Closing the strait of Hormuz is worse for Iran and China than anyone else. Natural gas to Europe but not as big of an issue compared to Russian energy supplies. The Saudis and others have pipelines to bypass the strait. Many countries who sell oil obviously benefit from the increased price. I'd almost see how the U.S., Russia, Saudis and even the current administration in Venezuela would be fine with the oil price increase if Irans supply is taken off the market for a long time.
Let's assume a nuclear exchange happens at some point during a war. There is a very high chance that this will cause an escalation leading to a nuclear apocalypse.
Since this result is presumably inevitable at increasing frequency, it's more like nukes prevented another major world war and stole a form of peace from the future, temporarily. That peace debt might be repaid with the end of everything.
Funny how the unintentional close calls become more sparse with time. I wonder if that’s because humanity got better at dealing with the responsibility or because the oopsies haven’t been declassified yet.
There has been some reporting that Mandarin and languages similar to it provide several advantages over using English. First, the theory is that a language like Mandarin can encode more complex ideas using much less memory than it would take in a language like English.
Some reports, which I can find and post here if necessary, claim this can lead to a 40% or so overall performance difference.
There is also a view that due to the way complex meanings are encoded in a pictograph type language that it improves the inference stage and ultimately greatly reduces hallucinations.
There has been some work from Microsoft and others to compress tokens from the user side. Other papers have suggested the advantages are so great that a new kind of symbol based language should be created to use for all of the training data.
Does anyone have any experience with this sort of LLM optimization? Is Mandarin and similar languages more efficient for LLMs?
I'm not saying the possibility isn't there, but I would want to see a really strong case made that language syntax and grapheme/morpheme influences models this way.
IF that was true, then it's interesting because Chinese is anything but the precise language something like Z or Coq or APL tries to be, words have remarkably fluid meaning, highly contextualised. The opportunity for a mis-walk through the information space seems higher, not lower.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but Honey and Winnie the Pooh have two clear meanings now in China. As does Draco Malfoy. I can't see how this helps an LLM.
(I'm an AI skeptic, and a complete outsider in this space)
It all brings back nightmares from migrating the older style EDI for healthcare data for what was HL7 XML at the time. XML is widely used still for all kinds of stuff.
On some level if JSON was allowed to evolve the same way, eventually you would just wind up with something like XML.
I grew up listening to 90s hip hop, so I’m familiar with some of the songs DJ Screw used in his mixes. There’s something meditative and transcendent about rap slowed down to 60 bpm combined with the repeated phrases and chopping/rewinding to extend the song and emphasize certain parts. He’d play two copies of a song and one would be a beat or two ahead, which lets you cross fade back and forth to make words repeat, he’d rewind certain lines three or four times to emphasize it, he does a decent amount of turntablism/scratching too. All of the manipulation is basically an on the fly remix with a lot of room for creative freedom.
Here’s a chopped and screwed song I like by DJ Screw
Vaporwave is basically the same set of techniques applied to 80s pop and elevator music, the song below is vaporwave but it’s more or less a chopped and screwed version of Tar Baby by Sadé
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