I look forward to phantom braking changing to phantom launching your ass into the ceiling of an underpass

I'm curious if that third factor is just geography

Guns Germs and Steel is a great book that explores geographic determinism.

I am trying to find links but can't right now. There are many cross cultural studies they have found the effects of social class systems and family economic advantages persist over centuries. A millennia isn't unbelievable to me.

I imagine it's a mix of both with strong geographic determinism tilting the scales for certain regions.

You should read Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall.

Another commenter mentioned the book under the comment you responded to.

I wrote about it here in #30 - https://www.rxjourney.net/30-things-i-know

That was my first thought. Playing Civ games and reading books like Prisoners of Geography makes it pretty explicit

So like Jim Cramer

I would say functionally yes but i get the vibe jim is doing it on purpose for pump and dump reasons we just havent figured out yet, while greta drinks her own koolaid and so must this guy by assosciation. Ie they strongly believe in their wrong position and promote it with conviction.

This was an intentional fallacy for comedic effect, specifically "No True Scotsman"

AI has made me wonder a lot lately about what it is that actually creates conscious experience, what is the actual physical mechanism that produces 'experience' (or is there a single valid mechanism, or rather just some property that can be expressed many ways). The more I think about it, the more I realize I have no fucking clue, and the more interested in the question I get.

This is speculation but maybe in the recurrent coupling between neuronal activity and the brain’s endogenous EM fields: neurons generate the field, the field ephaptically influences neurons, that closed loop may provide the physical integration associated with consciousness. A very active area of research so we will find out a lot more in the coming years.

I've landed here as well, but by force. I've actually tried to share some of the productivity and workflow tools I've built with AI that help automate portions of my work, specifically on target firmware debugging, and everyone at work just...ignored it. Didnt care. Of the small number of people who even stopped to look, a few of them were actively negative. Maybe I didnt sell it hard enough, but my job isnt to sell productivity tools internally (or even make them, i did it for myself). So, I'll keep making myself more productive and build tools for myself. And everyone else will just have to figure out their own path. I tried to help, but oh well.

I think the stronger together argument implies good faith co-operation on both sides

Yeah. Exactly. Thats not a guarantee anymore

It never was a guarantee. But it is worth fighting for cooperation, rather than accepting it cannot be anymore.

I've been using Control D and have been happy with it so far

Sounds this like this will be a huge win for local models, since generally they're ram limited but have compute to spare

Only if you double layers by layers instead of the whole stack (which IIRC is what nanbeige is doing).

To put it simply, if you have 3 layers A-B-C then A-A-B-B-C-C requires more compute but not more memory bandwidth, but A-B-C-A-B-C requires both twice the compute and twice the memory bandwidth for the same token generation speed.

It's the opposite kind of bundling as MoE, which effectively trades memory/storage to save on compute at inference time.

It’s approximately the same as Qwen3.827b’s propensity to think a lot, right?

Not quite. Looped models do the extra "thinking" inside the model's layers. So the token gets twice the number crunching performed on it before it gets spit out. I think of it as the first loop "kickstarts" the process, and the second loop refines it.

"don't write a goddamn novel" <- I've said this to claude way too many times, nothing you can do actually seems to make it significantly less verbose