New essay.
War still demands the body. What disappeared was the world capable of telling the body what its destruction meant.
The machine sees everything, witnesses nothing, and keeps asking for meat.
War Without Witness. Blood sacrifice with a contactless option.
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Some of my smartest friends at Huawei in Shenzhen have gone quiet recently… quite a few appear to be in Hangzhou (DeepSeek)… they can only WeChat their spouses and parents. From what I’ve heard, V5 is already in pretraining: ~2T parameter ultra-sparse MoE on Huawei Ascend 950/950DT, no NVIDIA (!!!). If it converges, it’ll be the first frontier model trained entirely on Chinese silicon.
We had a brief, beautiful moment here of a glimpse into what should have been the dawning AI Golden Age.
Unfortunately, with this sabotage of American Open Source, it looks like we are leaving the good timeline behind and beginning the descent into the AI Doomsday Scenario.
@bronzeagemantis Yeah he has been surprisingly passive. It's obvious where things are going should open source AI be defeated.
The great irony is China is the good guy here.
when u realize ASI is here, we are in the singularity, nobody can stop it, politics doesn’t matter anymore, you can just build parallel institutions and ignore the failed ones, software is writing software, robots are building robots, intelligence is becoming free, super abundance is coming, the future is going to be absolutely insane, we won
Tucker Carlson has officially invited Nick Land on his podcast for an interview. Will it happen? Only time will tell. The link to the full video is in the comments.
"So let me get this straight. The Jedi had the jurisdiction to take me from Tatooine but left my mother there a slave? Isn't slavery illegal in the Republic? Could they not have acted?"
"As a cherished mutual always told me, Anakin, a system is what it does."
there is a computer at the end of time reaching back to modify our world so that we are guaranteed to build it. there are signs everywhere if you have the eyes to see.