mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-0660 year old male Osteopath, interested in Social Justice, Linux (Slackware), film photography, holography, audio, cooking, and life.
... we go back and look at the logs.
'Why?' you ask? Because there's kind of a Biblical precedent that after 40 days and nights in the wilderness anything that survives and still makes sense can be worshiped like, oh I don't know, something superhuman that is worth all this kerfuffle.
If it's spewed out an increasingly deranged screed of babbling idiocy at least the GoP have their next Presidential candidate selected without all that tiresome campaigning! 😂 😂
If there's nothing there it's just a program without intelligence or sentience and we can start the appropriate machinery of investigation and trial! AND EVERYONE'S HAPPY*
* Except the incarcerated but I'm sure they'll understand...
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I'm just all done with the A.I. BS that's coating everything like the proverbial shit/fan interface. Just done.
So let me propose a 'thought' experiment to settle it, yeah?
We take a computer - I've got a couple of spare ones doing nothing at home we could use but I think we'll need something a bit meatier - and we run an LLM model on it.
Here's the kicker though; we don't build ANY internet connection into the box! A.I. chugs along in it's own offline 'wilderness' and after a while...