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  • It’s not the case in the US de jure, because there are several christian denominations working together and against each other, so there is no one official clergy. However, de facto the US is ruled by and for Christians, every important decision, almost every elected official, a lot of the laws, all of the customs revolve around Christianity and exclusively Christianity-related. It’s impossible to overstate how it’s not like that in every other western country. The two closest examples I can think of is Polland and Ireland, two traditionally very Christian countries, and even then it’s not even close to the levels of jesusness US exhibits.
    When a EU citizen answers that they’re christian on a poll, more often than not they’re doing it because their parents did and that’s the extend of their religiocity.


  • t does though give us some insight to minds

    And that’s the whole thing, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t. The same way knowing how computer RAM works doesn’t give you insight into how human memory works, even if the word memory is used in both cases. A bunch of llm bros think it does though.

    models spontaneously creating their own internal workspace like an inner monologue or quasi subconscious

    The fuck they aren’t. The token predictor predicts a token. The probability of a token is reinforced by human reactions to it. When it started generating words that usually describe inner monologue, humans started freaking out, which reinforced this probability. It’s literally “say I’m alive - I’m alive” meme.
    It gives us a good glimpse into human psyche however. It shows how easy it is to full people by pretend language, how willing we are to ascribe agency to anything that can pretend to write words. And even that’s not new, ELIZA was 60 years ago.





  • Worst people you know pretend they read a math paper from 10 years ago, and it gives them deep understanding of all the complex problems you can imagine. It’s hard to overstate how much this one paper fried their brains. It’s even harder to overstate how it’s actually just one paper about computer math


  • We would’ve bullied those nerds more for misusing the word neuron. It was cute at the time, but now they’re running around being all weird thinking that since they can pretend to read that one paper a better way to do one computer thing, it makes them experts in how brain works, just because there are similar words.




  • Well, it doesn’t in the only source of knowledge we have: the game Portal. I don’t know enough about gravitational forces to have a coherent theory on it, gravitational waves moving through space-time is a bit beyound my real understanding. But in the game if you put a portal on a ceiling, it doesn’t “suck” you until you’re throuth it, so there it isolates gravity somehow.






  • Yeah, it’s not serious enough for me. It will become serious if it actually replaces openssl, or at least actually is in use by any significant numbers. Until then, it’s a project that can potentially maybe sometimes be used by someone maybe, which by definition isn’t serious. Like any other project, it needs time under pressure, it needs to mature with use, be supported for some time, accept patches and changes, and sustain constant prodding by people who would like to break your stuff.
    OpenSSL is a standard for almost 3 decades, Rustls is cautiously maybe being pushed in experimental branches.
    It’s like that with everything Rust related really. We are at a phase where enthusiasts enthusiastically trying to convince someone to consider their new toy, which means we can’t really compare it with decades old projects that were scrutinized and stress-tested by millions of people.