[ExI] Claude for president?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 11:16 AM Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 9:49 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 9:45 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
>> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 6:55 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 2:38 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> >>> > So long as the exact same input and context are provided, their output is the same.
>> >>
>> >> Yes but the context is never the same. Regardless of if it's biological or electronic, a thinking brain is in a constant state of flux, it is never the same from one moment to the next.
>> >
>> > We were talking about the context window for an LLM. This is input, and it can be represented in binary 1s and 0s. It is easy to copy.
>>
>> Just like, in theory, the input to a thinking brain can be.
>>
>> You keep ignoring the problems with precisely capturing literally all
>> of the input.  You just assume that can happen.
>
> We're both talking about LLMs here, are we not?
>
> Are you and John thinking of a robot/android brain that walks and talks and sees live video?

I can't speak for John, but I'm talking about LLMs.

Perhaps an analogy.  You know basic electrical engineering, or you can
look it up, right?  Say, calculating the current for a given circuit
that connects a battery and a resistor, where the voltage level of the
battery and the resistance of the resistor are known, is something
that you could do if you had to, right?  (Again: this includes being
able to look it up.)

So...just because you can calculate that, you therefore can
immediately calculate every current level et al going on in a typical
CPU while it is running a complex operation, right?  Just because the
former is something you can do by hand, the latter is not only
possible but practical for you to do by the exact same means (by
hand), then?

The answer is, of course, "no".  But that's basically what you're
suggesting here.  The answer is "no" for basically the same reason.