When discussing the way the pyramids were built we cannot afford to ignore one variable: TIME. Because what seems to be the hardest task becomes feasible with simple approaches in a sufficiently long timeframe.

The great pyramid (GP) took about 26 years to build with its 2.3 million blocks. We could consider the average time per block (4.12 days) to expect that at most it took about 8 days to place the hardest blocks. But that only has meaning under the assumption that the timeframe does not depend on the location of the block inside the GP.

A much more meaningful result is to average per course (block layer, or step, which total 206) because the added difficulty of moving bocks higher is somewhat cancelled by the fact that higher layers take fewer blocks to complete. This gives about EIGHT YEARS per layer as average, hence at most it could have taken SIXTEEN YEARS to complete a layer. 16 years is more than enough to move a 9 ton block up to the summit of the GP — with very simple mechanics.

Now you can divide the height of the pyramid by the timeframe to completion and you get the most simple formulation of the Egyptian pyramid building technique:

They only had to solve the mechanical problem of moving a several ton block up by X cm each time, making sure it cannot slip back down, and probably only do it once per day

About the question of Identity, you are invited to read Mathew 10,34-36.

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.

Matthew 10:34-36 NIV

Here Jesus speaks about an extraordinary thing He deliberated to do, a fundamental change deep within people, that is the demarking of individual identity. The separation between self and others, which is not the same as disfunctional opposition, but instead the construction of our own identity as a fundamental pre-requisite to any form of stable gathering of people.

But that is not all. God described himself to Moses as “I am that I am” (Exodus 3:14), which is an absolute identitarian statement.

Just like a painter loves his work when he sees his best qualities reflected therein, so the Creator of all things loves His work, and that is why we are given such important information.

Do not look at this as a burden to grasp but as an edifying tool for your human being. Having an Identity is a right granted to you by the Creator, something He wishes for you and something He considers of paramount importance.

Several important things to unpack here.

1. credits to Microsoft for doing serious work on what otherwise is just a mediocre concept of computer intelligence called LLMs.

2. credits to Microsoft for stating today what to me is obvious since back when “AI” was still called big data: «There is absolutely no guarantee that a LLM’s output accurately reflects the source data you’re interested in». Which is reason enough to call a lunatic to anyone using these systems.

3. the reason why it is obvious that LLMs are not reliable, the same as any other statistical approach (including another engineer’s favourite masturbation called “baesian reasoning”), is simple: these systems translate raw real data into a finite, comparatively small set of parameters, therefore they lose information which cannot ever be reconstructed to the original.

4. however this admission comes at least a decade and billions of dollars AFTER these actors have been promoting the fake statistical emulation of intelligence called LLMs; they should be demanded to do better based on the resources they have.

5. As a society we cannot afford to waste such vast resources to deliver billion dollars garbage during 10 years and afterwards start pretending that it is better to clean the garbage instead of doing better scientific research from scratch.

6. so those engineers that have been cheering the next big thing in “AI” should all be labelled as delusional at best and psychotic at worst; totally unfit to perform any duty in exact sciences

7. TWO YEARS AGO I demonstrated how you can analyse large quantities of text in a scientific way, in a deterministic fashion, not probabilistic. This was the basis model for the first proper, scientific reasoning system and it shows how my approach is ahead of the best engineering since years ago.

Now go back to playing with your decade old toys. You are already outdated and each passing day you are thrown further back into the dustbin of History. And I am making sure that you will stay that way.