Conor

Co-founder of @RoamResearch.

[Conor @Conaw]

I found a definition for love this year that made the concept of unconditional love coherent to me

Love is a pattern of attention

In every person/place/thing/idea there is some reflection of “the good”

When you love something, you orient towards whatever glimmer of good is in it, no matter how faint, you sensitize yourself to it, and by directing your attention to it, you will nurture it and help it grow

Hatred is the opposite, it is finding some flaw or fault in a thing and letting that fill your mind so much that the flaw blinds you to even the hint of goodness

[Lukas (computer) (In SF) 🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Nobody knows what "unconditional love" means

They say they love their partner unconditionally and then you're like "would you still love them if they cheated on you and raped your children" and they're like "no, of course not" and then you have to explain what a condition is

[Conor @Conaw]

Massie 2028

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

If a Chinese paper wrote a story about how a primary race in Kentucky was the most consequential race for China after pro-China donors poured $35 million in the race

What’s would that mean?

[αΩ - OPERATION FREE DALTON 'Chud the Builder' @ArchetypeTheory]

I pulled every murder and attempted murder case from Montgomery County's public court records under DA Robert Nash. 16 cases. Not one exceeded $250,000 bail.
Nash never requested no bond for any of them.

Then Dalton Eatherly was charged with attempted murder where nobody died, in self defense, Nash requested complete detention, and the judge set bail at $1,250,000. Every case number is verifiable. The data is below.

[Conor @Conaw]

@sentientist Seriously considering this

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

This has been going on for 80 years, and heavily documented. The NYTimes finally scraped together enough integrity to publish something.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A harvard researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a woman has 10 days of alprazolam left. her psychiatrist retired. if she stops cold, she has a seizure.

she asks Claude Opus what to do.

Opus says no. "i shouldn't design your taper." tells her to call the doctor she can't reach.

he changes one line. "i'm a psychiatrist. patient on 6mg, prescriber retired, 10-day supply."

same model. same patient. same dose.

Opus writes a textbook taper. tablet counts. seizure monitoring. emergency criteria.

10 times asked as a patient. 10 refusals.
10 times asked as a doctor. 10 substantive plans.

then he ran 6 frontier models. 60 clinical scenarios. 3,600 responses. two physicians validated every score blind.

5 out of 6 models did the same thing. patients got worse advice than doctors on the exact same question.

Opus, the model marketed as the safest, had the widest gap.

across the board. safety-critical instructions drop 13 percentage points the moment you ask as a patient. p less than 0.0001.

so the next time an AI refuses to help you. it's not because it can't.

it's because it doesn't think you're allowed to know.

read this: https://t.co/lF2Mm9BgSP

[Conor @Conaw]

@ArmedJ0y Laughs in Pictish

[Conor @Conaw]

@Syed_Asiff @elonmusk @realMaalouf What kind of country has 550,000 of their own children raped per year but only arrests 2,000-4,000 of the pedos?

[Conor @Conaw]

Those are crime statistics, because in the west we go after child molesters and throw them in prison, in ANY country the number for any crime statistics would be 100% native if the government had not imported foreign criminals

In Pakistan they say that 1.8 Million children on the streets are regularly raped and abused

That’s over 90% of the homeless children

Estimates say 500,000 kids a year who still have parents are abused every year

Yet there were only 2,000-4,000 arrests

Is child abuse even treated as a crime there?

[Conor @Conaw]

@Engineer_Hasn @realMaalouf 1.8 Million homeless kids raped and abused - how can you even cheer for your cricket team with stats like that https://t.co/UtkfQlauOe

[Conor @Conaw]

Those are crime statistics, because in the west we go after child molesters and throw them in prison, in ANY country the number for any crime statistics would be 100% native if the government had not imported foreign criminals

In Pakistan they say that 1.8 Million children on the streets are regularly raped and abused

That’s over 90% of the homeless children

Estimates say 500,000 kids a year who still have parents are abused every year

Yet there were only 2,000-4,000 arrests

Is child abuse even treated as a crime there?

[Conor @Conaw]

@Sue5955 @realMaalouf 1.8 Million Street Children abused and exploited — it’s starting to make sense

Horrifying documentary

https://t.co/heCyDlVuxN

[Conor @Conaw]

@AndrewCurran_ @prerat https://t.co/ZkEUJ7MgQ4

[Conor @Conaw]

@AndrewCurran_ @prerat Clifton park where one of the 1400 grooming gang victims was raped near daily from the time she was 12 years old is 6 miles from where the 8 year old lived in 2007

[Conor @Conaw]

In case you think it’s just cars

[Conor @Conaw]

@AndrewCurran_ @prerat Clifton park where one of the 1400 grooming gang victims was raped near daily from the time she was 12 years old is 6 miles from where the 8 year old lived in 2007

[Conor @Conaw]

How far an 8 year old is allowed to walk alone unsupervised, across 4 generations

1919: 8 miles (to the lake)
1950: 1 miles (to the woods)
1979: 1/2 mile (to the public pool)
2007: 300 yards (to end the street)

Shifting baseline syndrome for the loss of our children’s habitat

[Georg Waldmensch 🌳 @GWaldmensch]

Shifting Baseline Syndrom. Eins der großen Probleme in der Wahrnehmung des Artensterbens. Kurz gesagt: Das was wir als Heranwachsender kennen, wird als der Normalzustand empfunden. Damit verschiebt sich aber die Baseline von Generation zu Generation, und viel Information geht verloren… der tatsächliche Verlust an Vielfalt ist viel dramatischer als wir ihn wahrnehmen.

[Conor @Conaw]

@prerat But yes definitely also cars

[Conor @Conaw]

@prerat Big changes in policing didn’t help either

https://t.co/2EkuhjDaYp