Kassi Marks

Just an ☦️/wife/mother/atty/nature lover/💯pro-lifer trying to make it thru life in this beautiful 🌎 successfully & peacefully in a strange, dystopian time.

[Kassi Marks @Kassi_Marks]

Thanks @BishopGracida @TXRightToLife @txelectionlaw 4 working 4 due process rights 4 patients & protecting ALL life. https://t.co/yyesOMhVeg

[Bishop Rene Gracida @BishopGracida]

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GOD BLESS KASSI MARKS !!!

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Students without access to LLMs are 2 to 8 times more creative than students with access.

That is the finding of a new paper comparing 2,200 college admissions essays written by humans before ChatGPT with essays generated by GPT-4.

The key point is not individual creativity. GPT-4 can write well, sometimes better than individual students. The problem is collective creativity.

Each new human essay added new semantic territory. New ideas. New angles. New experiences. New combinations.

Each new GPT-4 essay added much less.

The authors call this the diversity growth rate: how much novelty each additional text contributes to the collective pool of ideas.

Humans kept expanding the pool. GPT-4 made the pool converge.

Even when the authors pushed GPT-4 to be more creative, changed parameters, or used chain-of-thought prompting, the homogenizing effect remained.

This is the real danger of AI in education.
Not that students will write worse.
That everyone will write the same.

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Full paper in the first reply

[Kassi Marks @Kassi_Marks]

Well, yes. Geez. Our government is broken.

[Dr. Heidi Klessig @heidiklessigmd]

Doctors want to perform a brain death exam on Annelise Camp. Part of this exam is the apnea test, in which Annelise will be disconnected from her ventilator for ten minutes or more and observed for spontaneous breathing.

The apnea test, part of the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) brain death examination, can increase brain damage and entails significant risks.

The apnea test is unverified, and even the AAN Guideline states that there is a lack of scientific evidence to support the recommended parameters of the apnea test.

In describing the parameters for the apnea test, the Guideline states: “Selection of targets for this challenge is arbitrary because no scientific data demonstrate specific PaCO2 above which medullary chemoreceptors would prompt respiration if they were functional.”

Dr. Alan Shewmon has published multiple cases of patients who failed to breathe during their apnea tests, but then began breathing after their support was withdrawn. Thus, the apnea test does not reliably achieve its goals.

In addition to being scientifically unverified, the apnea test is risky for a patient not yet known to be brain dead.

The Guideline lists the following risks of the apnea test: hypoxemia, hypotension, arrhythmias, pneumothorax, and hemodynamic compromise with cardiovascular collapse requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

These types of complications are extremely detrimental for a neurologically injured patient with tenuous cerebral blood flow, and can cause further brain damage.

Incredibly, despite these risks, the Guideline states, “clinicians do not need to obtain informed consent,” for the apnea test except as required by local jurisdictions.

The apnea test has no benefit for the patient, does not accomplish its purpose, and can only cause harm —including brain damage and death. No patient with a neurological injury should have to undergo this unethical test.

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

Are you paying attention yet?

[Kassi Marks @Kassi_Marks]

"We really thought it was going to be good, so that's why we were filming it." Meaning...that the decision to abort was going to be good, accepted as good, a good thing? Influencer culture=wasteland. Death threats are wrong. But the decision was wrong even if most people make it.

[rooted.wings @BrittRooted]

They exposed themselves to the court of public opinion, lost, and now are standing on the body of their dead baby to make further content. @tmz pandering to it is repulsive.
The irony of these adults playing victim and “afraid for their safety” when they denied safety and victimized their innocent child TO DEATH is not lost on the sane.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

As a father of a child with cerebral palsy, I was greatly disturbed by the story of the YouTuber couple who aborted their baby with Down Syndrome. They didn’t say the child was not a baby. They said it was not a life worth living, and not a life worth disrupting their own.

I know from personal experience, IT IS A LIFE WORTH LIVING. And my daughter was SO worth disrupting my plans. When I became a father of a child with special needs, I had countless plans. Since then, I've learned, my own plans only made me miserable. The real moments of happiness came from my family.

Raising my children was BY FAR the hardest thing I have ever done. But I wouldn't trade it for the world. Cherish your family. Don’t kill it.

[Kassi Marks @Kassi_Marks]

Very true, esp. the part about beating the time. Every ETA on a GPS is a challenge to be won.

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

LOL yup

[Kassi Marks @Kassi_Marks]

Important 🧵

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

In 2000, Vince Carter stunned the world when he literally dunked over a 7-foot human being.

It was called the “Dunk of Death.”

Twenty-five years later, that moment stands as a symbol of what the human body is capable of when it’s free.

Because today, most of us can’t even touch our toes.

According to Harvard Health, the average American spends 10 and a half hours a day sitting.

Vince Carter defied gravity. But most of us don’t even have the energy to defy our chairs.

And the longer we stay still, the faster we die inside. 🧵

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Senators are being told they MUST reauthorize FISA 702 without requiring a warrant for U.S. citizen queries.

This is nonsense.

Your privacy isn’t at odds with your security.

Your privacy is *part* of your security.

Just say NO to warrantless surveillance of Americans.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

My least favourite form of media is ultra short form video (10-30 seconds). I know that billions of people watch them but I think it's the worst way to consume information, or even entertainment.

I'm also convinced they destroy your attention span and overall cognition.

[Wesley J. Smith @theWesleyJSmith]

Plumer is fervently supported by her dead customers’ family members. Many even attended their loved ones’ deaths that she facilitated. Such normalizing of suicide will have profound ramifications beyond the early demise of terminally ill people. https://t.co/WVtjyKsb9f

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

But let’s blame cow burps and reduce red meat consumption.
🤡🌍

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

But hey, let’s blame cow burps for destroying the planet…

[Kassi Marks @Kassi_Marks]

Hate the dystopian aspects of this world and our future. Robots are always dystopian to me.

[RT @RT_com]

Jerk clown robot brutally kicks little boy in the stomach

The future is here, and apparently it's beefing with children

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@RightSide_Uk There has been and continues to be mass rape of women and girls in Europe by immigrants coming from a small set of countries. This is simply a fact.

[Kassi Marks @Kassi_Marks]

The lack of taste & aesthetics is truly astounding. As they say, you can't buy taste.

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn — built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day — permanently.

Read more: https://t.co/PdI3ZarEYr

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

I wrote about the Pope and why Christian tech critics often have a more compelling response to the AI crisis than their secular counterparts. Simply, Christian writers aren't afraid of "human nature" talk, and they understand THE question of the AI Age is: what are people for? 🧵

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

While @KarenBassLA defunds the July 4th parade, I look forward to celebrating the USA's 250th anniversary. Those born into free societies take it for granted. Those who have sampled from the buffet of societies recognize that the USA is a true bastion of goodness in a long history of darkness.

[Kassi Marks @Kassi_Marks]

Criminal.

[Mr. Whale @CryptoWhale]

Some time ago at a WEF forum, a bioethicist said it’d be great if people became allergic to meat - so they’d stop eating it. Tool? Ticks.

Now, massive lone star tick outbreak in the US is causing alpha-gal syndrome in thousands: severe, lifelong red meat allergy. Coincidence?

[Five Times August @FiveTimesAugust]

No excuses at this point. I can't tell you how many major events I've participated in that were put together in mere weeks. We've watched this occasion approaching for years. And I can tell you honestly most of the conservative events I've been invited to or played at - the organizers often treated music as an after thought, never a real feature. The right just doesn't get it and has never got it.

That's why Freedom 250 is in the position you are in. The right made Trump and its social media influencers and podcasters the "rock stars" of their movement, so all you have left are speakers. Hence why after all these artists dropped it's forced to quickly turn into just another MAGA rally. You have added nothing substantial to American culture in ten years, just built a weird Trump-centric culture living in its own echo chamber and now you're forced to recognize that.

And that's not because of "the leftists," that's a lazy canned excuse used to drive more division toward an event that's supposed to be bringing us together. Just take the responsibility, start using your imagination, get creative, make the correct calls, and get it together.

Or just give me the budget and I'll make the calls. 😎 It can be done.