Mayda Mifflin

Mom | Wife | Business Analyst/Software Engineer | Miss Arizona Media Relations

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Stellar @StellarArtoisGB]

An Atheist asks a Christian where god comes from! What a mic drop moment !

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

[Mike Bartner @MikeBartner]

Is genuinely surreal how much MacKinnon got bodied on this man.

Werenski is such a dawg.

[Alex Micheletti @AlexMicheletti]

Jack Hughes gets the goal, but how about Zach Werenski, just outworked Nathan MacKinnon, bodied him off the puck and the fantastic feed, he was so underrated throughout the entire tournament. He is having a hell of a season in Columbus as well #cbj

[Empty Netters @EmptyNettersPod]

McAvoy was a monster all game and all tournament 💪💪🇺🇸🇺🇸

[River Cracraft Fan Club @CracraftFan]

We need to talk more about Charlie McAvoy literally saving the game. Unbelievable.

That’s gold medalist Charlie McAvoy btw

[The Sporting News @sportingnews]

For the first time in Olympic history, Team USA won the gold medal in both men's and women's hockey in the same year 🇺🇸

[Ross Uglem @RossUglem]

this is now the greatest save in american history (i watch hockey once every four years)

[Seth Davis @SethDavisHoops]

This might be the finest 60 seconds in the history of sports broadcasting. No prompter, no stumbling, no uhhs and you knows. Met the moment with big picture historical context in a way that connected it to the viewer. Not too understated or overly flowery. Just pitch perfect.

[Mayda Mifflin @MaydaMifflin]

@MbarkCherguia Up!

[Mayda Mifflin @MaydaMifflin]

@Texas_jeep_guy Nah… she got it! Good for her on making it work!

[Croxxed Out @FLCons]

Kindness and good sportsmanship goes a long way!
Older team cheers on a younger hockey team as they head to the ice for their game!

[The NCHC @TheNCHC]

Wearing bruises as badges 🫡

The top shot-blockers in #theNational aren't afraid to sacrifice the body! 🧽

More NCHC stats: https://t.co/70rEIKKFWF

[Arizona State Sun Devils @TheSunDevils]

Sparky goes 2-0 against schools from Colorado today 😈

[Mayda Mifflin @MaydaMifflin]

@usahockey No

[Sun Devil Hockey @SunDevilHockey]

Scoring is easy... the celly is harder 🤣

Cruz Lucius with his second goal of the season #BeTheTradition

[USA Hockey @usahockey]

Celebrating red, white, blue and gold this 4th 🇺🇸

Team USA won an unprecedented 4 gold medals in the 2024-25 international season!

[EVERYTHING COLLEGE HOCKEY @TeamECH]

The 2024-2025 ECH Sponge of the Year Award goes to @tymurchison5 with 98 soaks on the year 🧽🏆👏

Shoutout to all the sponges that soaked shots this season - Not all heroes wear capes 🫡

[The NCHC @TheNCHC]

The road to the final #FrozenFaceoff is set! 🏆

Best-of-3 #NCHChockey Quarterfinals start on Friday