Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
I love how the Pope's encyclical is so well-written that people sincerely believe it was written by AI, because the notion of being that well-educated and qualified for a leadership role is genuinely foreign to the general public.
europe is supposed to be scorched with temperatures over 40 celsius which literally doesn't happen here and is one of the highest temperatures in Europe's history but sure your fucking human fruits slop and chat gpt roleplay is more important than ecosystem fuck all of you
Until about three years ago, every song you've ever loved, every book you've ever devoured, every beautiful speech you've ever heard was written by a human.
It's so sad what they've done to our sense of human capability
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
Just regular news hygiene:
No, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia do not allow their territories to be used for Ukrainian drones – or anything else – to attack Russia.
No, Ukrainian attack drones do not enter Belarus from Lithuania.
Yes, Ukraine has every right to defend itself against Russia’s brutal invasion.
The only thing epic here is the aesthetic catastrophe.
Nolan is a cerebral director of the global anglo world, all his intelligence put to industrial ends. Grey matter for a grey world. Nothing in this trailer is Greek. Nothing is Mediterranean. No olive groves and no white stone burning under the sun and no salt and no pine and no sea-glare. A deracinated Odyssey, made for imaginary nobodies from nowhere.
The script feels like it's going to be the work of a diligent student who took down the events of the Odyssey one by one, forgetting that this is not a novel but an archaic poem, from a time when men and women lived each word as a heartbeat, who sang the soul and flesh of a people and of a world at once real and supernatural. A poem in which Telemachus does not say "my dad is coming home."
The Odyssey deserved a Parajanov or a Fellini or a Welles, someone larger than life, a Dionysian ogre, someone hungry, someone who could make a film that smells of figs and raw wool and roasting meat and tar and blood. Monsters that are actually monstrous and seductive witches with real venom and golden shields catching real light and banquets going on for days.
And the women of the poem, who are everywhere in Homer and seem so cold and dull here. Circe in her smoke and Calypso in her cave and Penelope at her loom, the sensuality of witches and the rigid loyalty of wives, all replaced by a fashion-armor Athena and a Penelope played as a strong American woman.
And then there is what the Odysseus of the trailer says: "No one can stand between me and home, not even the gods". The cunning sufferer who knew how to bow to divine forces turned into a defiant individualist who bows to no one. Greek cunning replaced by American autonomy. The poem's central lesson reversed in a single line of dialogue.
I usually don't mind Hollywood slop, but this has made me weirdly angry, and the film isn't even out yet. I feel as if a red line has been crossed, some hubris that has gone too far. The gods have been angered. How could they not be, with the decapitation of that statue at the end of the trailer? An iconoclastic gesture absent from Homer, usual with the monotheistic traditions that have spent centuries smashing pagan images.
Nietzsche said he would believe only in a god who knew how to dance. Apollo without Dionysus produces exactly this: cerebral, cold, unambiguous. I cannot trust a filmmaker who is not hungry enough to banquet with the gods.
🚨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?
They removed CD/DVD drives from devices.
They made physical media harder to buy and use.
They removed expandable storage from phones.
They pushed us into streaming subscriptions.
They made always-online normal.
They made unlimited internet necessary.
Then slowly raised the price of everything.
Ownership quietly became renting.
fuck ice fuck colonialism fuck israel but sochi au uwu (sochi olympics were used as cover up for russian invasion of ukraine and it’s the place where circassians were genocided by russians) you performative twat
Epstein was a Russia-run pedo operation. Today, Russia-adjacent content floods streaming platforms to launder the myth of a “great Russian culture.” The endless Russian characters in films and series aren’t accidental - they usually signal Russian money behind the production.
Hijacking the entire planet's economy to run a technology that destroys general credibility of videos, pictures, and information forever, so that if the videos surface of them hurting kids, they have plausible deniability
🇺🇦 EPSTEIN WAS GROOMING GIRLS IN DONBASS AND UKRAINE FOR INTEL OPERATIONS
These messages are from May 2019, weeks after Zelensky's election. The girl is from Artemovsk in the Donetsk region.
He starts with The Little Prince, a children's novella about love, loneliness, and "taming." The book's central message: "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
He sends her an image of the quote, then he explains that "tamed" really means "accepting the wildness and riding it."
A 66-year-old convicted sex trafficker explaining to a young woman from a war zone how he plans to "tame" her. Using a children's book.
He even offers to pay for her education IF she leaves her relationship and instructs her to study Zelensky, corruption, and the Ukrainian parliament. He tells her the corruption is "sophisticated" and that massive amounts of money will be made. He wants to see her become a "female oligarch."
Convicted sex trafficker. Desperate girl from a war zone. Children's literature about taming. Promises of wealth. Instructions on political corruption.
He wasn't just exploiting these women. He was cultivating assets.
Former commissioner of the Kremlin’s pro-Putin youth movement “Nashi,” Masha Drokova, reportedly took part several times in Epstein’s orgies with American politicians and businessmen.
It is said that she was the one who infected Bill Gates with gonorrhea.
A true Komsomol member, in short.