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Having a pretty good life despite myself.

[Covie @covie_93]

So a book with two gay penguins will traumatize kids but a public execution wouldn't???

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@WalshFreedom He did answer. He said, given how Israel coerced us into war, they are both a threat in different ways.

[Damien Echols @damienechols]

I’ve had a lot of people asking me about the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, as well as the upcoming execution by firing squad that’s supposed to be livestreamed. Having spent nearly 20 years on death row, my thoughts and feelings about these things are so vast that I sometimes struggle to find a place to begin. I became close friends with a man who had committed murder. He was like a brother to me. I once watched him break down crying, trembling as he told me he wished he was as evil as the world believed him to be, because then he wouldn’t have to care about what he’d done. Fifteen years later, he was still having nightmares about it. I know in my soul that he would never hurt another person again. But I’ve also watched a man being stabbed to death in prison. I cried for days afterward, and something inside me was changed forever. I learned that some people are capable of extraordinary transformation, while others remain capable of terrible violence even behind prison walls. There are no simple answers here. No slogans or political arguments that can adequately address the complexity of human beings, guilt, punishment, and suffering.

But there is one thing I want to say about the upcoming execution by firing squad. Don’t watch it. Whatever you believe about the death penalty, even if you think the person being executed deserves to die, don’t watch it. You cannot witness a human being being killed and simply walk away unchanged. What you see becomes part of you. It follows you into places you never expected it to reach. There are things I witnessed in prison that I would give anything to forget, things that still cast a shadow over my life decades later. There’s a difference between understanding that terrible things happen in the world and deliberately making yourself a spectator to them. I don’t have all the answers about justice, punishment, or forgiveness. But I do know that killing another human being should never become so ordinary that we turn it into something to watch from the comfort of our living rooms.

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@washingtonpost Great. We are barbarians now. How lovely.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Trump declares anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence" instead of "Super Intelligence" is "THE ENEMY!" of the White House

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

FACT CHECK: TRUE

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@Mollyploofkins @worldflood1 God said no.

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@greg_price11 Do you honestly think those are the two places that Trump would be most concerned about protecting? I mean, think about it.

[John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈 @aravosis]

For everyone defending Donald Trump’s remarks about nuking San Diego and Los Angeles, so your argument is that Donald Trump actually meant that Iran better not mess with proud Democratic cities that voted against him like Los Angeles and San Diego. Seriously, that’s your argument. That the two cities Donald Trump decided to choose to suggest that Iran better not mess with them were two wildly Democratic cities that voted against him. Yeah, right.

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@johnexposethem @TheJusticeDept @PADAGMcCotter @NEWSMAX Exactly. The system works.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Donald Trump was willing to put an innocent man in jail to cover up his failures. Let that sink in. The most evil and dangerous man to the nation is sitting in the White House.

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

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?

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Misspelling the name of your own country in a document about super intelligence is an impressive feat.

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@KellyScaletta And can we talk about the wasted money involved in making that full color poster?

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@ChelseaClinton @TheLancet Interesting!

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@PeterMeijer They have all the leverage. I don’t see how any of it would decline after the midterms. Listen, we need one thing to save face: a Congress who will put an end to the war. Let Trump blame them, the Dems it will have to be. I think he’d be thrilled about both those things.

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@jbishop103 @TheJusticeDept @TheDemocrats @SenateGOP Who says it never ever happens? I’ve never heard anyone say that.

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@AbdulElSayed Oh! Love it.

[Sarah Matthews @SarahAMatthews1]

Nothing says “America First” like mocking a former American president in front of a communist dictator.

Trump may think he’s humiliating Biden, but all he’s doing is humiliating the United States.

[Crissee @crissee_m]

@WhiteHouse This is disgusting. Trump is a sad, weak bully. What a disgraceful chapter in our history.