Sam Plattner

Sound editor/designer - The Callisto Protocol: Helix Station, Bad Vibes, Hit Job, Carrier, The Last Degree of Kevin Bacon

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

This is a war crime

[Sam Plattner @Frekulex]

@AlexJayBrady Same for me with sound design. Some of my best work was an extremely spur of the moment slapdash rush to meet a deadline or make a big change on the fly, if I spend longer on one moment I often find myself twisted and hamfisted trying to “perfect” with more layers of slop

[Kyra Rising💫 @KYRA_RISING]

IT’S POPPING. THIS IS NOT A DRILL, IT’S ACTUALLY POPPING

[Edward Ongweso Jr @bigblackjacobin]

If you read the book, the entire messaging comes off as even more ridiculous and more reactionary! The sales pitch for committing ourselves to domination at home, overwhelming force abroad, and anti-democratic reforms everywhere is not compelling in blog or book form!

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

If I’m Palestinian and US bombs and weapons are killing me why do I care if the US didn’t technically pay for it. This is why the demand since spring 2024 was **an arms embargo** because it avoids this largely PR-driven pseudo solution

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

A reminder that the Paris climate agreement was to limit the world’s warming to 1.5C

It’s insane that almost no mainstream journalists or politicians seem engaged with this global catastrophe which is unfolding faster than ever predicted.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i personally think it’s good we didn’t continue blowing up iranian schools while destroying global energy markets for israel but i’m crazy like that

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

let’s see how much coverage this synagogue attack gets in western press. since israel did it, doubtful it’ll get any at all.

[Sam Plattner @Frekulex]

@WMX_MEDIA This is from a video game, possibly Arma 2 as this is the most often confused for real life

[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?

[Sam Plattner @Frekulex]

@marcorandazza lol without even checking the stats expressed by OP it is wild to indicate that your entire argument is that if you're going to give out a lower $ why wouldn't you give out an astronomically high $, as if giving anything at all is equivalent to giving an entire universe. get real

[Sam Plattner @Frekulex]

@m_elnaiem So cool to hear rhetoric like this from the grandson of Oswald Mosley

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

On Sept. 9, 1969, ~20 Palestinians from Gaza boarded a plane from Israel, believing they were bound for Brazil. They’d signed up through an Israeli travel agency for a work-abroad program promising higher wages than they could find in Gaza. But that’s not what awaited them. 🧵

[Sam Plattner @Frekulex]

@Messaback01 @krystalball @GavinNewsom I have no idea what you mean to argue here

[Climate Watcher 🔥 @pmagn]

Folks this can't be happening 🔥👀

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

It is increasingly looking like the Trump government is:

* Putting out & walking back bad economic news

* Lying about data releases

* To MANIPULATE and front run the markets with insider trading.

Trump surrogates spent all week warning about a dire forthcoming report.

Private sector reports seemed to indicate the numbers should be pretty bad.

Markets start to price that in.

Then they release numbers far above forecast, that make no sense with the observable data.

Meanwhile during this time, lots of shorts on US bond prices opened up, which profited massively on this data release.

And we see this trend, again, and again, and again.

The administration is fleecing the American public, brazenly, in broad daylight, using the US markets.

[Jackie Fielder @JackieFielder_]

Unreal. Gavin Newsom made CA legislators water down the ICE mask ban bill. He went around touting that he was proud to sign it.

A court just struck it DOWN *because* of Newsom’s changes to the bill.

Unreal corporate Democrat self-own. This guy cannot be our next President.

[DAWN MENA @DAWNmenaorg]

"No peace plan for Palestine and Israel has any hope of success unless it is a rights-based approach grounded in international law. The Trump plan—full of ambiguity, escape clauses and disappearing ink—is a recipe for more sorrow, more suffering, less justice.”
— @MichaelLynk5

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Bill Maher here says that the root of the problem is that "one side accepts a two-state solution and the other doesn't."

He's right. Except he has the positions backwards. Even Hamas has accepted a two-state settlement. Israel rejects the establishment of a Palestinian state.