L.J Bergman

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@ourdiscoveries8 @camhberg If we care about AI welfare, we need @camhberg and others doing this work. Misuse matters and should be taken very seriously, but steering models into negative states has been public and easy to replicate since 2023.

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@JacksunSeers @camhberg Exactly

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@kanair I agree, though I’m still somewhat open to other possibilities.

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@AhQFish @anilkseth @bokuHaruyaHaru @X I think you’re wrong. I suspect these systems have properties akin to consciousness—not because of how they behave, but because of the logic underlying how they work. This is exactly the kind of system I predicted 16 years ago would give rise to states similar to ours (similar!).

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@camhberg @GaryMarcus The work you are doing in this field is highly important these days. Keep up the great work!

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@jon3k The same applies to humans. The arrogance lies in imagining that we are somehow magical or categorically different. We aren’t, we are biological machines.

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@Alpine_Hermit @DrBeaVillarroel I’ve had the same experience on completely fresh systems with new accounts. The only thing it could rely on was days of back-and-forth communication, both with OpenAI and advanced Chinese AIs. No cookies or other tracking data were involved.

[Beatriz Villarroel @DrBeaVillarroel]

A beautiful paper by data analyst Brian Doherty (@BrianDoher37387 ), replicating the Earth’s shadow results and the correlation with nuclear tests.

Link to paper https://t.co/0NtcbJYRZI

[Beatriz Villarroel @DrBeaVillarroel]

I’ve written a short piece for Liberation Times, reflecting on recent developments. Enjoy ☺️

[Beatriz Villarroel @DrBeaVillarroel]

Wonderful news. 🌟💫✨
Our two new VASCO papers are now peer-reviewed, accepted and published — and they reveal some extraordinary things:
- We find statistically significant correlations between short-lived transients on pre-Sputnik sky plates, UFO sightings, and above-ground nuclear tests.
- We show a 22σ deficit of transients inside Earth’s shadow — consistent with a fraction of these events originating from solar reflections from flat, highly reflective surfaces in orbit before the human Space Age began.

Together with our earlier MNRAS paper, these results form a triptych of new methods to investigate UAP using astronomical data. Three independent high-level journals — and three independent peer review processes.

These latest results raise a bold question.
And yes… you know which.

Press release (Stockholm University): https://t.co/zr2nvFUs8b

Scientific Reports: https://t.co/GE7TDo4HyN

PASP: https://t.co/6vnbOIJGqR

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@DrBeaVillarroel Great news! Congrats! ✨

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@DrBeaVillarroel What a time to be watching this field unfold. Incredible work so far @DrBeaVillarroel ✨ Eager to see what future findings reveal! 🔭

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@CommSenseMonkey @Tendar Under reported, yes, but mainly due to the explosive and highly remarkable events in Lebanon happening at the same time I suspect.

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@ElinJonssonSVT @BengtGNils8862 Ni gör ett bra jobb. Bättre reportage än de flesta. Oftast hög kvalitet, något man ser allt mindre av nu för tiden.

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@lewismarkwebb Congratulations!

[Dr Thomas Smith 🔥🌏 @DrTELS]

I *hope* we're not crossing tipping points. We might not know for some time and & we may not know in our lifetimes. But it's very hard to look at these data & not be very worried. The past three days are *likely* to have been the warmest on our planet since records began. [1/3]

[L.J Bergman @LJ_BERGMAN]

@NikaMelkozerova @MooseAlfred Same here. Equally shocked.

[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory @Livermore_Lab]

On Dec. 5, 2022, a team at LLNL's @lasers_llnl conducted the first controlled fusion experiment in history to achieve fusion ignition. Also known as scientific energy breakeven, the experiment produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it.

[Ziyad Al-Aly, MD @zalaly]

Here is the latest from our team in @NatureMedicine

Should you protect yourself from Covid-19 reinfection

Yes!

Reinfection is not benign; it is best to avoid it

by @Bcbowe @Biostayan @zalaly

A thread 🧵

https://t.co/RVENVKRucU

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

I still have trouble understanding how we can be so close to collapse scenarios with such a large fraction of the public blissfully unaware. This of course is why politicians don't feel any real pressure to act on climate. If I seem hard on the news media industry, this is why