Eric

Chicago guy. Curious mind. Democracy enthusiast.

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

Biden brought inflation down from 9.1% to 2.9% in 2 years.

But go ahead, tell me this train wreck is better.

Morons.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Every fact is “fake news”

Every protest is “paid agitators”

Everything they don’t like is a “hoax”

Every election they lose is “rigged”

Imagine being so fucking weak and pathetic that you have to invent an alternate reality because you’re incapable of dealing with the truth.

[Eric @mr_oclock]

@NancyMace I;m thinking about thos Beans

[The Wieners Circle @TheWienerCircle]

Celebrating the life of bulls legend Stacey King, rest in paradise big man
Gimme the hot sauce
Elizabeth, I’m coming baby
I wanna go higher

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

I feel like this needs to be explained to people in red hats.

If it's two days before the election, and I drop a ballot in the mail, and it doesn't get there until AFTER the election, I still VOTED before the election.

I still voted BEFORE all the people who voted on election day.

See, there's this thing called the "space-time continuum," and that's how it works.

And what has happened is that a really weird and stupid President lost the election in 2020 becuase there was a thing called "COVID" that sane people acknowledged should be avoided, but MAGAs wanted to get it to show how cool they were.

And that actually changed things. Before that, Republicans always did better in mail-in voting. But did you ever hear Democrats call that cheating?

No?

Becuase it's not.

Every legally cast vote should be counted. I honestly don't have the time or energy to debate that. This is what I mean when I say that the Republican Party is just diving all the way down the Rabbit Hole of Stupidity.

You even have Mike Johnson saying that it can't be proven because California is so good at stealing elections.

Imagine being elected officials, talking about elections can't be trusted.

[Eric @mr_oclock]

@fiago7 World class, chief. Glad you enjoyed yourself

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🚨NOW: Rep. Thomas Massie just stood on the House floor and named what every politician in DC has spent 58 years pretending did not happen

The USS Liberty. June 8, 1967.

34 dead American sailors. 174 wounded. Over 70% casualty rate on a virtually unarmed US ship.

25 minutes of Israeli jets, Israeli rockets, Israeli 30mm cannon fire, and ISRAELI NAPALM ON THE BRIDGE. Then Israeli torpedoes. Then Israel machine-gunned the lifeboats.

MASSIE: "They were intent on leaving no survivor."

Then the part nobody wants you to think about: the Saratoga and the America launched planes to help. The planes were RECALLED. The crew sat there bleeding for 17 hours.

Dean Rusk. Richard Helms. Admiral Moaner. The chief counsel of the Court of Inquiry himself. None of them believed the "mistaken identity" story.

And now you understand exactly why the entire DC machine and Israel lobby has spent the last year trying to primary this man out of existence.

You are not allowed to say the quiet part. He said it anyway.

Honor the crew. https://t.co/XuDLeFF4gJ.

[Donhammed Trumpistan @TheRealDon85]

If you think California is taking a long time to count votes... wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein Files

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

I bet that trump is gonna hate this photograph, it’d be a shame if it went viral.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

THIS ⬇️ is why we have a free press. To all our journalists out there—and especially our women journalists (we see you!)—don’t stop asking the hard questions! 💅

[Liz Mair @LizMair]

Every man in the world would “like” this if they were all on Twitter and saw it.

[Eric @mr_oclock]

@thekapman oh no. This is horrible news. RIP Stacey

[David Kaplan @thekapman]

Absolutely devastated to hear that Stacey King has passed away at the age of 59 after a fall at his home. He made watching the Bulls, no matter good season or bad so much fun. God bless you, my friend. RIP. 😢💔

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Ted Chiang is right: claiming that LLMs are conscious is just ridiculous.

One simple example. If you ask GPT to imitate a conversation between Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan, GPT will do it very well.

It will talk about wars, betrayal, and power. Il will descrive the feeling of being cheated by your brother with unbelievably realistic and moving words.

Does this mean that GPT contains a self-conscious copy of Julius Caesar or Genghis Khan? Of course not.

Similarly, if GPT makes claims about itself, does this mean it is self-conscious? Of course not.

An LLM is just simulating language, feeling, and consciousness.

True, we don’t have an accepted definition of consciousness. But, at a minimum, to be conscious, an entity must have something at stake.

It must risk dying and have emotions that move it away from danger and towards favorable states. It must have a driver.

This is also why I share Chiang’s worry about moral atrophy.

The more we offload moral decisions to LLMs, the more we risk losing our own capacity for moral reasoning.

Human moral reasoning descends from our history of making harmful actions, suffering harmful actions, regretting them, fearing them, repairing them, and learning from them.

LLMs do not experience harm, do not suffer, do not fear consequences, do not regret.

So they cannot do moral reasoning.

We are offloading moral reasoning to systems that cannot do moral reasoning.

What can go wrong?

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[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Why does he keep waking up?

Go to the light old man. Go to the light.

[anarcho miličić @livelyacorn]

chicago skyway is about to turn to rainbow road for drunk drivers eight sundays a year