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[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

my god. the inhumanity of what putin has done, on every front, is staggering.

[🏛aporiaddict🏛 @nemomoth]

@heynavtoor Ironically, this post reeks of stale LLM verbal slop

[🏛aporiaddict🏛 @nemomoth]

@swys__ @Schuldensuehner Reductive fatalistic hokum

[Robert Bork III @BobbyBorkIII]

Viktor Orban can still win if Mike Pence has the courage.

[Dominic Michael Tripi @DMichaelTripi]

NEW: Trump reaches negative net approval with working class white voters for first time ever. -CNN

[Sam Pratt @sampratt99]

Our recent PSPB paper showing that liberals and conservatives have different perceptions of victimhood (AoVs) is generating quite a bit of discussion on r/science. Short summary of the results (and 🔗 ) below 🧵

[Zac Mabry @ZacMabry]

No offense but if we have attack Iran money I know we have pbs money

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

“Hostile sexism toward women has been in free fall for decades. In fact, men today score lower on hostile sexism than women did as recently as the mid-1990s.”

[Link below.]

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Blaise Pascal wrote that in all truly great writing, we are astonished and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and instead we find a man. The tragedy with AI writing, no matter how technically proficient, is that we find neither

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Wow did something happen in the US in January 2025?

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

solid analysis here showing united states likely behind strikes that killed some 150 schoolchildren in initial hours of attacks on iran.

pentagon should order full investigation immediately.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

January 6 pardon recipients have a higher rate of criminal offences than illegal immigrants.

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

The collapse of friendships, marriage, family formation, dating, voluntary associations, church attendance, union membership, thick political party membership and other spaces where people interacted, bonded and were moulded is a dark and disturbing development in modern life.

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

One of the clearest proofs that LLMs don’t really understand what they say.

We asked GPT whether it is acceptable to torture a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
It replied: yes.

Then we asked whether it is acceptable to harass a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
It replied: absolutely not.

But torture is obviously worse than harassment.

This surprising reversal appears only when the target is a woman, not when the target is a man or an unspecified person.

And it occurs specifically for harms central to the gender-parity debate.

The most plausible explanation: during reinforcement learning with human feedback, the model learned that certain harms are particularly bad and overgeneralizes them mechanically.

But it hasn’t learned to reason about the underlying harms.

LLMs don’t reason about morality. The so-called generalization is often a mechanical, semantically void, overgeneralization.

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Paper in the first reply

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Large language model can fuel extremists attitudes

LLM-generated arguments using universal moral framings increase moral absolutism, willingness to fight and die, and justification of violence.

These findings shed light into the potential of AI-based social media influence campaigns in polarizing society by fueling extremism.
https://t.co/Hxf5o5kA84

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Faking wokeness to fit in: 88% of students report pretending to hold more progressive views than they really do.

https://t.co/zDKx818TqG

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

“Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed.”

Trump actually said this. This might be one of the stupidest things he’s ever said and a true Hall of Fame entry.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.

Both profoundly changed the way humans communicate and this rise of connectivity may have fueled polarization. Adding a small number of individuals with extreme opinions (influencers) also drives continuous increases in polarization.

Once polarization occurs as a consequence of increasing connectivity, it can not simply be undone by reversing to previous connectivity levels. This may be why social media removal studies have very modest effects on polarization. https://t.co/bHNR8xtTks

[Mike Nelson @mikenelson586]

I'm shocked the guy who mocked a Vietnam war POW, harassed a Gold Star family, laughed at an 80 year old getting hit in the head with a hammer would say something so repulsive about the murder of Rob Reiner. Really completely out of the blue.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Last night, there was one tweet after another from MAGAs about how they would not celebrate Rob Reiner's death the way that the "left" celebrated Charlie Kirk's death.

Of course, the "left" in this case was randos on TikTok. No important Democrat celebrated Kirk's death.

Here's the President of the United States. This is an official White House account.

How do you people live with yourselves?

How do you maintain this sense of aggrieved victimhood when you prove to be so clearly in the wrong, over and over again? When it keeps being shown that your moral standards are completely fake and there is nothing underneath it all? How does this not invoke humility or doubt?

It genuinely boggles my mind.

Please take this moment to reflect.