Richard

retweets do not mean anything other than I find them interesting not and endorsement.

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

David Attenborough narrates the Gaza Flotilla activists getting absolutely humbled at a Spanish airport ✈️🦍🇪🇸

Entitled rodents meet Spanish security mammals.

Nature is healing.

Enjoy the documentary. 📺

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Mike Myers as Mick Jagger and Mick Jagger as Keith Richards has to be one of all-time great Weekend Update bits 😂 (1993)

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York.
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, surprised, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed.

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

@ChrisMurphyCT A reminder of what I exclusively reported in 2020. You later admitted my reporting was correct.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

I am grateful to Pope Leo for saying this. While the media narrative constantly gins up conflict–and yes, real disagreements have happened and will happen–the reality is often much more complicated.

Pope Leo preaches the gospel, as he should, and that will inevitably mean he offers his opinions on the moral issues of the day. The President–and the entire administration–work to apply those moral principles in a messy world.

He will be in our prayers, and I hope that we'll be in his.

[Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel]

If you're heading to #RecordStoreDay this Saturday for the 12” zoetrope picture disc of Sledgehammer, here’s what you need to know.

[Cameron Schwartz @nyoomtm]

SLS vs. Saturn V, a real time comparison.

Saw a comparison yesterday using my video on the left at 50% speed. Here's a proper comparison with both rockets launching at their real speeds.

You'll notice SLS is significantly faster off the pad because of the dual massive SRBs!

[Jeff Piotrowski @Jeff_Piotrowski]

Breaking Weather: The OTUS Project team first ever 360 drone video inside of the Wyoming IA tornado today! Contact me via DM to license the footage. #iawx #WyomingTornado

[Kendall Baker @kendallbaker]

My cousin captured Artemis takeoff from his flight. So cool

📸: @radddd44

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

The odds of being attacked by a kangaroo after parachuting down are low, but not zero. 😂

[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?

[Richard @richardlav]

Love this.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: San Francisco police trap 85 bicyclists on an offramp who were seen taking over the road, swerving around cars, & riding the wrong direction.

The bike gang tried turning around after they were blocked on the ramp by SFPD & CHP, but quickly realized they were trapped.

All of the bikes were confiscated.

This is amazing.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

The greatest moment in global cultural exchange ever

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Let me help rephrase for you Bernie.

Need a loan for college so you can party for a semester and drop out? Taxpayers will loan you money for it.

Need an SBA loan for your business ? Taxpayers will guarantee it.

For a house ? Taxpayers will guarantee it. And local gov will give you money for your first down payment !

Get sick or are in an accident and you can’t afford your deductible, insurance company denied prescribed care or are uninsured ?

You are on your own 😤

Let me add Bernie, the one debt not a single one of us will ever pay off till the day we die ? Our health insurance premiums

And before you go in and on about single payer, ask @claudeai to take a look at your proposed Single Payer legislation.

You want the Sec of HHS to run it. You can’t have a political appointee run an apolitical position

And you expect every provider and doctor to accept whatever rate is set by Medicare. Big hospitals don’t know their costs. They couldn’t do a BOM for any procedure. They have negligible transparency.

If they don’t know their costs, and you don’t know their costs, how is it possible for taxpayers, caregivers and patients to get a fair deal ?

And the concept of “every other country does it “ ignores the fact that they all converted decades and decades ago, long before you and your peers allowed the extreme vertical integration we face now.

Which leads to the question. @BernieSanders , why have you not advocated for the Break Up Big Medicine Bill ?

[Richard @richardlav]

@ericmmatheny @grok do you know who this is?

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

This is why Anne Hathaway is the best.

[Richard @richardlav]

@Ike_Saul @WeCanShootToo That was a good dissent. Most of the points were some derivative of if it isn’t permanent why do anything? If we should or should not is separate but you could make that argument about everything. “Why try and take guns away from bad guys they will just get another.”

[Richard @richardlav]

@Ike_Saul All I have heard is Congress notification. Nothing useful, different or anything