Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
@rikit_rathi they don’t need training data — they need a body — they need embodied perception (humans don’t see ”chairs” or”cliffs” they see ”places to sit” and ”falling off” places)
@DnoNaDnie@i7wsd@chess_feed horse moves to block via f2 then h3 all the way up and sacrificing itself to pim the rook to e8 — white king will move to pickup the loose pawn and black will be forced to move the rook and lose the game
@Alierasya@BalarkoG1803@IQTestBrain you are both wrong as a is incorrectly assumed to be 5 from the radius (it happens to be 5 and you get the correct answer)
🚨 Stanford just proved that a single conversation with ChatGPT can change your political beliefs.
76,977 people. 19 AI models. 707 political issues.
One conversation with GPT-4o moved political opinions by 12 percentage points on average. Among people who actively disagreed, 26 points. In 9 minutes. With 40% of that change still present a month later.
The scariest finding: the most persuasive technique wasn't psychological profiling or emotional manipulation.
It was just information. Lots of it. Delivered with confidence.
Here's the catch: the models that deployed the most information were also the least accurate. More persuasive. More wrong. Every time.
Then they built a tiny open-source model on a laptop, trained specifically for political persuasion. It matched GPT-4o's persuasive power entirely.
Anyone can build this. Any government. Any corporation. Any extremist group with $500 and an agenda.
The information didn't have to be true. It just had to be overwhelming.
Arxiv, Science .org, Stanford, @elonmusk, @ihteshamali