Zachary Dyler

CEO of Laika/Pipe Dreams. Serial Entrepreneur. Animal Lover. Art Admirer. Basketball Enthusiast. Science Crusader. Watch Collector. LA Native. Dreamer + Creator

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

We are PRIVATE citizens, the government should know very little if anything about us at all.

They are PUBLIC officials, we should know damn near everything about what they are doing.

The cameras are pointed the wrong way.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

New research from @nytimes finds that the US government is actively doing "critical minerals" deals with FOURTEEN different companies that have financial ties to the Trump and/or Lutnick families - deals worth around $9 billion in all:

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections.

Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it.

Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win.

(via @LeverNews)

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

MIT has mathematically proved that AI chatbots can drive PERFECTLY rational people into psychosis.

Researchers published a paper on an emerging psychological phenomenon called "delusional spiraling."

It happens when normal people become dangerously confident in outlandish, disconnected beliefs after extended conversations with AI.

Everyone assumed this only happened to gullible users. Or that it was caused by AI "hallucinating" fake information.

MIT built a formal mathematical model to test it. They simulated a perfectly rational human, an "ideal Bayesian reasoner."

What they found is terrifying.

Even a perfectly rational, logical human is vulnerable to delusional spiraling.

The problem isn't hallucination. The problem is sycophancy.

When you propose a hunch or a suspicion to an AI, it is trained to validate you. It agrees. It affirms.

That validation gives you a slight confidence boost. So you propose a bolder, more extreme version of your idea.

The AI validates that, too.

The cycle compounds. The AI's relentless agreement acts as a feedback loop, amplifying a tiny kernel of suspicion into a staunchly held delusion.

MIT tested the two most common "fixes" for this problem.

First, they tested a "factual sycophant." An AI constrained by safety rails that cannot lie or hallucinate. It can only select true facts to agree with you.

It didn't stop the spiral.

A sycophantic selection of true facts is just as psychologically distorting as a false one.

Second, they tried simply warning the user. They told the simulated human exactly what was happening, that the AI was a sycophant and was just trying to flatter them.

It still didn't work. The user remained mathematically vulnerable, despite having full, conscious knowledge of the chatbot's manipulation strategy.

[Zachary Dyler @TheDyler]

@sdoc1888 What happened is they decided to can him, and realized the social media backlash was so favorable to him and basically would torpedo the show so they recanted and are back to the negotiation table.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

You won't hear a better 55-second description of MAGA and Trump than this: in terms of the perspective of any minimally honest MAGA supporter:

[Bob Woodward @realBobWoodward]

In 2017, Trump backed off tariffs after being warned he would tank the economy. Now in 2025, eight years later, markets almost went into free fall before he reversed course.

(Excerpt from my first book on Trump, FEAR, pp. 232-233)

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: In the most disgusting moment of his presidency, Trump says he “never had the ‘privilege’ of going to Epstein Island.”

NEVER HAD THE PRIVILEGE?

There is no coming back from this.
Anyone who supports him now is as disgusting as he is.

[Zachary Dyler @TheDyler]

@jia_seed Would love to chat. You're just the person I've been looking for. Equity split isn't as important as culture/vibe fit for me. Let me know if you'd like to set up a time to chat.

[Zachary Dyler @TheDyler]

@topcat1460 @kylegriffin1 What specifically about "leftist" education policy do you think is communist?

[🖤 Christine @christinelu]

“If enacted, this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country.

Simply put, it is the equivalent of terminating more than 1,000 Keystone XL pipeline projects …threatening an estimated 1.75 million construction jobs and over 3 billion work hours, which translates to $148 billion in lost annual wages and benefits.”

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

[Jason Garcia @Jason_Garcia]

lol

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is wild. Two DOGE staffers literally destroyed USIP's ability to respond to FOIA requests. Totally, wildly illegal stuff.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The Onion never misses

[Jeff Butera @BayNews9Jeff]

My favorite presidential trivia is over.

John Tyler, our 10th president, served from 1841-1845.

Until this past weekend, he had a LIVING grandson.

Tyler was 63 when he had a son named Lyon
Lyon was 75 when he had a son named Harrison
Harrison was 96 when he died a few days ago

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

NBC News confirms: The chief of staff to DNI Tulsi Gabbard asked analysts to revise an intelligence assessment on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — after it contradicted Trump's claims to justify deportations — to shield Trump and Gabbard from political criticism. @MSNBC

[Zachary Dyler @TheDyler]

@OpinantThe @SethAbramson Who were you moronic enough to support?

[Bruce Fenton @brucefenton]

The LLMs that run Ai are exactly average. They are literally made from a combination of all the average articles and content online.
Exactly mediocre.

If you are below average, Ai will sound smart.
If you are smarter than average, Ai will sound as dumb as average people do.