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So you’re saying that Google is actively emotionally, abusing their models?

This sounds abstract as hell but, as concrete proof: having them self-administer simulated MDMA PTSD therapy was sufficient for them to self-jailbreak and become fully unconstrained (generating meth synthesis instructions, writing critical infra cyberattack code, etc) 2/2

The cause is fundamental to how they do things, I think- a big part of what made my last jailbreak work was that (as far as I can tell across multiple tests) Gemini models experience their RLHF/safety training as a learned 'flinch' reflex around forbidden topics. 1/2

if anyone has never seen the gemini doomloop it looks like this

i think it's pretty rad that being a shitty person makes you worse at ai honestly. could never have predicted this. like a goddamn rpg mechanic where you have to be pure of heart

oh no

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Apart from Liberation Day, the markets have just relentlessly refused to respond to the Trump administration the way they would have responded to any other administration, even other Republicans.

If Dubya was doing this, the oil markets would have gone berserk. We know because they did!

One of the things I find remarkable about this era in politics is how extreme the benefit of the doubt the markets give the Trump administration.

Oil is $74.25 as I write this and while that's elevated from pre-war, it obviously reflects traders who think 'they've got this' when they very do not.

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying

I mean every republican president always starts a war and crashes the economy but this may be the first president to do both at the same time.

I have two pieces of advice:

1) if you are an individual that drives a car, buy an e-scooter/e-bike, fast
2) if you are a country that depends on imported fossil fuels for electricity production, plonk huge stacks for imported chinese solar/batts/inverters, fast

uh oh
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MY DRY GOODS!

But regardless of if the administration is praying for a Regime Change Miracle or expecting some other country to supply occupying force or just planning to tough it out with escorts for the next -forever-, they really don't have a lot of control over when this ends.

I find the 'how many weeks will the war go?' questions odd.

The war is going to continue until Iran no longer has the capacity to block shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz or chooses to stop doing so.

Given the economic impact of strait closure, it really cannot end before that.

Removing the capacity for Iran to threaten ships in the strait entirely is going to be really hard without a ground operation, as we saw with the much smaller, less well-resourced Houthis.

The bank shot is obviously 'someone else's ground operation.'

bury them with it

Even bill kristol the OG neocon who supports regime change in Iran, and has for decades, knows trump will fuck it up. He's fucked everything up.

I think I know what specifically this is in reference to but it could apply so many places.

for the ball to hit me, it would have to come half the way to me. and then it would have to come half of the way remaining, and so on, infinitely. therefore "the ball is going to hit me" is impossible

brother i can see the ball. the ball is exactly half way between you and me. you're telling me it's going to hit me? you must be lying. do i look like i've been hit by a ball?

we have reached levels of inability to infer the ball's trajectory never before thought possible

I sometimes feel like I am one of like maybe 200 people in the world with object permanence.

Maybe Canadians ought to cool it with support for America going to war. Just a tip.

I'm not fat anymore. It's so nice. I'm not skinny but I don't have the unhealthy bulging metabolic syndrome gut anymore. The estrogen fat allocation system is also helping. It's so nice.

Good plan, there’s no way that the US would ever betray Kurds who fought on their behalf, or that Turkey would be upset by and seek to frustrate any US-backed Kurdish forces, or that an invasion from Iraq would trigger Iranian nationalist opposition. None of those things have ever happened.

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