These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

Veteran CBS News Producer Says She’s Quitting Because of Political Pressure Mary Walsh had been a key player at the network’s news division since 1982. She left behind a scathing memo that charged Bari Weiss and owner David Ellison with pushing coverage to the right.

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6m is basically eternity.

In light of recent OpenAI news, sadly this thread aged very well…

Seems pretty obvious that the only reason the sticking point would be guardrails is because they want to break the terms on demand.

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In Machines of Loving Grace, I discussed the possibility that authoritarian governments might use powerful Al to surveil or repress their citizens in ways that would be extremely difficult to reform or overthrow. Current autocracies are limited in how repressive they can be by the need to have humans carry out their orders, and humans often have limits in how inhumane they are willing to be. But AI-enabled autocracies would not have such limits.

Dario wrote Adolescence of Technology _during_ his negotiations with the DoW

The essay was a way to explain his thinking to the public and give them time to digest it *before* the DoW clouded the airwaves with disinformation

Why mass surveillance is not merely undemocratic:

the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night

2 min ago Timing of US-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism Tal Shalev By Tal Shalev The timing of the US and Israeli attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism. Ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, worshippers read the specific portion from the Old Testament, known as Zachor. The passage from the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land. The passage is read publicly before Purim to fulfil the mitzvah of remembering Amalek as Israel’s achetypical enemy.

This is what CNN is publishing even before the Ellisons come in

Every single outlet that uncritically recites Israel's self-designation of "preemptive strikes" should be permanently shut down for good. Straight up. Definitionally no such thing as a "preemptive" attack when the country being attacked had no plan nor indication of planning to attack first.

"preemptive strikes" WAR OF AGGRESSION

i come bearing deleted roon tweets

almost every senior person you would want to hire in this industry is rich enough that they don't have to work for you, because they don't have to work for anyone. this leads to weird incentives in that they aren't fighting over static pools of labor but an elastic one where ethics are important.

this is like when fox news does those graphics of "DEMOCRATS' FAR-LEFT AGENDA" and it's all good things

They literally poisoning folks for cash and I’m sure a bunch of people think “oh they’re just gonna poison the minorities over there” and baby you have been bamboozled

Ah the good old days (I think this whole discussion was pretty spot-on)

The Epstein Files contain an accusation that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl, which the FBI deemed credible enough to thoroughly vet and include in their investigation materials on Epstein’s larger pedophilia cabal.

Liver's cheap because there's low demand for it. If everyone started eating it, it would become expensive. And even if everyone loved it, it's only recommended that you eat it once a week, or you risk vitamin A toxicity. Would be nice if the secretary of HEALTH knew that!

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I am so sick of this rhetoric. Politics is inherently divisive!

Yeah man that…that would be crazy

Every time a fascist takes office, they do increasing damage to this country's ability to fight off fascism. Look at the difference between 2016 and 2024.

The fascists are learning. If our leaders won't, they are advocating for eternal fascism.

Another is massively growing a sprawling public/private carceral infrastructure that creates a powerful political constituency for its own self-perpetuation. (Is anyone going to have the stomach to fire tens of thousands of ICE agents?)

There are millions of people who have that stomach. We just need to get them into public office.

Maybe it’s a foolish hope but I think a million people coming to the realization they have to abandon getting information from cable news and find worthwhile outlets might be more impactful than the 12,000 people who will be brainwashed by seeing Benny Johnson have a show on CNN

Yes. And relevant docs for what I’m building.

But I don’t really know since I haven’t tried it myself yet.

I keep seeing charts comparing it sonnet and other open models. But sonnet is for some reason excluded from the charts from the actual coding benchmarks. That has made me a little suspicious that it’s just very benchmaxxed.

This age assurance stuff is moving... alarmingly fast.

Like... it's literally *feels like* world leaders had a watch-a-thon of 1984 and a play-along of Cyberpunk 2077 and went, "wow! These are great ideas!"

You'd think I'm joking, but... I'm not. It really feels like that to me right now.

yes, he basically said that without saying that. probably already in progress

also, i bet there was a fuck ton that was classified and couldn’t be said. i bet the public details probably didn’t cover ANY of the real argument