Retired college professor, cancer survivor, lifelong #49ers fan. Rest in Paradise my beautiful Gwendolyn 1954-2017 🕊️
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Here’s a radical idea: Let’s not let Big Tech Oligarchs replace the human race.
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An updated look at quarterback EPA per play inside and outside the pocket after Week 3.
Brock Purdy continues to have a very strong start to the season.
Inside/outside pocket designation via @FTNFantasy
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*taps the sign*
BREAKING
Paramount has reached a settlement with California and other states, paving the way for the media conglomerate, run by David Ellison, to close its acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery before it has to start paying ticking fees to shareholders.
Full Story: bloom.bg/3SXEu3H
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🚨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?
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Kurt Metzger (@kurtmetzger) discusses how there is proof in the Epstein files that Jeffrey Epstein is still alive:
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The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.
1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.
The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.
Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.
And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”
This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.
We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.
The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.
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Charley Crocket says "country music should be taking notes" from Bad Bunny.
"They keep saying I'm a cosplay cowboy but they love a cosplay president. Some folks have been on here calling Muhammad Ali a draft dodger when yall got one in the White House.
"When I was at the Grammys the other night I saw a guy get up and talk about Jesus, and then I saw Bad Bunny get up there and talk like Jesus. The country music establishment should be taking notes on a Puerto Rican American who hasn't forgotten his heritage and brought his culture's traditional music back to the front, showing the world something new with it.
"The President is a grifter who bankrupted 6 casinos. That's pretty extraordinary considering it's a rigged business in favor of the house. The only thing he's good at is filing lawsuits and portraying a successful business man as a reality TV actor.
"Last time I checked Elon Musk was an immigrant from South Africa but there he is standing in the White House buying our elections. Let's deport his ass and send Peter Thiel back with him since they both openly believe in a post democratic society where men of their class are above the law.
"Forgive me if I have a problem with a 34 time convicted felon running this country when I lost the right to vote or own a weapon for years over marijuana. As long as you're hating the oppressed and loving your oppressor you'll never know why our generation is poorer than our parents and grandparents. As a great man once said it's welfare for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.
"If you can sleep at night licking their boots that's between you and yours, but that type of thinking isn't freedom. It's mental slavery. Every single right we have as a people wasn’t handed to us. We had to fight and take it.
"Judge a man by how he treats the poor and those who he views as being able to do nothing for him. Don't forget why Muhammad Ali said 'I am America.' Remember the coal miners of Harlan County, Kentucky. I believe in what we can be. Ride on."
📸: Ryan Vestil
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This is today's New York Times homepage. See if you can spot the sole mention of the files that have sent shock waves throughout the world.
While the topic is receiving extensive coverage in Europe, it appears to be almost absent in nearly all major US media outlets.
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Searching through the Epstein files, and slowly realizing that he was no sideshow, that Russia and the PayPal Mafia were effectively *working for him* is the worst mindfuck I’ve ever experienced.
The Big Reveal is that it was Epstein’s psyop all along.
mind-war.com/p/the-big-revea…
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Today as the Dead faithful celebrated the life of Bob Weir, John Mayer delivered perhaps the only “Ripple” that’s ever made me smile-cry… Highly suggest.😔
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“Not so much (talking) anymore!”
Nick Sirianni after holding on and getting the win here in Buffalo
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What does the #BillHader interaction between #NickReiner have to do with the tragedy and death of #RobReiner and his Wife… ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!
Here’s the thing about the Bill Hader confrontation at that Christmas party — and I want to be careful here because we’re talking about someone who allegedly witnessed Nick Reiner unraveling in real time.
If it wasn’t Hader, it would’ve been someone else. That’s how this works. When someone is in that kind of spiral — the erratic behavior, the chaos, the volatility that comes with addiction and untreated mental illness — they’re looking for friction. They’ll find it. Whoever happened to be standing in the wrong spot at the wrong moment becomes the last person to see them before everything breaks.
And here’s where I want to talk to anyone who’s ever been that person. The one left holding the weight of “what if I’d said something different?” What if I’d been kinder, firmer, more patient? Could I have changed the outcome?
No. You couldn’t.
That’s not dismissive — that’s the brutal truth. When addiction and mental illness are running the show, a stranger at a party isn’t steering that ship. Neither is a friend. Sometimes not even family.
That person was already on their path. And wherever that path was going, they were going to take it — with or without you in the frame.
