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Never underestimate the lengths and depths people will go in the name of a salary.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair

As the American Justice system is fundamentally broken now, if Interpol decides to "disappear" Trump to the Hague next time he's in Europe it would be greatly appreciated.

Why do you think Melania started talking about Epstein again when she did?

We are in a really bad situation, of our own making no doubt.

We actually have no idea who's in charge of Iran (the stated ruler has yet to be seen and probably was severely injured in the same blast that killed Khamenei), but it's a pretty good bet that they are even more extreme and hard-line than before.

We've shown that Iran has complete and total control over the global economy via energy markets.

Every other country in the region wants Iran gone. Or to put it in more direct terms, the US kind of needs to "finish the job".

If we back down now, Iran wins, and that may actually be the worst possible situation to end up in.

To everyone who voted for Trump ... YOU VOTED FOR THIS. THANKS.


> To everyone who voted for Trump ... YOU VOTED FOR THIS. THANKS.

You might have not voted for Trump, but you sure agree with him on that "finish the job". So... thanks?

> If we back down now, Iran wins...

How about some radical change and we just let them win and negotiate some better deal for us?


> To everyone who voted for Trump ... YOU VOTED FOR THIS. THANKS.

This conflict was obvious and inevitable (and called out by literally anyone with half a brain) and exactly what every single one of them voted for. Don’t ever let them pretend otherwise.


I DID VOTE FOR ADVANCING AMERICAN INTERESTS, DIDN’T YOU?


Are you expecting "mentally sound behavior" or "strategic coherence" from today's administration?


Why would you go to LinkedIn to play puzzle games? There's thousands of other places to do so.


Folks are getting dangerously attached to [political parties/candidates/news sources/social networks] that always tell them they're right.

It's really nothing new. It takes significant mental energy (a finite resource) to question what you're being told, and to do your own fact checking. Instead people by default gravitate towards echo chambers where they can feel good about being a part of a group bigger than themselves, and can spend their limited energy towards what really matters in their lives.


> It's really nothing new.

I disagree. What's new is that this flattery is individually, personally targeted. The AI user is given the impression that they're having a back-and-forth conversation with a single trusted friend.

You don't have the same personal experience passively consuming political mass media.


Yes it’s final form of the evolution that social media started.

Village idiot used to be found out because no one in the village shared the same wingnut views.

Partisan media gave you two polls of wingnut views to choose for reinforcement.

Social media allowed all village idiots to find each other and reinforce each others shared wingnut views of which there are 1000s to choose from.

Now with LLMs you can have personalized reinforcement of any newly invented wingnut view on the fly. So can get into very specific self radicalization loops especially for the mentally ill.


Reddit? Or this site? Sort of? Some people voted for my comment, that surely means that I'm right about something, rather than them just liking it, right?


The analogy would be that you always get upvoted and never get downvoted, which in my experience is definitely not the case on Reddit or Hacker News.

I would have downvoted your comment, except you can't downvote direct replies on HN. ;-)


Two things can be bad at the same time


don't hate the player, hate the game


Hating the player is a integral part of the game.


The situation is different. Those sources are people. This is a calculator AND we have the opportunity to fix it.


Political parties, social networks, religions. these are all engineered systems. All of them including AI involve people. For starts nobody is going to do the massive amount of work to train a useless AI that is skeptical and cynical. Imaginination, Agreeability (which causes hallucinations) is a feature, not a bug. In humans and in LLMs.


Less different than you might expect.

For the same reason the things listed above are popular may be the reason why the most popular LLM ends up not being the best. People don't tend to buy good things, they very commonly buy the most shiny ones. An LLM that says "you're right" sure seems a lot more shiny than one that says "Mr. Jayd16, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard... Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul"


Something that a lot of tech people, especially in Silicon Valley, seem to want to forget, is that at every level you still have people making decisions. AI is suggesting but someone, somewhere, still has to make the decision to act on that suggestion.

It's still people doing people things.


The immediate concern isn't really fully autonomous systems, it's that the nature and design of recommender/suggestion systems prompt humans to sleepwalk through their responsibilities.


Which is already happening



But ... but her emails!


I mean, yes? You can give whatever weight you want to the whole thing, but the core issue with Hillary Clinton and the emails was that she was storing material on a private server rather than in official infrastructure.

If Patel didn't do such thing here, the breach should only expose personal stuff, if he did, then it's much more of a problem, but either way this is a really clear example of why concern was raised back at the time.


That's the trick, it's always been about control. No-one in such positions actually cares about the children.


The adult entertainment industry cared decades ago [0]. Their solution is simple: sites send the RTA meta tag if applicable, browsers in accounts configured by guardians as "children" look for it. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Sites_Advocatin...

[1] https://www.rtalabel.org/


I think the truth is closer to them being tightly bound to one another over their shared "love" of children. Epstein bouncing around the academic community was the tip of an iceberg. Imagine the reputation laundering that goes on with all of these "for the children" NGOs.


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