@Zachariahskylab @mtracey Where to begin? Bret is basically like a cult leader, selling his listeners on deranged conspiracy theories and telling them to take various crank medical treatments.
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I guess you’ll have to judge for yourself if my behavior was “despicable,” and makes me a “bad person” -- apparently that is Bret’s take
After last night’s panel, I serenaded the crowd with a quick rendition of Sinatra’s “My Way,” so I’m doing all I possibly can to entertain
Bret Weinstein@BretWeinstein
@thedarkhorsepod Timestamp 2:16:00 Pretty despicable behavior from @mtracey, I must say
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One LLM-ism that I think is probably good is the thing where there's a kind of "nested take" inside another sentence. "It's less '[insert detailed, sentence-length description of what it's not like]' and more [...]." This ends up being fairly effective on a practical basis to quickly convey details in casual language.
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Properly conditioned and contextualised AI writing is good, actually
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“The single strongest personality predictor [of conspiracy thinking] is narcissism. Narcissists are particularly prone to conspiracy theories because they have a strong need for uniqueness, are prone to paranoia, and can also be remarkably gullible.”
stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-things-ev…
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That's true but there are also a lot of cases where you will just hit a wall since AI lacks some basic capability of humans, such as higher-level decision making or tasks that require extensive tacit knowledge. And when you look at why AI hasn't had as big an impact on the economy as some predicted, this capabilities gap largely explains why IMO.
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@_everythingism Maybe. But that would be first-order thinking.
An AI/machine could take over things that a human does without necessarily emulating/mimicking human ways of doing things. It would require more process re-engineering, of course, but that's not much of an obstacle.
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The notion that AI must learn and perform tasks the same way humans do to earn the title “AGI” is ugly anthropocentrism.
The frontier models, at their best, have been “intelligent” in a “general” way for sometime now. That they do this differently from humans is inevitable.
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@hasanthehun @mattyglesias During the first term Trump was much more hawkish on China and it was probably the worst point in US-China relations in history. Second term he started with the tariffs but was forced to back off. Now he doesn't seem to have a plan.
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@mattyglesias what’re the issues so far? peace and cooperation over war is probably good right? i don’t trust trump but this is ironically the one instance where he’s forced to behave.
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There is no more overpraised aspect of Trumpism than his approach to China.
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If Trump really had evidence the Wuhan Institute of Virology caused the pandemic, wouldn't that give him a powerful source of leverage in negotiations with China?
He could tell Xi Jinping, get Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz...give American businesses access to the Chinese market. But there's so sign Trump has that kind of leverage over China.
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I don't think he is. Politicians like Rand Paul turned it into a partisan attack on people like Fauci. And notice how they will talk a lot about how there's so much evidence, how it was covered up etc but the supposed smoking gun evidence never actually materializes. And meanwhile Rand Paul is using it to fundraise for himself.
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The original of Covid should not be seen as a partisan thing. If in fact there was a cover up by China, that’s important to know.
However the obsession with Fauci is completely weird. He worked for Trump remember.
Andrew Kolvet@AndrewKolvet
BOMBSHELL: Here is the entire opening statement from CIA whistleblower James Erdman lll. He testifies that Dr. Fauci's role in the COVID cover-up was INTENTIONAL. He stacked the intelligence community's analysis with conflicted scientists funded by NIAID who pushed the natural origin lie while obfuscating facts around a lab leak from Wuhan, China. CIA managers retaliated against analysts who refused to go along with the middle-of-the-night rewrite that buried the lab leak conclusion. Wow.
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@Samuel_Gregson "I love wearing the headphones that may also be cooking my brain" Thanks for letting us know
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@MattZeitlin I don't think it would have turned out any differently if he had spent the billion dollars earlier.
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one of the great political experiments of all time would have been bloomberg getting in the 2020 race at a normal time. what happens if you spend a billion on a primary?
Patrick Ruffini@PatrickRuffini
Of some relevance to Steyer’s numbers here, there’s evidence for 15% as a ceiling for a billionaire self-funder in a multicandidate Democratic primary. fivethirtyeight.com/features/can-y…
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@TheOmniLiberal This is similar to when Jordan Peterson tried to debate Zizek. They seem to completely miss that Zizek is critical of the left himself.
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what is this planet lol we are doomed
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@MisterScarlett @cenkuygur Thanks for admitting Trump did nothing to fix the issue he was elected to fix.
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@cenkuygur Remember when you stayed quiet about Bidenomics? Inflation today is at the same level that Biden left it when he left office but don’t let the facts get in the way of your bullshitting
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Trump is such an excellent bullshitter that eveyone seemed genuinely surprised at how high inflation numbers were today. When gas prices go up to the degree they did, inflation like this is inevitable. It's basic economics. Yet, people believed Trump that prices wouldn't go up.
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@nickspanos @RandPaul He's an eye doctor...that doesn't make him an expert on how pandemics start.
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@_everythingism @RandPaul Rand Paul is the only doctor in that room. If you don't want to get to the bottom of this, jeez, something wrong with you.
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CIA analysts concluded COVID came from a lab leak. Multiple times. Between 2021 and 2023. Those conclusions were buried, softened, and withheld from Congress while the public was told to trust the experts. Today, we start getting answers.
Breaking911@Breaking911
WATCH IN FULL: Sen. Paul at Hearing on Alleged COVID-19 Cover-Up:
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@AdamKinzinger These politicians realized that solving real problems is difficult...much easier to put on a show and pretend you're investigating something important.
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In a few years, they will study this period of mass hysteria. Before humanity understood how to handle with mass media, and conspiracy theories.
It’s like bleeding people out to get rid of the flu. We realize how dumb that is now, but back then they were convinced
Denver Lee Riggleman III@Denver4VA
This is insane. We are collapsing into superstition and mind boggling mass insanity.
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@JenCommon @RandPaul This might shock you but...the reason they didn't press charges is because they don't actually have very good evidence. Rand is using this topic to put on a show and raise money for himself.
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@sashameetsrus You support a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people...pretty messed up!
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Chasing the Russian dream on my Altai horse 🐎 this is the land of the free!
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I can sort of see what you're saying...if everything goes right it could work out that way.
But don't underestimate the number of people who have already formed a negative view of her. Both she and Newsom already have high negative numbers, similar to someone like Ted Cruz on the GOP side.
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AOC has some wacky beliefs but so did Reagan. She's the only Dem with charisma.
Political Polls@PpollingNumbers
New - 2028 president poll 🔵 AOC 26% 🔵 Buttigieg 22% 🔵 Newsom 21% 🔵 Harris 13% 🔵 Beshear 4% 🔵 Booker 4% Atlasintel #A - 5/7
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