Sam Liddicott

@waitbutwhy Only one choice involves people having to die if there isn't sufficient agreement. Why would anybody choose that?

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

If everyone pushes red then everyone survives. If everyone pushes blue then everyone survives. One choice doesn't involve you dying when other people don't agree with you.

@heynavtoor They have no pride or shame to regulate them, they have no social standing, they aren't damaged by "brown-noser" appelations

🚨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?

@SKODAUK In any case the fee is unreasonably high (given the fault) to find out if I'm covered under warranty, as is "all day". Is this fault covered under warranty? Dunno, it will take all day and £160 to find out, sir!

I wasn't informed of the warranty diagnostic fee when I bought the car with the extended warranty and I wasn't ever provided with a copy of the extended warranty terms.

@SKODAUK here's a revolutionary idea for customer service: An extended warranty includes being told that an item is not covered by the extended warranty without £160 diagnostic charge. I have to play roulette to benefit from the warranty. Do you see what is wrong with this?

@BritishYusuf @Telegraph Are you quite sure it was "a" country when Britain colonised?

@Telegraph Colonism is what happened to India for nearly two centuries. No comparison. It used to be one of the richest country in the world, when Britain finished with it, it didn't have much left. UK didn't even pay back money India lent during the 2 World Wars.

🗣️ 'This time last year, Sir Keir Starmer declared that he was “very proud” of Britain’s history of free speech. It seems that his enthusiasm has its limits,' writes Michael Deacon. Read more here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/1…

@BenLiddicott That was obviously a port-kocking type opportunity

using Claude Opus Me: :-) you are good at this! Claude: (thinks for 6 minutes)

@BenLiddicott If we were all the same they would only need to be one of us - and they sure wouldn't let it be me

What totalitarians hate in Jews is what I love about them. They won't conform: They won't be homogenized and processed into ideal people. They insist on being Jews, on keeping the covenant I insist on being me, I won't conform. And I love that about Jews.

@Jamesy_boy @BenLiddicott @PMarlowe1939 cos?

There should be a term for brother-in-law’s wife/sister-in-law’s husband.

@Keir_Starmer Chagos. Rape Gangs. Free Speech. It's you that's making things tough.

I know things are tough right now, and I know people are feeling the pressure. That’s why my priority is to tackle the cost of living. Our Warm Homes Plan will upgrade millions of homes across the country with proper insulation to lower bills and help with the cost of living.

@DanielJHannan Why are you measuring productivity using the overcrowding of commuter trains? It's a more accurate measure of dehumanization than anything else.

@DennisShoup1 @ScottGreenfield That's a very slippery slope. Did you first estimate how much closer that gets you to being unpersoned by those who find you appalling? Did you estimate the destabilising costs upon society of such unpersoning? You didn't. Your way at any cost.

@ScottGreenfield No decent person would sign on to do that job. They should be basically unpersoned.

Enforce the law. Do it without violating the Constitution or other laws. Do it without acting like thugs or needlessly harming or killing others. This shouldn't need to be explained.

@eurofounder A properly functioning society does not tax gifts, rather than being proud to do so.

Witnessed something incredible at the Amsterdam train station yesterday Fat and loud American tourist was trying to buy a water bottle for €4.50 Threw a €5 bill on the counter and started walking away ""Keep the change man" said in a typical annoying Californian accent "We don't do tips here. This isn't America" cashier responded The American tried to leave again but luckily security blocked the exit "You didn't get your receipt for tax purposes" "What?" Store manager appeared with a form "Did you attempt to give our cashier extra money?" "That's unreported income. He has to declare it now. Pay social contributions. It becomes €0.24 after tax" The American was baffled "Bro but in the US—" "In the US, workers beg for tips because they're underpaid. Here, we pay living wages" manager swiftly interrupted him They made him take his €0.50 back and quickly filed an incident report for "attempted tax circumvention" This is what a properly functioning society looks like

@BenLiddicott Talk about it some more

It's crazy that people have seen individual atoms with the naked eye. Nobody talks about this.

5 de-merits for @Lenovo for being so slack and lazy. @HP are even worse. @Dell always has good Linux support out of the box. Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted & fulfilled share.google/0diMCp30E3SFwM…