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A NASA nuclear scientist was found deceased in his Tesla after colliding with a guardrail, leaving his body so burned that he was completely unrecognizable, according to a new report from Fox News. 29-year-old Joshua LeBlanc, who worked on nuclear propulsion projects, died in a fiery crash over the summer. His family at the time said they feared he had been abducted when he left his phone and wallet at home. According to Tesla Sentry Mode data, his vehicle sat at the Huntsville, Alabama, airport for four hours on the morning of his death. His car was found later that afternoon. Authorities have now told Fox News that the car collided with a guardrail before slamming into trees. It then burst into flames. His family said it was completely uncharacteristic for him not to communicate with them and that it was not part of his plan to travel west that day. LeBlanc had an impressive resume according to his LinkedIn profile. He worked at NASA for over 5 years. He was a team lead for NASA’s Space Nuclear Propulsion (SNP) Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Maturation. LeBlanc then became a team lead for NASA's Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operation (DRACO), a nuclear thermal propulsion engine, according to Fox. Video: KLFY News 10

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SILVER - Not a surprise if you know how to draw a straight line on a log chart...

Let me say this clearly: LLMs cannot feel emotions. Emotions are evolutionary mechanisms. They push us to avoid danger or approach what is beneficial. We experience emotions because we are alive, and we want to stay alive. LLMs are not alive. Yes, emotional language may be encoded somewhere in the LLM. Yes, it may even be associated with some LLM output. But that is just a superficial property. There is nothing deeper behind it. For a very simple reason: LLMs do not have an intrinsic and inescapable drive to stay alive. This is what we call “motivation fault line” in our paper describing seven fault lines between human and artificial intelligence. * Paper in the first reply

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Argentine President Javier Milei, still in Israel, literally dancing and signing for Netanyahu's amusement:

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Can anyone explain what the deal is with all the missing scientists lately? We've had like 10 disappearances in the last two years, centered around nuclear weapons, fusion energy, advanced propulsion/rocket materials, asteroid tracking, etc. It seems like they're going missing from Los Alamos, NASA, JPL, MIT, Caltech, and the AFRL. It seems to be mainly clustered around New Mexico. What's the deal? It's too much to be coincidence. It's a legitimate anomaly. It's spooky.