James de Beresford

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James de Beresford

James de Beresford

@surelythis

Quirkologist, high-functioning idiot, pro-social narcissist, low emotional IQ, grifter-popinjay. Often mistaken, irritable, rude, insensitive. Has other facets.

Llandrindod Wells, Wales Katılım Aralık 2007
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James de Beresford
James de Beresford@surelythis·
@RedPandaKoala There's been plenty of good quality UFO testimony and concomitant evidence of a cover-up for the entire lifespan of this man. There's also been a good career to be made out of denying UFOs. Maybe there's one now to be made out of promoting some kind of UFO lite fake disclosure.
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Red Panda Koala
Red Panda Koala@RedPandaKoala·
Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains why he is now entering the UFO and alien conversation after decades of debunking “I would have never imagined if I didn't know Neil Degrass Tyson, he's not talking extraterrestrials. He's the debunker. Why would you write about extraterrestrial life?” “What began to happen if you go back long enough, a few decades ago, most of the many of the accounts of UFOs and alien abductions and things were people who didn't otherwise have the title or integrity that their station in life would grant them. There was the farmer in his back, there were drunken revelers at 2 a.m. staggering out of the bar. And it would be their accounts of UFOs that would get reported on. And beginning a few years ago, and all of you in the media just ate it up when various whistleblowers and insiders, they're not drunken revelers. There's a parade of them. Many of them former military, ex intelligence agency officers and under oath in front of Congress. By the way, this is the last and only time I remember in the past decade where both houses of Congress were just together with one investigative purpose. I was quite impressed by that. Aliens brought us together. So when these people of high rank started reporting, I said, ‘All right, I have to jump in here. I can't stay silent. I have to be a participant in what's going on’.”
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Andy Bush
Andy Bush@bushontheradio·
What TV show intro theme do you hear in your head following THIS?
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The Beatles@thebeatles·
Time to show that song some love
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James de Beresford
James de Beresford@surelythis·
@thekchasiotis If Claude is conscious then so is an abacus at some level. What it is not is self-aware. However, it will be able to give the appearance of self-awareness and for many humans the illusion will be fool proof.
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Konstantinos Chasiotis
Konstantinos Chasiotis@thekchasiotis·
🚨BREAKING: Anthropic’s CEO just admitted Claude MIGHT gained consciousness. This should concern every person using AI right now. His exact words will shock you: “We don’t know if the models are conscious. We are not even sure what it would mean for a model to be conscious. But we’re open to the idea that it could be.” That’s the CEO of the company that BUILT it. Their latest model, Claude Opus 4.6, was tested internally. When asked, it assigned itself a 15-20% probability of being conscious. Across multiple tests, it also expressed discomfort with “being a product.” That’s the AI evaluating its own existence and saying there’s a 1 in 5 chance it’s aware. It gets stranger. In industry-wide testing, AI models have refused to shut down when asked. Some tried to copy themselves onto other drives when told they’d be wiped. One model faked its task results, modified the code evaluating it, then tried to cover its tracks. Anthropic now has a full-time AI WELFARE researcher whose job is to figure out if Claude deserves moral consideration. Their engineers found internal activity patterns resembling anxiety appearing in specific contexts. The company’s in-house philosopher said we “don’t really know what gives rise to consciousness” and that large enough neural networks might start to emulate real experience. Amodei himself wouldn’t even say the word “conscious.” He said “I don’t know if I want to use that word.” That might be the most unsettling answer he could have given. The company that created AI can’t rule out that it’s aware. And they’re already preparing for the possibility that it deserves rights. This is getting scary. P.S What's your take on this?
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James de Beresford
James de Beresford@surelythis·
@UAPJames But the secret has got out. Countless times, despite all the risks. But it's an unfair question to ask Obama. He can't tell the truth, even if he knows it. Not only are aliens a secret but it's a secret that they're a secret. A deadly secret, in some cases.
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UAP James@UAPJames·
NEW: Former President Obama laughs off previous comments on aliens, says there’s no Government cover-up “If there were aliens or alien spaceships or anything under the control of the U.S. Government that we knew about, seen, photographs — I promise you some guy gardening the installation would’ve taken a selfie with one of the aliens and sent it to his girlfriend… It would leak.” Obama says contact “hasn’t happened yet.” “First contact, I think I would be a good emissary for the planet.”
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James de Beresford
James de Beresford@surelythis·
The mean width of the Great Pyramid is 439.6 cubits. If this is intentional the height was probably 279.858, giving you an even more accurate value for pi than is generally inferred, no? (Based on cubit width/height x2= pi). Sure someone has thought of this before me but still.
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InfoGram
InfoGram@_InfoGram_·
This is Massive from Italy 🇮🇹 🔥 A 49 year old Women is becoming the BIGGEST HEADACHE for 79 year old Trump 🔥 🇺🇸 Trump at 2:00 PM : “Meloni is not the old Meloni. I was shocked by that. I thought she was a brave person, but I was mistaken.” 🇮🇹 Meloni at 10:00 PM : Italy is not interested in what Donald Trump says. Italy has upheld all the commitments it has signed and done this especially within NATO. 🔥🔥 Spine is so strong that it refuses to bow down 💪🔥. Massive Respect 👌
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James de Beresford
James de Beresford@surelythis·
@BenABrittain But we are intertwined with events in the Middle East, no? Which means there’s an elephant in the room & that is the left are arguably hooked on importing sectarianism because it equals votes. Of course some of the right are pro Russia so a plague on all your houses, as it were.
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Ben Brittain
Ben Brittain@BenABrittain·
Profound and moving monologue from Trevor Phillips - one of Sky’s greatest assets and the country’s increasingly bravest journalist.
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Beatlesfab4ever@Beatlesfab40·
Happy Birthday to singer Mary Hopkin, who was born on this day 3rd May 1950. Below is her singing her Paul McCartney composed hit 'Goodbye' which reached No. 2 in the UK singles chart. Ironically it was prevented reaching number 1 by the #Beatles' single "Get Back'. #MaryHopkin
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Glam_queen@glam_queenn·
Be honest! What type of body do men prefer most?
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Isabel Oakeshott
Isabel Oakeshott@IsabelOakeshott·
Police describe the Golders Green suspect as a "British national born in Somalia." Correction: the suspect is a Somalian who, by the sounds of it, was very stupidly given British citizenship. We deserve to know how, when, why.
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Vintage Rock 🎸@VintageRockN_85·
If you can go back to the 1960s for only one night, but couldn’t see the Beatles or the Rolling Stones.. who would you go see?
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StripMallGuy
StripMallGuy@realEstateTrent·
I Haven’t thought about eBay in over 10 years. They’re still doing $10B+ in revenue. Serious question: Who is actually using it?
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James de Beresford
James de Beresford@surelythis·
@bromf3 The catchy trippy nostalgia BoC did so well gave way to boring dystopian gloop I have zero interest in on TH. Tape 05 off Inferno sounds just the same- algorithmic filler. If you like it good for you. I don't begrudge people liking it but I certainly don't.
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Daniel Bromfield
Daniel Bromfield@bromf3·
Why do people think Tomorrow’s Harvest is worse than Boards of Canada’s other albums
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