@JamesSurowiecki One immediate concern with removing the EC is that the presidential election would have to be fully federalized, as any state could choose to sway the election by stuffing the ballots.
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@therealnche
Vibes enjoyer | Trump-pilled | Post-Nietzschean
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There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.
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He doesn't know what incurable means...
evan loves worf@esjesjesj
What they did is protect people and themselves from getting an incurable virus that was killing thousands of people a day
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@esjesjesj COVID was not incurable. Idiocy, however, is almost always terminal
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What they did is protect people and themselves from getting an incurable virus that was killing thousands of people a day
Dustin Grage@GrageDustin
This photo still infuriates me every time. Never forget what they did.
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@chillywillers Depends on the type of slavery, tbh. Living like the swineherd in the Odyssey doesn't seem that bad
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Would you trade your tax obligations for a month of actual slavery each year?
No?
Then it’s not the same.
Alice Smith@TheAliceSmith
Slavery is just taxation at 100%.
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@xai @elonmusk
Grok could use some fine tuning when it comes to understanding myths:
grok.com/share/c2hhcmQt…
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@OCyberSiren @MarioNawfal Grok, and LLMs generally, are great for getting the advice the average person would give if they had full access to the internet. You must always recognize that your own experience trumps the platitudes of the masses.
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AI is not for the weak-minded. I spent hours arguing with Grok on a recommended approach to a career decision. I ignored Grok’s advice and went with my intuition. My approach proved right, and when I shared it, Grok relented and agreed I knew better. These things are not omniscient. Grok’s advice could have cost me an opportunity.
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🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”
You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.
The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.
Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.
Source: @heynavtoor
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨 Stanford just proved that a single conversation with ChatGPT can change your political beliefs. 76,977 people. 19 AI models. 707 political issues. One conversation with GPT-4o moved political opinions by 12 percentage points on average. Among people who actively disagreed, 26 points. In 9 minutes. With 40% of that change still present a month later. The scariest finding: the most persuasive technique wasn't psychological profiling or emotional manipulation. It was just information. Lots of it. Delivered with confidence. Here's the catch: the models that deployed the most information were also the least accurate. More persuasive. More wrong. Every time. Then they built a tiny open-source model on a laptop, trained specifically for political persuasion. It matched GPT-4o's persuasive power entirely. Anyone can build this. Any government. Any corporation. Any extremist group with $500 and an agenda. The information didn't have to be true. It just had to be overwhelming. Arxiv, Science .org, Stanford, @elonmusk, @ihtesham2005
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@LuxVigilans @philosophymeme0 A case of language syntactically and logically working, but representing nothing in human experience
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@philosophymeme0 Most of Hegel’s developments meant to explain how some things are sublated into others seem completely arbitrary.
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@kyrilluk @LocasaleLab Are you paid to be a footballer? Then you are a professional footballer. Do you play football in your free time? Then you are a recreational footballer.
Any questions?
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@therealnche @LocasaleLab I play football every Sunday afternoon. Therefore, I am a footballer according to your logic.
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This is a great example of the stranglehold academic institutions have on scientific identity.
They’ve created a belief system where if you leave, you are treated as if you’re effectively dead, as if your contributions no longer matter.
We must normalize being scientists first, and having institutions rank far down the list of what defines who we are.
This didn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of billions in taxpayer revenue and resulting massive marketing power that shapes how the public thinks about science.
Sabine Hossenfelder@skdh
I regret to inform you that I am still a physicist, and will be, for the rest of my life.
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@kyrilluk @LocasaleLab There are footballers who aren't a part of large clubs. Are they world-class footballers? No. Are they footballers? Duh
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@LocasaleLab I'm a data scientist. If I live my firm to become a Youtube influencer, even if I talk about data science, am I still a data scientist? A footballer who stop football and comment football on the TV for match of the day: is he still considered a footballer?
GIF
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@Leophilius Maybe it's his sense of sense-of-self that needs work
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The Sun is consistently losing mass and converting one type of atom into another yet somehow it magically sustains fusion!
It's almost as if physical processes can sustain over long periods of time despite small scale changes.
teo@teodorio
the fact that our bodies are essentially just the Ship of Theseus and yet we maintain the self over time absolutely destroys the idea of materialism
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On the contrary, we have an opportunity to open a whole new avenue of cruelty. How many people can I convince to accept our assistance? The pain that could be caused
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I am once again asking that you stop using “Dionysian” to mean “hedonism”.
If resurrecting the Dionysian was that simple - “just follow your desires, bro!” - then Nietzsche would not have attributed that much importance to it. Also, he can’t “triumph” over Apollo, his twin…
Mark W.@DurhamWASP
“The Dionysian has definitively triumphed over the Apollonian. No grace, no reticence, no measure, no dignity, no secrecy, no depth, no limitation of desire is accepted. Happiness and the good life are conceived as prolonged sensual ecstasy and nothing more.” Theodore Dalrymple
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@avidseries @MattWalshBlog Because reforming the political system or justice system is so last year 🙄
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The "social conservatives" were right about everything. We have been right about everything for decades. Literally everything. We told you that if you tolerate euthanasia even for the terminally ill, even for the "extreme cases," very soon it will be used to put down anyone the state deems inconvenient or burdensome. And that is exactly what has happened, just as we said it would.
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@avidseries I'd argue the handling of COVID did more damage to institutional trust than Trump did. He just capitalized on the market that opened with the death of institutional trust
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@yvessirae It should be obvious by now, but failing to convince the US to support your declaration renders it powerless. Maybe try harder next time
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