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Thread: Life in the simulation and how you can break free. "Wait, what?!?! Are you off your fucking meds?" That's neither here nor there. The reality is that if you are a moderate to heavy social media user, you are living in a simulation. 1/?

🚨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?

Austrian president says all women should wear a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims: “With increasing Islamophobia, we may have to ask ALL women to wear a headscarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons.” This is mental illness.

"Dear Mother, I am writing these few lines severely wounded. We have done well, our battalion advanced about 3/4's of a mile. I am laid in a shell hole, with 2 wounds in my hip and through my back. I cannot move or crawl at all. I have been here for 24 hours and never seen a living soul. I hope you will receive these few lines as I don't expect anyone will come to take me away. But you know I have done my duty our here now for 1 year and 8 months and you will always have the consolation that I died quite happy doing my duty. You must give my best to all the cousins who have been so kind to me for the time I have been out here, and the best of love to Mother and Harry and all at Swinefleet." - A note from Private John Duesbury that was found on his body after the Battle of the Somme (WW1). What a waste.

Here Kitty Kitty! You don't see this every day! Who do you think was more scared?

NEW: The View's Sunny Hostin says conservatives are being "reckless" when they say women should have children. Hostin: "I think it's really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children..." Haines: "The world has over 8 billion people. We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies." Navarro: "Where is the call to responsibility for the men who help make these children?" Cummings: "Wait until your kid is up and walking and you spend most of your day trying to get its shoes on... maybe let's check in with your b**bs in a year and see if you still want a lot more kids." If you want to understand why our society is degrading, just watch this video.

That time Eli Manning went undercover at Penn State as walk-on and went by "Chad Powers" 😂

“One of the main problems in the countryside is dogs. Muslims don’t like dogs.”

Cherry farmers in southern France light fires beneath their trees to guard against frost, preserving the tender season and creating a breathtaking display.

BREAKING: Mural for Iryna Zarustka will be removed after Providence's Mayor Smiley condemned it

🚨#BREAKING: Family members of victims in Charlotte NC are OUTRAGED after finding out that the Mecklenburg Detention Center opened up a RAP STUDIO inside the jail last year for alleged r*pists and m*rderers to: "...have an opportunity to express themselves" WHAT?!!!!!!!!!

Our government: - Starts a war - Tells us terrorism will increase - Can’t agree on airport security funding - Takes a vacation despite accomplishing pretty much nothing all year Meanwhile Trump pardons convicted fraudsters & brags about golden ballrooms and peace prizes.

Today, in a speech at Harvard, Fed Chair Powell claimed that QE (the explosion of the money supply) did not cause inflation, nor did it contribute to the massive increase in US income inequality post-COVID. Those statements are blatantly UNTRUE. THE FED = NO CREDIBILITY.

UK: The new Islamic rulers of England will allow the English to fly white flags with the word ‘England’ on them as long as the cross is removed. Wave your white flags of surrender to sharia England...

A Baltimore mother working three jobs thought her son was on track to graduate. The school kept promoting him. Then she learned the truth. In four years at Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in West Baltimore, he passed three classes. He earned 2.5 credits. He failed 22 courses. He was late or absent 272 times. His GPA was 0.13. The school promoted him anyway — from Algebra 1 to Algebra 2 after failing Algebra 1. From English 2 to English 3 after failing English 2. His class rank was 62 out of 120. Nearly half his classmates had a GPA of 0.13 or lower. In four years, one teacher requested a parent conference. It never happened. No one told his mother he was failing. The school’s response was a two-page statement explaining what should have happened. He was moved back to ninth grade. She pulled him out. Enrolled him in an accelerated program. He graduated in 2022 with mostly A’s and B’s. That was one student. One mother. One accelerated program that happened to work. His school still operates. The district around it has not fundamentally changed. Baltimore City Schools received a 38% funding increase since 2017. Chronic absenteeism district-wide runs at roughly 45%. Academic proficiency in Algebra 1 sits at approximately 9%. The school didn’t fail him because it lacked money.

🚨HOLY CRAP!!! It has been revealed that the woman who randomly st*bbed a PREGNANT woman in the parking lot of a grocery store in Charlotte NC... ...IS A REPEAT OFFENDER WHO HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN ARRESTED A MIND-BLOWING 23 TIMES WITH OVER 70+ CHARGES!!!!! WHAT?!!!!!

Comparing 1990 first-time homebuyers to 2025 first-time homebuyers doesn’t radicalize you enough.

The FTC just settled with OkCupid and Match Group for secretly handing nearly 3 million users' dating profile photos and location data to Clarifai, a company that builds facial recognition software(!!!). The penalty? A promise not to do it again.

Brilliant