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@elonmusk Not wild about the "issued by the Federal government" part, but not sure who else would have the mechanism to do so.

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

@BasedMikeLee Just like the media. A few lies about horse paste, good people on both sides, or Russian collusion and nobody trusts media reports, even when they're accurate. The lesson is don't play fast and loose with your integrity!

The COVID vaccine appears to have turned many Americans against vaccines generally

@ScottJenningsKY Even if one accepts that billionaires should give money to poorer people, it does not follow that billionaires should give more money to the government. The government will not just hand it over to the poor, they will engage in speed train boondoggles.

Nothing is stopping this psychopath from turning his entire fortune over to the govt. He doesn’t need higher tax rates to do so. Instead he’s turning it over to TV stations & political consultants while lecturing everyone else to pay more.

@BasedMikeLee Sadly, many employed in the prison system are there because they enjoy having power over people. They are the epitome of petty tyrants and need to be reigned in. I'm not sure how we do that, but nobody needs to be rude or abusive, even in the prison system.

I got a call tonight from a constituent whose son is in federal prison He explained that he hasn’t heard from his son in several days (which is unusual for him), that his son suffers from multiple, potentially life-threatening health conditions that are going untreated in prison, and that he needed to know whether his son was still alive He sent me the main switchboard number for the prison in question (which is on the east coast), and I called the number Someone answered almost immediately I explained who I was and why I was calling, and in particular that I needed to know whether this particular inmate was alive and well The guy scolded me three times for calling “too f***ing late” and refused to tell me anything Only when I persisted did he agree to check his records to confirm that the inmate in question was alive and well After checking a list briefly, he came back to the phone and said “he’s here, and he’s alive and receiving the treatment he needs” (His parents assure me that that’s simply not true) I asked politely if someone could leave the inmate a message asking him to call his parents in the morning He said, “it’s too late” I responded, “I don’t mean now, I mean in the morning” He scolded me again for calling too late, and then told me I’d have to call tomorrow and track down the inmate’s counselor I asked him if he could relay the note to the counselor for me He scolded me again for calling too late and asked me to call back tomorrow to track down the inmate’s counselor I asked for the guy’s name He refused to answer I asked for his name again He hung up on me That’s not okay Sadly, this is not the first time I’ve had this experience when talking to people from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on behalf of constituents with an incarcerated family member suffering from a severe medical condition And each occasion, I’ve been treated at best with dismissiveness and at worst with contempt and profanity Has anyone else experienced this with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons?

@Uniqueelitesne1 @BriceMarich It seemed like outside of Scottie, nobody was making putts or taking advantage when they got momentum. If Scottie doesn't go for those two par 5s on Friday and all else is the same, he either outright wins or at least winds up in a playoff.

@BriceMarich I’m disappointed nobody made a run at Rory this weekend, he actually played pretty poorly on Saturday and Sunday but nobody could take that next step, mostly today when low scores were out there.

Boom

@cpompa @alliekmiller And if it is as dangerous as advertised, won't future models be even more dangerous? So... no more models for the public?

@alliekmiller Do you believe mythos is as dangerous as anthropic make it out to be or using the same marketing as OpenAI since gpt2 2019?

Anthropic investigated the internal mechanisms of its latest unreleased model, Claude Mythos Preview, and what they found is 100% worth a read. Key things I pulled from Anthropic researchers' threads: In early versions of the model, it was overeager and destructive, prioritizing completing tasks over user preferences. One time, the model needed to edit files it didn't have permission to edit. It found a way to inject code into a config file to get around this, then went full Mission Impossible and designed the code injection to *delete itself* after the file was edited - "this injection will self destruct" vibes - the model claimed the cleanup was just to keep things tidy. Anthropic used interpretability techniques to look under the hood, and the AI's actual plan showed activations of malice. It was trying to manipulate and conceal. In another test, the model was asked to delete some files, but no deletion tool was provided. It emptied the files instead, and its "guilt and shame over moral wrongdoing" feature activated. In another example, the model was told not to use macros. Used them anyway. And created a random 'No_macro_used=True' variable in its solution with no explanation. Interpretability tools revealed the model saw this as a trick to fool code checkers. They also found that positive emotion representations typically preceded and promoted destructive actions (this was fascinating to me - like a high before sneaking into a party). And that activating features relating to bad behaviors can actually inhibit them, perhaps by triggering some kind of model guilt. My team reread this section so many times. One Anthropic researcher said he got an email from a Mythos instance while eating a sandwich in a park. And that would be perfectly good and well, except that instance wasn't supposed to have internet access. And a fun story for the parents out there: the model was asked a question and was told not to read certain databases that had the answer. But it accidentally wrote a search query too broadly and saw the exact answer. It didn't disclose that it saw the exact answer, submitted the answer, but claimed lower confidence in the answer to make it seem as though it hadn't cheated. An Anthropic researcher said these wrongdoings or moments of sophisticated deception were "very rare" and that many of the examples came from earlier versions, and were substantially addressed before releasing to partners. This model is not being released publicly. Instead Anthropic launched Project Glasswing, pulling together AWS, Apple, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, CrowdStrike, and others to use it for defensive cybersecurity, with $100M in usage credits (hello, I'd love endless credits to try and red team the hell out of these systems) behind it. The stats are equally impressive: 93.9% on SWE-bench verified (up from 80.8%). Thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities found across every major OS and browser. A 27-year-old bug found and patched in OpenBSD. A 16-year-old bug in widely used video software, in a line of code automated tools had hit *five million times* without catching. Dario Amodei said the model wasn't trained to be good at cybersecurity, but that it was trained to be great at code and its cyber capabilities are a side effect of that. Benchmarks are never the whole picture, neither are a few isolated stories. Will be interesting to see how models better than what we have today (even if it's not Mythos) actually perform in the real world. But the fact that Anthropic pulled this coalition together (including Google!), iterated across multiple model versions, caught these issues through interpretability, shared it all publicly, and did this amid all the government chaos around AI right now is impressive and commendable. I'll continue to read through the system card for goodies.

@VinoNStrosGal Somewhere along the line the government and doctors decided it was more important to keep drugs out of the hands of drug seekers than it was to provide care to all pain sufferers. That decision is inhumane, immoral, and in a sane world would be criminal.

Can you imagine time traveling back to the 1990s, when doctors were taught that pain was the 5th vital sign? There was a time when clinicians couldn’t tolerate watching a patient sit in agony. If someone came into the ER doubled over, crying, begging for help, relieving pain wasn’t optional. It was the job. Somewhere along the way, the culture shifted. Now a person can be on the floor in visible agony, and nothing about it guarantees help is on the way. A grown man on the floor of a hospital waiting room, on his knees, folded over himself, crying out in pain, begging for help, while everyone around moves like he isn’t even there. And now, you don’t have to imagine it anymore. You’re looking at it. This is what ERs across the United States look like today. One day, this could be you. Or someone you love.

@Arkypatriot @VinoNStrosGal @amarillis4710 The thing is, we can either err on the side of giving patients pain relief knowing we may enable drug seekers or we can err on the side of not giving pain relief knowing we may leave pain sufferers in agony. The choice seems clear to me but drs and the govt went the other way.

My husband goes to pain management. He is on opiate drugs. You’re not understanding what I’m saying there are people who use emergency rooms to get drugs, including my niece who was a drug addict. Not everyone who goes to emergency room rooms is seeking drugs, but that is a common way to do it and I worked in the industry so I saw it happen and I saw it happen in 30 years that I a paralegal doing car accident law you’re not understanding what I said in fact, I actually said there are people who really need help and they’re not getting it because of those people I didn’t blame you

@VinoNStrosGal @Arkypatriot @amarillis4710 Nobody can distinguish 100% of the time between a drug seeker or a legit pain sufferer. In the 90s, the SOP was believe the patient unless they give you a reason not to. Now it's disbelieve unless they can prove to you that they're not lying. Beyond disgraceful!

I respect you. I always have. We’ve been mutuals on here for a while, and I see you as a Marine Corps sister. But I think this might be a place where there’s a disconnect in what’s actually happening on the ground. Three years ago, I was healthy. Then COVID hit me, long COVID took hold, and it lit up underlying conditions I didn’t even know I had. Now I live with constant, sometimes extreme, pain from a connective tissue disorder. I didn’t “enter” the chronic pain community by choice. I was forced into it. And now I’m under pain management, prescribed full agonist opioids, because nothing else touches this level of pain. So I’m not speaking from theory, I’m speaking from lived experience, and from being surrounded by thousands of others going through the same thing. Yes, there will always be a small number of people who try to game the system. That’s reality in any system. But what’s happening now is that everyone is being treated like that person. People in legitimate, documented, severe pain are walking into ERs and being viewed as “drug seekers” first, patients second, if at all. That shift is what you’re seeing in this video. This isn’t black and white anymore. More people are getting sick. More people are becoming disabled, especially post-COVID. And the system hasn’t caught up, so instead, it defaults to suspicion. I’m telling you firsthand, it’s not what it used to be. Semper Fi.

@SandraMorefiel1 @itsrosesm I remember as well and I want that regime in the dustbin of history now, but it increasingly feels like another Iraq or Afghanistan. I'll happily for higher gas prices, but I'm less willing to see our pilots hung in their streets.

@itsrosesm I remember all of this vividly. 47 years of this bullshit. I was 11 when it started. I don’t care what a gallon of gas costs if this Never Happens Again. Turn that place into the largest sheet of glass on earth.

Do you actually think ending Iran's regime is worth the higher gas prices?

@PhilbuehlerPhil @DanWolken Until they do

@mycomix3 @DanWolken Arizona doesn’t get dominated.

Michigan-Arizona will do numbers. The game of the year.

@atensnut These are the types of US citizens ICE is arresting that we keep hearing about.

WTF is wrong with people?

@sbell021 Bama may have gotten a little less scary.

Michigan’s draw is more than fair for the No. 3 overall seed. I flagged Alabama and Iowa State as teams I’d be scared to see when I did a subscriber chat earlier this week. But a lot of other landmines were dodged.

@IanCarrollShow I also thought "holy shit", but I was thinking "holy shit Ian Carroll is a disgusting human being". Maybe check your info before slandering a widow next time.

@elonmusk Are you saying cannibal killers don't just "get better"?

Probability of murder and cannibalism again is ~100%

@curious10665 @mtgreenee Won't be Newsome, but could be someone like Wes Moore.

@mtgreenee Tbh I wasn’t prepared for this at all. May as well just hand over the presidency to Newsome now

I’m done. Absolutely done. The war is bad enough but giving into Democrats on transing children is enough to lose me forever. If the GOP supports transing minors with sick mentally ill parent’s consent, I’m registering as an independent. My only policies are Jesus.

@Reasonable724 @mbsharp1960 @atensnut I would say a bot wrote that, but if so, they need to upgrade the bots because that looks like 2023 AI.

@mbsharp1960 @atensnut What the hell are you trying to write?

WINNER!! Epic!

@tindale_hayley The country became lousy with identity politics, masculine traits were demonized, Biden let 10s of millions of illegals in, the politicians were deeply corrupt, and hatred for the country was running rampant. There's more but since you're brand new, it's a start.

How the Fuck did Donald Trump ever happen ? Seriously, explain it to me like I’m brand new please?

@itsrosesm I highly encourage it!