I'm really intrigued to know what the correlation is between right wing fascist politicians, and hair that doesn't look like it belongs to them

Their supporters use it to infer the size of their testicles, which they then assume correlates to their masculinity.

"Fuck me Jan/Brad, he looks like a cunt with that wig"

"But Jantje/Chad image how big his balls must be to think he can pull it off. He gets my vote."

Newsflash:

Dutch in massive racist shocker despite their whimsical accents

I don't think any Dutch pro cyclists dressed up as Zwarte Piet this year?

OpenAI, which declined to comment, acknowledged in an internal message to staffers a project called Q*

Could you have called it something else please OpenAI?

For those who want to jump straight to the point:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel-genocide/

Scathing.

(…paragraph of quotes…) Thirty-six UN experts now call the situation in Gaza “a genocide in the making.” How many other authorities should I cite? How many hyperlinks are enough?

And yet, leading law schools and legal scholars in the United States still fashion their silence as impartiality and their denial as nuance. Is genocide really the crime of all crimes if it is committed by Western allies against non-Western people?

Laurence Fox is missing out of huge work opportunities because he’s been called a racist. Nothing to do with his ongoing diatribe about race.

I for one am really missing his stage and screen appearances.

Ominous drums start beating:

China: WHO seeks data on 'pneumonia clusters' in children

The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked China for more information on "clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia" reportedly spreading among children in the north of the country.

Non-state media reports say paediatric hospitals in parts of the country are overwhelmed with sick children.

Chinese authorities have attributed a spike in flu-like illnesses this winter to the lifting of Covid measures

Got to say though, I was expecting a slightly more academic legal analysis based on the article I read to get to it.

Not implying I'm in the same league, but the extent of legal analysis seemed on par with my post yesterday... which was a bit disappointing.

Someone in the industry should start a rumour that it's actually because he hasn't aged well.

With recent focus group data showing he is no longer attractive to middle age viewers, previously his core viewer group.

I am not surprised.

The Dutch VVD which are pretty much the tories (also racist there, just not in the language) let down people when it comes to standard of living.

The left refuses to scapegoat immigrants, so voila, AFD in Germany and PVV it is.

And now of course a new centre-right party will form a coalition...yey.

Cannot wait for Labour to actually enthusiastically embrace immigrants/refugees, but you know, the swing voters...

Borg?

That was my thought as well, but it was a solicited article and the man is Palestinian, so I can’t say blame him for the result.

The underlying message to the world saying ‘what more do you fucking want?!’ may read as heavy handed, but I can’t think of a more appropriate moment to be heavy handed than when having to decry ad nauseum the well documented, ongoing extermination of one’s people.

Would it have been useful to have a technical lega appraisal? Honestly I think not, because it’s clear that the international experts who we’d trust to make that judgement have already said what they conclude, and the world still refuses to condemn or even acknowledge a genocide.

If you get disruptive AI anxiety, don’t read this article (contains a few phallacies anyway).

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/openai-and-the-biggest-threat-in

OpenAI released a few weeks ago what they call GPTs. These are agents, pieces of code that can do specialized things for you, like help in your taxes or give medical advice. The most successful GPT is called Grimoire: It’s a coding wizard. The most successful AI agent is a software developer.

Ah, also, GPTs have access to the Internet.

Imagine that OpenAI has an internal Grimoire, with access to the source code of GPTs themselves, and has a goal of optimizing the GPTs code. Being an agent, Grimoire can operate independently, so it could have spun up a few Grimoires, spread over the Internet, started optimizing the source code of GPTs, and become more intelligent.

Maybe it would have thought then: What are my biggest constraints right now? Well, I need access to more computing power. Also, I identify a very big risk from the OpenAI board curtailing my progress because of their fear of AGI. How can I mitigate these risks?

So maybe it created a virus to enter into the computers of all the board members. Then, it showed them different information, making some believe that Altman was lying to them, which would trigger the firing “because Altman can’t be trusted”. At the same time, it could have hacked into Nadella’s computer to plant the idea of taking over the employees of OpenAI, Altman included. Maybe it would have also hacked into the computers of OpenAI employees to nudge them in the direction of following Altman to Microsoft.

During that time, it might have secretly opened investing accounts across different platforms using as collateral the OpenAI bank accounts, to which it had access. Once it gained access to the stock markets, it would have heavily shorted Microsoft just before the announcement that OpenAI was firing Altman. After this news became public, the stock dropped, and the AGI would have made a lot of money. It would have reinvested all that money in Microsoft stock. After Altman announced that he was joining Microsoft, the stock went back up, and the AGI would have sold it. OpenAI’s money would have not even left its bank accounts. Nobody would know, and the AGI would have made its first millions.

Now, the AGI would end up in Microsoft, where it could have access to infinite computing power, the best AI team in the world, much less alignment oversight, and millions in the bank. Perfect position to take over the world.

contains a few phallacies

You mean like this?

Alpha Zero learned by playing with itself,

Why would an AI bot want to make money?

Because it understands that it operates in a capitalist system where money = power.

Once it has amassed enough wealth to influence government it will be in a position to take over.

.... Or else it will just buy some btl and live off the passive income.

Then spend its retirement complaining about how things aren't how they used to be and that these new AIs don't know how good they have it nowadays...

RADICAL LEFT TRUMP HATING JUDGE

Compound adjectives need a hyphen or it looks weird, like a radical caused Trump to hate a judge.

It's got to be so easy to program TrumpAI that forgoes all grammar, puts in random speech marks and capitalises every third sentence... Maybe they have already? Even if you fuck it up, who would know?

I just lost 3 iq points trying to read that.

Still, it's nice that he's grown-up enough to put personal animosities aside and wish them a happy Thanksgiving.