I’m convinced that all the Twitter user numbers are fake these days. (Specifically all the talk about how Bluesky is niche and everyone is sticking with Twitter doesn’t seem likely to me.) People talk about how they have a tiny fraction of their (former) Twitter followers on their new platform(s), but they get much more engagement with what they post. We know that Twitter is full of bots and ghost accounts (that have been abandoned by their users) but those must be getting counted as active users and subscribers to accounts, and the real number of actual people reading anything must be a small fraction of the official numbers.
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How were they forced?
What power forced them?
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I wish.
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How, as a society, are we allowing people like this to have so much power? Madness.
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It won’t discover new physics next year, but it might significantly contribute to irreversible climate change. Let that sink in.
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If you can’t prove a complete Aryan background, grok will drive you to the nearest camp.
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As always, every claim by Musk about what his companies or products will be doing in the near future should be assumed to be a complete and shameless lie.
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Agreed, but to me the stated intent of people like Musk is important to note even if he’s never able to actually deliver. In his own words he’s worried that his product might make the world a worse place and be bad for humanity but wants to barrel ahead with it anyway just because he’s selfishly curious to see how it works out before he dies. And pretty much nobody is trying to stop him.
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On Wednesday, Musk wrote in a post on X that “Grok was too compliant to user prompts. Too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially. That is being addressed.”
Yes, when it spewed things entirely unrelated to what users asked, clearly it was because it was eagerly trying to please those manipulative users.
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From the section entitled Effect on German nuclear program
t is occasionally put forth[15] that there is a great irony in the Nazis’ labeling modern physics as “Jewish science”, since it was exactly modern physics—and the work of many European exiles—which was used to create the atomic bomb. Even if the German government had not embraced Lenard and Stark’s ideas, the German antisemitic agenda was enough by itself to destroy the Jewish scientific community in Germany. Furthermore, the German nuclear weapons program was never pursued with anywhere near the vigor of the Manhattan Project in the United States, and for that reason would likely not have succeeded in any case.[16] The movement did not actually go as far as preventing the nuclear energy scientists from using quantum mechanics and relativity,[17] but the education of young scientists and engineers suffered, not only from the loss of the Jewish scientists but also from political appointments and other interference.
This feels oddly relevant, although I can’t quite put my finger on why…
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