I don't think it's secret. A lot of OpenAI's business strategy is to warn of the danger of their own project as a means of hyping it.

OpenAI, despite having produced a pretty novel product, doesn't really have a sound business model. LLMs are actually expensive to run. The energy and processing is not cheap, and it's really not clear that they produce something of value. It's a cool party trick, but a lot of the use cases just aren't cost effective at this point. That makes their innovation hard to commercialize. So OpenAI promotes itself like online clickbait games.

You know the ones that are like, 'WARNING: This game is so sexy it is ADDICTIVE! Do NOT play our game if you don't want to CUM TOO HARD!'

That's OpenAI's marketing strategy.

You got me. I confess: I have a bias against hitlers.

It's weird how many people in this thread are vaguely debating the validity of the historical research into this question when one person has posted a link to a well cited article on this very very heavily studied subject.

There's even a link to a well cited article examining the skepticism of the historicity of Jesus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth_theory

I don't feel compelled to argue an interpretation. The facts are well documented and their interpretations by experts available. What anyone chooses to do with these are of no real concern to me.

This is a great point.

The technology that excludes transwomen from the app is the clear warning that the app is populated exclusively for transphobes. It's obviously wildly dangerous for a transwoman to be on the app.

The notion that AI is going to clock them is absurd AI hype. There's no reason to expect AI to be capable of this kind of discernment, and that assumes you even had a training set. Where in the absolute fuck would someone find a training set like that?

Edit: I didn't read the article. It seems it's a lesbian dating app. Well, probably less dangerous for transwomen, but still not technically sound.

I just want to say that the most disturbing part of this is not that she did this. It's that this is the message and image that she has carefully decided will help her achieve her career and personal goals.

Perhaps what could be worse is if she's right.

I don't think she is. I see a lot of signs of the left failing in ways that make me nervous. but recognition of the senselessness of imperialism is not one of these. I think there is a very strong, clear, growing consensus that our foreign policy is terrible. Many people don't care that it's terrible for people in other countries, only that it's terrible for them, but that's still a win.

I don't love the concept of "isolationism" per se, but between that in empire, I'll choose isolationism every time. I know there is a liberal establishment that finds isolationism more shocking that defunding the police, and I'm glad that they're upset. This whole global domination thing that Haley and Biden and Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi and Hilary Clinton are obsessed with is just fucking terrible.

God, I will freely admit: it can get so much worse than Biden.

Hi. I'm not a doctor, but I can opine as a biologist.

The transplanted cells have blood vessels, because all cells need a supply of oxygen to avoid expiring. If they didn't have a supply of blood, they'd quickly turn necrotic.

When you deplete your short term energy stores, the body converts fat molecules within fat cells into sugar, then shuttles those through the body in the blood stream.

The body doesn't draw on fat stores within the body in a totally even way, so I don't know how quickly it would draw from the transplanted cells, but it works presumably still burn fat from these cells when needed.

And the reverse is true as well: when excess sugar is available, the body would generate new fat molecules to fill those cells, and if necessary make new fat cells as well.

This article is missing some very notable context.

First, this battalion is a Haredi battalion. The Haredi are Orthodox Jews: they're very far right, and also highly unpopular within Israel because they're exempt from the draft. Every other Israeli is required to serve, but the Haredi get exempted and supported by government incomes to just study torah full-time. They are not even allowed to work.

Anyway, the court just ruled that IDF can't keep exempting them from military service, and they are pissed. They are threatening to collapse the governing coalition over this, and Netanyahu cannot stay in power without their support. Against this backdrop, there is this battalion in the West Bank that is set up to accommodate Haredi volunteers' ultraconservative lifestyle which is supposed to be the model for integrating them into the army. However guess what? It turns out that a military regiment staffed entirely with far right religious zealots who volunteered to "secure" occupied territory is liable to do exactly what their religious education dictates, and the old testament does NOT conform to modern rules of war. Back then, rape and genocide was de rigueur.

However unlike sanctions against random settlers, this means something: Antony Blinken has been bending over backwards to bury any requests for investigations into war crimes by the IDF, because it's actually against the law for him to supply them with weapons if he knows about atrocities.

If the US sanctions a battalion... that opens the door to some big shit. Once you recognize that SOME of the IDF is violating international law, it gets much, much, harder to legally justify arming them. Restricting weapons to a single battalion is not unusual within US military aid, but in this case it's not a small step. It's a potentially seismic shift in US policy.

I will say something I haven't said in months: this is good news. This is the first time I can think of that Biden is actually doing something that could make a difference. It's not enough. We need far more. But this is actual, serious progress.

I feel like there's a real focus on the forest instead of the trees.

What exactly does this tell us?

Republicans in congress relied on obviously uncredible evidence in their pursuit to prove a crime that they wanted to prosecute regardless of whether it happened. A professional international shill shilled professionally, internationally.

Russia and other countries tell people to say and do things to spread propaganda and misinformation to influence politics in the US.

Sadly, none of this, we must acknowledge is new information. And honestly, it's so terribly pervasive. The bad guys do this stuff, but most of the "good guys" kinda do too, just usually with a bit more restraint. So what do we do with this?

I think the main issue, the reason we should be pissed off when we learn that a guy lied to law enforcement to try and convince the media and the public that a political rival is a double-crossing criminal, is that we don't want our system of government constantly being manipulated by unscrupulous manipulative assholes.

And so we should turn our attention to REAL democratic reforms. Ranked choice voting. Ending the electoral college. Curtailing political gerrymandering. Converting our two-party duopololy system into an actual multi-party system.

There's no real use in being mad in the folks who do all this stuff. We need to just stop expecting otherwise and make systems that don't reward this kind of outlandish bullshit.

Thanks for sharing this, this is really interesting.

My hope is that when Reddit announces their IPO, more people will start talking about wishing for alternatives. I hope this motivates a few people who checked it out and left and lots of new people to take a first look, and when they do I hope they find an already active community that produces enough content to retain more people and generate more content.

Oh fuck.

This kind of news feels like it just keeps coming. I don't know quite what there is to say. I think most Americans adding "I stand with Israel" to Facebook profile pics don't know that the people in charge of Israel are authoritarian ethnonationalists.

Jailing people for sharing truthful information that is critical of the government is just miles away from what anyone considers acceptable, democratic behavior.

It's Mr. Freeze. Saved you a click.

Okay, I was interested in this enough to find out that I can scroll through in the app, and I found the relevant section.

At around 18 min remaining (that's how IG counts time apparently) someone asks how she deals with climate despondency, and she replies:

I am a big believer in... how do I put this? Not just climate optimism, but I'll call it -- well, I won't call it, this is already a cultural term, -- like, Solarpunk. I think that science fiction plays a really important cultural role, because the easiest thing to imagine is the collapse of society. You ever notice that it's way easier to imagine everything going to hell than it is things working out and getting better?

I think that's where science fiction plays a role, because we have to re-imagine -- here's the thing: people are reactive, and the challenges that the climate crisis presents to us are going to require a reorganization of a lot of parts of our society, and a lot of people don't like to be proactive, and they'd like to walk with a cardboard box on their head until they reach a wall, and the world stops them. And instead of us just consume-consume-consume guzzle-guzzle-guzzle exploit-exploit-exploit work ourselves to death... grind together, till we drop .... instead of doing that, which is how our government and politics usually operates, what if we just proactively tried to change before the earth makes this current way of being unsustainable? And if we make these proactive investments now -- and there's so many people doing such incredible work, whether it's regenerative agriculture, or whether it's passive architecture, or it's fusion energy research -- there's so many people that are building a better world, and it's not that it doesn't exist, it's here. And so I don't ascribe climate to doom because it serves no purpose. It only hurts, it only slows us down, it serves no need, it doesn't help us get to a better place, and it's profoundly harmful on an individual level.

Cynicism in general leads you down a dark path. I get it, and have felt that way, But I never felt better than when I decided to check in my cynicism at the door and at least try. And I'd like to at least go down trying rather than going down passively accepting having no agency in the world.

So when it comes to climate optimism, I definitely think that if you look into things like solarpunk art, and you'll see depictions of what a better future looks like... I do think we're going to have to make some big changes.I don't think this mindless consumption is good for anyone. .... Let's say you're on the left... a lot of people take these positions because they think it's morally right. But we're getting to the point where it's not just about morals.. it's not going to be an argument. Our systems are not sustainable, and I don't mean that in the buzzword way, I mean that they are going to collapse. And certain things collapsing doesn't mean doom: they mean we need to make space for a better day. Some things don't need to be saved. ... [But] there are some things that need to be nurtured. So if you look into solarpunk, and what that looks like... it means that we need to change our food system... factory farming ... health .... There are some things that are going to have to change. I don't think that change is going to be for the worse. I think if we're all engaged and give a damn, I think those things are going to change for the better.