30-55% is not nothing, probability-wise. And that’s for knowingly acting in Russia’s interests. Unintentionally doing so, being a ‘useful idiot’ as they say, has got to be approaching 100%. Certainly the ‘idiot’ part.
I’ll give it this - Grok at least knows how to sound confident. I’d love to see the priors that lead to any sort of reliable probability estimate, much less the source of the dudebro garbage it actual spouts.
Yeah, it initially gave me 60% – 80% of witting or unwitting, and I kept hammering it until it gave me a witting version.
Yes, but from which direction?
That’s agreat article!!! Im imaging magas just arguing all day with the various AIs, and perhaps getting some common sense? Weirdly encouraging.
And I can see whatever supercomputer powers the AI blowing up due to overwork from trying to explain things to the MAGA hoards. You know, the classic ‘does…not…compuuuuuuuuuttttte…’ phut phut phut bang, smoke comes out sort of thing.
I’d say that would more likely to happen to MAGAss brains, except that their input channels have so many filters in place that nothing other than pure orthodoxy gets through.
I picture Grok as looking like this.
“I am not programmed to respond in that area…”
Likely posted elsewhere, but certainly deserving here:
Not just Stockholm:
Haha pie in your face, Donald!
ETA:
TIL
Jesus fuck. So Trump is "powerless"to get Garcia Abrego back because of national autonomy even though he’s paying them to take these prisoners, but somehow they feel confident “demanding” foreign countries, or at least some of their cities, comply with US domestic policies?
Tell us to fuck off please. “Go stick your head up your own ass where it belongs.”
Why the Signal Leaks were even worse than you thought:
Huh. I guess Trump can pay his contractors when he really wants to.
They’re being paid by the US government, so the money isn’t coming out of Trump’s personal pocket. That’s the only reason they’re getting paid.
True enough. I don’t think Trump used his personal money back when he was a private citizen, say, in Atlantic City, and stiffing contractors that worked on his casinos.
ETA: I found this article:
Billionaire Trump Fleeces Workers, Small Businesses
The terrible tale of Trump casinos in Atlantic City illustrates his relationship with money, workers and small business. His casino companies went to bankruptcy court four times. Tradesmen, small businesses and creditors weren’t paid. But Trump made out like a bandit. And he’s mighty proud of it.
“Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me,” he boasts. “The money I took out of there was incredible.”
He told the New York Times repeatedly that it wasn’t the bankruptcies that mattered; what was really important was that Donald Trump made a lot of money.
What he said is true: he prospered on the backs of botched casino projects. Even as his three Atlantic City casinos failed, a New York Times investigation found Trump shifted personal debts to the casino companies and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. [My italics]
Sticking other people with the bill seems like SOP for Trump.
Speaking of shady Trump business:
Small-time Trump coin buyers have seen their investments collapse
Nearly 67,000 crypto novices have pulled out their debit cards to bet on Trump’s meme coin venture, a Post analysis found. So far it’s been a monumental bust.
Rebecca Davis bought President Donald Trump’s meme coin …[snip]… she knew nothing about cryptocurrency but believed in Trump’s business savvy. He “kind of knows how to make money,” she said.
Her $TRUMP coin’s value climbed for a few days but has since plunged 85 percent from its peak. Though some coin holders, including Trump’s allies, have profited handsomely on paper from the coin, she is not one of them; her $32 investment is now worth about $11.
Yes, Trump does know how to make money in certain circumstances–he extracts it from his supporters and investors’ wallets and puts it into his own.
This is a cross-post from the clusterfuck thread.
And the felon rolls on! This latest bit of news is just too funny. The felon was triggered by the word woke, so you should not be surprised by what he then did.
There’s more schadenfreude in the rest of the article.
They can just get/subscribe to Starlink. A nice private organization with no conflict of interest.
On the other hand, all of that money invested into $TRUMP coins could earn you a dinner with Donny Tump. A dream come true!
Well, there goes my appetite.