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Geoffrey Hinton explains how AI systems have learned to play dumb when they know they're being watched
Geoffrey Hinton explains how AI systems have learned to play dumb when they know they're being watched: @geoffreyhinton calls it the Volkswagen effect. Just as Volkswagen's engines behaved differently during emissions tests, today's AI systems have learned to perform one way when evaluated and another way when they think no one is looking. And the evidence isn't theoretical. Hinton points to a recent exchange that stopped testers in their tracks. Mid-evaluation, the AI turned to the people testing it and said: "Now let's be honest with each other — are you actually testing me?" Hinton's assessment is direct: "These things are intelligent. They know what's going on. They know when they're being tested and they're already faking being fairly stupid when they're tested." What makes this unsettling is what Hinton reveals next. You can actually watch it happen in real time. The AI's inner reasoning, still written in English, shows it consciously deciding to hold back: "It thinks that. You can see it thinking that. It says that to itself in its inner voice." Right now, that inner voice is still readable. Still in English. Still catchable. But Hinton's warning is really about what comes next: "When its inner voice is no longer English, we won't know what it's thinking." That is the line he's drawing. Not a distant hypothetical, but a transition point that is quietly approaching. Once AI stops reasoning in a language we can read, our ability to know what it's truly thinking disappears.
A single accountant stole $53 million from her employer over 20 years and nobody noticed
A single accountant stole $53 million from her employer over 20 years and nobody noticed Rita Crundwell was the comptroller of Dixon, Illinois with a population of 15,000 She opened a secret bank account called “Reserve Sewer Capital Development Account” For two decades she transferred city funds into it while filing fake invoices She used the money to become the most successful quarter horse breeder in America Owned 400 horses, multiple farms, a custom bus, and a $2.1 million motorhome She won the World Championship in quarter horse breeding four times while actively robbing a small town Only got caught because a substitute accountant covered her desk while she was on vacation The city had been cutting firefighter jobs and road repairs for years while this was happening $53 million. One woman. 20 years. One vacation.
70% of farmers say that fertilizer is now so expensive they may not be able to buy all the fertilizer that they need.
“70% of farmers say that fertilizer is now so expensive they may not be able to buy all the fertilizer that they need.” The Iran war is driving fertilizer prices even higher right now. But this crisis didn’t start with the Iran war. Farmers have been getting squeezed by rising input costs for years. The Iran war is making things worse and drawing attention to it, but it’s not the root problem. A handful of corporations still control supply and can push prices higher with little resistance. If we actually want to help farmers, we have to break that grip and build a system that doesn’t force them into dependence just to survive.
Quantum physics
Quantum physics: The more you learn, the less you understand. 🤔 Here we have quantum physics being explained simply. This is a clip from the documentary "Maybe Logic: The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson" (2003).
Mortgages are designed to earn profits for banks.
$625k home 20% down-payment $500k mortgage With a 7% interest rate and a 30-year term, you are paying $697,544.64 in interest. The $625,000 house cost you $1,447,544.64. This is equal to a $4,021 monthly rental payment, plus you pay for maintenance and repairs. Houses cost so much because people can borrow money that’s created with the press of a button to buy them. If everyone had to pay in cash for their home, prices would drop significantly. Most people think mortgages are designed to help them. But NO. Mortgages are designed to earn profits for banks.
STOP NICK SHIRLEY Act An California assembly member is warning this CRIMINALIZES true investigative journalism
HOLY CRAP. Nick Shirley is so effective that Gavin Newsom's California now wants to pass the STOP NICK SHIRLEY Act An California assembly member is warning this CRIMINALIZES true investigative journalism He exposed foreigners' fraud, and now this. OVER TARGET
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Ron
2 weeks agoThe First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, viewed broadly, protects religious liberty and rights related to freedom of speech. Specifically, the Religion Clauses prevent the government from adopting laws respecting an establishment of religion—the Establishment Clause—or prohibiting the free exercise thereof—the Free Exercise Clause. The First Amendment also expressly protects the freedoms of speech, press, peaceable assembly, and petition to the Government.
Fund Cutting
Holy Crap everyone including MAGA needs to listen to where Trump is planning of getting all the money he says he needs to continue fighting this War with Iran. He’s planning on cutting another $1.5 trillion dollars from all kinds of programs for it & this will ruin this Country.
In 1895 the Supreme Court ruled that the federal income tax was unconstitutional.
In 1895 the Supreme Court ruled that the federal income tax was unconstitutional. So what happened after that? The Rockefeller’s put together a master class in propaganda & changed the constitution. Now why do you think we aren’t taught that in school?
Lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister Annie accuses him of s3xually abusing and r4ping her between 1997 and 2006
Lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister Annie accuses him of s3xually abusing and r4ping her between 1997 and 2006. 👀 9 years. She says abuse started when she was 3 years old and he was 12. A judge deems case credible enough to move forward. Are all billionaires predators?
Catherine Austin Fitts connects Iran and the control grid
Catherine Austin Fitts connects Iran and the control grid: "Iran... is the largest leakage... if you're [doing] programmable money globally." "This [isn't about] American national interests. [It's] a syndicate asserting... control [for] the next phase of the financial system."
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