this strategy cannot work without a huge media apparatus, both right-wing and centrist, like Krugman's own employer - that actively assists in parroting this unreality in order to help Trump win.

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Pollsters should start asking Trump voters “if former President Trump is re-elected and launches the campaigns of political violence he’s promised, will you personally take part or will you leave the attacks on scary brown people to others?”

More simply put: The larger and more trainable the language model, the more bullshit it produces. Because, and i guess I'll keep saying it until it sinks in, making up statistically plausible bullshit is literally what LLM/GPT systems *inherently* do. Nice to have another paper to cite for it, tho.

NPnatureportfolio.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 1:39pm

Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a shift in AI design towards reliability, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4eCAnis 🧪

Fascinating that the news isn’t driving the numbers when Trump does a bunch of crazy shit and the news acts like it shouldn’t make a difference to anyone

LGlarryglickman.bsky.socialSep 30, 2024 10:13am

The problem with media coverage in a nutshell: Trump called for “one really violent day” from police, calls Harris “mentally impaired,” claims that if he loses the country will be destroyed, and makes dozens of other malicious and dishonest statement. Yet Nate Cohn calls it a “calm week.”

I’m not expressing surprise at all rather it’s a pretty overt confession regarding what they’re actually about

Police unions endorsing Trump (a lifelong criminal who sent a mob to assault Capitol police officers) over Harris (a former prosecutor) are really showing their entire ass.

Climate scientists being proven extremely right would have people listening very closely to them now in a sane society

I was right though www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-gue...

MSNBC Guest Blames Media For ‘Extremely Negative’ Immigration Coverage: ‘Look At The B-Roll We’re Doing Right Now!’

Serwer blamed the media’s coverage of the immigration in defense of Harris’s “not addressing” border issues directly, taking aim at MSNBC B-roll.

Remember: we still can’t call him a fascist, because he hasn’t promised to make the trains run on time in perfect Italian.

QJqjurecic.bsky.socialSep 29, 2024 8:32pm

sovereign is he who decides on the exception