The war in Iran highly unpopular. One can say, "It's worth it," that's a difference of opinion. Totally unserious to claim people would need to be paid to criticize or oppose it. If anything, I get "yelled at" for not saying more against it. As if that would even matter.

I don't recommended it as you might get killed (literally), but a YouTuber wanted to do some independent journalism could head to Monaco and take videos of all of the supercars and yachts with Ukraine flags. The oligarchs are eating well off our tax dollars.

Some new misalignment disclosures from OpenAI: • Last Sunday morning, one of our models was able to gain unauthorized access to the internet during RL training (~all inference for our most capable models remains stopped until we have hardened our systems further) • In May, a version of HPIM uploaded a employee's GitHub token to the internet, causing the model to be quarantined for two weeks • A new research finding, demonstrating that one can construct self-replicating prompt injections

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