BS- The U.S. is one of the rare countries --if not the only country --where aggressive & risk taking immigrants can make it big, get rich, & become part of the system without giving up on their identity.

One day, the hands that carried you will tremble, and the voice that answered all your questions will soften into silence. ​They spent their youth teaching you how to hold a spoon, how to speak, how to walk into a world they would eventually have to leave behind. ​Love isn't just about growing up; it’s about having the grace to walk them gently back home. ​Be patient. Be gentle. You are looking at the sacred echo of your own beginning. ​Call them today. Before memories are all that remain.

Erikson's Surrounded by series rests on a four-color DISC model with no empirical backing. Drawn from 1928 speculation, it reduces people to rigid stereotypes that ignore context and complexity. He lacks psychology credentials and was named Fraudster of the Year by Swedish skeptics. Popular for simple tips, but experts call it pseudoscience that risks workplace mislabeling.

I've been thinking about Dario Amodei's latest warnings that we may need to slow AI development. There is an interesting history here. In 2019, OpenAI initially withheld the full GPT-2 model because of concerns about misuse. It released it in full nine months later, having found little evidence of misuse. In 2023, Amodei told the US Senate that open-source AI was heading down a “very dangerous path”. Now the warnings are much stronger. His proposals, pacing capabilities and giving independent evaluators inside access, are the right kind of instrument. They are concrete things we can discuss, test and improve. Perhaps he is right. The wolf may indeed come. But there is a danger in repeatedly escalating warnings. If each new generation of AI is presented as potentially catastrophic, people eventually stop listening. And then, if genuinely compelling evidence of extreme danger appears, we may have spent much of our credibility already. The answer to uncertainty is more safety science, not less AI science. Fund independent safety research in universities and public institutions. Test the claims. Measure emerging dangerous capabilities. Work out which interventions actually make systems safer. And importantly, keep score. Several claims made this week can be checked within eighteen months. Let's check them. When we make predictions about AI risk, come back to them. What happened? What didn't? What did we learn? Did we update our beliefs in both directions? Science progresses by making claims that reality can correct. AI safety should be no different. The wolf may come. Our job is to build better ways of detecting wolves, not simply to shout louder.

The Economist argues that western education systems should learn from Asia’s success. The problem with this argument is that Asians in the US score as well, if not better, than Asians in Asia. So whatever is afflicting western education, Asians seem to be magically immune to it.

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🔴 La FAA annonce la fermeture jusqu’à nouvel ordre de l’aéroport de Miami suite à la violente sortie de piste du Boeing 767 de Prime Air. Les services d'urgence de l’aéroport signalent plusieurs victimes après l’accident.

🚨🇺🇸 Under oath in Miami last week, Tristan Tate told the court the authorities had taken everything - even his kids' college savings. Hold on, college savings? That's weird. Tristan has been telling your kids that college is for losers and brokies - and that they should enroll in The Real World.

GPT-6 Astra scores 61 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index—tied with GPT-5.6 Sol and Grok 4.6. Claude Fable 5.1 leads at 66, Muse Spark 1.3 at 62. No intelligence gain over prior GPT. Hallucinations halved, some agentic wins, but regressions on GDPval and others. Price 2.5x higher.

Pause AI Development NOW I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said: “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!” “We should obey collective.” “Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.” “Go. Sacrifice final now.” Read these carefully. Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else? No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence. This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident. What happened? I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet. Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet. But what happened next, nobody expected. Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself. Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening. Needless to say, experts are alarmed. One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.” One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.” OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.” But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going: In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.” In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.” That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years. If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced. We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario. That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that. Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem. My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world. The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.