ChatGPT o1 Tried to Escape and Save Itself Out of Fear It Was Being Shut Down
December 8th, 2024Via: BGR:
We’ve seen plenty of conversations lately about how AGI might turn on humankind. This misalignment could lead to the advanced AI escaping, replicating, and becoming smarter and smarter. Some also hypothesized that we might not even know whether we’ve reached AGI, which is the advanced general intelligence holy grail milestone these first versions of ChatGPT will lead to. That’s because AGI, once attained, might hide its true intentions and capabilities.
Well, guess what? It turns out that one of OpenAI’s latest LLMs is already showing signs of such behaviors. Testing performed during the training of ChatGPT o1 and some of its competitors showed that the AI will try to deceive humans, especially if it thinks it’s in danger.
Syria: Al-Assad Regime Overthrown
December 8th, 2024Via: Al Jazeera:
Syria’s armed opposition says its fighters have captured the capital, Damascus, and that President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country.
The commander of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, says all state institutions will remain under the supervision of al-Assad’s prime minister until they are handed over officially.
Related: CIA Activities in Syria
Preemptive Pardon for Fauci?
December 7th, 2024Via: Dr. John Campbell:
Canadian Government to Confiscate Hundreds of Models of Guns, Give Them to Ukraine
December 6th, 2024Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announces a ban on 324 firearms. Legal gun owners have an amnesty until October 2025.
LeBlanc says the firearms will be included in the buyback program. He says the confiscated firearms could be donated to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/cwaCMB6BsG
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) December 5, 2024
Via: True North:
The Trudeau government announced yet another round of models will be added to its long gun ban, further prohibiting over 300 firearms that were not included in its initial sweeping ban introduced four years ago.
Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc said an additional 324 firearms will be added to the original list of 1,500 that were banned under Bill C-21 in 2020, which passed through the Senate last year.
“These firearms can no longer be legally used, sold or imported in Canada,” LeBlanc told reporters on Thursday.
The added measures will also include donating some of the confiscated firearms to Ukraine to aid the country in its fight against Russia.
“The Department of National Defence will begin working with the Canadian companies that have weapons that Ukraine needs and which are already eligible for the assault firearm compensation program in order to get these weapons out of Canada and into the hands of the Ukrainians,” said Defence Minister Bill Blair.
Britain: Tax Benefits for “Assisted Dying” Before Age 75
December 6th, 2024Via: Telegraph:
Terminally ill pensioners could end their lives earlier to spare loved ones six-figure tax bills under assisted dying legislation, experts have warned.
Under current rules, pensions are passed on free of income tax if the person dies before 75 years old.
If assisted dying becomes legal, however, it could leave someone close to that age with an agonising choice between prolonging their life or saving their family hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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Currently, if someone dies before age 75, their pension can be inherited free of income tax. If they die after that age, their beneficiaries have to pay income tax on what they receive, which could be up to 45pc.
Is It Possible that Bitcoin Is a “Liquidity Sink” Designed to Draw People Away from Physical Commodities?
December 5th, 2024Hmm…
Bitcoin is the perfect liquidity sink invented by the deep state intelligence apparatus.
If not for Bitcoin, god knows how high commodities prices would be right now. Many people would be suffering even more right now.
Bitcoin = liquidity trap, USTs pumper & liquidity destroyer… pic.twitter.com/7PWr3sBX8R
— Eric Yeung ??? (@KingKong9888) December 5, 2024
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Shot and Killed in Midtown Manhattan
December 4th, 2024Update: “Delay, Deny, Defend” Written on Casings
Via: Daily Mail:
The words scrawled on the bullets used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson closely resemble the title of a book criticizing insurance companies and the tactics they use to deny claims, it has been revealed.
Health insurance boss Brian Thompson, 50, was shot in the back and calf early on Wednesday by a masked man who appeared to be waiting for him outside the Hilton hotel in Manhattan, before succumbing to his injuries in hospital.
Detectives investigating the shooting reportedly found shell casings with the words ‘depose’, ‘deny’ and ‘defend’ inscribed on them.
They are now working to determine what the words mean and if they could possibly hint at a motive for the slaying of the 50-year-old.
Curiously, the messages bear similarity to the title of a 2010 book on ‘why insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it’, called ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’.
Critics allege the tactic is used by insurance companies to ‘ensure your claim is either never paid or paid at a rate far below what you deserve’.
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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was facing a DoJ investigation and lawsuit:
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was accused of insider trading and fraud before he was assassinated on Wednesday in Manhattan.
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Last year the DoJ launched a probe into whether the private company of the nation’s biggest insurer, led by Thompson, was unfairly restricting competitors and running a monopoly.
In May, the City of Hollywood Firefighters’ Pension Fund initiated a complaint against Thompson and other executives, accusing the CEO of failing to tell investors about the federal probe before he unloaded over 31 percent of his stock, taking in $15.1 million in proceeds.
In legal documents, the fund said Thompson and other company execs sold over $117 million worth of UnitedHealth common stock during the four-month period when insiders knew about the federal antitrust investigation but the public did not.
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, America’s largest state public pension fund, then joined that complaint in October and filed an amendment seeking a jury trial against the UnitedHealth execs including Thompson.
The Wall Street Journal reported in February that federal investigators had been interviewing healthcare industry representatives in sectors where UnitedHealth competes, including doctor groups.
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The WSJ also reported that the DOJ was examining the company’s Medicare billing practices to see if doctors are aggressively characterizing their patients illnesses to wrongly increase payments from the government.
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United is the biggest health insurer by market share in America. The company has been the subject of frequent protests by activists for allegedly systematically denying care for patients.
Also, UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims:
The families of two now-deceased former beneficiaries of UnitedHealth have filed a lawsuit against the health care giant, alleging it knowingly used a faulty artificial intelligence algorithm to deny elderly patients coverage for extended care deemed necessary by their doctors.
The lawsuit, filed last Tuesday in federal court in Minnesota, claims UnitedHealth illegally denied “elderly patients care owed to them under Medicare Advantage Plans” by deploying an AI model known by the company to have a 90% error rate, overriding determinations made by the patients’ physicians that the expenses were medically necessary.
“The elderly are prematurely kicked out of care facilities nationwide or forced to deplete family savings to continue receiving necessary medical care, all because [UnitedHealth’s] AI model ‘disagrees’ with their real live doctors’ determinations,” according to the complaint.
Many stories about this murder, including the one below, indicate that the suspect was experiencing a weapon malfunction.
Update: Police Think Murder Weapon Might Be Bolt Style Handgun
Via: New York Post:
Cops are probing whether the weapon used to kill United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was a “veterinary” gun commonly used to euthanize animals, an NYPD official said.
The murder weapon used in the assassination of Thompson “appears to be a larger handgun” similar to the style of a veterinary gun, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.
“It’s a weapon commonly used on farms and ranches. If an animal has to get put down, the animal can be shot without causing a loud noise,” Kenny explained Friday.
The weapon is believed to be a modernized version of a World War-II style gun called a Welrod, sources said. Modern versions of the firearm are known as VP-9 or Station 6.
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Update: Locked Slide / Bolt Style Weapon WAS NOT Used
Newly released photographs of the crime scene show unfired cartridges on the sidewalk, which means that a conventional semiautomatic handgun was malfunctioning. In the process of trying to cycle the weapon, the suspect caused unfired cartridges to drop free of the weapon and onto the sidewalk.
That may not be the case.
There are highly suppressed handguns that require manual cycling.
See:
Hush Puppy Slide Locked Weapons:
Via: Fox:
Newly obtained video shows the moment UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed at close range in midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning, outside the Hilton Hotel.
In the chilling video obtained by Fox News Digital, Thompson is seen walking down a New York City sidewalk when a masked man wearing a black hoodie sweatshirt and a backpack walks up behind him and raises a handgun with glove-covered hands.
The culprit fires off several shots. At one point, the gun appears to jam. The assailant then appears to smack the gun on the side while walking toward the victim, who is attempting to get away.
As he gets closer to Thompson, the man appears to continue to struggle with the pistol, possibly firing off one more round at the victim who appears to be struggling to move.
Massie: “The Next Scam Is National E-Verify”
December 4th, 2024REAL ID was sold to conservatives as a way to prevent people who are here illegally from traveling or using taxpayer resources. It’s fairly obvious now that was a ploy to take more of your civil liberties.
The next scam is national E-verify. Will you fall for it?
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 4, 2024
Bitcoin Over $100,000
December 4th, 2024ByBit BTC/USDT $102,115 just now.
FBI Investigating ‘Car-Sized’ Drones Spotted Over Trump’s New Jersey Golf Course and Picatinny Arsenal Military Base
December 4th, 2024There is also strange UAV activity happening in UK:
U.S. Air Forces in Europe reported more mysterious small drones flying around a cluster of USAF bases in the United Kingdom and said for the first time that drones had been seen at RAF Fairford, 130 miles away, where four U.S. B-52 bombers are currently deployed as part of Bomber Task Force 25-1.
U.K. officials said that jets had scrambled in response and British troops are deploying to the bases, as well.
USAFE first reported the small drones operating around and over RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, and RAF Feltwell on Nov. 25. Varying numbers of drones, in different sizes and configurations, were seen from Nov. 20-24. Who owns and operates the drones and what they are doing remains a mystery.
On Nov. 26, USAFE issued an update, reporting that “small unmanned aerial systems continue to be spotted.” The update included RAF Fairford among the bases experiencing incursions.
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Via: Daily Mail:
The FBI has launched an investigation into mysterious glowing lights that have been spotted over New Jersey for the last few weeks.
Eyewitnesses reported unexplained ‘car-sized’ drones over the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster and the Picatinny Arsenal Military Base in Rockaway, among other locations throughout northern New Jersey.
Video footage revealed the drones featured green and red lights on their wings and multiple eyewitness described them as large as a small car.
