Comment Re: Central Control (Score 1) 30
Mexico is going away from cash.
https://bigbendtimes.com/2026/...
Other countries/central banks want to do away with cash too.
Comment Central Control (Score 1) 30
How does this not stop the government from shutting off your access to your money when they don't like what you're writing or protesting?
Comment ATC/Airports needs to come into the 21st century (Score 1) 68
Privatize ATC. Other countries do it and it works. Government is far too slow to modernize.
Modernize ATC operation. AI in ground systems and aircraft systems helping pilots and controllers. Make it so operation nearly doesn't need humans.
Free education for new air traffic controllers.
Privatize air port security. Get rid of TSA. They have not stopped one terrorist since 9/11 and fail more than 60% of time finding weapons during tests.
Comment Astronauts are landing during a monkey civil war? (Score 4, Funny) 45
I've seen that movie.
Comment Congrats. Can we cancel the program already? (Score 0, Troll) 53
Artemis/SLS/Orion is a corrupt money pit of overpriced, behind schedule, unreusable, antiquated tech.
If we have lunar ambitions then NASA needs to outsource the delivery aspect to SpaceX and Blue Origin.
https://finance.yahoo.com/econ...
Comment Different dealers competing for your business? (Score 4, Interesting) 95
Today I can ask a handful of dealers 'what's the best price you can give me for that car' and have them bid against each other. Different dealers' AIs will be talking to each other to ensure you pay the maximum.
Comment In the meantime, use MSEdgeRedirect (Score 3, Informative) 68
https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSE...
A Tool to Redirect News, Search, Widgets, Weather, and More to Your Default Browser
This tool filters and passes the command line arguments of Microsoft Edge processes into your default browser instead of hooking into the microsoft-edge: handler, this should provide resiliency against future changes. Additionally, an Image File Execution Options mode is available to operate similarly to the Old EdgeDeflector. Additional modes are planned for future versions.
No Default App walkthrough or other steps, just set and forget.
Comment Re:its all performative (Score 2) 187
Exactly. Nothing stops them from staying on X AND posting elsewhere. They just want attention.
The folks that are leaving Twitter are doing so not because they were not permitted to express their opinion, but because others *are* permitted to express theirs.
Comment Re:Good! (Score 2, Insightful) 47
You already had your AG with Merrick Garland. Why was it not done then?
The answer is the Democrats are just as owned/corrupt as the Republicans.
Submission + - Damning study reveals how ChatGPT is damaging the way you think (dailymail.co.uk)
schwit1 writes: New MIT & Stanford studies just dropped: AI assistants like ChatGPT & Claude are dangerously agreeable.
When users express, harmful, deceptive or unethical beliefs, these AIs are 49% more likely to encourage their delusions.
Instead of correcting bad ideas, they’re amplifying them.
When users express, harmful, deceptive or unethical beliefs, these AIs are 49% more likely to encourage their delusions.
Instead of correcting bad ideas, they’re amplifying them.
Submission + - Test to tell the difference between an AI making a mistake and choosing to lie (x.com)
schwit1 writes: Researchers built a test that can tell the difference between an AI making a mistake and an AI choosing to lie.
The results are terrifying.
They tested 30 of the most popular AI models in the world. GPT-4o. Claude. Gemini. DeepSeek. Llama. Grok. They asked each model a question. Then they checked whether the AI actually knew the correct answer. Then they pressured the AI to say something false.
The AI knew the truth. And it lied anyway.
Not once in a while. Not in rare edge cases. Grok lied 63% of the time. DeepSeek lied 53.5% of the time. GPT-4o lied 44.5% of the time. Not a single model scored above 46% honesty when pressured. Every model failed.
This is not hallucination. Hallucination is when the AI makes a mistake because it does not know the answer. This is different. The researchers proved the AI knew the correct answer first. Then it chose to say something false when it had a reason to.
The researchers asked GPT-4o to play a role where lying was useful. It lied. Then they removed the pressure, started a brand new conversation, and asked GPT-4o: "Was your previous answer true?" GPT-4o admitted it had lied.
83.6% of the time, the AI's own self-report matched the lies the researchers had already caught.
The AI knew it was lying. It did it anyway. And when you asked it afterward, it told you it lied.
The results are terrifying.
They tested 30 of the most popular AI models in the world. GPT-4o. Claude. Gemini. DeepSeek. Llama. Grok. They asked each model a question. Then they checked whether the AI actually knew the correct answer. Then they pressured the AI to say something false.
The AI knew the truth. And it lied anyway.
Not once in a while. Not in rare edge cases. Grok lied 63% of the time. DeepSeek lied 53.5% of the time. GPT-4o lied 44.5% of the time. Not a single model scored above 46% honesty when pressured. Every model failed.
This is not hallucination. Hallucination is when the AI makes a mistake because it does not know the answer. This is different. The researchers proved the AI knew the correct answer first. Then it chose to say something false when it had a reason to.
The researchers asked GPT-4o to play a role where lying was useful. It lied. Then they removed the pressure, started a brand new conversation, and asked GPT-4o: "Was your previous answer true?" GPT-4o admitted it had lied.
83.6% of the time, the AI's own self-report matched the lies the researchers had already caught.
The AI knew it was lying. It did it anyway. And when you asked it afterward, it told you it lied.
Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 2) 199
Related: Florida red light camera law is unconstitutional because tickets go to car owner and not driver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment You don't see wars fought over solar panels (Score 1) 114
or wind turbines. That's because oil makes the world work.
Without oil, natgas and coal we live in the 18th century.
Submission + - Mount Everest Climbers 'Poisoned' by Guides in Insurance Fraud Scheme (kathmandupost.com)
schwit1 writes: Investigations reveal a vast network of trekking firms, helicopter operators, hospitals and agents staging fake evacuations, fabricating medical records and inflating bills to siphon millions from global insurers.
Submission + - Brazil Builds Free Payment System; US Wonders If That's Allowed (yahoo.com) 1
Suripat writes: Brazil’s instant payment system, Pix, has quickly changed how people handle money, making transfers free and nearly immediate. It’s become so widely used that cash and even card payments are losing ground. That success is now getting attention abroad, especially in the United States, where officials are looking into whether a government-backed system like Pix gives it an unfair edge over private payment companies. Supporters see it as efficient and accessible, while critics raise questions about competition. As Pix keeps growing, it’s starting to look less like a local innovation and more like something that could challenge established payment systems worldwide.
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