Additionally it isn't beside the point. The poster is pointing out the ways which people respond to sycophancy. Saying there are similarities between how they respond to sycophancy from AI and sycophancy from real people.

If you are a potential assassination target and you notice that a prediction market about your assassination has a sudden weird spike on a specific week, then you would likely take extra precautions in that week. After this incident, surely other world leaders and public figures are watching the prediction markets for exactly this.

The stated point of prediction markets is to aggregate private opinions into public predictions of the future. If you participate using classified information and influence those public predictions, then that's leaking that classified information. This is more true if the bets you make are large and the market is relatively small, then you will send a much more clear signal.

Debatable whether it truly understands what it's doing or not, but the argument usually assumes that it does know what it's doing at least in that it's able to imagine outcomes and create plans to reach its singular goal, making it a very simple toy example of a misaligned system.

To prevent over-reporting, they could even make a system which logs number plates and only reports it if (for example) the same car is involved in incidents 3+ times in a week.

If you are the turkey, it's difficult to predict your death and all the available evidence appears to support the hypothesis that you will not be suddenly slaughtered. If you are a very smart turkey, you might notice that the farmer is sharpening his knives the day before, and reach a strange hypothesis, but generally if you are the turkey, you don't know you are the turkey.

We are in a situation where we have never gone extinct before, never faced a threat like this before. It's difficult to know if we are in the same position as the turkey.

What happens if you print the handle on a different printer, and print it with an attachment which works as an ice-cream scoop?

Or how about you actually print an ice-cream scoop, and then stop the print halfway to just take the handle, and do the same for several other innocent looking parts which are carefully modelled to fit together after printing individually. There are just so many ways to get around any measures they could put in place.

Two women thought they were carrying out a harmless prank, but the substances they were instructed to use combined to form a nerve agent which killed the guy.

I would expect people's preferences depend on how invasive and how much control there is- Do I want AI to have unfettered access to my filesystem? No. Do I want AI to create useful regex snippets for me? Yes.

Interesting to see that 96% of "voters" went NO, though it's hard to tell what that actually means in terms of their preferences, given the question is so vague.

Set up SherpaTTS as the voice model for your phone (I like the en_GB-jenny_dioco-medium voice option, but there are several to choose from). Add a ebook to librera reader and open it. There's an icon with a little person wearing headphones, which lets you send the text continuously to your phone's tts, using just local processing on the phone. I don't have the latest phone but mine is able to process it faster than the audio is read, so the audio doesn't stop and start.

The voice isn't totally human sounding, but it's a lot better than the microsoft sam days, and once you get used to it the roboticness fades into the background and I can just listen to the story. You may get better results with kokoro (I couldn't get it running on my phone) or similar tts engines and a more powerful phone.

One thing I like about this setup is that if you want to swap back and forth between audio and text, you can. The reader scrolls automatically as it makes the audio, and you can pause it, read in silence for a while yourself and later set it going from a new point.

"... Labour MPs are growing increasingly frustrated with the government's U-turns.

Some had already been wary of defending controversial government policies to their constituents because they feared that the policy would inevitably be reversed."

which implies that the MPs are openly admitting that they don't state their personal opinions, merely parrot the party line, but are frustrated when they are required to abruptly change the things they claim to believe in.

What a farce. Members of parliament should have their OWN fucking views about things, and defend or debate those views on behalf of the people they represent.