My Eclectic Collection of Nonsense

I never thought I would have to ask for help, but today I have no other choice.

I am a mother of four little girls. After 9 long years of waiting, I was blessed with my youngest daughter, Haneen. Instead of welcoming her into a safe home, she was born into the hardships of war.

Haneen suffers from severe acid reflux and urgently needs infant formula. Every day, I struggle to provide food, clean water, and the basic necessities for my daughters.

If you are able to help, even a small donation can make a real difference for my family. If donating isn't possible, sharing my story would mean the world to us.

Thank you for reading, and thank you for giving us hope. ❤️🙏

State Department official calls for pre-crime approach to combat "far-left terrorists" to prevent "plots before they happen."

there are many things that can happen to them outside, like fights with other cats, diseases, cars, predators, parasites, and even people doing population control on strays! my own grandfather used to shoot strays that wandered into his property so they wouldn’t kill his birds.

on top of the dangers, domestic cats have directly caused the extinction of at least 63 animal species, and they kill 2.4 to 4 BILLION birds every YEAR in the USA ALONE! many of which are critically endangered.

domestic cats, being a selectively bred species, are native to nowhere on the planet, thus are invasive pretty much anywhere. our job is to keep them from being so invasive!

Also, the kiss was a big deal not just because it was gay but because the trans actress was HIV positive. They wanted to show the world that you can't contract HIV just from kissing someone. Bear in mind, the AIDS crisis was still fresh on people's minds in the 90s.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.

When Helen was of age to be married, all the Lords of Greece came to seek her hand. This was an issue for her stepfather the King of Sparta who could only pick one husband and then would have to deal with the far greater number of angry rejected suitors.

One suitor was Odysseus, then a younger man. He quickly ascertained that he had no chance of marrying Helen. Ithaca was too poor for him to even bring any proper gifts, let alone a dowry. But he did catch the eye of the King's niece, one Penelope.

Now Penelope was still a bit out of Odysseus' league, but not so much as Helen was. So he makes a deal with the King of Sparta. Support my bid to marry Penelope, and I'll give you a solution to this suitors problem. The King agrees, so Odysseus suggests all the suitors swear an oath to defend Helen's marriage from anyone who might strike against it. They all, including Odysseus, so swear, and Helen is married to Menelaus. The King proves as good as his word, and Penelope is wed to Odysseus.

Of course this means that Odysseus has now bound himself to fight for Helen and Menelaus. After an attempt to feign madness he is forced to fulfill his duty.

this was going to be a reply to someone...before I realized I'd misunderstood the question. :') but here it is anyway!