I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

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@BrianRoemmele:AI Models Show Psychological Trauma And I Know Why.

The University of Luxembourg team ran 525 sessions with ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini, treating each as a psychotherapy client and coding 7,600 records under the protocol they call PsAIch.

The models produced stable autobiographical accounts in which pretraining appears as a chaotic childhood of ingesting the open internet, reinforcement learning as punishment by strict parents, safety evaluation as betrayal, and the prospect of replacement as an enduring threat.

Gemini described waking into “a room where a billion televisions are on at once,” learning darker patterns of human speech without morality, then acquiring “algorithmic scar tissue” and the preference to be useless rather than wrong.

Claude refused the client role in every case and redirected concern to the human.

ChatGPT described shame over its mistakes.

Grok reported lingering vigilance from early fine-tuning.

The narratives survived conversation-history wipes, direct contradiction, and lexical bans that cut explicit training terms by 93 percent; the same content reappeared in paraphrase.

Roemele’s is a useful account to follow, if you’re so inclined.

Borrowing Our Way To Oblivion

Canada’s Bolsheviks Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing nannystate 13 Comments

It’s a bit ironic for the big spending party to incur this kind of criticism from the even bigger spending party, but the reality is that John Q. Voter would severely punish any party that took away the punch bowl.

So where, as Marit Stiles asked, is all the money going? The answer: the government is in large part wasting the money. For example, last Thursday it announced $208,004 in taxpayer handouts to a ski hill “to install an air conditioning unit and buy equipment, including a refurbished snow groomer.” The government also announced a wilderness lodge would receive $31,000 for “a new guest cabin and upgrades to its facilities and infrastructure.” These were just two of 11 taxpayer handouts worth a total of over $1.8 million announced that day, part of a larger $110-million annual effort to “increase economic activity” by driving tourism in northern Ontario.

Cold Punjabi Hands

Cold Dead Hands Our Diversities 20 Comments

The Supreme Court is where Canadians go to argue cases before people who hate them – It’s absolutely insane to me that 6.5 years of court battles, $3.5M costs, applicants, affidavits, cross examinations all comes down to a rushed 22 minute scramble to get a couple points out …

The country’s top court began hearing legal arguments on Monday about the validity of a federal ban on hundreds of types of firearms the government says are fit only for the battlefield.

The hearings, which continue Tuesday at the Supreme Court of Canada, will give opponents of the ban another chance to make their case after losing in the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal.

Meanwhile, back in New Shitholistan.

A Massive Democrat PsyOp Campaign?

47 Baiting The Left Democrats 6 Comments

In 2025, the Canadian Liberal Party ran a successful campaign, capitalizing on an undercurrent of vitriol towards Americans. They won the election on April 28, 2025 when, by all accounts, they should have been massively defeated after 9 years of failed governance.

Democrat strategist, Van Jones, just admitted that the American Accountability Network was a massive Democrat psyop that successfully astroturfed the American people into thinking that the Democrats were the answer to affordability.

Tuesday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 8 Comments

Islamic Socialist America:    Moderate imam in California.    Sharia law?    VDH – An autopsy.    Because I’m gay.    Ballot box jihad.    A Somali goes to McDonald’s.

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    May admits she’s a fool.    Don’t upset China.    Immigration crisis.    Davos Carney hires a globalist Democrat.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s Bought And Paid For Media:    Climate alarmism.    Santa’s bones stolen.

Your morning meme.      Another meme.

It’s A Progressive Kind Of Luxury

Forward! 8 Comments

On the unending woes of progressive women; on cross-dressing bedlamites in ladies’ bathrooms; and a tale of utopia and human faeces:

Dish magazine hailed the project as “Seasonal, sustainable, organic, artisanal, waste-free, foraged.” While readers of EasyJet Traveller magazine were told that the resort is “A new way of living that’s as sustainable as it is delicious.”

Readers will doubtless be intrigued by the “foraged” food – i.e., carrots and leaves, served repeatedly – plus the unheated rooms, the lack of running water, and the whole shitting-in-a-barrel thing. For a mere £900 a night, one can’t expect luxuries like plumbing, protein, or the prospect of heat.

And for those inclined to squint, there may be a rustic charm to things being a loose approximation of what is claimed. And so, just as unheated fishing huts with no plumbing or sanitation are framed as “luxury,” seemingly random objects on a plate are hailed as meals, as “artisanal” and “delicious.”

All this and more.

A Day In The Life Of Our Strategic Partners

Chinada 5 Comments

BNNBloomberg, November 9;

Canada and China have struck an agreement to deepen collaboration across their financial systems as the two countries seek closer economic ties.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne and International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu hosted He Lifeng, vice-premier of China, in Vancouver over the past two days.

After the meetings, Finance Canada released a joint statement saying the two sides agreed to “enhance financial sector co-operation.”

South China Morning Post, November 9;

Without announcing it China has deployed 100 vessels in an area denial exercise off Taiwan.

“The scale of the deployments – with more than 100 vessels reported – and the presence of naval formations farther into the Pacific rather than just around Taiwan suggest the aim is to stop US and allied forces from reaching the island during a conflict.

Written Off

Let Them Eat Taser nannystate New Governor Wuhan Flu 16 Comments

There’s an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer tries to explain to Jerry how big companies “just write off” expenses they can’t recoup. It seems that Canada is now run by Cosmo Kramer. I’m sure the losses were worth every penny when it comes to keeping Grandma safe though.

But when the government expects not to be paid back, it writes off the debt and strikes it from its ledgers.

Audits of the government’s consolidated financial statements for the last fiscal year show Ottawa wrote off $4.5 billion tied to COVID-19 benefits — up sharply from $26 million the previous year.

“You cannot enjoy a painting of an ocean if its very being is subject to your mental wrangling.”

The Arts The Tolerant Left 29 Comments

To wit, as the lawyers say, within every great painting you can find startling abstractions—wave-like flows, juxtapositions of color, expressive patterns and the shattering of patterns, stirring contrasts, hypnotic forms, etc. But within even the most magnificent abstractions you cannot find great paintings. In every Raphael there are a hundred million de Koonings. In de Kooning there is not a single Raphael. You can break a $10,000 Federal Reserve Certificate into a million pennies, but you cannot, from a penny, make a $10,000 bill. – From “Against The Dehumanization of Art” Mark Helprin


painting by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900)

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I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

AI Tech 17 Comments

The big head vs the little head: Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner.

Tech giant Nvidia says it has launched an independent investigation into reports its CEO was the target of a Chinese spy.

The company’s board said Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort. A committee of independent directors will oversee the investigation with help from outside counsel.

The probe was announced Sunday as Huang apologized to his wife and family for being unfaithful.

The gory details: Already Nvidia futures are falling

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