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The short killer summary: The Skeptics Handbook. The most deadly point: The Missing Hot Spot.
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May 20th, 2025 | Tags: Unthreaded | Category: Uncategorized |  Print This Post | |

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  Skepticynic

  May 20, 2025 at 1:21 am · Reply

  Is it OK for AI to write science papers? Nature survey shows researchers are split

  https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01463-8

  Poll of 5,000 researchers finds contrasting views on when it’s acceptable to involve AI and what needs to be disclosed.

  ChatGPT’s hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI’s own tests and nobody understands why

  A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.

  The New York Times
  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/technology/ai-hallucinations-chatgpt-google.html
  reports that an OpenAI’s investigation into its latest GPT o3 and GPT o4-mini large LLMs found they are substantially more prone to hallucinating, or making up false information, than the previous GPT o1 model.

  “The company found that o3 — its most powerful system — hallucinated 33 percent of the time when running its PersonQA benchmark test, which involves answering questions about public figures. That is more than twice the hallucination rate of OpenAI’s previous reasoning system, called o1. The new o4-mini hallucinated at an even higher rate: 48 percent,” the Times says.

  “When running another test called SimpleQA, which asks more general questions, the hallucination rates for o3 and o4-mini were 51 percent and 79 percent. The previous system, o1, hallucinated 44 percent of the time.”

  OpenAI has said that more research is required to understand why the latest models are more prone to hallucination. But so-called “reasoning” models are the prime candidate according to some industry observers.

  More: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/lifestylegeneral/chatgpt-s-hallucination-problem-is-getting-worse-according-to-openai-s-own-tests-and-nobody-understands-why/ar-AA1EgtLH

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    Honk R Smith

    May 20, 2025 at 3:39 am · Reply

    So we can expect no improvements or changes in SOP in news reporting or science?

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  RicDre

  May 20, 2025 at 4:26 am · Reply

  Blackouts as Bliss? Why Some Celebrate Power Outages as a Return to ‘Connection’

  From MasterResource

  By Robert Bradley Jr.

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  LA-based climate campaigner Michael Mezzatesta, self-described economics and climate educator, has a new one for the climate debate: blackouts are good, bringing us together! He states:

  The mainstream economic narrative in the USA would have us believe that power blackouts are always a bad thing – just think of all that lost productivity! Think of the effect on the GDP!

  So I was curious to see this video about the recent blackouts in Spain rack up millions of views on Instagram 👇

  I think it resonated with people because it points towards a *new* narrative for society and the economy – one where joy & connection are prioritized over economic productivity.

  As the original creator, Lili Poser, said in her caption: During the blackouts, people were “disconnected but more connected than ever.” Imagine that!

  Back to Nature, the Garden of Eden? Off the grid for happiness and solidarity? Small is beautiful? Less is more? Negawatts? Degrowth? “I campaign for the extinction of the human race“?

  …

  https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/19/blackouts-are-good/

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    MeAgain

    May 20, 2025 at 4:40 am · Reply

    While clutching at their paper straws, they will quickly find the ice melts in that gin and tonic and then there is no more.

    and then the high rise apartments in the 15 minute cities can’t pump the water to flush the toilets. And it starts to smell.
    and the backup generation fails in hospitals, in emergency departments. In the prisons. In the madhouses. In the morgues.

    and the barbers can’t cut hair and the dentists can’t clean teeth and the welders and builders can’t repair.

    It get’s ugly, hairy, smelly and the whole ‘connection’ buzz is sapped quickly

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  MeAgain

  May 20, 2025 at 4:27 am · Reply

  Moonshot project for Australia to continue its wealth trajectory.

  If it wasn’t Net Zero, what would you do? Let’s talk opportunity cost.

  https://www.kvetch.au/p/ambitious-australia

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