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“Musk has claimed to have found billions of dollars of waste or fraud in the government, and Trump and the White House have touted those statements. But their claims to have found massive savings have been full of errors, and most of their claims have been disproved.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 6, 2025
#musk #trump #doge #deception

I distrust almost everything, especially when it comes to humans. I distrust people aligned with ideologies or beliefs, but also those who say they don't believe in anything. I distrust those who have no ethics or morals, but also those who do.
Humanity loves conflict, wars, power struggles. Every era of history has had its own great conflicts, wars, revolutions and social confrontations. And every conflict has at least two sides, it's always about "us and them."
If you are one of those people who takes sides in every conflict, you are living in a delusion. Wherever there is conflict, there is someone stirring up trouble, someone making waves so that you do not see the reality.
Your hate, your outrage, your fear, and all the mental turmoil that all of this generates in you, generates millions in profits for someone. Leaders, the media, experts in almost everything, They have you on your ass all the time fearing for your life and your dignity, day things are being stolen from you while you think you are fighting and advocating for idealistic causes invented to distract you.
Distract yourself from what? From the peaceful life you should be living. Because people who are not afraid and live peacefully, don't consume the crap they want to sell them.
I refuse to be the cattle of millionaires and powerful people who try to squeeze the lives of others out of greed.

🤥 Tailored Truths: Optimizing LLM Persuasion with Personalization and Fabricated Statistics

arxiv.org/abs/2501.17273

arXiv.orgTailored Truths: Optimizing LLM Persuasion with Personalization and Fabricated StatisticsLarge Language Models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly persuasive, demonstrating the ability to personalize arguments in conversation with humans by leveraging their personal data. This may have serious impacts on the scale and effectiveness of disinformation campaigns. We studied the persuasiveness of LLMs in a debate setting by having humans $(n=33)$ engage with LLM-generated arguments intended to change the human's opinion. We quantified the LLM's effect by measuring human agreement with the debate's hypothesis pre- and post-debate and analyzing both the magnitude of opinion change, as well as the likelihood of an update in the LLM's direction. We compare persuasiveness across established persuasion strategies, including personalized arguments informed by user demographics and personality, appeal to fabricated statistics, and a mixed strategy utilizing both personalized arguments and fabricated statistics. We found that static arguments generated by humans and GPT-4o-mini have comparable persuasive power. However, the LLM outperformed static human-written arguments when leveraging the mixed strategy in an interactive debate setting. This approach had a $\mathbf{51\%}$ chance of persuading participants to modify their initial position, compared to $\mathbf{32\%}$ for the static human-written arguments. Our results highlight the concerning potential for LLMs to enable inexpensive and persuasive large-scale disinformation campaigns.
#lie#llm#cs
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@w7voa
Two things can be true at once, correct, @jackmjenkins -- He's going to fight anti-Christian bias and antisemitism.

Can three things also be true at once? Are we going to hear about a commission/panel to fight Islamophobia -- or will Muslims become one of the "others" to blame?
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content
#deception #USpol #USpolitics

encyclopedia.ushmm.orgDeceiving the PublicThe Nazis frequently used propaganda to disguise their political aims and deceive the German and international public.
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@Korallenherz #Weichreite seems to be a "independent" reporter that infiltrates opposition demonstrations and crowds calls them "die Aufrechten" (nothing wrong with that) also does not know what #fascism means or how it works but he seems to be a #fascist without knowing it which seems to be the major problem with #fascism at least 50% do not realize what it is or how it works

he claims to be pro #democracy but he does not seem to know or understand or want to know that #fascism is actively destroying #democracy because #democracy is literately THE OPPOSITE of #fascism = #dictatorship = #imperialism rule of few with violence over as many as possible

lack of #education lack of #awareness and plain old #stupidity

he explicitly states that the police will protect him, interesting. thanks for sharing.

even worse 90% of earth's population is not aware that a centrally controlled #finance system is de facto a #fascist finance system because #fascism LITERATELY means concentration of power in the hands of unellected few

if unellected people will abuse this power or not? (to gain even more power and control) very likely YES.

#stupidity KILLS! "oooops we (AGAIN) killed millions by accident" no YOU DO NOT GET AN OOPSIE when it comes to killing millions!!!!

it is just sad

in 5000 years #aliens will land on this planet and try to determine why this civilization collapsed to learn from it. they will find an old harddisk that is still readable and find out that 90% of civilizations in the #universe self destructed because of #stupidity #greed #deception and #manipulation

if those aliens have empathy and emotions they will become sad but also angry at the same time. because they too do not want to be alone in the #universe.

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@petergleick
🥥 To understand how the Trump regime works, Peter, you must understand "kayfabe":
A slang noun usually applied to professional wrestling, but now the essential Trump tactic.
It's the portrayal of events as real; for example, the acceptance of professional wrestling and its accompanying storylines as not staged or simulated -- whereas staged and simulated are exactly what they are. Trumpism is pro wrestling writ large. 🥥
#USPolitics #Kayfabe #Deception #TuckersBalls

Operation Fortitude was the Allies’ successful effort to deceive Nazi Germany that the invasion forces would land at Pas de Calais on D Day. The project included creating a wholly fictional order of battle including dummy tanks, landing craft and aircraft for the fictitious First United States Army Group led by Patton.

#WW2 #Espionage #Deception #DDay

historyanswers.co.uk/history-o

All About History | All About History Magazine · D-Day heroine – interview with WREN veteran Marie Scott | All About HistoryDeep in the bowels of Fort Southwick, radio operator Marie Scott was one of the first to hear D-Day, passing communications between the beaches and high command.