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Sam Altman’s Greatest FearThe Alignment Problem and the Future of HumanityYesterday Sam Altman testified before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the first of a series of hearings on AI safety.Altman, CEO of the company that created ChatGPT, agreed with senators about the potential dangers of AI. He spoke of the need for regulation, the importance of privacy, and he even advocated creating a government agency to license AI companies.The academic, Gary Marcus, called Altman out and declared that “he never told us what his worst fear is, and I think it’s germain to find out.”Altman did answer...

A federal judge has blocked sections of New Jersey's new concealed carry law that prohibits firearms in "sensitive" areas following a legal challenge from gun rights groups. In the ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Renee Marie Bumb issued a preliminary injunction barring the state from enforcing sections of a law preventing licensed firearm owners from carrying guns in government buildings, libraries, public transportation and daycare centers, among other locations. "The Constitution leaves the states some measures to combat handgun violence," she wrote. But what the Second Amendment prohibits the States from doing, and what the state of New Jersey has...

Both New York Magazine Editor-at-Large Kara Swisher and MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle clearly don’t understand the American principle of free speech. And neither appear to know who George Soros is. Following Twitter owner Elon Musk’s criticism of the leftist billionaire’s gambit to “erode the very fabric of civilization” on his social media platform, Ruhle went apoplectic in a May 16 interview with Fisher on MSNBC’s 11th Hour: “Why is Elon Musk permitted by shareholders, employees, his board to behave in a way that no other CEO in the world can act?” So-called tech journalist Swisher harrumphed that Musk is “steeped...

The Bible In Paintings ~ Encouragement for Applying and Appreciating God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• THE SCROLL’S SEVENTH SEAL: SEVEN TRUMPETS ֎ Featuring 31 Paintings and 8 Fensters ֎ REVELATION «Chapter 8» When he opened the seventh seal, I saw THE SEVEN ANGELS who stand before God, and to them were given SEVEN TRUMPETS. 1 Source 2 Source 3 Source 4 Source 5 Source 6 Source ANOTHER ANGEL, who had A GOLDEN CENSER, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne....

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(The Center Square) – Will the Biden administration’s latest energy regulations force Americans out of gas vehicles and into more expensive electric cars? Lawmakers in the U.S. House held a hearing Wednesday tackling that key question. The hearing, held by the Oversight Committee’s Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee, focused on newly proposed Environmental Protection Agency tailpipe emission rules that the federal agency itself called “ambitious.” The EPA projects the proposed regulation would mean that fully electric vehicles make up two thirds of all new "light duty" and 46% of new medium-duty vehicle sales by 2032. The EPA,...

His racist commentary and demagoguery is an old story, deployed as needed and in the direction most likely to suit the moment. The most recent liberal ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Joe Biden’s approval rating at 36 percent—the lowest in history for a president at this point in his first term. Biden’s low popularity is no mystery. He inherited energy independence, affordable gas prices, historically low interest rates, low inflation, calm overseas, a low crime rate, and a largely closed border with legal-only immigration. And then Biden destroyed that inheritance. He has begged illiberal foreign governments to pump oil he...

Jackie Kennedy Onassis died on this date in 1994. "If you bungle raising your children," she said, "I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." Perhaps humankind's most important children are the nations we have created. Now Joe Biden needs to deal with the debt ceiling crisis in America. Shelly of San Diego.has written: "America, like ancient Rome, will be destroyed from within long before the actual enemy invasions begin. I believe the dissolution of America is inevitable. ................. Since Australia's great wartime Prime minister, John Curtin said, "Australia looks to America." on December 27, 1941, Australia has...

Is the thrill gone from Dogecoin? In the crazy world of Cryptocurrencies, two “coins” stand out: the venerable Bitcoin and Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer’s Dogecoin (aka Dog Coin based on a Shiba Inu dog. After a jolt of popularity, likely related to Elon Musk’s tweets, dogecoin has dropped -46.5% since November 1, 2022 while Bitcoin has gained 34% over the same period. In the highly volatile world of cryptos, XRP is today’s leader at +4.81%. Today’s biggest loser is Polygon at -2.31%. Dogecoin is down almost -1% while Bitcoin is up slightly. With Washington DC completely out of control...

You’ve got to appreciate brand-spankin’ new Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for being so forthright about what he intends to do to his struggling city. Johnson promised at his inauguration on Monday to “build a Chicago that means our economy gets to grow by rerouting the rivers of prosperity to the base of disinvestment,” whatever that means, “So that no one goes thirsty.” What it really means is new and higher taxes, and Johnson’s “progressive” allies, Saqib Bhatti and Gabriela Noa Betancourt, stepped immediately into action, releasing a fiscal blueprint for the city called “First We Get the Money.” The name...

Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael S. Rollins broke federal law when she made false statements under oath to agents confronting her about leaking a non-public U.S. Department of Justice letter... [A]fter federal agents acquired her text messages with the reporter...Rollins admitted to providing the letter... Special Counsel Henry J. Kerner said Rollins' actions are "among the most egregious transgressions of the act that OSC has ever investigated." "Ms. Rollins's abuse of her power within the federal justice system to achieve a political goal epitomizes the type of 'political justice' that Congress intended to prohibit," the 105-page report concludes. "There are no...

Modern Women Are SHOCKED When Men Won't Date Them 🤣 Cue this video at 3:02. On Monday I posted a story and said "this is the stupidest thing I will see all week" and another FReeper said don't underestimate how stupid the human race can be or something like that. well...here it is!! Someone more stupid! A kid, not sure if it's a boy or a girl showing an outfit this person wanted to wear had they been in Pearl Harbor that happened in the 1960's. Yes..the 1960's Spoiler alert..it's not a Naval Costume.

Anheuser-Busch will launch camouflage and motorcycle-themed beer can redesigns for Bud Light and Budweiser as the multinational conglomerate reels from its recent partnership with self-identified transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. One unnamed executive from the company informed the New York Post on Tuesday that the firm will produce a camouflage Bud Light can as part of an initiative that offers educational scholarships to family members of fallen American military service members and first responders. “It’s an aluminum bottle,” the source told the outlet. “I believe it is the only package that will be transitioning, but I am not 100%...

Either the federal government should abide by the U.S. Constitution, or it should go away. Comey: I am the law. Fauci: I am the science. Deep State: We are your democracy. Federal Reserve: We are your freedom. This kind of authoritarianism does not belong in America. When tyrants pervert the law, distort scientific inquiry, abuse their power, and pilfer middle-class savings, they are American in name only. Now that Mr. Durham has gotten around to confirming what most of us have known for nearly seven years — namely, that Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Brennan, Jim Comey, James Clapper, and...

Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna introduced a resolution Wednesday that would remove Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff from the U.S. House of Representatives. The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the resolution, which cites the Durham Report as the reason the congresswoman believes Schiff should no longer serve in Congress. “Adam Schiff lied to the American people. He used his position on House Intelligence to push a lie that cost American taxpayers millions of dollars and abused the trust placed in him as Chairman. He is a dishonor to the House of Representatives,” Paulina Luna said in a...

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EXCLUSIVE — An advocacy nonprofit group behind a campaign demanding Supreme Court "transparency" reforms on financial disclosures is in panic mode over accidentally leaking its own funders to the Washington Examiner. Fix the Court, a charity that spun off in 2021 after being a project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit group managed by the liberal dark money behemoth and for-profit company Arabella Advisors, is part of a seemingly coordinated campaign calling for Supreme Court justices to disclose more about their finances. Now, the organization is in disarray after unwittingly providing the Washington Examiner with unredacted copies of its...

U.S. officials are planning for the growing possibility that the Russia-Ukraine war will turn into a frozen conflict that lasts many years — perhaps decades — and joins the ranks of similar lengthy face-offs in the Korean peninsula, South Asia and beyond.The options discussed within the Biden administration for a long-term “freeze” include where to set potential lines that Ukraine and Russia would agree not to cross, but which would not have to be official borders. The discussions — while provisional — have taken place across various U.S. agencies and in the White House.

The last forty years of politics and religion has been focused squarely on the ascendancy of the Religious Right. I must admit that I’ve probably contributed my fair share to that discourse, as well. A motley crew of white evangelicals and traditional Catholics locked arms on some social issues, started voting in large numbers for Republican candidates, and changed American politics forever. But I think that era of religion and politics is rapidly coming to a close. The Religious Right is no longer a primarily religious movement - it’s one about cultural conservativism and nearly blind support for the GOP...

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