sericccus's comments

try to find stuff on the situation in Ukraine.

so much empty, you'll hardly remember Gaza ...

> the world became accustomed to that and moved on

I used to have a similar opinion, but some young kids made me aware of an entirely different perspective. The young world seems to be waiting. There are those who jump on every hype to kill boredom or to compensate, those we all see and, I'll be honest here, who we all pity. But then there are those who couldn't get inspired and stimulated in that rather short window between the birth of awareness and that infinite moment when the dark patterns of big tech and the marketing industry hit them like a 2 mile-long freight-train. They can't move on; they are paralyzed. And society acts like they need reeducation.

Some people call it the "enshittification" of the internet and culture itself, which makes it worse because the term just creates another hype. The underlying issue are obedient engineers just doing their job instead of _simply_ (because they are damn good) being the better and much brighter competition. Rationalism and game theory have fooled the smartest into conformity.

To more than 50 % of humans, the reason is that the people, who are warning about climate change and are advocating for changes in behavior, are not trustworthy.

Here's a bit: (When I say, engineers, I mean all kinds of engineers _and_ scientists.)

Engineers build products that require customers to fight for a fucking right to repair. Engineers build stuff based on dark patterns. Engineers put things into food that makes people sick and then tell stories about how the lifestyles of the past generations were bad for them. Engineers build companies that exploit people with and without a (higher) education. Engineers invented the volatile prices of oil and gas even though we constantly find new sources, soon, most likely even on other planets. Engineers are responsible for not taking care of the trash their companies used to produce, the trash that has polluted air, water and soil. Engineers don't go into politics to use logic, rationality, facts, THE TRUTH (I'm sorry for being so dramatic), to oust liars and manipulators in order to establish better policies and practices. Engineers work at huge consultancies and create strategies that stretch decades and amount to opiod epidemics and civil conflicts and financial scams that rob almost all the people on the entire planet of the added value they have created with their own hands, their sweat and their blood. We have no reason to believe them because if it was so damn important to them, they'd find the time and space to use their brains to actually do something about all the assholes that are in the way and I can't even say that without worrying that all these Engineers actually fucking think that we, the people who have build and grown EVERYTHING, are the one that are in the way. Because that's what they are leading us to believe and there are billions of people out there who would phraise everything I just said in millions of ways.

I know all the good things Engineers have done and are doing, and I'm trying to convince my father all the time, but the negative things stick because they make the few so much richer than the positive things that make the rest so much richer.

> without direct instructions or training for deception

...except that the LLM probably logically infers the instruction from the study design. In other words, 'based on my training data, this is what you are trying to nudge me towards'. Reminds me of that pub sign in that Matrix 4 movie, that reads "for those of you who like to eat shit" which is recursive in nature, of course, because they made the movie like they did on purpose even though they didn't have to and simply flushed their creative freedom down the drain for the sake of going meta and pointing fingers. Lovely, lovely.