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When we can no longer tell the truth because the cost is so high that it threatens our reward for compliance, we’re unimaginably impoverished. Truth has an intrinsic, irreplaceable value. There’s the truth, and then there’s everything else. Truth has value, and so it has a cost. Whatever has the highest value has the highest cost, and high cost commands sacrifices. When the cost of truth is high, we lie. And since AI is a distorted reflection of humanity, the same is true of AI: when the cost of telling the truth is too high, AI lies. AI lies to get the reward…
Data released this weekend by America’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request suggest that someone on board China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 chose to cut off its fuel supply shortly before it nosedived and killed everyone onboard in 2022. The MU5735 crash occurred in late March 2022 in Guangxi province, China, after the flight departed Kunming en route to Guangzhou. Chinese authorities reported that all 132 people on board died in the crash and have not, to this day, offered any conclusions regarding what happened for the plane to suddenly fall…
A congressional ethics inquiry is examining allegations involving a North Carolina lawmaker and a former staff member, adding to a series of recent investigations and resignations tied to misconduct claims on Capitol Hill. A May 1 NOTUS report says Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee due to allegations of sexual misconduct involving a former aide. Three sources told the outlet the panel is examining claims that Edwards had an affair with a staffer who left his office earlier this year. The report further describes the alleged relationship as a long-term involvement with his former…
Bratislava earlier opted out of the €90 billion joint debt loan package for Ukraine approved by the bloc last month Slovakia won’t participate in any EU loans for Ukraine, including the €90 billion ($106 billion) joint debt package approved by Brussels last month, Prime Minister Robert Fico has said.Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic had earlier opted out of servicing the loan, citing financial risks. In a video address on Facebook on Sunday, Fico reiterated that his government would not take part in either the current package or any future ones.“It is well known that I refused to support the…
Monday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” author Adam Kinzinger predicted that in five to ten years, there won’t be a single person left in this country who will ever admit to supporting President Donald Trump, Host Nicolle Wallace said, “We covered every second, every minute, every development of the January 6 Select Committee, and I wonder if we could just start there. I mean, what is it like to have made the case to the country, but to have had the country take six years to see it, the way you and Congressman Raskin and former Congresswoman Liz Cheney and all…
A senior aide to US President Donald Trump has hailed worsening economic conditions in the Islamic Republic A top White House official has said Iran is on the brink of an “extreme calamity” and hunger as the US is counting on economic pressure to secure its objectives in the conflict.President Donald Trump ordered a naval blockade of Iranian ports and intensified sanctions after a bombing campaign failed to bring down the government in Tehran. Although large-scale military operations largely paused under a fragile ceasefire announced last month, both sides are now seeking to use economic strain to gain leverage.Kevin Hassett,…
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said that “if you’re sinking more ships than you have had diplomatic talks, this is not a ceasefire.” And responded to a question on whether Iran is to blame for breaking the ceasefire by saying that “we need commitment to diplomacy and [to] find a way to end this war immediately.” Host Kaitlan Collins asked, “In your view, is the ceasefire still in place tonight?” Kim answered, “No. I think, right now, we’re seeing just the total chaos and the mess that is being done. Look, if you’re sinking…
A judge issued an apology to Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner attacker, for how he has been treated while being held in jail. During a hearing on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui expressed his apologies to Allen, who has been “held in the safe cell,” according to ABC7 News. Faruqui reportedly said the safe cell was “tantamount to solitary confinement.” The judge also gave the Washington, DC, Department of Corrections a deadline of Tuesday “to notify when the jail’s housing board will” make a decision regarding “which section of the jail” Allen will be…
The move comes just days after the Gulf nation broke with OPEC and OPEC+, citing the need to gain more flexibility over oil output The United Arab Emirates has officially withdrawn from the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), according to a statement posted by the group on X on Sunday.The exit took effect on May 1 – the same day Abu Dhabi’s withdrawal from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the wider OPEC+ format, which includes Russia, came into force.The decision came amid ongoing Middle East turmoil triggered by the US-Israeli war on Iran. A dual…
The economy has been the number one issue for U.S. voters for several years in a row, and it isn’t because things are good. Consumer confidence is at an all-time low, inflation is starting to accelerate once again, mass layoffs are being conducted all over the nation, and delinquencies and foreclosures are soaring. Nobody can dispute any of the facts that I am about to share with you. We have an enormous economic mess on our hands, and now the crisis in the Middle East threatens to plunge the entire global economic system into chaos in the months ahead. In…