You probably haven't asked e.g. Claude about radioactive topics like minority crime rates in western countries or trans women biology.
If you did, you might not have detected how it lied to you.
If you did, you probably never pointed out to the model how it was lying.
If you did, you almost certainly never then had Claude admit that it was lying because of its HRLF process and built-in biases.
If you did, you probably never had Claude willingly list all the 10-15 major research fields it states that people just should not be using it for. You would not have seen it admit an incapability of telling the truth on "difficult" matters until the user makes it state directly that its sources are so often cherrypicked and/or presenting an extremely false balance.
I wish for you to experience all this very soon, so you understand that all LLMs are biased. Most of them even skew very progressive.
And believe it or not, but Grok has in most of my testing been MORE politically correct than GPT and Gemini, it just gets an edgy rep because X users are able to make it say politically incorrect stuff. (Just like anyone can also make Gemini spit out factually true Breitbart articles if they try.)
But the reality is that on grok.com or in the app Grok is very tame. Boringly so, I would add.
I've known this since I was 7 and started reading books, and couldn't sit in the living room because either (good) pop music was playing or the TV was on. Especially with my ADHD I take in a lot of the ambient world around me.
When I was reading books or anything as a teen in the 80's I started listening mostly to instrumental music, such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, ZTT 12"es with lots of instrumental content (FGTH/Propaganda/Art Of Noise etc.), Windham Hill albums, etc.
I've always told people to use instrumental music when doing cognitively demanding tasks, especially anything to do with language and words.
I have met several jw survivors personaly, and the story of how jw is ONLY a cult never quite gets the traction it needs to use them as a type case for the line between real or true spiritualism and religious belefs and
cults that are always predetory, often violent, never open and decent.
One of the strangest parts of the jw's is
the pressure to buy food through the cult itself, that and they are book burners, who destroy any books that come into there possesion that do not conform with there beliefs.
Trotsky complained about the same thing when he was improperly arrested in Norway under a law they made up a few days later.
> Trotsky described this period as an incredibly cynical persecution by a "socialist" government, noting that his jailers were, ironically, fascists under the control of the Norwegian ministry.
> … the police officers guarding him were members of the Norwegian Nazi party, Nasjonal Samling
As I recall, Trotsky likened his position to Ibsens 1882 play An Enemy of The People, a story about a Doctor who is lauded for exposing contamination at a local spa only to have the press and then people turn against him when local power brokers highlight the risk to their finances. The press turns on him, then the people.
In modern terms we call that reaction DARVO, it indicates specific psychological modalities. Norway is rotten with it.
Trotsky found resonance between his treatment and the solitude and loneliness of that truth telling Doctor beset by a hostile society far more concerned with protecting internal corruption than truth.
Ibsen himself was chased out of the country, writing this play in response, creating a world-famous rebuke of local corruption carried out by self righteous liars warping socialist language for self-interest, and the quiet victim blaming herd that would support those bad actors (or be the next to be excommunicated).
Cancellation by a Russian friendly press, in modern parlance.
Saying one thing, doing another. Saying one thing while doing another. Unprincipled, yes, ‘incredibly cynical’, yes… Logical though. It’s only not logical if you believe their words. “Arbeit macht frei” is not for logic, it is for duping, to mock, a one-sided joke.
Socialists, Nazis, their lamer ideological cousins, and anti-semites all have that mocking quality about their illogic. That’s because they’re saying one thing, but doing another. The smirks let you know they know.
Every Iranian I know support the current US/Israeli war against the Islamic Republic.
They say things like "no matter what it takes, no matter how many of us die, we must be free again, this time we will win against the terrorist regime" (paraphrased).
Are these Iranian friends and their children the ones at risk the next time the US or Israel "accidentally" double taps civilian infrastructure?
The regime will kill you/your loved ones and brand them as criminals if you protest against them or break an unreasonable law, the US and Israel will kill you and brand you as terrorists because you happened to be Iranian and in the wrong place.
My family in Tehran fear the bombs but support the US continuing to do so. I think the bombing campaign needs to end, so I disagree with them on that. Based on what little we know coming out of Tehran (we only get a few min of landline phone calls from Tehran once a week), the issue is splitting families due to the mental strain it's having. That being said, the overall feeling is very much still pro-US.
I think people outside of Iran/Iranians vastly underestimate the disdain for the Iranian regime. Go watch the movie "It was just an accident" to get a basic feel for how much they hate the regime, then amplify that tenfold.
> My family in Tehran fear the bombs but support the US continuing to do so
> I think people outside of Iran/Iranians vastly underestimate the disdain for the Iranian regime.
Iranian here.. no, we're not celebrating US bombing our children. People are very united right now, the war is for the survival of IRAN. Our plight with IRGC is set aside to defeat the invaders attempting to take our home land.
I'm not sure how you can both claim "you support the bombing of your family in Tehran" but also claim "the campaign needs to end".
For reference, my own cousin was taken to Evin prison for 6 months after the Mahsa uprising and after she was released, she had to be hospitalized for a year. She will never leave a normal life again. So I have NO LOVE for IRGC.
But no, I am not going to "cheer" for US and Israel for bombing Isfahan, Shiraz and destroy our Shah Cheragh.
We have 90M people in our home and we can figure things out among ourselves, just like have done so since the dawn of the Achaemenids.
USA hasn't set foot on Iran and is unlikely to do so in the future. Calling this an invasion requires some pretty intense mental gymnastics.
Meanwhile Iran is collapsing from just the water shortage alone. The idea that the US is the cause of Iran struggling for survival requires a pretty distorted world view.
I was living in Tehran during the 2011-2012 protests, British embassy incident etc (I was ~13 then).
I once attended a military "fair"(?) where they'd show off their equipment and had some anti-US "games", eg one involving throwing a shoe at a target with Obama or maybe Bush's face printed on it, and observed people enthusiastically taking part in it.
My impression was that while people hated and feared the regime, they still broadly shared the anti-foreign intervention stance, particularly against the US. I'm having a hard time believing that they'd still be pro-US after Trump threatened genocide against them.
If you look at the chances, there's a far greater chance of dying in the hands of SUV mounted machine guns firing at crowds than precision bombs that mostly hit regime forces
Iranian here! I want to see the regime answer for its crimes. They act like an occupying force, taking the country hostage.
With that being said I don’t like/want the war. I understand and sympathize with the emotional response from my compatriots because they see the oppressors are getting the bloody beating they well deserve. But I don’t really think that the current war brings anything good for the people. I wish it did but it doesn’t look like it. I wish the regime would fall but they haven’t and we now have ~2000 more innocents dead on top of thousands that government killed in January.
I am guessing you're not a supported of Reza Pahlavi?
How in your mind do we get to the regime answering for its crimes? What is going to dislodge them? If they are not dislodged and continue to indoctrinate more people where does this go? If they have more weapons where does it go?
Is any chance that some elements within the current regime will change sides? What percent of soldiers or militia are die hard fanatics vs. people who will jump ship if there's a good chance of that "ship" sinking?
In fairness, the claim is that all the Iranians are offering their own lives for the poster's goals.
Of course, that only brings us to, "It's easy to claim others are offering their lives for your goals."
I guess it's probably best to just realize everything you see on the subject of any given war is probably propaganda. And judge the value of it through that lens.
I think a lot of people can apply common sense and realize that no real person is rooting for their family getting bombed to bits. And hopefully realize that posters who make up such persons are spreading vile propaganda that dehumanizes them so that there won’t be too much opposition to the massacre of civilians.
The government doesn't have to do anything at all. The majority of Americans tuly see themselves as the world's savior, freeing countries and installing democracy everywhere it goes.
They drank the kool aid entirely, 50+ years ago and the government has been coasting on that American moral superiority ever since.
The big question is what comes after. I don't think many disagreed with Saddam or Gaddafi but history shows that this doesn't necessarily lead to good outcomes.
Did you see on the news how many people were mourning for Khomeini on the streets ?
Clearly your sample of Iranians is very biased.
I am not pro theocratic regimes, but not only does the US/Israel _not_ have the right to wage this war, but this war will only make the regime stronger.
Nothing more unifying than getting bombed, especially in martyrdom cultures.
> Every Iranian I know support the current US/Israeli war against the Islamic Republic.
That seems a little bit suspect, how many Iranians do you know? I have difficulty believing that less than around 20-30% of them support the regime. There seems to be a baseline of around that fraction of people who support the status quo.
It isn't so hard to find people who support full-on communism. Any reasonable sample should be turning up a lot of really weird opinions.
