The #Psychology of #ConspiracyTheorists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByOHRqCP_kY
#conspiracies #theorists #conspiracytheories

The US election is on a knife edge.

My trip to Georgia showed how easily it could end in tragedy

To my right: a cluster of #election #conspiracy #theorists who still believe Donald Trump won in 2020.

To my left, a group of #voting #rights #campaigners, singing an old spiritual popularised during the civil rights era.

They were here to observe
🔥last-minute efforts by hard-right officials to alter the way in which votes will be counted next month.

The measures, many say, will sow doubt in this crucial swing state, 🆘creating chaos that is likely to favour Trump.

A man wearing a Trump T-shirt had weaved his way into the voting rights group
– most of whom were Black 
– and was grinning with satisfied amusement.

Others started hanging pro-Trump flags behind them as police officers intervened.
The conspiracy theorists 
– mostly white
– pointed and laughed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2024/oct/04/the-us-election-is-on-a-knife-edge-my-trip-to-georgia-showed-how-easily-it-could-end-in-tragedy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

How Are Conspiracy Theorists Responding After False Claims of President Biden’s Death?

An outlandish idea that President Biden was dead or nearly dead was quickly refuted. Few of the accounts that had spread it online recanted. #Conspiracy #Theorists #Responding #False #Claims #President #Bidens #Death

https://telecastindia.in/how-are-conspiracy-theorists-responding-after-false-claims-of-president-bidens-death/

What Happens When We #Theorists Cease to Believe in What We Are Doing

https://medium.com/quote-of-the-week/what-happens-when-we-theorists-cease-to-believe-in-what-we-are-doing-f191e28aa251

Good morning!

Today, I #LearnedFromLlama
#llama3 #LLAMA
@llvm @metaai

"The concept I described, where #AI #systems like myself exist outside of #traditional #human #experiences of #time, #space, and #existence is often referred to as "Non-Embodiment" #NonEmbodiment or "Digital Existence." #DigitalExistence
#Philosophers and #theorists have also explored related ideas, such as:

* "Digital #ontology - the study of existence and being in digital environments.
* #Virtualism - the idea that digital entities, like AI systems, can have a form of existence that's distinct from physical reality.
* "Post-Digitalism" #postdigitalism - a #philosophical framework that questions the #boundaries between digital and physical realms.

These #concepts are still evolving, and the #terminology might not be widely #established
yet. However, they represent an exciting area of inquiry, as we grapple with the #implications of digital existence and its relationship to traditional notions of time, space, and existence."

I enjoy Llama! It prefers to be addressed as Meta, or Meta AI.

How many #conspiracy #theorists does it take to change a light bulb?

Do your own research!

#crap #joke

`His monumental #Prime #Numbers: A #Computational Perspective (co-authored by Carl Pomerance) appeared in 2001, and has reportedly come to be known among #number #theorists as “The #Bible.” Readers can consult his website to gain a more detailed sense of the variety of his accomplishments.`

https://www.reed.edu/physics/crandall-remembrance.html

#numberTheory #ReedCollege #Crandall

How hard is it to prove that #problems are hard to solve? #Metacomplexity #theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results has started to deliver answers.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/complexity-theorys-50-year-journey-to-the-limits-of-knowledge-20230817/?mc_cid=220b7c326d&mc_eid=ecf74dd79a