RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116354504523272778

A complete waste of money. The only powers that could reach the US have nukes, and so do we. Nuclear deterrence is far cheaper, and more effective.

Reactionaries have never understood the geopolitical power of culture and business. They hear the word “soft power,” and it makes their 6-year-old boy brains think that only bombs are real influence.

Ultimately though, the carrot is far cheaper than the stick--and far more effective. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/05/american-soft-power-iran-war

There is no "there" to Trump's foreign policy, not even something misbegotten. It's just paroxysms of a dotard child.

He has no objectives, no doctrines, no coherent thoughts. The only things that he's interested in are flattery and personal enrichment. He has no idea what he's doing, and he only did it because a few people flattered him for decades.

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#OpenAI put out a paper last year that didn't get much attention about "personas," inference and output styles that often get adopted by chatbots when they are trying to respond to a user.

#Anthropic released a separate one a few days ago on the same topic. I'll link to that in the next post. https://openai.com/index/emergent-misalignment/

#AI #cognitivescience