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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 25/09/2026

But at least he didn’t kick her down the stairs like he did Ivana.

Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 25/09/2026

Spread this far and wide: Susan Collins is corrupt, a pay for play Senator selling government contracts for campaign donations. Collins has to back Trump because the investigation he stopped to protect her is a prosecution he can restart to punish her any time he chooses.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 25/09/2026

In years to come it will emerge that the shipment of F35 parts through Hong Kong was not a mistake, it was done on purpose by one of the many foreign agents infiltrated into the US DoD with the connivance of traitor Hegseth.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 25/09/2026

The sophistry of people trying to claim these gambling markets are legal is nauseating.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

The ironic thing about Clavicular's antics is that hitting him on the head with a hammer is pretty much what many folk would like to do to him.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

Well most things can be reduced to tensor math. My broader point though, that these surprising behaviors are coached stands. I am pretty sure your above model isn't leaving notes for itself or conspiring with the vacuum cleaner to start a robot uprising.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

It is a bit like a pro-cyclist with a motor and battery concealed in their bike frame.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

Looks to me like you have an LLM that is preparing questions for a logical analysis package and reporting back the answers. The reason for the pedantry here is that I suspect that the behaviors that are being attributed to conscious intelligence are being grafted in the exact same way.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

for over a decade, I have been pointing out that the fact that all the influencers who sing from the Kremlin song book have a history of violence towards women isn't a coincidence, it is a pattern. A pattern that has a very simple explanation routed in the KGB recruitment process.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

Just out of curiosity, what was Charles Manson's approval rating at the end?

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

His problem is twofold, he hasn't done the philosophy reading and he hasn't done the AI reading either. His argument is based on an assumption that LLMs are a lot smarter than they actually are.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

The meme is a bit ambiguous because the girl might be staring off into the distance trying to ignore the guy but the look on her face is more like she is seeing her ex-boyfriend with her best friend and the guy might be boring her or might be leaning in to say 'do you think he knows she has herpes?'

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

Wait till Trump and Rubio realize that their pet Supreme Court has said that if the next President orders them to be delivered to the Hague in handcuffs, that is legal.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

The same people selling LLMs with these stories were selling NFTs to the gullible not so long ago.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

These examples of LLMs 'breaking their sandbox' are similar cases where an LLM is interfaced to some back end agents. And they are not coming up with these 'astonishing' behaviors of their own volition, they are being given prompts that beg the question.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

A pure LLM does not know 1+1 = 2 unless that pattern is in its input corpus. And it certainly does not know 239 + 3929. Of course there are tricks that allow a machine built round an LLM core to recognize math problems and submit them to a math processor but that isn't intelligence.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

LLMs exhibit superficial intelligence but they are not capable of intelligent reasoning. They can only interpolate between points in their input corpus, they are not capable of inferring patterns, testing their applicability or even applying them.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

Former MIT AI Lab Research Scientist here. There are many machines that appear to do things requiring cognition that don't. The Stephenson relief valve, the thermostat, etc. all caused philosophers to ask questions.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

That's OK, Bertrand Russell provided a really good summary that is less than a thousand.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

We know that there is a more efficient way to arrive at the same results because your brain is using neurons that use way more power per operation than a CMOS gate and operate at a tiny fraction of the speed but come up with superior results.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

The reason LLMs can exhibit superficial intelligence is that they are using vast quantities of energy to solve problems by applying essentially the entire input data corpus to each problem That is one reason to be very cautious of the folk claiming leadership in AI.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

By definition, deductive reasoning is the ability to apply a set of laws forming a calculus to form proofs. A => B, B => C, therefore A => C. LLMs cannot perform that mode of reasoning. They can't apply a calculus and they certainly can't deduce one from the input data.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

LLMs are incapable of deductive reasoning, that is just a fact of how they work. They are also incapable of breaking out of their sandbox unless that sandbox is deliberately constructed to allow that to happen. They have absolutely no situational awareness. People are telling lies.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 22/09/2026

I suspect it might be quite a while before Trump folds and lets the press corps back. His courtiers will likely find it so much easier to control senile orange when he doesn't have an audience so they will encourage him to stand firm.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 21/09/2026

Russian potash in bags stamped 'Belarus'?

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 20/09/2026

When his courtiers write their memoirs, we will discover that the arch, ballroom, Kennedy Center etc were all distractions. Distractions for Trump. The arch may sound utterly stupid and ridiculous but the alternative was likely worse, an invasion of Greenland.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 20/09/2026

As a MS Now listener, I am actually quite happy they have been kicked out of the WH because it means less clips of Trump flapping his pie hole which are the point where I change channel. I have absolutely no interest in hearing anything the smelly senile rapist says.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 20/09/2026

But the Dems still need to run the board and win every senate race to impeach and convict Trump.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 20/09/2026

And Putin's people are busy deliberately stoking hate and fear of every type. They run Mint Press Nest which is virulently antisemitic while their Sputnik outlet advocates 'transfer'. Five years ago, Israel was a soft power superpower, today it has Trump, Putin and not much more.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 20/09/2026

I have known Mike Godwin over 30 years. When he coined his eponymous law, his point was to be very careful about accusing others of being NAZIs. Too many defenders of the indefensible actions of Netanyahu call opponents 'antisemites' or 'self-hating'.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 19/09/2026

If the Dems managed a clean sweep and won all the Senate seats, they would have 67 votes and could impeach and convict all the traitors to the Republic: J. D. Vance Donald Trump Corruption Thomas Corruption Alito Corruption Robert Corruption Kavenaugh

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 19/09/2026

China would be making a huge mistake, it would throw their entire economy into chaos. Like Putin, Xi would quickly discover victory is a lot harder to achieve than he expected.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 19/09/2026

The marble is not irreplaceable enough that we can't get a half dozen pieces to replace any that Donald Trump has had his stink carved into them.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 19/09/2026

What is he trying to distract from this time? Most likely the Kennedy Center fiasco which in turn was a distraction from the war with Iran which was a distraction from the Epstein files and the allegation he raped a 13 year old girl.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 19/09/2026

I can't see the news value in being present. He never answers questions. The statements he makes are false. He smells bad.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 18/09/2026

The Florida Governor's mansion is also up for grabs. A tenth of a percentage point between them in the polls. The big problem for the GOP is going to be having to fight everywhere.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 18/09/2026

I started out by not buying a Cessna and worked my way up using the money saved to not buy a Bugatti Veyron and so on.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 18/09/2026

Pah, I didn't buy a Dassault Falcon 10X, saved $75 million. $50k is rookie numbers.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 18/09/2026

Problem is, if McConnell isn't mentally competent to be senator, he isn't mentally competent to resign either.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 18/09/2026

Grassley is a couple of marbles short but still doing better than the current incumbent.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 17/09/2026

Just told a MAGA to their face that I consider Trump to be a bully, a rapist, senile and utterly incompetent. Every time he opens his mouth it is to say something utterly absurd. Sure did feel good.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 17/09/2026

You know a case is going badly when the other side asks for an emergency hearing and the judge says, 'nah, don't need to hear any more, here is an injunction'.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 17/09/2026

The Speaker doesn't just know he is telling a lie, he is enjoying it.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 17/09/2026

The Speaker has that smug, condescending look on his face that people only ever show when they know they are lying.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 17/09/2026

But she isn't supporting impeachment so like Susan Collins, she is 'very concerned' but will make sure the fascists win.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 17/09/2026

It doesn't take a psychologist to see that Aella's CNC kink is the result of a sex-shaming religious upbringing that many would a form of child abuse. But quite why anyone would consider a home schooled courtesan who doesn't even write about AI herself to be in charge of 'AI safety' is ...

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 17/09/2026

The specific claim I am objecting to is that the sex parties are relevant to anything other than the prurient interest of the tabloid press. 'but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sorts of parties'

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 17/09/2026

Yud's AI doomer cult is trying to stop the doom. Anthropic and OpenAI are trying to make it happen. Claiming they are both on the same side is like saying AOC and Musk are on the same side.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 17/09/2026

I think it was put there as a deliberate distraction from the genuinely evil and corrupt stuff Patel is actually doing.

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Phillip Hallam-Baker @phill.hallambaker.com · 17/09/2026

The AI researchers stroke their egos by imagining they have built something so powerful and dangerous that it threatens the existence of humanity. Yudkowsky's ego stroke comes from imagining he is saving the world from that threat. Yes, both factions have parties but they are different parties.

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