To the Board of Directors of OpenAI

We are writing to you today to express our deep concern about the recent events at OpenAI, particularly the allegations of misconduct against Sam Altman.

We are former OpenAI employees who left the company during a period of significant turmoil and upheaval. As you have now witnessed what happens when you dare stand up to Sam Altman, perhaps you can understand why so many of us have remained silent for fear of repercussions. We can no longer stand by silent.

We believe that the Board of Directors has a duty to investigate these allegations thoroughly and take appropriate action. We urge you to:

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This is about alleged misconduct by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. ABN

Think Twice Before You Fly — A ‘diverse’ air traffic controller could kill you.

When you fly, you never see a controller. Controllers never see you. But they must reflect, understand, and relate.

The racism detectors found what they were looking for. White people – and Asians – were scoring too high on the controller aptitude test, called the AT-SAT. And they were getting better! “More troubling, there is evidence that the percentage of people scoring 85 or higher on the AT-SAT in certain RNO classifications – that means “race and national origin” – has been steadily increasing over the last three years at a higher rate than others.”

White people were pulling ahead!

Here is proof of racism: the percentages of various groups that scored 85 or better out of 100 on the AT-SAT. The previous three years had been grim.

Look at those pesky whites. In 2009, 68 percent scored 85 or better, and in the next years it was 74 percent and then 78 percent. And look at blacks: poking along at 37 percent, 36 percent, and 38 percent. Asians were another disaster; in the previous two years, they had the audacity to score as high as whites.

And, uh oh, women, in red, scored worse than men, in orange. So the AT-SAT was racist and sexist.

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Swedish government’s bid to revoke permits for foreigners with ‘flawed way of life’

A new government inquiry will investigate how foreigners who commit crimes or do not have an ‘upstanding way of life’ in Sweden could potentially have their residence permit revoked.

People who apply for a permanent residence permit already have to be able to show they “live an orderly life” – a criminal record could for example be grounds for refusing a permanent permit.

But the government wants to make it easier to refuse and even revoke permits for foreign residents who have a “flawed way of life”, read a statement that announced the new inquiry on Tuesday.

That could for example include benefits cheating or abusing the welfare system in other ways, having large debts or being involved in or associating with gang crime or terrorist activities.

It could also include statements that threaten democracy or the Swedish system.

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The Fall of Minneapolis

This is a very good video, well-worth viewing. It shows how a crowd or subcultural interpretation of George Floyd completely distorted the fullness, even the reality, of what happened while also turning the justice system against even looking for the truth. In this we can see how delusion in our world is often knowingly created by human beings with ulterior motives. ABN

Silenced by Tommy Robinson

This documentary explores the manipulation of news stories, the consequences faced by truth-seekers, and the unholy alliance between the media, justice system, and politicians. It focuses on a playground incident between two boys, Bailey and Jamal, which became a global news event. The film questions the accountability of the media, the effectiveness of the legal system, and the treatment of dissidents in the UK. It reveals testimonies that contradict the mainstream narrative and highlights the threats and hate comments received by both boys.

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Eye-to-eye contact is rare but shapes our social behavior

When speaking to one another, much of the communication occurs nonverbally – through body posture, hand gestures, and the eyes. Our eye gaze during conversations therefore reveals a wealth of information about our attention, intention, or psychological states. But, there remains little scientific knowledge about the information that human eyes convey in interactions – is looking at others’ faces enough, or does our communication require eye-to-eye contact?

Researchers from McGill University and Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) have studied the prevalence of eye contact by recording the eye gazing behavior in face-to-face dyadic interactions and found that although eye-to-eye contact occurred rarely, it communicated important messages which are vital for subsequent successful social behavior.

The study participants, who did not know each other beforehand, were paired and presented with an imaginary survival scenario which required the pairs to rank a list of items in order of their usefulness for survival, all while wearing mobile eye-tracking glasses. The researchers analyzed how often the participants looked at each other’s eye and mouth regions. The researchers also tested each participant individually for gaze following and linked the prevalence of different types of mutual looks during the interaction (i.e., eye-to-eye vs. eye-to-mouth) with the tendency to follow their partner’s gaze.

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This study is interesting and, to an extent, important, but from a FIML point of view it bespeaks the shallowness of our understanding of human communication. ABN

A world without mothers?

Guerini suggests: “The use of your own body would be considered a sign of social inferiority and poverty. A natural mother would be considered potentially irresponsible, like mothers who currently opt for home birth, refusing the hospitalisation and medicalisation of the process… Natural childbirth would first be treated as irresponsible, then criminal.

“Remember that there can be no Medically Assisted Procreation (MAP) without the selection of spermatozoa and of embryos… When technoscientists get involved in the process of procreation they want to set the characteristics of each of these elements, choose them, modify them and determine the end result.

“The laboratory environment transforms the birth process into a technical operation: the embryo becomes a product to be selected, improved, rejected or transformed”.

Guerini explains that there have long been some feminists, notably Shulasmith Firestone, who acclaim artificial reproduction as “liberating” women from “biological tyranny”.

And she predicts that artificial wombs will be demanded, like MAP, as a “right” for everyone, including “transgender” people.

These are “false rights”, says Guerini, and need to be exposed as such.

“Having a child cannot be claimed as a right, neither for a heterosexual couple nor for a homosexual couple, nor for a single woman or man. There cannot be a right to have a child. The capacity to generate life cannot be claimed as a new right by men who identify as women. Procreation can never belong to them”.

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POSSIBLE CANCER CURE

[Everything below is from the article: Can 2 Cheap Meds, 1 Vitamin & Baking Soda Kill Any Cancer? Please read the whole thing to better understand this protocol. ABN]

The Proposed Protocol

Unlike most traditional cytotoxic cancer therapies that destroy both cancer cells as well as regular cells and especially the body’s immune system cells, this protocol stimulates the body’s own innate and adaptive immune system to fight off cancer. 

This protocol should not be used in combination with most mainstream cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy, due to their ability to impair the immune system that the protocol depends on. 

It is likely to be most potent at the early stages of disease; further progress of the condition will prolong duration of treatment needed. 

A healthy immune system takes time to ramp up the necessary response, so the protocol is based on the time required for each drug to take effect, safety data, bioavailability, and elimination time.

Day 1:

Ivermectin: 1 mg/kg by mouth

Fenbendazole: 1000mg by mouth

Sodium Bicarbonate: 1 tsp morning and evening dissolved in 1 quart of water

Day 2:

Ascorbic acid: 50 mg/kg by mouth, two doses, 8 hours apart or 20g IV, once

Day 3:

Repeat Day 1

Day 4:

Repeat Day 2

Days 5 to 10:

Fenbendazole, 200mg by mouth daily

Alternate sodium bicarbonate and ascorbic acid every other day beginning with sodium bicarb on day 5, then vitamin C on day 6, etc. 

Day 11:

Ivermectin: 1 mg/kg by mouth

Fenbendazole: 1000 mg by mouth

Sodium Bicarbonate: 1 tsp morning and evening dissolved in 1 quart of water

Days 12 to 20:

Sodium Bicarbonate: 1 tsp morning and evening dissolved in 1 quart of water

Day 20:

Imaging: Check progress. Significant reduction or complete elimination of tumor mass should have occurred by this time, if not repeat the protocol. 

At this time the US FDA has not approved this protocol for study or for use in humans.