Mark Gubrud 🇺🇸
@mgubrud
Physicist, teacher, analyst & advocate in tech, arms control & human security. Idea man. Your broken Overton window is blighting the neighborhood. Dr./Dude/Dad
The "Hard Problem of Phenomenal Consciousness" solved, and how to build conscious machines, in 4 tweets. All of the usual suspects on here about consciousness & AI sentience refuse to engage this. But I think like half a dozen people have indicated to me that they get it.
How to build a conscious machine (4 tweets): First make a system that watches and interacts with the world from a particular perspective and location. Like an LLM, it has a "context window" that is like a memory stream. Older memory become less accessible unless recollected. +
Breaking News! Code Yikes! The latest data from CERES just dropped for May, 2025, and the 36-month running average for albedo (reflectivity) hit yet another record low, now down to 28.711%. Even darker times ahead! Data: ceres-tool.larc.nasa.gov/ord-tool/jsp/E…
"We faced hunger before, but never like this": skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza due to Israel's genocidal siege. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
There is really nothing at all surprising here, except 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗪. Yes, chatbots can be much more effective than traditional propaganda or even person-on-person engagement (the chatbot is always on) for persuading and deluding people.
Today (w/ @UniofOxford @Stanford @MIT @LSEnews) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more 🧵
Today (w/ @UniofOxford @Stanford @MIT @LSEnews) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more 🧵
OMG Yes. And look at the little shit try to hunker down and smirk through it.
This is the only rational response at this point.
If Israel doesn’t want to be accused of committing genocide, israeli ministers and leaders need to stop making inciting genocidal statements, and the Israeli army must stop mass starving and mass slaughtering innocent babies, doctors, journalists, pregnant women, and the elderly.
1/ Essential Ukraine 6 is out - at times of growing uncertainty. As Russia pushes forward with drone-based maneuver warfare, Ukraine enters a new, shaky phase—marked by external hesitation and internal consolidation. A short 🧵 with key conclusions
Donald Trump and CBS’s parent company Paramount want you to think that canceling Colbert's show was “purely a financial decision.” Really? If firing Colbert was a political favor in exchange for approval of Paramount’s megamerger with Skydance, you deserve to know.
This is how you deal with bullies. This is how you deal with Trump & his cronies. Don’t kowtow & take the knee - stand up, speak out and fight back…no matter the consequences. From adamkinzinger.substack.com
Severe flooding in Moratalla, Murcia in Spain this afternoon....🌊
This is *the* paper to read this week. It covers an astonishing amount of ground on the persuasive capabilities of frontier AI - from scaling laws, to post-training, to the driving mechanisms of a persuasive advantage. Very proud of @KobiHackenburg + the team at @AISecurityInst!
Today (w/ @UniofOxford @Stanford @MIT @LSEnews) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more 🧵
pov: you're attending hinton's lecture to learn about the future
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton explains why smarter-than-human AI could wipe us out.
Imperial Israel even stops starving Palestinians from fishing.
Unbelievable. Israeli soldiers on gunboats abducted Palestinian fishermen just a few feet from the shore.
Another Hebrew-only Ynet piece—this time by veteran Israeli reporter Ron Ben-Yishai—is more candid and direct than anything printed in English. It lays out how the Israeli government is starving Gaza and killing those desperate enough to seek food.
Sharing this piece by Shanahan and Frazier that argues against viewing AI competition as a geopolitical race. They argue for US to focus on bridging the gap between invention and widespread societal adoption to reap crucial AI benefits in the long term. justsecurity.org/117137/rethink…
Awful situation in Bilecik in northwestern Anatolia, Turkey. 11 firefighters have died fighting the fires in Turkey according to authorities.
𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗚𝗢 No, we cannot afford four years of aggressive climate denial and destruction of every effort at mitigation. No, we cannot just accept this because Trump is doing so many other evil and unacceptable things. Don't ask me how. Say if you agree he must go.
Head of Trump’s EPA: "They say that climate change endangers public health. You have many on the left who will say CO₂ is a pollutant, and they won't talk about the all of the many reasons why CO₂ is actually quite essential for life here." @atrupar
Now that the pretense that Israel is seeking a two-state solution has long been abandoned, it's time to focus on creating a one-state that is equal and equitable for all. Every Palestinian deserves the vote. Everyone between the river and the sea deserves a say in governance.…
BREAKING: Tomorrow the Knesset (the Israeli parliament) will vote on a historic declaration to apply Israel's sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. Many MKs and Ministers have already stated that they would vote in favor of this resolution 🇮🇱
Israel is running a real life Squid Game. Every new detail emerging from Israel’s slaughter of starving Palestinians is more horrifying than the last.
I am begging you please read every word of this