I’ve been getting a lot of DM’s about this.. First and foremost. NCAA rule book says all players should be sidelined during injury. Now let’s get something straight. Grace Dietrich isn’t some random person on the Duke sideline. She’s a certified athletic trainer with a master’s degree, doing her job and responding to an injured player. Medical personnel should NEVER have to fight their way through anyone to provide care to a student-athlete, especially not knowing the severity of situation. I don’t care who you are or what position you think you hold. Player safety comes FIRST. There’s no defending that behavior in my opinion.

I see the protests in France are trending. Since I just spent 10 days there during the heart of them, I figured I'd chime in with what's actually going on. The news and clickbait accounts on X will show you the outlier events: burning buildings, raging violence and everything that triggers you. I was in the heart of Aix en Provence during the biggest protest day and filmed the center where it was happening. (See below) This is right the University, across from the church, dead center of town. The students are dancing, singing, kicking soccer balls and have comically barricaded the entrance doors to force the school to close. I visited many cities in France during the protest period, and saw zero violence or malpractice of any kind. More broadly, I spent more than a month this year in France across 3 trips and 10+ cities, including Paris, Bordeaux, Aix en Provence, Nice, Antibes, Biarritz, and others, and it's incredibly safe, charming, peaceful and beautiful. Every city I visited is nicer than almost every American city, and there's zero comparison. So much that it wouldn't even be insulting to France to try, because nobody who has spent significant time in both countries would take this comparison seriously. I spoke with the students at length about their views. I also spoke with waiters, drivers, merchants, staff and whoever. They were all civil, well articulated and genuinely wanted to see change. We can disagree about their reasoning, logic or whatever, and it's true that France has fiscal problems, but to chalk up the France protests to raging extremist violence from "pick your favorite group to blame", is a laughable misrepresentation of what's actually going on. If you exclusively watch the news and believe the top 1% extreme situations, you have likely been psyoped.

Getting off this hellsite for awhile. I hope not permanently but honestly maybe. It’s become insanely retarded on here. The value of learning about the world and having interesting conversations with random smart people is 99% gone. Every poster sells slop to a 90 IQ audience, everyone in the replies is a screaming baboon.

We should use the term "control" instead of "alignment." "Alignment" is a term generated by people who humanize computers running LLMs, treating them as conscious, potentially competitive beings that we should somehow manipulate into "aligning" with us. Vs. as computers that are inherently more challenging to control than normal ones, and thus that require extra effort to control to serve our purposes.

Have you tried Hark?