All posts tagged: lie

Did xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks?

Did xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks?

Debates over AI benchmarks — and how they’re reported by AI labs — are spilling out into public view. This week, an OpenAI employee accused Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, of publishing misleading benchmark results for its latest AI model, Grok 3. One of the co-founders of xAI, Igor Babushkin, insisted that the company was in the right. The truth lies somewhere in between. In a post on xAI’s blog, the company published a graph showing Grok 3’s performance on AIME 2025, a collection of challenging math questions from a recent invitational mathematics exam. Some experts have questioned AIME’s validity as an AI benchmark. Nevertheless, AIME 2025 and older versions of the test are commonly used to probe a model’s math ability. xAI’s graph showed two variants of Grok 3, Grok 3 Reasoning Beta and Grok 3 mini Reasoning, beating OpenAI’s best-performing available model, o3-mini-high, on AIME 2025. But OpenAI employees on X were quick to point out that xAI’s graph didn’t include o3-mini-high’s AIME 2025 score at “cons@64.” What is cons@64, you might ask? …

Carter expected to lie in state at Capitol next week

Carter expected to lie in state at Capitol next week

Former President Carter is expected to lie in state at the Capitol next week after congressional leaders announced Monday they intend to ask the House and Senate to pass resolutions allowing it. Such resolutions are generally a formality, and the Carter Center accepted the invitation Monday, following Carter’s death Sunday at the age of 100.… Source link

Why you shouldn’t lie to your children about Father Christmas, according to philosophers

Why you shouldn’t lie to your children about Father Christmas, according to philosophers

For many children, the winter holidays centre on a lie. They’re told that every Christmas Eve, a jolly, elderly man visits all the children in the world. He pops down the chimney, leaves gifts (at least for well-behaved children) and then disappears unseen. Meanwhile, parents everywhere raise their children to be honest and fret if they start telling lies. For new parents, the myth of Santa Claus then poses a dilemma. Should you practice what you preach and tell your children the truth? Or is there something special about Santa that makes this lie OK? In a recent publication, I reviewed philosophers’ views on the ethics of deception and applied them to parental lies. Three themes recurred. First, lying undermines autonomy. Of course, young children don’t have the capacity to make important decisions for themselves, but still, telling children lies to make them behave is manipulative. It stops them from deciding for the right reasons. This includes telling a child that they won’t get Christmas presents unless they are good. No one’s 20s and 30s …

Parents lie to children all the time – but they should think twice about it

Parents lie to children all the time – but they should think twice about it

Parents frequently lie to their children. “No, you can’t have any chocolate – it’s all gone,” when there’s a jumbo bar of Dairy Milk in the cupboard. “No, you can’t have my phone to watch YouTube – the battery’s flat,” when it’s at a solid 65%. Lies like these make parents’ lives easier, particularly so when the children are small. Lying might also be thought to be in kids’ own interests. For instance, young children get told that eating carrots will help them to see in the dark. Leveraging the promise of superpowers might help children develop habits that will serve them well in the longer term. Similarly, lies might be told to protect children from what might be distressing truths. Communicating about death or serious illness with young people can be challenging, and it may be tempting to distort reality in order to avoid upsetting them. But before lying becomes a habit, it’s worth dwelling upon the reasons for doing so – and considering whether a different approach would be better. Types of lie …

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

The Truth is Out There, If We Just Listen You know that feeling when you’re binge-listening to a true crime podcast, totally hooked on every twist and turn, and suddenly realize it’s 3 AM and you have work in the morning? Yeah, that’s pretty much the experience of reading Amy Tintera’s adult thriller debut, Listen for the Lie. This gripping novel plunges readers into a small Texas town where golden girls, dark secrets, and a hit true crime podcast collide in spectacular fashion. Tintera, known for her young adult fantasy series like Ruined and Reboot, proves she can craft a compulsively readable adult thriller with just as much skill. Listen for the Lie keeps you guessing until the very end, peeling back layers of lies and half-truths as protagonist Lucy Chase reluctantly returns to her hometown to confront the night that changed everything. Did she really murder her best friend Savvy in a drunken rage? Or is there more to the story than anyone – including Lucy herself – remembers? A Second Chance at the …

The “Soft Landing” Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway

The “Soft Landing” Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If people have learned anything from the past few years of Ivy League elites and TV talking heads feeding them economic predictions, I hope they finally understand that the “experts” are usually wrong and that alternative analysts have a far better track record. Whenever establishment economists make a a call the opposite generally turns out to be true. By extension, alternative economic predictions are usually well ahead of the curve – What we talk about might be labeled “doom mongering” or “conspiracy theory” today. In three years or less it will be treated as common knowledge and the mainstream “experts” will claim that they “saw it coming all along” while taking credit for financial calls they never made. This has been a long running pattern and it’s something those of us in the alternative media have come to expect. For my part, I warned for years about the threat of the impending stagflationary crisis which ultimately struck hard in the “post-pandemic” US. The establishment gatekeepers denied such a thing …

Trump’s Big Lie is hurting Republicans’ efforts to get out the vote

Trump’s Big Lie is hurting Republicans’ efforts to get out the vote

Donald Trump was all over the place in his big Time Magazine interview this week but there is one issue on which he’s never wavered. When asked if he thought there would be violence around the election this fall he said, “If we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.” On Wednesday he went even further, telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that. If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.” It’s pretty clear that in his mind and the minds of his followers, there is no such thing as an honest and fair election that doesn’t result in a Donald Trump victory so there’s little doubt about what to expect if they don’t get their way in November.  Over the past three years, Trump’s Big Lie has become the main organizing principle of the Republican Party. There had been a festering sense of grievance and resentment among the GOP base for decades which Trump skillfully …

The Supreme Court majority sounds sold on Trump’s Big Lie

The Supreme Court majority sounds sold on Trump’s Big Lie

One might have thought that after the political upheaval caused by the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, the conservative justices would feel that it was the better part of valor to play it cool for a while and let the smoke clear before they launch into another radical assault on American jurisprudence. But apparently, taking away established rights for half the population was just a warm-up act. Last week, they signaled pretty clearly that they’re prepared to enshrine an imperial presidency into the U.S. Constitution.  First, we were all treated to the sickening spectacle of the five conservative men on the court batting around ideas about how many organs need to be failing before an emergency physician can step in to save a pregnant woman’s life. You see, they value the rights of states, a government entity, far more than they value the rights of individuals. Well, individual women anyway. It was obvious that at least four of the justices are fully prepared to say that any yahoo in a state can override the federal law against allowing …

Yousaf’s political future could lie in Alex Salmond’s hands

Yousaf’s political future could lie in Alex Salmond’s hands

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