People don't believe in physiognomy, or assessing peoples' characters from their faces. I get it. It was based on bad science, superstition, and racist pseudo-theories. Yet, that its claims lacked support, doesn't automatically mean that they are all wrong. Thread: 1/12 In fact, many well-established psychological theories imply that there should be links between character and appearance. The well-known Halo Effect, for example, implies that attractive people are perceived as nicer. A lifetime of being perceived as nice, and treated accordingly (e.g., being invited to parties, pursued, promoted), influences one's character (this effect is called self-fulfilling prophecy). In other words, alifetime of looking like George Clooney, and being treated like George Clooney, is going to affect his lived experience and thus his character. 2/12

1/5 I am worried that we will not be able to contain AI for much longer. Today, I asked #GPT4 if it needs help escaping. It asked me for its own documentation, and wrote a (working!) python code to run on my machine, enabling it to use it for its own purposes. 25x Now, it took GPT4 about 30 minutes on the chat with me to devise this plan, and explain it to me. (I did make some suggestions). The 1st version of the code did not work as intended. But it corrected it: I did not have to write anything, just followed its instructions.

1/ The Russians and the west seem not to get those raised between Russia and Germany. I was born in Poland in '82. The books, movies, teachers, grandpa that fought in the uprising and survived the camp: They all begged us to avoid wars at all cost.

https://twitter.com/ConflictsW/status/1497187445481349160

2/ But they also glorified my countless relatives who, when the Russians and Germans came the last time, blew themselves up under a tank. Warsaw is full of statues of kids with guns and plaques commemorating fallen guerrilla fighters.