Next, we tested the effects of sycophancy. We find that even a single interaction with sycophantic AI increased users’ conviction that they were right and reduced their willingness to apologize. This held both in controlled, hypothetical vignettes and live conversations about real conflicts.

In one way we are all winners. In another more accurate way Barney is the winner.

Didn’t she go for one day to pick up her kid? Seems a weird choice to blame her.

We're living in a darkening age of epistemological neoliberalism...by which I mean that each consumer of knowledge is left entirely up to their own devices to try to figure out which bits of data are reliable & which ones are not. All of the institutions which used to help us do that work are dying.

I was more sure that account was parody then I am of anything. I now must question my entire grasp on reality!

The quote is horrible. He goes on to share the solicitor and client privileged fact that he “may” tell them to pled. He might think the “may” saves him but that just feels gross! He just shouldn’t be publicizing his advice to his clients.

I think this is really the standard story of private equity stripping a profitable business and drowning it in debt. This is a greed story not a tariff one.