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People Are Highly Cooperative with Large Language Models, Especially When Communication Is Possible or Following Human Interaction
Pawe{\l} Niszczota, Tomasz Grzegorczyk, Alexander Pastukhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18639

People Are Highly Cooperative with Large Language Models, Especially When Communication Is Possible or Following Human Interaction
Machines driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to augment humans across various tasks, a development with profound implications for business settings where effective communication, collaboration, and stakeholder trust are paramount. To explore how interacting with an LLM instead of a human might shift cooperative behavior in such settings, we used the Prisoner's Dilemma game -- a surrogate of several real-world managerial and economic scenarios. In Experiment 1 (N=100), part…

FCC filing: Larry Ellison will hold a minority voting interest of ~35.5% in the combined Paramount-Skydance company, without any veto or special voting rights (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/larry-ellison-paramount-skydance-merger-voting-right…

Larry Ellison to Hold 35.5% of Family's Voting Rights in New Paramount, National Amusements After Skydance Merger Closes
The Oracle chairman will not have any "veto rights, or any special or outsized voting rights," per an amendment filed with the FCC

Am I the only one who is often surprised to know that some things ever existed when their users come to the internet to mourn about them shutting down?
It's a weird feeling. I know we all move around on different (sometimes wildly) software foundations, but that actually underlines it for me in that way that is slightly unsettling.

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I am setting up Google Workspace so I can use it for my new email address. I'm flummoxed though, it looks like this is a whole second Google account? I have a 24 year old account with all sorts of stuff in it: photos, email, etc. Can I merge them somehow? Should I?

Here are two of the #photos of last Saturday's hike. We went to the #wallberg above the #tegernsee .
Usually it's a quite crowded way because it's easily reachable and really very sc…

Felonious Stunk
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This is a joke, not a threat: cancel the hit squad.
#satire #potus45

Felonious Stunk
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This is for tee hee, not treason: please don't ruin my life.
#satire #potus45