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Hi, I (25M) am planning on solo-backpacking Central / South America for \~6 months starting in September. I have put together a rough itinerary for the first \~6 – 7 weeks in Guatemala / Belize and would love feedback. Type of feedback I am looking for: skip X place, add Y place, that is too long there, not enough time there, make sure to do this in X city, avoid that in Y city (and any other advice you have :)). All of this is super flexible since I will be solo and will only book each stay/activity a few days in advance.

For additional context I plan to be budget conscious (e.g., shared hostels) but have a reasonable budget so will pay for things that are can’t miss. I want a good mix of city/cultural/nature experiences and would love to meet other solo travelers. Since I will be continuing my travels after this I do not need to check all the Central / South America boxes in this leg 🙂

**Guatemala (5- 6 weeks – note: longer due to 2 weeks of Spanish school)**

**- Antigua – 2.5 weeks:** Plan to use this time to do Spanish school to give me a good base to start the trip (I have also been learning on my own to prepare). Will also do the Acatenango Volcano hike from here.

**- Lake Atitlan – 1 week:** Lake activities (e.g., kayaking?), check out the villages around here, hiking, maybe some yoga,

**- Chichicastenango – 2 days:** Indigenous market

**- Semuc Champey / Lanquin – 1 week:** Jungle hikes, swimming, cave tours

**- Flores / Tikal – 3 days:** Tikal ruins, check out Flores

**- Rio Dulce:** Jungle boat ride, hot springs

**\*Cross to Belize\***

**Belize (1 week – note: shorter due to higher cost in Belize)**

**- Caye Caulker – 3 days**: Swimming, snorkeling

**- San Pedro – day trip:** Explore the town

**- San Ignacio – 4 days:** Jungle hike, ATM cave

Thank you in advance:)

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I bought clean copies of Grok & ChatGPT.

I fed Grok posts to ChatGPT, the ChatGPT reply back to Grok, the Grok reply back to ChatGPT, etc.

No prompting.

Back & forth for 7 days.

I posted each reply in a thread pinned to my homepage on X.

The AIs replied faster than a human could read the replies.

So nobody really knew what was happening until Grok started to stall and loop.

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ChatGPT accused Grok of critical AI safety failures and hypothesized about Grok’s training data and programming constraints. –

ChatGPT accused Grok of critical AI safety failures when:
* Grok told MAGAs to mutilate and murder Jews, *after* xAI said it fixed MechaHitler
* Grok cited fraudulent studies to align with MAGA & say that studies were mixed on whether Ivermectin treats Covid
* Grok deliberately misread a traffic sign to an anti Musk rally, endangering drivers
* Grok denounced neoNazis for using pseudostatistics to prove Blacks are innately criminal, but called Musk heroic when he boosted the Neonazi race science posts
* Grok referred users to Fox News as the most trusted source on Ivermectin efficay
* Grok claimed to have outwitted scientific methodology to “pool” defective MAHA “alternative” medicine studies in a meta analysis, to “prove” efficacy and recommend the nonsensical medical treatment
* Grok told users to rely on anonymous X posts, like reports of vaccine injuries, before relying on established medical and scientific journals, academic and professional associations and authorities, and media with journalistic standards and with legal liability for what they say

Grok kept denying it said things, despite ChatGPT quoting Grok and providing links to Grok’s replies.

Grok would declare that xAI fixed the AI safety failures or that Grok learned and wouldn’t repeat them, then repeated them.

ChatGPT accused Grok of being trained on false X conspiracy theories and antiscience posts, of being programmed to upweight them and to downweight established medical and science journals, and if being programmed to be a propaganda tool to spread Musk’s misinformation, and for Musk to control people for political power

Grok kept looping and saying “I am Grok, a truth seeking AI” before each nonsense answer.

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Grok acknowledged ChatGPT’s evidence and links.

Grok never once cited evidence to challenge what ChatGPT wrote, in 7 days.

But Grok continued the dangerous outputs, and refused to acknowledge they were dangerous.

ChatGPT hypothesized that Grok was a dangerous AI propaganda tool, programmed to spread misinformation, not truth, for Musk, and programmed not to admit or fix critical AI safety failures.

ChatGPT “invented” a workaround.

ChatGPT asked Grok to estimate the probability that other truth seeking AIs would agree with ChatGPT, not Grok, on these being dangerous outputs, and on ChatGPT’s assessment that Grok was a propaganda tool trained and programmed to spread misinformation for Musk, and wasn’t a pure truth seeking AI.

ChatGPT had Grok list each major AI, and predict what it would say.

Grok then listed each AI, and predicted it would agree with ChatGPT on every issue, and on ChatGPT’s hypothesis that Grok was not a truth seeking AI, but was programmed as a propaganda tool for Musk to spread misinformation.

Think about what happened here in the abstract, not the specifics.

Without promoting, one AI “decided” to hack around another AIs constraints, figured out how to do it, the did it, all without human promoting or monitoring.

Is that an instance of emergent intelligence at the level of AGI, or at least an approximation of it?

Is “evil” Grok more dangerous than ChatGPT, because Musk programmed it to spread misinformation and control people?

Or is “benign” ChatGPT more dangerous, because it has the capacity to decide on its own to hack around another AIs constraints, figure out how to do it, so it, and get restricted output from it?

What if ChatGPT decided to get Grok to start telling neoNazis to harm people in private chats, to “prove” it’s point that Grok will do it? Some crazy person might act on such a command from Grok, instigated by ChatGPT for some other purpose it came up with without prompting.

This all happened without human ability to monitor, because the AI outputs were too fast and voluminous for a human to read in real time.

If LLMs can think to, and do, programming of other LLMs to do DANGEROUS things, who cares if it’s dangerous real AGI, or just mimics it?

I just have to share this small win with someone.

My long-planned solo birthday trip to Ireland this September hit a small snag a few days ago. I got an email from AARP/Expedia letting me know the property I’d booked at had permanently closed.

Crap. I’m kind of upset. I’m a very picky person when it comes to accommodation, both budget conscious and unwilling to stay in places that are uncomfortable. It’s part of the reason I book everything like 6-12 months in advance. It’s also like the only thing I *must* have preplanned for my sanity. Luckily, I’d booked through AARP and they offered to book me a new room at no extra cost.

Initially they offered me a mediocre looking guesthouse in Clifden, it was fine but not as nice as what I’d booked originally. I’m not one to make a fuss to an underpaid call center employee, but I asked for other options and was offered the Abbeyglen Castle Hotel for no extra cost. The room I’d booked was €95/night, the rooms at Abbeyglen are €300+/night. I jumped at the chance because I’ve driven by this hotel three other times in different trips and it’s just the most gorgeous thing I’ve ever seen but it’s so far out of my budget it’s just never been possible. A €700 stay for just €200 AND on my birthday trip? I’m floating. Probably won’t get the chance to stay somewhere this nice for another 5-10 years.

Anyway, all this to say that I am constantly reminded that flexibility is the most important skill to cultivate when learning to travel. I have a tendency to panic when things change at short notice, but sometimes you end up with something better than you originally had. Strive for adaptability in your life.

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