claykkari

Time and again I'm amazed how well Einstein's opinions and predictions have aged, whether in physics or politics. Of course there's probably some survivorship bias involved, as we're more likely to hear about his successes than mistakes.

> If any of the parties got any support from Russia directly, they would be arrested. Have they been arrested? If not, then whatever you've been told about them being involved with Russia is bullshit.

You're taking "innocent until proven guilty" too literally. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Thanks for sharing. As a test I looked up a random thread summarized on hexane.cc. Found it on goebbelmail and the AI summary turned out to be accurate too.

I guess the fact that Russia also has this info explains why Trump seems so fond of Putin.

> Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man.

This is misleading since the article doesn't elaborate on such transactions, it talks about money allegedly coming from MBZ and MBS to Kushner. Still an interesting article though.

> Some malware allows a hacker to turn a victim’s phone into a microphone and video camera, turn the phone on or off, and pull and add files. The Dutch solution did not provide that level of access. Instead, when Kushner used the phone, they could see his screen.

As the saying goes: if you can read it, so can they.

Perhaps it has a hallucinated PHP that never had those bugs.

> You don't really want any sort of randomness in your terminal commands.

Maybe I do, if by "randomness" you also mean the ability to handle unexpected usecases. Imagine running something like:

$ ps "which processes are slowing my PC down??"

It's quite a lesson in unintended consequences: trying to bring about regime change in Iran may end up achieving exactly that in Saudi Arabia instead.

"AfD party member email contains antisemitic trope that Israel does the dirty work for us." [0]

The LLM-generated summaries seem a bit overly dramatic at times, making it hard to judge how serious some of the content actually is. Looking forward for a website with the original emails.

[0] https://www.hexane.cc/detail/?uid=9DF63C5C-F244-4763-BF2A-90...

How so?

Excellent find. Confirms what I've suspected for years.

I'm honestly struggling to see what the crusades have to do with this discussion, mind helping me out?

I'm convinced that many right wingers pretend to support Israel while being secretly delighted to see the country heading deeper into trouble. It serves as a convenient disguise for their antisemitism.

That's very simple: stop destabilizing the Middle East.

Obviously LLMs are, and will always be harder to "prove" correct than a compiler. However it's the correctness of the resulting software that matters, right? Coincidentally, LLMs can also help a lot with automated testing and static verification, so maybe the resulting SW won't be more bug-ridden than before LLMs were a thing.

The preference in most industries has always been towards producing more code with some bugs rather than less code that's nearly flawless. Given that, I'm pretty confident that soon I'll not even read code anymore and become a tester (and/or req engineer) instead.

Sure but that applies to traditional software too, including compilers.

LLM is kind of a nondeterministic compiler. You'll want to test the hell out of the resulting code, not only to catch flaws in the prompt but also those introduced by the LLM. I'm bearish on programming but extremely bullish on testing (disclaimer: I'm a programmer).

Or perhaps code becomes just another disposable artifact just like compiler-generated machine code, so understanding or maintaining it will be unnecessary.

It's clearly untrue that "everyone thought they were good". Even David Ben-Gurion knew what's up: "Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: We have taken their country." [0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12250339-david-ben-gurion-w...

> She just can't give the money from those sales to terrorists

It's actually worse. She can't do anything else with the money either, because she doesn't receive it. As mentioned in the beginning of the article: "Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales."

> "it's the shiftiness of jews'. Racism doesn't exist anymore, and calling these discussion anti-semitic is me just shielding isreal as a tactic. Fuck off.

Can't find the quoted phrase in the referred comment: did you just make it up or did he edit it out? Other than that, he made some observations about Judaism. Off-topic perhaps but nowhere near racist. Fuck off.

Sounds rather hyperbolic to me. By similar logic, one could argue that Israel's only purpose is to serve as a Western outpost in the Middle East. There's some truth in that but hardly tells the whole story.

I know what a nation state is, just wondering what makes Palestine stand out as an especially artificial one in your view. Is foreign involvement the key factor here?

> If Israel nuked everyone but one of their enemies, would they be in the right, as then they would have only one enemy?

Depends. Their current friend will most likely become their enemy by then too.

> The KGB never succeeded here even though they tried quite hard - they even made up a nation state out of thin air to rally around

Given that all nation states are more or less "made up out of thin air", what makes one more artificial than another in your view?

I'm not nearly as detail-oriented but I can certainly relate. The craft I've spent 20+ years mastering is disappearing and I'm not sure if I'll enjoy whatever replaces it. It's reassuring to know there are others who share the sorrow.

Why not total war?

"Hey, you've already fucked up. Ain't no sense stopping now." - Anthony Kiedis

Whatever happened, I can't wait to hear the cockpit audio recording.

Fascinating idea. On individual level I wouldn't agree, because whenever you take a strong stance about something you also tend to create enemies. Same for small groups of people. On state level however, it does sound more reasonable and should be the overall principle at least. Scale matters.

Nitpick all you want, but at some point you should also ask why this is being debated so widely in the first place, and whether it's time for the international community to step in. Those approaches aren't mutually exclusive.