Search for the word 'revenge' here to find some telling recollections of a Kindertransport boy.

LLMs are trained to imitate patterns of language, not to discover or verify truth. So, when asked to speak as an expert in an area where perceived experts have a widespread misconception, the LLM will parrot that misconception, adopting the register and vocabulary of experts.

You Have to Enjoy It a Lot

TIL that Rome's IUDAEA CAPTA coins which depict a conquered Judea as a seated, weeping and despairing woman, were unique in using this symbolism. Other victory coins depict an enemy's strength subdued, or martial themes, not their emotions. Could they be expressing the Pattern?

Stockfish 18 (4045 Elo) v Magnus Carlsen (2882 Elo)

🧵1/ Hello world, my name is Gal, and I am an Israeli, Jewish, mother, and lawyer. It is 3 am in Israel and I can’t sleep after what I had to witness. I want to share a bit about my experience over the past (almost) two years. This is my ‘message in a bottle’ to you. >

My appearance on News Nation in the US this evening. Thanks to @AriellaNoveck for organising.

Joseph Priestley, 'pacifist' & Enlightenment hero, supported the French Revolution even after it murdered Lavoisier—his colleague, benefactor & scientific superior. “The Republic has no need of scientists”, said the judge. Priestley raised not the slightest protest. Disgusting.

Scandalous statement by Macron While speaking about the need to release the hostages, a man asked him "does that include the Palestinian hostages?" Macron answered: "yes, all the hostages. On both sides" Just to clarify things, Israel doesn’t hold a single Palestinian hostage

I watched the video of Rom Braslavski, the Israeli hostage held by Palestinian Islamic Jihad since his abduction from the Nova festival on October 7, showing him severely emaciated and whimpering almost incoherently. His family has asked that Ron’s video not be shared, because the young man is physically and mentally broken after nearly two years in Islamic Jihad’s captivity. What hits like a truck is the poor boy’s voice; it’s broken, he’s barely audible as he weeps about his condition. He is visibly dying. It’s heart rending, it defies words. Yet, Hamas and Islamic Jihad post their barbaric torment of this young man as information warfare. Stop and think about the ghastly asymmetry here: they aren’t hiding what they have done to Ron, they aren’t concerned with any backlash. Not in the least. They released that video in full view of the world without any fear of condemnation. To answer Seth’s rhetorical question, of course the answer is none; the suffering of Jews and Israelis mean less than nothing to NYT and its editorial board.