Many experiments fail and negative results are seldom published As a result, LLMs lack awareness of the outcomes of most experiments

Almost as fallible as economists, and arguably worse than psychologists

Like fat-tail phenomena, LLMs act as frequency-based systems that can't extrapolate beyond their training samples. Their knowledge is limited to what's visible in the data.

If a lobby can buy an election, it's not a democracy, period And if a malicious lobby can buy an election, it's far worse than any form of autocracy Let that sink in

The Israel experiment has been tried and has failed; it is time to pursue a different approach

Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without mass killing of white people, and there is no reason to believe dismantling apartheid Israel would require extermination of Jews

Critics are often accused of calling for the extermination of Jews when they say this, but that claim is false; dismantling a national order that privileges one group's interests over another and remedying

The result has been generations of continuous violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos across the Middle East today That creation was a mistake that should be addressed

The original grievance therefore traces to the artificial creation of an ethnonational state in the mid-20th century and the Zionist and Western imperialist efforts that enabled it

Even ancestry a few generations back in Ireland and Scotland wouldn't legitimize showing up and demanding another person's residence

Appeals to "the Jews lived there thousands of years ago" don't justify modern territorial claims; there's no reason to assume a Jewish person in New York has a stronger claim by lineage than

If the timeline is extended far enough, it leads to the point where Western powers imposed a newly created ethnostate on top of an existing civilization without consent, to the severe detriment of the

Almost every Israel–Palestine argument follows the same loop: "Israel did X." "Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y." "Yeah, because Israel did Z." "Yeah, but only because

Hasbara exploits the common confusion between proximate and ultimate causes

Israel has quadrupled its budget for international propaganda to $730 million That's roughly equal to the EU Commission's humanitarian aid to Gaza since Oct 2023, about €650 million, the largest donor

The tragedy is that, to legitimize Israel's actions, propaganda must rewrite international norms: state-sanctioned murder, ecocide, genocide, Christophobia, killing negotiators, fabricating history, apartheid,

Yeah, acceptance is key when it hits - doesn't make it easier though

Yeah, me too - imagine a world without that endless drag on everything

Reminder It's always clear how, why, and when wars begin It's never clear how, why, or when they end

No amount of self-debasement is too great if it helps sustain self-deception