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They seem obsessed with unearned hierarchy. The reason they take such gleeful and malicious pleasure in destroying organizations like the CDC and HHS is the culture of expertise and institutional power that comes from that expertise. In their mind power only comes hierarchy and domination.

Fair point.

... concessions. The issue now is credibility. With assassination on the table then there's now less incentive to think solely about the money.

There conflict inside the regime. Iran is dependent on oil revenues as much as any gulf state, so any off ramp would offer Iran some ability to earn in return for concessions. Likewise, the gulf states have allowed Iran to launder money as well. That's the leverage they have to force military ...

Iran already has a second strike capability insofar as they've got rugged enough terrain that the ballistic side of the triad is likely available even after an attack. Without a Chinese/russian umbrella I don't see them getting the other two legs though.

This is projecting a lot of forethought and rationality that may not be there in practice.

If that's the case then regime survival is less important than being able to "mow the grass" and being able to attack Iran's infrastructure at will.

One potential view is that the attacks were an attempt to turn Iran into Lebanon before China becomes assertive enough to project power in the region using Iran as a base.

... irreversible all out attack on there infrastructure the regime leadership obvious think there must be a day after scenario. I have no idea what that is though.

... *de-escalation* pathways look like. As you correctly note, with assassinations against leaders no longer taboo and negotiations no longer trusted there has to be a credible way to ratchet down tensions. I don't know what the Iranian leadership is thinking, but given there hasn't been an ...

The escalation signaling is more important than the damage in this case. A lot of the ladder here was "we can do the following things" (attack desalination, oil infrastructure, close the gulf etc). There were credible but not irreversible displays of force on each. The question is what the ...

Anecdotally, LLMs have allowed certain collaborators who lack "mathematical maturity" but are otherwise technically adept to understand papers and research that would be otherwise inaccessible.

Interactive theorem provers (ITP) have already shown a lot of potential in math education ("Lambda the ultimate TA") but ITP requires programming skill and a cursory understanding of proof theory.

A certain class of math student is effectively illiterate when it comes to notation and how to read mathematics. LLMs are extremely powerful when it comes to both parsing and explaining notation. LLMs are also increasingly capable of "vibe-coding" with interactive theorem provers.

I want to know what is going on with the targeting of tankers today and if that triggers any tit for tat.

And the point I was making was that --used ethically and effectively-- LLMs increase understanding when *done with the reading*.

There is sifting and filtering! That's what an expert is doing! The problem with LLMs is that *they require critical thinking and cross referencing to use effectively*. That's why the rich (experts) get richer and non-experts get poorer.

The issue is use. The guy using it to cheat on his homework or impersonate an expert will fail horribly. The expert using it as a frictionless way to look up notation and related work finds it extremely powerful.

It's a misunderstanding of how modern LLMs work. Current LLMs point to genuine links and scholarly articles. They also do image and notation recognition.

Why do experts use search engines when reference librarians exist?

Why use Google when you can go to the library? The reason LLMs are only useful in the hands of experts is that they can use them critically in their area of expertise.

Oh they're much worse. The difference is that an LLM summary is in seconds while a human summary takes effort. The difference between Google and a reference librarian.

The US economy is based on providing services and marking up inputs from countries which are horribly exposed to this. Similar to how the tariffs mangled the US car industry.

I genuinely wonder how long the carriers can last.

Emily the uyoku.

Dumber in the sense that the reverberations of this are going to be felt for years, if not decades. What these geniuses always fail to recognize is that a service and markup economy requires inputs to extract rents from.

Refrigerating is more about doing some form of harm to a woman to justify brutal revenge by the hero. The Davis arc Betsy one is especially bad, with Betsy's injuries being "punishment" for Brian quitting. "If you don't do the job of hero, then women will do it and get hurt!"

If you use an LLM as a search engine, then --yes-- it's not that interesting. Where LLMs are emancipatory is the ability to "autocomplete" data and context that would be otherwise overwhelming. The key is that you have to feed it things other than the slop it was trained on.

The paid tiers of the commercial vendors can do this if you know what you're doing. The issue is that what LLMs are good at (expert contextualization of knowledge and summarization) is not what they're being sold as (a way of deskilling knowledge work).