Thought I would ask Anthropic's LLM about its use for target selection in Iran, as detailed in the attached WaPo article. This was its response. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
Important thread.
Errr, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan?
What is that great glowing orb in the sky, a portent of doom?
They only appear to have one funder - JRRT - and a v junior team. Given they filed their 'election observer' complaint well after the deadline, I'm not convinced this is a professional operation. Perhaps even disingenuous/astroturf (but as I said I've not heard of them before the byelection report).
Can you provide any more info, please? I've never heard of them before.
The front lawn of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
It tells you something about the disorientating rate of change underway that nobody is particularly shocked that a head of state has been assassinated by other states, something which has *never happened* in the modern era. Which is illegal under US law. Shed no tears for Khamanei, but still.
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"Your" idea has been around for 50+ years...
Same experience but flying to the US - hour upon hour walking up and down the aisle to try to get our sons to sleep. In ~half dozen flights, can only remember one kind woman offering to help.
I'd be fascinated by a 'Who Do You Think You Are' where they track down all 16 Great Great Great Grandfathers - rather than the one famous one - and then everyone realises how normal and how mixed our heritage is...
Couldn't agree more. Also applies to flights - parents aren't flying with babies/toddlers because they enjoy it or want to upset others. The Italians' embrace of children is the way forward.
Lineal descent is always such an odd discussion. You had 16 great great great grandfathers, where did the other 15 come from? I suspect they weren't all born on your street...
The (for me, surprising) finding was that young men in the UK are overwhemingly supportive of progressive parties, as opposed to most continental party systems where the right/far-right does well or very well with young men.
Indeed, the UK is a pretty significant outlier from the US and continental Europe in this regard.
Thank you. Odd that he's blocked me... no idea why.
Thanks! No idea why he would have blocked me...
On 1 May 1517, xenophobic mobs, riled up by preachers who were in turn pressured by wealthy broker John Lincoln, rioted in London. They claimed that foreigners were stealing their jobs and welfare. Thomas More, then under-sheriff of London, tried to stop the mob with an empassioned speech.
Who are you QTing Chris? They seem to have me blocked?
But what is the mechanism by which he would/could be removed? Starmer's Lab doesn't have enough 'men in grey suits' to achieve that?
In 2016 I was campaigning against Brexit and one woman said she was voting Leave because the local council had closed the public toilets, and refused to believe the two issues were not connected.
I was canvassing for the Lib Dems in 2019 and one couple were insisting that Jeremy Corbyn was going to *steal* their privately-owned house, and found myself *defending* Corbyn... so weird.
We need a Section 86a before this spirals out of control...
It also made John Gotti - as London made the Krays - but I don't think we can judge either on that basis...
NYC is one of - if not the - least Trumpy cities in the US.
Also - found this Google AI summary amusing if apropos this discussion:
Fully agree Thomas. Obviously we (Londoners) have to deal with the wider national impacts of Brexit, but IMV London feels as vibrant, cosmopolitan and indeed European as it was pre-2020.
The data is patchy, but it seems London is still the most popular European destination for Europeans/EU tourists? And we still have over 1 million EU citizens living in London - roughly 15% of the total population. Interesting to see how that compares to Paris, Berlin etc.
Huh. I wasn't born in London but I've lived here all my adult life, and it never really felt like London was the capital of Europe - it's always been, for me, more a global city with a significant European identity, which it retains.
I can understand that sentiment about England (and Wales), but why specifically London - which voted overwhelmingly to remain?
