Didn't they famously help both the Nazis and Apartheid South Africa?

I think this is why Kurt Cobain famously kept his turtles in his bathtub.

I thought that was Hemingway specifically?

The middle class is poor now.

Yep. The middle class is quickly disappearing.

He lost the vote the first time. He lost to a corpse the second time he ran, it was like Weekend at Bernie's.

A superpower run by geriatrics.

Future historians are going to laugh at us- provided there will be any.

> Do the same with a 30-year old immigrant who has never heard of Santa, and I suspect you'll have a harder time.

There's a plethora of people who convert to religion at an older age, and that seems far more far fetched than Santa.

> There's a plethora of people who convert to religion at an older age, and that seems far more far fetched than Santa.

Being in a religion doesn’t imply belief in deities; it only implies people want social connection. This is clearly visible in global religion statistics; there are countries where the majority of people identify as belonging to a religion, and at the same time only a small minority state they believe in a “God”. Norway is a decent example that I bumped into just yesterday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Norway

Sure.

But I bet you'd have a significantly easier time converting a child rather than a 30/40/50-yr old to a religion.

My point is that LLMs are suggestible, perhaps more so than the average adult, but less so than I child I suspect. I don't think suggestibility really solves the problem of whether something has AGI or not. To me, on the contrary, it seems like to be intelligent and adaptable you need to be able to modify your world model. How easily you are fooled is a function of how mature / data-rich your existing world model is.

> If you step back, in 1979 Iran launched a revolution that had an avowed goal of “death to America”. If the Iranians play the kinetic scenario to the bitter end, they simply are demonstrating this was not mere poetry and there never was any other off-ramp, just tactically deciding at what relative strength these two systems will collide.

Step back further and you see that they were overthrowing a dictator that the US had installed over their democratically elected government.

If you take a step back even further, perhaps you don't bomb a girls school three times because someone 47 years ago said something mean about your country and then never followed up.

> The war should not be won. it should be ended before everyone loses.

No one ever really wins in war, except those not participating.

The feeling is that "no one" cares about it being sent to American servers, why should they suddenly care about it going to Chinese servers just because they're Chinese.

Not only that, USA is far more likely to send someone to kill you than china is. So between the 2 I'll take china (I'd prefer my data to not be sent to any foreign power).

Well perhaps today is a good day to die.

Same for me. Felt like a superpower.