I recently thought about what I’m missing, and came up with something rather complicated (sorry, nothing simple haha)

Basically I’m often compiling information in markdown text files. But images are still web hosted. Sometimes I use spreadsheets and wish I could do simple additions in markdown tables. Or I use bookmarks, but know websites will go down and wish I could just “backup” any website in a compact file and organize it without mucking around with files. Zotero does this partly. I also use “SingleFile” to save websites but it would be nice if it was something semi-compatible to web-archive. Or maybe just save a stripped down version of an article like you see in “reader view” on Firefox. And of course usable in both desktop and mobile.

I do think Project Jupyter does something like this and there are also other note taking apps.

Overall the state of computer science in 2025 is still deplorable. The very basics of storing data still don’t have good solutions.

What the heck are you talking about?

They are drafted, and refusing to serve is not easy, and they are inundated by propaganda. And yeah reparations, land reform, wealth redistribution all would need to happen.

And if you’re taking about the recent settlements (say like up to 20 years ago) and dispossession of Palestinians, yeah I agree. But there is a “statue of limitations”. You can’t unravel history. Humans in general who live somewhere and have build their lives deserve protection - no matter how they got there or what shitty and vile opinions they hold. It’s not a property dispute if you want to apply this to a whole nation.

Personally I don’t see this ending well. There are about a billion climate refugees coming in the next decades and things will get much worse generally. Israel will probably become isolated and eventually loose USA support and use their nuclear weapons. But after than it’s quite possible Israel will indeed end with another holocaust. But I see no reason to hope for or argue in favor of that.

Of course, two wrongs don’t make it right! You can’t hold the people living in an area collectively responsible for the actions of their regime (past or present). They are human beings.

I am angry too and I agree that the regime and a majority of the population of Israel has become fascist along with decades of crimes, terrorism and oppression, and should fall and be “de-nazied” like in Germany. But that is unlikely anytime soon. Best we can do is sanction them to collapse and punish those who support this regime.

The issue is that the fascist assault also has an impact on all of us, by making us angry and wish for simple solutions. Don’t play into their hands by validating their claims about the “radical left”.

There were many historically German language areas in Poland and Czechia. There was in fact atrocities and ethnic cleansing there - not that this deserves any pity for most of the “former NAZIs”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_(1944–1950)

After 50 years I don’t think any reasonable person can make the argument that removing Jews from Israel is anything but ethnic cleansing. Not that I’d have any pity on those zionist fascists either, BUT it’s beyond the pale to feign outrage over your “innocent comment” if this is your true opinion.

YDI

they do it while dehumanizing people and devaluing humanity

You’re making wild assumptions about people who disagree with your opinions. How ironic you accuse “them” of dehumanizing people.

But I do agree that this gets to the core of the matter, the shock of a piece of software being able to produce intelligent text while clearly not having general intelligence is quite the shock. Same with creativity, while the entertainment industry produced equally empty content slop using human labor it’s a painful shock to our identity as humans. I suspect this is a reaction to disillusionment and the intellectual pain that comes from it.

My opinion on LLMs is rather nuanced, the worst possible outcome I can foresee is the anti-AI crowd helping the oligarchs to establish IP ownership of all LLM models and monopolizing the tools, so that only they can have access to the “means of generation”. While the rest has to pay for the privilege of using it.

You’d basically need to de-nazify Israel and occupy it by some benevolent, nation building world police. Show the horror in documentaries, re-educate, rebuild the democratic institutions like news and social media. Obviously a pipe dream.

But that is a bonus, less people will bother me haha

Ah thanks lol I searched but didn’t look in the sidebar haha

I’m also disgusted by the rhetoric and new fascist antisemitism “definition”. I’m not uninformed or pro-Israel at all.

But I definitely consider “Palestine has no right to exist” as hate speech and would demand censoring / banning that. Because there is a clear implication. We can not afford to allow tolerance towards intolerance.

The only thing I would say in favor of OP is that because Palestine is currently weaker and the oppressed victim, and rightfully outraged, it’s not fair to demand higher standards from them and is therefor hypocritical.

Saying Israel doesn’t have a right to exist isn’t the same as saying all Jews should be forced to leave.

But it is virtually indistinguishable of what someone would say if they wished for ethnic cleansing. At the very least it sounds like a dog whistle. You could instead say Zionism or apartheid or fascist Israel has no right to exist.

And yeah, my original comment is also virtually indistinguishable from a mealymouthed moderate liberal lol.

Better yet, teach AI to write code replacing specific optimized AI networks. Then automatically profile and optimize and unit test!

It’s like that “Joey Repeat After Me” meme from friends haha

Not really. When you program you break down the problem into many smaller sub programs and then codify them. There are errors that need debugging. But never “how does this part of the program I wrote work?”. Reading code from someone else is less fun than writing, but you can still understand it.

There are some cases like detergents, apparently until recently we didn’t know exactly how it works. But human engineered tools are not comparable to this.

I mean it implies that they CAN start with the conclusion or the “thought” and then generate the text to verbalize that.

It’s shocking to what length humans will go to explain how their wetware neural network is fundamentally different and it’s impossible for LLMs to think or reason in any way. Honestly LLMs teach us more about human intelligence (or the lack thereof) than machine intelligence. Like obi wan said, “The ability to speak does not make one intelligent” haha.

But how is this different from your average redditor?

You know they don’t think - even though “It’s a peculiar truth that we don’t understand how large language models (LLMs) actually work.”?

It’s truly shocking to read this from a mess of connected neurons and synapses like yourself. You’re simply doing fancy word prediction of the next word /s

Is that actually a tolerable opinion in the sense of “paradox of tolerance”? Or is it hate speech that leads to intolerance?

Like “deport all jews from greater palestine” would mean ethnic cleansing which would not be tolerable. The only logical solution seems to be a 1 state solution that would need decades of investment, reeducation, de-nazification and de-radicalization on both sides.

Or said differently, “Palestine doesn’t have a right to exist” is not tolerable right?

Historic arguments that wold have been valid 70 years ago are now not useful since the reality is like it is. Something like “USA doesn’t have a right to exist, Europeans go home!” doesn’t make sense either except in the hypothetical where it would .

Whats PTB?

You need peace / security, a modicum of prosperity, and education / information from independent news. There are no shortcuts.

Basically both Israel and Palestine are fucked because of decades of neglect and neoliberal and racist policies.