the horse you rode in on

andale pusillanimous

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

@EylonALevy @_VanessaFrazier @dannydanon She appears to be confused about how twitter works and you appear to be insensitive for not seeing that. If your larger point is correct, you aren’t making it here.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Venice had a network of spies and diplomats in every court of Europe. Upon their return, they were required to deliver reports to the Venetian Senate. These reports were so invaluable for understanding the state of the world that they were often smuggled out and sold to rich clients for a high price.

Many survive to this day, and they have been compiled into historical volumes that make for extremely interesting reading, and are some of the most important sources for the history of the 1500s and 1600s. But most have never been translated into English.

AI is finally getting good enough to translate old documents like this (not as good as an expert, but good enough when nothing else is available), so I wrote a short program to translate the Venetian reports. The results are surprisingly good. With some light editing and the addition of footnotes, they make for really compelling reading.

So I'm making a Substack and putting the earliest surviving report on the Ottoman Empire (from 1534) up as the first post. I'll keep any AI-translated stuff completely free, as it would feel wrong to paywall that, but if you'd like to support me by subscribing, I'll be posting some of my own historical/political/cultural thoughts behind the paywall eventually.

Anyway check it out, I think you'll really enjoy reading these reports. The first one covers (among other things) the scheming of Grand Vizier Ibrahim, and the Venetian diplomat's correspondence with the famous corsair Barbarossa:

https://t.co/2ePtVb8PCX

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

Again, well meaning & insightful but It’s not a new phenomenon. Liars undo themselves. It takes patience & consistency to outlast them. Materially, we are protected as Americans not as Jews & that has to be enough. Culturally, the only long term play worth considering is truth.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Recommended reading for anyone who cares about fighting the anti-Israel libels: https://t.co/ffUz76Ks1J

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

Might be useful as a legal offense fund but that would be reinforcing and not abandoning the regime. Reasonable middle ground.

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

Well intentioned but��

[Melissa Braunstein @slowhoneybee]

If you, like me, have found yourself frustrated with legacy Jewish orgs and their ability to navigate this historical moment, it’s worth reading @jordanchirsch and considering his argument (which I’m still mulling over). https://t.co/bNpNdMmj7d

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

“To prosper in the coming transactional disorder of anti-institutionalism,….”

Can’t ride these rapids.

Such a fund will make a few ppl rich & raise governance questions. It will not be useful as aid for Israel cuz the money isn’t the point, the mil-2-mil relationships are.

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

Just swap “was” where you see “were” and get the accent right. Really works.

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

Wish You Were Here works as a hillbilly song. It might actually be that.

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

It eliminates the need to write functions. We can replace them with recursive ai api calls that do stuff on request, if energy is cheap enough.

At that scope there is no hallucination problem.

the existing range of safely deployable ai application is like 2% mapped…

[PJ @Prithvir12]

If this Karpathy interview doesn't pop the ai bubble,

nothing will.

10 brutal quotes:

1. LLMs don’t work yet
They don’t have enough intelligence, they’re not multimodal enough, they can’t use computers, and they don’t remember what you tell them.
They’re cognitively lacking. It’ll take about a decade to work through all of that.

2. When you boot them up, they always start from zero
They have no distillation phase, no process like sleep where what happened gets analyzed and written back into the weights.

3. What’s stored in their weights is only a hazy recollection of the internet
It's just a compressed blur of 15 trillion tokens squeezed into a few billion parameters. Their context window is just short-term working memory.

4. They’re good at imitation, terrible at going off the data manifold
Too much memory, not enough reasoning.
We need to strip away the memorized knowledge and keep the cognitive core: the algorithms, the magic of intelligence, problem-solving, strategy.

5. We’ve probably recreated a cortical tissue, pattern-learning and general, but we’re still missing the rest of the brain
No hippocampus for memory.
No amygdala for instincts.
No emotions or motivations.

6. They memorize perfectly but generalize poorly
If you give them random numbers, they can recite them back. No human can do that.
That’s the problem: humans forget just enough to be forced to find patterns.

7. Anything truly new, code that’s never been written before, ideas that have no template; they stumble
They’re still autocomplete engines with perfect recall and no understanding. Until we find that cognitive core, intelligence stripped of memory but full of reasoning, they’ll stay brilliant mimics, not minds.

[Ross Piper @DrRossPiper]

Sweet Vernal Grass seed. On contact with water they spin. On the ground this allows them to 'burrow' through the sward and soil.

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

Neither the dog nor the canaries are doing this right. She is textbook. Write a textbook.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

A woman sicced her dog at me this morning as I was walking my dog. When I asked what was going on she regurgitated lies propagated by an ongoing propaganda campaign carried out by @canarymission. I will be addressing what happened this morning (with video) on TYT. I'll also go over the videos that they incessantly clip out of context to form a false narrative about my character.

[Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328]

Normalize replying “Ok, Ivanov” to antizionist libelers.

Yuri Ivanov was a Soviet propagandist who, in 1969, published Caution: Zionism!—a canonical text of the USSR’s pseudo-science called “Zionology.” From it came nearly every modern antizionist trope: “Zionists are Nazis,” the colonizer libel, the apartheid libel, the genocide libel.

Let them know they have no idea what they are spouting and that there is no reason to respond to antizionist libels.

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

Western governments are able to remember his name. A mistake to assume there are any deeper judgements than that being made.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Israeli ministers call the Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouthi, jailed for 22 years so far, an ‘arch-terrorist’. Most Western govts see him as a possible leader of a Palestinian state, clever and relatively moderate. It’s claimed he’s been badly beaten over the last two years.

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

We’ve just seen the end of a very strong move of bnb against bitcoin. Ran its course bravely and silently. Idk what it means.

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

If ur thinking well that’s just a political calculation. My answer is that’s right. And he’s not a serious person.

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

Gavin could legit audition for the big chair right now by finding the middle ground on deportations. He’s not doing that. He’s letting it go to a crisis. Not a serious person.

[the horse you rode in on @DevDemi1]

Things that will happen