(I don't know the source - it was shared by a colleague without attribution and from another source that didn't attribute the author)
Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸
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I get so confused on this. I play around, test, and mess with LLMs all the time and they are miraculous. Just amazing, doing things we dreamed about for decades. I mean, I can ask for obscure things with subtle nuance where I misspell words and mess up my question and it figures it out. It talks to me like a person. It generates really cool images. It helps me write code. And just tons of other stuff that astounds me.
And people just sit around, unimpressed, and complain that ... what ... it isn't a perfect superintelligence that understands everything perfectly? This is the most amazing technology I've experienced as a 50+ year old nerd that has been sitting deep in tech for basically my whole life. This is the stuff of science fiction, and while there totally are limitations, the speed at which it is progressing is insane. And people are like, "Wah, it can't write code like a Senior engineer with 20 years of experience!"
Crazy.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wm4e6mmexrlsxgzypxk5kbhp/bafkreicte4bk6so5euwdn6vxx2zyufsw5qpqode3ilqyufo226gwsnas3q)
![The Ben-Gurion that emerges from Tom Segev's A State at Any Cost is a singleminded figure obsessively dedicated to the creation of the Jewish State in Palestine. He was not, Segev notes, a man of ideas interested in the development of Zionist theory, but a ruthless political and organization man willing to risk everything to accomplish his state-building goal.
He pursued this even if it meant sacrificing the lives of Jews, let alone those of the Palestinians. Segev cites him telling members of his MAPAI party in the late thirties: "If I knew that it was possible to save all the [Jewish] children in Germany by transporting them to England, but only half by transporting them to Palestine, I would choose the second."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wm4e6mmexrlsxgzypxk5kbhp/bafkreif6gu7n6l2afcn4xa54vebmegnfc33a63lrnhcntwu2kclzhdj54e)
![* Sheffer comments: Maj. Gen. (res.) Nimrod Sheffer described the resumption of the fighting in Gaza as a terrible mistake that might result in the death of hostages.
Speaking with Kan Radio this morning, Sheffer said, "Hamas signed with Israel
-via mediators or not via mediators, that doesn't matter —an agreement to return the hostages in two stages. The first stage was implemented, and Israel violated the second stage. We violated. It wasn't that Hamas wasn't prepared [to proceed]. We didn't enter into talks about the second stage. Now, what did we think would happen when we violated the agreement? That they would simply give us all the hostages and would sit happily on their behinds until we killed them?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wm4e6mmexrlsxgzypxk5kbhp/bafkreidplptbn7o6iwrqmah3so4ivzbtkqin3nb5rbnmq5pbbjqp6qwr4i)
