You intentionally cut the sentence short, they phrased it that way for emphasis. Here is the full quote for less reactionary audiences:

‘They don’t kill people. Our own government does. No enemy in our history has done to us what these clerics have done.’

Doesn't change how ridiculous the phrase is. "No enemy in our history..." really? Persia has a long, long history.

I also wouldn't be surprised if they used AI to assist themselves in small ways

They admitted to it, with a pic of their original draft https://xcancel.com/PlumbNick/status/2016666185949962309#m

This says very little about the quality of the culture averaged over those thousands of years

Quit cherrypicking for the sake of being an edgelord

You don't think history has an effect on the present?

I didn't even bring up SAVAK or Basij.

You haven't shown that the lineage is connected to modern Persian people nor whether it is particularly prominent in Persian culture as a whole

Torture and power preserving/seeking are emergent and universal, nothing particularly Persian about it

I feel you must not have met any people from continually-multi-thousand-year-old cultures.

I believe Crete was the first country to unilaterally declare itself a part of another country, because being Greek is possibly the strongest and proudest connection they share. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete#Cretan_State_and_union_w...

The Jewish Diaspora take great lengths to preserve their traditions; you can walk into a synagogue (sharing the same movement) anywhere in the world and it'll be the same as your hometown.

The Persians I have known have had a connection to their history similarly, for better or for worse. Their views and values are a little different than, say, your average Euro-mutt "white" American -- and I think we "white" Americans have some lessons we could take about culture, identity, and values.

Where do you think I'm from lol .....

I don't think we should stop learning about ourselves out of paranoia. This sort of research could end up just like many powerful tech before (ex. nukes->green energy)

I think the advent of social algorithms and the technologies of that ilk indicate that there are things that shouldn't be explored.

With those examples though, how would we know ahead of time that they "shouldn't be explored?" They sure looked interesting and maybe even potentially beneficial a couple decades ago.

Now, of course, we know those algorithms warp regular users (and by extension societies). Or... maybe they don't? Some research has suggested that just putting this many people in direct communication with each other is the root cause of the problems we see. There could be other ways to fix those without shutting down the internet. How would we know without more exploration?

Post it on r/StableDiffusion

This is unrelated. They both use the word "block", but what they are referring to differs

"Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models"

Yes and? The paper I linked is about network weights, not the type of generative model

> Residual connections are more than a trick to help gradients flow. They’re a conservation law.

> Not a hack, not a trick. A principled constraint that makes the architecture work at scale.

OK, I thought I was reading too much into it but those same sentences also jumped out for me

pangram thinks the whole thing was LLM generated fwiw, as dodgy as AI detectors are it is probably among the best. I don't doubt the author started with their own text, but I think it's been substantially revised via ChatGPT

yes this reads like classic intellectual fellicitatio

> blowing up kids

not to refute the difference in extent but this is somewhat notable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahyan_airstrike

How was he equally brutal