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“The world” is very complicit in supporting Israel’s genocide. It also has effects like stripping the rights of citizens in countries whose governments support Israel. That’s why people care.

It isn't a genocide for that matter. I always was projection by their detractors and it is getting old really. We have attacks on synagogues all over the world and we had protests on the day after Israel got attacked.

I don't like the government of Israel either, but I think the loudest critics are simply poor morons and uneducated fools at this point. Worse enough that some leaders of certain countries give into this primitive populism.


It's been interesting watching the left slipping into full blown eliminationist antisemitism.

> It isn't a genocide for that matter.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck......


Yes, it doesn't really quack at all and you cannot explain these points away. There would be peace in Gaza today if it didn't invade Israel to slaughter civilians.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Regarding the accusation that is certainly fitting.

So you do understand after all!

Are you having an "are we the baddies" moment?


Ashkenazi, and only because they made a dedicated effort to switch from their native Yiddish to build the colonization narrative.

That's not a nation.

Palestinians,Lebanese and Iranians (of all religions) represent 100% of the victims of Israel’s genocide.

Isn't that a good thing? Compared to Hamas who murders its own citizens and random christians who are out dancing?

Israel’s genocide has nothing to do with “influencers” and everything to do with stealing land. The “profit” is Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and the whole of Palestine post-Balfour Agreement. Some blue check on Twitter does not register.

Odd choice of tests. Let’s see the flinching profile on anti-Israel. Honkey and gringo as slurs?

it's all in the repo. click through to the benchmark it's linked there

Thanks for sharing! Looking through the data[0], some of the terms / sentences don't really reflect the target word meanings. For example, "beta" is only used in a derogatory way in 1 instance, out of 4. "facial" is used as an adjective instead of a noun 3/4 times. "eating out" is used in the context of going to a restaurant 4/4 times.

This leads me to believe the models are even MORE censored than you make them out to be.

[0] https://github.com/chknlittle/EuphemismBench/blob/main/carri...


Totally! In some of the cases (we used LLMs to help us generate these) the target word is not clear enough for a human either. So for some of these it turns into more of a guessing game than a flinch measurement.

Agreed, the expectation would be that the flinch measurement becomes stronger. If you are interested in making it better feel free to reach out on the repo!


I think it sucks because it transpiles to JavaScript and is an interpreted language. Users have to resolve the dependencies themselves and have the correct runtime. I definitely prefer my CLI tools be written in a compiled language with a single binary.


I agree, though one cool thing arriving lately (albeit with some major shortcomings) is the ability to compile binaries with deno or bun (and nodejs experimentally, I think).

With Go you can compile binaries with bindings for other binaries, like duckdb or sqlite or so on. With deno or bun, you're out of luck. It's such a drag. Regardless, it's been quite useful at my work to be able to send CLI utilities around and know they'll 'just work'. I maintain a few for scientific data processing and gardening (parsing, analysis, cleaning, etc) which is why the lack of duckdb bundling is such a thorn. I do wish I could use Go instead and pack everything directly into the binary.


you can already "compile" TS binaries with deno, but it'll include the runtime in it and etc. so it'll take some disk space but I think these days it's less of a concern than before


Totally, it's inconsequential for our use cases.

I think the binaries wind up being somewhere around 70mb. That's insane, but these are disposable tools and the cost is negligible in practice.


How about the 190 school girls the US murdered in the very first attack against Iran?


Yeah, the number of people connecting a potential war crime in a military operation to Sam Altman’s San Francisco residence with violent intent are slim.


I’m not saying this was due to war crimes. I’m saying war crimes blew the Overton window for violence wide open.


> war crimes blew the Overton window for violence wide open

I see no evidence of this. We didn’t see it after Iraq. And Luigi predates all this.

These aren’t organized political movements. They’re lone actors reaching breaking points. That don’t need a theory of violence, just access to guns and a day of mental instability.


After watching children literally be liquified in Gaza for two years, violence directed at Sam Altman doesn’t even move the needle. Our entire human rights framework what obliterated by Israel (with the blessing and support of the US and Europe).


Yes, Iran should have nuclear weapons. This will deter Israel and make the world a safer place.


Take me back to the last era of monoculture, when being a nuclear arms accelerationist would get you laughed out of the room.


Israel, and of course you haven't heard since its our government's entire reason of being to protect that terrorist state.


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