After starting the whole WWII thing by allying with them, and only turned on the nazis after the nazis backstabbed them. And afterwards, occupied half of Europe.

Aah I see there are depths to the Dutch spirit I’ve yet to uncover. All my encounters with the Dutch have been at a pre-canal-swimming drunkenness level.

Is it the one where you pretend to deepthroat a frikandel?

Mercosur-EFTA-CA-SEA global free trade regime let’s go

You can’t have a rainforest in Brazil without cutting it down either, but that doesn’t seem to stop people

Too bad russia wants to fight everyone

This kind of stuff never happens overnight. It happens slowly, incrementally, and the people are never mad enough at too much sudden change to be motivated enough to do anything. People should feel good about the imposition of boundaries, and it helps that for the average user, the boundaries often result in a better user experience.

Fun speculation: we are CPUs for the information systems we inhabit, like scientific method, political ideologies, etc.

You’re clearly not Russian

Thanks for recognizing this. Yes, most people in russia aren’t “russian”, they have just been assimilated into the amorphous imperial identity.

nor have lived in Russia for any considerate amount of time

Oh wow, something new to learn about myself I guess. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

It’s trivial to get LLMs to act against the instructions

I was born in russia, and the current behavior of russia is downstream of the political system that is dominant in russia, which itself is downstream of the russian culture (the sum total of the ideas in people’s heads and their interplay). Things got this way because russian people let things get this way. https://vasily.cc/blog/the-russian-template/

There is a lot more that goes into it than just being correct. 18000 waters may have been the actual order, because somebody decided to screw with the machine. A human who isn’t terminally autistic would reliably interpret that as a joke and would simply refuse to punch that in. The LLM will likely do what a human tells it to do, since it has no contextual awareness, it only has the system prompt and whatever interaction with the user it had so far.