The best musical part of this week’s Haftarah (הפטרה)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS3v...

OpenAI's Super Bowl ad located itself at the end of human technological change.

I think they're missing some key ones, more important than what they showed:
1. Running water and plumbing
2. Air-conditioning.
3. Tall architecture.
4. Vaccination.

More?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIhb...

Good writeup on "deterrence" and its usefulness. I think it's mistaken on the Israeli perception (claiming Israel realizes it needs occasional reinforcement), when I think Israeli planners have an overly simplistic view of it.

1/2

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

Characteristically hackish article from Wired on AI, which simply cannot seem to be able to write on this subject in a serious, disinterested way, and seems to just delight in FUD.

www.wired.com/story/algori...

איתי חושף כאן טפח מהאתגר המודיעיני. ב-2021, להבנתו, התחילו גורמים סביב ישראל להאמין במשהו די מופרך: באמצעות טילים משלל גזרות + כמה אלפי לוחמים, ישראל תחרב. לא תספוג פגיעה קשה: תחרב ממש.

אנשי מודיעין מאומנים לא להניח שהיריב טיפש ו״חי בסרט״, אבל, לכאורה, זה היה המצב

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-k...

Joys of double-blind reviews: reviewer claims my paper doesn't cite key papers. Most common author of these key papers: me. I can authoritatively (literally!) say they're irrelevant (reviewer confidence is 5…).
Another reviewer believes I'm wrong on which of my own previous papers I'm extending…

@conitzer.bsky.social you enjoy seeing LLMs struggling in interesting cases. You might find this interesting

A shame Tulsi Gabbard not already in post as she would be able to tell us if Assad regime about to collapse.

Used to think slippery slope arguments sign of weak case & shouldn't be used, but Dutch & Belgian experience with euthanasia laws changed my mind + later, Canada more so.
But even if I wasn't primed, @ianleslie.bsky.social is right these ads are ghoulish. Dystopian
www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-ad-tha...

על הצלחה בצפון ומלחמת המודיעין הראשונה

www.facebook.com/omerlev/post...

Crypto, Steven Levy's book on the development of encryption and the fight against government limits to it in the '90s, is so clearly a product of the year it was published (2001).