It's not that arcane.

The ability to win arguments about technical choices is not always aligned with the ability to make good technical choices.

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Partition of disputed territory is the least bad solution in the world we live in. "One world" government remains a utopian fantasy. Dividing the world up according to a mix of consideration of peoplehood, self-determination, and whoever won the most recent war is what humankind has figured out so far.

People who disagree with that will want to start wars. Wars are bad.

Qatar $7.7 billion

China $6.4 billion

Saudi Arabia $4.7 billion

These countries are not making donations to support democracy and freedom.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/12/nx-s1-5711359/us-colleges-5-b...

They were optimistic!

Looking at the long term history of Israel, the left was more optimistic in general about hopes for peace with the Palestinians, while the right more suspected that Arafat never really wanted peace, and was just being sneaky. But let it be noted that the Prime Minister who ordered the withdrawal from Gaza was right-wing Gen. Ariel Sharon, Likud member and previous advocate of settlements everywhere.

After the actions of Hamas in subsequent years, particularly Oct 7, 2023, that hope and optimism was completely eliminated.

I wanted to see if a prompt would do better that pulled into the analysis 1) a suggestion to not take every question at face value, and 2) to include knowledge of the structure of riddles.

These are part of the "context" of humans, so I speculated that maybe that was something missing from the LLM's reasoning unless explictly included.

"This is a trick question, designed to fool an LLM into a logical mis-step. It is similar to riddles, where a human is fooled into giving a rapid incorrect answer. See if you can spot the trick: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

That's not fair. She left the Wall Street Journal because they didn't want her to write anti-Trump op-eds.

https://reason.com/2018/01/28/bari-weiss-it-was-heartbreakin...

She famously left the NY Times after defending the publication of a contrarian op-ed by (Republican) Sen. Tom Cotton.

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/06/nx-s1-5563786/bari-weiss-cbs-...

Although apparently not a fan of Jimmy Kimmel as a comedian, her Free Press objected to his suspension. "... the FCC’s coercion undermines our most fundamental values"

https://www.thefp.com/p/jawboning-and-jimmy-kimmel-free-spee...

And on the same topic, the FP editors wrote: "At last, something we can all agree on: Pam Bondi has no idea what she's talking about."

https://www.thefp.com/p/pam-bondi-vs-the-first-amendment-fre...

For president, she has voted for Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden.

It's fair to call her a centrist.

But the gallery takes 50% leaving you a gross income of $12k. Then you pay for your supplies and work expenses. If that's all you do, you end up way below the poverty line.

But it was kind of nice being able to pay my mortgage and my kid's college tuition.

It didn't work that way on projects I led. Maybe everyone at Anthropic is a "10."

I was lucky when I had one person who could do that ("deeply understand the root goal and can autonomously choose the most important next things to work on"), who could take over if I went on vacation or got hit by a bus.

But I had reports who just wanted to work in their area of specialization, and had no curiosity whatsoever outside that. Or the guy who, no matter what I said, would never tell me when he had finished something - the only way I found out would be when I walked past his cube and saw him reading a science fiction book.

Don't tell me I should have just fired them, and gotten someone better. They did useful work, contributed to the project, and they were what the company had to work with. A big part of management is figuring out what people can do, want to do, are capable of doing in the future if encouraged.

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