Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "body language, and Zelenskyy arrives in the uK" video.

  1. Thank you. Which sort of host in the diplomatic arena would allow such bad manners towards a guest to pass without shutting that down? Especially as it is well known that it is his vow not to wear a suit until his country is free. That was the start of the Heel treatment handed out to Zelenskyy in a parody of diplomacy.
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  2. And that has nothing to do with it really. It's whether that opinion is informed or not. No wonder Louis CK said, "opinions are like assholes: everyone's got one and few are worth looking into unless one is a vet or a proctologist." The only ones worthwhile are informed ones. Not the disinformation merchants, or the the professionals flying outside their specific skill set. "Geopolitics is a poker game where everybody's lying about the cards they're holding." And much in life is the same. People lie all the time. Employers are delugued with CV's full of lies. British comedy in the 1990s was characterised by "Does my bum look good in this?" type running jokes. And when you want a favour from your boss, you'll smile at them until you get it. Socially-mediated lying is the norm, as trust cannot be given out willy-nilly. Most people, including yourself are liars, and truth is not merely an opinion, even in its most subjective variety. It's got to be evidence based, and whether you trust Starmer or not, is neither here nor there. It whether his lies harm you or not. And when you look into British political history, people were happy to vote for proven liars, so...opinions aren't truth alone, and neither is our judgment perfect either. Plato knew that when he used his Allegory of The Cave to illustrate our sometimes tenuous relationship as a species with reality. Nothing much as changed since.
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  3. Why would you find it troubling. What they generously call AI is a programmed search engine with a chatbot front-end. Depending on what information it was programmed with, it won't know the difference between what is true or false. And with all processed GIGO applies. Give it a wrong or misleading prompt, and you will get sometimes a wrong or misleading answer. Especially as there have been several wars between Russia and Ukraine over history. ChatGPT even has a message on screen saying to check important information because ChatGPT gets things wrong, and just because it doesn't say that on the DeepSeek front end, doesn't mean that it is not as good or bad as ChatGPT. I fear that the hype around Language Model based AI cannot meet the expectation hyped up for it. So, as a famous statistician once said of mathematical models, "all models are wrong, but some are useful." All Al models must be used with caution, because the programming is done by hoovering up human created knowledge, which of course has errors in it sometimes.
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