The Secret Science of Biology

I used the Fable AI model to write a wastewater treatment report, and it was lying and complicating things. It made things difficult. I moved to Sonnet, which is - so they say - a less capable model, and it explained to me that sewage treatment is a biological area, which is a subject prohibited by Fable's rules. 

What is so secret and sensitive in biology? Then I remembered the question in the Senate nomination of Judge Sotomayor: What is a woman?  The fat woman answered: I don't know, I am not a biologist. Therefore, she cannot know. Science and common sense are so controversial that even the powerful Anthropic is fearful of treading on them.

I illustrate this short reflection with a picture of a woman from Google. Is she a woman? I do not know.

PS.: Why should the question of who is a woman be so sensitive? Homosexuals believe they are women and will fight to be recognized as such. Who wants to oppose hysterical people for a definition? Not Sotomayor. 

Secrets are secrets to take advantage of others, and the biggest is paternity. Human females dissimulate their fertility status (monkeys publicize it), making genetic paternity uncertain. Males will fight and kill to ensure paternity, which is not only vanity. Kingship depends on paternity; when it is in doubt, civil wars follow. King Charles III of Britain was married to Diana and had two sons. The second boy apparently is not his, and he divorced her. The secret (if true) can destroy the whole dynasty. Fable is right; biology is a taboo subject. 

Maximum Alert

 The internet warns that Israel entered a state of maximum alert, although the regular Pikud HaOref is silent. President Trump called the Iranian leadership cookoo and suspended further negotiations. 
MSN

Trump: "If we make a deal with Iran, I'm not sure that will stick because I've found them to be very dishonorable people."

“They said to us, please don't kill us during the funeral. I said I won't, and we didn't do anything then they attacked three ships.

Summer Nausea

It is the classic "natsu-bate" (夏バテ) scenario. Lack of appetite and lethargy during the hot & humid summer. There must be a word for it in Hebrew, but I don't know it. 

Argentina attacks Britain

 Those were the times! Argentina was ecstatic.

¡Las Malvinas son argentinas! 

Except that they are not.

Journal

 
Kfar Saba 33 Celsius. I ate a whole head of ice lettuce and feel sick. I lost my will to work and cannot find it. 

Pic.: A crater in Yokneam, produced by an Iranian missile. The phreatic is near the surface.

Fable or Opus?

 

Anthropic upgraded me to Fable. I asked it if it was for my benefit. It said, "No, it is twice as expensive, and you don't really need the power of Fable." These AIs are too clever for me.

Bad Ideas Never Die

 
Pope Leo XIV has issued his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas ("Magnificent Humanity"), subtitled "On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence" — a comprehensive position paper on AI. Its thrust is unmistakable: AI is dangerous, it will displace human work, and it will bring dislocation and pain to society. Opposing change is a bad idea, but then religion itself rests on bad ideas. Not that the alternatives have fared better — the French Revolution tried to extinguish Christianity and replace it with the cult of Reason, and failed.

The Pope is resurrecting the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, who diagnosed the cause of India's poverty as the introduction of industrial cloth — better and cheaper than the traditional handmade cottons that had allowed every Hindu to spin at home and earn some money. Gandhi convinced the country that mill-made cloth was the source of Indian poverty, and that a return to the charkha — the hand-held spinning wheel — would magically create wealth. As part of his swadeshi (self-sufficiency) movement, he obliged every member of the Indian National Congress to wear khadi, homespun cloth, and placed the charkha on the flag of the independence movement — thereby prolonging India's underdevelopment by eighty years.

Mao Tse-tung was infected by the same bad thinking. During the Great Leap Forward (1958–1962), he rejected industrial steelworks in favour of  "backyard furnaces," in which peasants melted down their own agricultural implements to produce worthless pig iron. The consequence was famine.

All these low-technology solutions are bad ideas, rooted in the feeling that high technology is out of reach. Now the Pope is frightening people and preaching underdevelopment.

In Israel, we are lucky: we are forced to defend ourselves against the wealthiest states in the world, which can buy the highest-technology weapons and turn them against us. This leaves us no room for "bad ideas". We are compelled — against our will — to adopt effective high technology, or perish. Necessity has spared us the luxury of romantic underdevelopment.