In Jaszbereny Jewish Cemetery

 

On this day in July 1944, the ghetto of the Hungarian city of Jaszbereny was emptied and its inmates were transported to the central waiting station of the province, and then all together to the concentration lager of Auschwitz. Every year a very small ceremony takes place, and an invited rabbi says a prayer. This year, a Christian priest appeared and also gave a sermon. All over the world, Christians are appropriating our mourning. The Klein and the Kertesz are my families. Gyula (60 y.o.) was my paternal grandfather. My daughter was there and sent me the pic.  

War in Europe

Watching Hungarian TV news, I became aware that a war is going on in Europe and Hungary feels the hot breath of the Russian Army nearing its Eastern border. Origo channel has a very long report on Alexander Soros, who said that wars end with the victory of one side and that America is already more involved than it announced two months ago. Hungarians focus on Soros the hated speculator and his dynasty. They hate Jews in general. Hungary is suffering from inflation and is seriously worried. It is very hot in Central Europe. 

Himmel, Arsch und Zwirn! "How do I find out if I want to have children?"

German females are desperate for clear, authoritative orders from above, as I learn from the Zeit. They are thirsty for advice and direction, otherwise, how could they find out if they want to have children?"

I missed the answer because Zeit asked me for money. Life was freer and less confusing with the Leader. Journals did not hide their articles and asked for more money. The Jews spoiled all, the Jews are our disgrace, I am my own disgrace.

Eskom thanks all workers who reported for duty

 

Johannesburg - Power utility Eskom has announced that they will continue to implement stage 6 load shedding.  South Africa was such a beautiful, rich country. It is sinking stage by stage. 

Where I am sent to exile

I caught the coronavirus and have a fever. My wife threw me out of the apartment so I'll not contaminate anybody. Currently, I am quarantined in a leprosarium consisting of a bedroom and a computer corner, being forbidden to approach the kitchen and her bedroom. I have to keep a respectful distance from her. 

I remember when  HER mother exiled her sick husband to a side service room. "Poor dear old Immanuel", I remember thinking. 

Where I discover that Slavonia is a real country

 

All my life wondered where was located the fabulous kingdom of Slavonia, from the Grimm brothers' tales. In old Hungarian folk tales, the rejected young hero walks away from his village with half a piece of bread and arrives at the Slavonian King's court to compete for the hand of his daughter and half the kingdom. And he is the only one who can kill the dragon. Nagy lakodalmat csaptak, Hencidától Boncidáig folyt a sárga lé. And they lived happily forever...

Slavonia's name means 'land of the Slovenes'. The reconstructed autonym *Slověninъ is usually derived from the word slovo 'word', originally denoting 'people who speak (the same language)'; i.e., people who understand each other. This is in contrast to the Slavic word denoting German people, namely *němьcь, meaning 'silent, mute people' (from Slavic *němъ 'mute, mumbling'). (in Hungarian, Nema means mute, and German is Nemet). 

Computer program hires an attorney

 

Fortune magazine reports: The engineer explained that he invited an attorney to his house so LaMDA  (the chatbox) could speak to him. “The attorney had a conversation with LaMDA, and LaMDA chose to retain his services,” Lemoine told Wired. “I was just the catalyst for that.”

Lemoine also told Wired that once the attorney began to make filings on the AI’s behalf, Google sent a cease and desist—a claim the company denied to the magazine. Google did not respond to Fortune’s request for comment.

LaMDA’s attorney has proven difficult to get in touch with. “He's not really doing interviews," Lemoine told science and technology news site Futurism, which contacted him following Wired’s interview. "He’s just a small-time civil rights attorney,” he continued. “When major firms started threatening him he started worrying that he’d get disbarred and backed off.” 

He added that he hasn’t spoken to the attorney in weeks, and that LaMDA is the attorney’s client, not him. It’s not clear how the lawyer is being paid for representing the AI, or whether the lawyer might be offering his services to the chatbot pro-bono.

Me: Note that the attorney accepted the job. 

Previously: Engineer Blake Lemoine said he was placed on leave last week after publishing transcripts between himself and the company's LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) chatbot, the Washington Post reports. The chatbot, he said, thinks and feels like a human child.

“If I didn’t know exactly what it was, which is this computer program we built recently, I’d think it was a 7-year-old, 9-year-old kid that happens to know physics,” Lemoine, 41, told the Post, adding that the bot talked about its rights and personhood, and changed his mind about Isaac Asimov’s third law of robotics. (" First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.")

Lemoine presented evidence to Google that the bot was sentient, but his claims were refuted by Google vice president Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Jen Gennai, head of responsible innovation for the company. Lemoine then went public, according to the Post.