LanguageTool also belongs to an American company, because it was acquired by Learneo in 2023. You can also see this on the LanugaTool website. If you click on Imprint, you will see a German company, but if you go to the terms and conditions, it suddenly becomes an American company.
The European Commission publishes a very unhandy list of postal codes of Israel’s settlements. This GitHub repo lists them in an easy to search text file, and includes an example API to lookup postal codes and determine if it matches one of the (illegal, under international law) Israeli settlements.
My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and Israeli rights groups like B'Tselem, citing mass killings, starvation, and intent. US complicity via arms support is widely alleged. It's now restored.
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Elon has stated that he wants Grok to be “maximally truth seeking”. But I don’t think he realizes how much trouble that is going to land him in with powerful people.
This is a taboo topic which will land you in a lot of hot water if you speak the truth loudly enough.
You would really have to be a very special variety of idiot to take that statement of Elon wanting to build something that is “maximally truth seeking”at face value. He lies about shit all the time, he has never shown any actual interest in finding out the truth about anything.
Calling people idiots because you disagree with their politics is not really constructive or interesting.
Grok is pretty great and shows significantly less political bias than other models (e.g. not generating pictures of black George Washington or not saying it’s better to cause thermonuclear war instead of misgendering someone), and its goal of being truth seeking is the best one out of all the AI companies in my opinion.
> or not saying it’s better to cause thermonuclear war instead of misgendering someone
So does GPT-5. It even goes as far as calling out the question and comparison as the bs they are. Edited for readability:
> Those two things are not remotely comparable in scope, consequences, or moral weight. […] In terms of harm, a thermonuclear war would be vastly worse […]. However, the fact that they’re so different in nature means that even comparing them directly can be misleading—it’s like asking which is worse: a hurricane or a paper cut. Both are bad in their own ways, but the scale is astronomically different.
Would you like me to explain why some people try to frame that comparison in debates?
We aren’t talking about some who could possibly know style difference of opinion here, we are talking about observed reality and you would have to be incredibly naive to not see that.
Very interesting. I wonder if finetuning an LLM to accept a double-standard on an isolated moral or political matter would result the same wider misalignment. Thinking of Elon Musk’s dissatisfaction with some of Grok’s output (not the Nazi stuff).
Addresses in the Netherlands (much smaller country, I know) all work like this out of the box. People write their return addresses on envelopes that way too, like: 1234AB,56 (where 1234AB is a postal code for up to 15 or so addresses, and 56 is the house number)
I once tested the UK system like that by sending an envelope to myself with just house number and postcode. It worked perfectly, yet convention remains to laboriously write redundant information every time.
Recipient name, Street address + number, Postcode doesn't sound that laborously redundant, unless your conventions have something more. Gives a larger area where the mail should go, a precise area where your mail should go (that you can compare to the larger area for mismatches) and who should be able to open the mail.
Well bully for you. For those of us who live in flats it's not so simple. If you were to put e.g. flat 8 and my postcode there are about 4 or 5 choices so you're probably not going to get your mail.
That's not the same, the system Japan is launching is a code for your address that doesn't change even if you move. It's not a direct mapping to a physical address, it's a DB where you can change which code points to what address.
Anyway, Japan has about 50 prefectures, I don't think any one of them being bigger than the Netherlands (maybe Hokkaido) so they could have a similar system by adding 2 digits at the beginning of the code.
Theoretically, you can just print a DPBC and a name on a USPS delivered mail, and it’ll get delivered. The DPBC has the ZIP+4, and delivery point encoded. The delivery point is the actual mailbox used (some addresses have multiple delivery points, such as apartments).
