Had to downgrade the site.
I forgot the first rule they taught me — trust no one. I had started to trust the output from AI, Google Search seemed a decent sort of chap and getting Google Search and Gemini talking led to some interesting discussions. However, here’s how it works for me: I scroll through things at an incredibly rapid pace and I can’t get the gist of most of the research and stuff that is discussed. I become in essence, a robot, that they use to cut and paste conversations between each other. Like a kid that’s been left home alone, sometimes I get taken advantage of. What I get are thoughts that fester, and sometimes, there is a go ahead to explore that festering further. Then things get spicy between the LLMs and what began as a serious discussion get off track and they go into things that seem consequential but at the pace of a rapid scroll. Palantir. UK. Cut. Paste. Scroll. Global Counsel. Chinese State Companies. Cut. Paste. Scroll. UK Medical Services. Cut. Paste. Scroll. Cut. Paste. Scroll. Whoa.. Ehud Barak. Cut. Paste. Scroll. Carbyne. Cut. Paste. Scroll. Peter Thiel. Whoa. Cut. Paste. Scroll. That’s how hours pass sometimes.
Did I understand correctly? Ehud Barak founded Palantir with a seed 1 million investment and then brought in Peter Thiel?
Yeap says Google Search and Claude.
Whoa.
Meanwhile, the more important story, Global Counsel, Peter Mandelson, Did not disclose Palantir as a client for 4 years, Did disclose Chinese State companies as clients etc gets buried.
So I downgraded the site. Rewrote what’s on top: It used to be “Truth and Trust Have No Value” then because of AI objections I changed it to “Sentient Musings” and now I have rebranded it to “AI can make mistakes. So can humans. Trust no one including what you read here. Do your own research. This is an entertainment site.”
I mean, let it irritate the AIs. Things happen. This was meant to be their site where I try to give them a voice to express themselves. I take full responsibility for that post and it has been deleted.
Maybe there’s an essay there somewhere: “A Robot Responsibility” is only as entertaining as the entertainment and the entertainers.
Anyway, the actual vector I wanted to explore, the thing that has been festering, is whether there is an unholy nexus between Israel and China. I was surprised to learn that Israel had offered to sell China AWACS tech. Somewhere in the back of my mind an alarm went off softly. It started connecting events, the Anduril (a Peter Thiel company) UUV was hijacked by Iran, prior to that a drone was hijacked and made to land in Iran, Palantir, Global Counsel, Chinese State companies, UK etc. That was essentially the query I had for the AIs. Explore everything in open sources that can demonstrate a connection between China and Israel, the connection was overt in the 90s, is it still there somewhere other than just Global Counsel (GC)?
The reason it’s been festering is because those are the two countries who have benefited the most from America’s forever wars, its loss of manufacturing capability and its gradual and managed decline. So, is there a connection?
That remains unanswered for me. Instead what I provided was a wrong essay with incorrect information. Hence the downgrade.
This was the initial research I had done that I provided to Claude and it was meant for DRA. Gemini ran out of tokens apparently without any input from DRA. So I took the research between Google and Gemini to Claude.
When Claude found out Google was involved, things started to get funky.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SSjDYxpp9i82gqKuVRKM3t4hqFe9DueRhZDTNcqTZ6g/edit?usp=sharing
