Leo Gura

A CIA operative in Afghanistan once remarked: If there are two Afgahans, they make three factions. Making them ungovernable.

Or you could Awaken and know.

Free is very limited on how many questions you can ask it. And you don't access to the smartest model.

That's exactly what terrorists want. They are doing martyrdom. Martyr means the highest place in heaven with God. A martyr is not worried about retaliation. A martyr gets to ask God to save up to 70 of his family members to join him in heaven. To attack America and the Jews in defense of Islam is the highest, most selfless, most spiritual act there is in Islam. Imagine that how you view enlightenment is how a Jihadist views martyrdom. Martyrdom IS their enlightenment.

Do it any way. Hard will grow you.

The Soviet KGB assassinated the Afghan president, infiltrated Afghanistan with Marxist propaganda and thousands of spies, and astroturfed a Marxist revolution in a deeply Islamic nation, forcing Afghan girls into schools. They forced secularism down the Afghan's throats, violating many local norms and customs. They arrested and tortured thousands who opposed them, in classic Stalinist style. There was nothing natural about Marxism in Afghanistan. The KGB tried to turn Afghanistan into a Communist police-state dictatorship in the fashion of Uncle Stalin. They even found a local Afghan warlord to be the local Stalin, with his own personality cult. He started plastering posters of his face across Afghanistan. And then the Islamists fought back. Jihad was declared against the evil Communists, hunting down and hacking to death dozens of Communist Soviet advisors, along with their wives and children, displaying their corspes on pikes along city streets -- so hated were the secular Communists. Soviet leadership in the Kremlin themselves admitted that socialism is incapable of resolving Afghanistan's Islamic fundamentalist problem. The head of the KGB said that Afghanistan is too backward for Lenin's philosophy to work. In a last ditch effort to save the situation the KGB told the Afghans to loosen secularism and allow for Islam, but it was too late, the Jihad was on. Most of the Afghan military officers trained in the Soviet Union deserted the Communists and joined the Islamist revolution, because that's where their hearts lay. Then half the Communist Afghan army melted like snow, deserting into the mountains to join their brothers in the Jihad against the Soviets. The leading architect of the Communist revolution in Afghanistan was a graduate of Columbia University, New York. He was hostile to the CIA and Americans. But in a sick twist the KGB eventually grew suspcious of their own architect and tried to assassinate him by poisoning, sniper, and a full military seige of his house, to replace him with an even more loyal Communist puppet. The reason the Soviets eventually did a full land invasion of Afghanistan is because otherwise the entire Communist project was about to implode under the pressure of Islamic Jihad. And all that happened before the CIA gave one dollar or one weapon to the Afghans. 1979. Then Bin Laden created Al Queda, to join this Jihad against the godless Soviets.

I tried free ChatGTP and didn't like how ass-kissing it was in the style of its answers. It gave wishy-washy, over-qualified, overly-PC answers.

I never used paid ChatGPT. Claude Pro has been good enough for me that I never felt a need for more.

Could you phrase that any more creepily?

That sounds silly. They can't make a good phone.

You are dreaming the Earth. Stop assuming it has existence outside of your mind. You are taking for granted that stuff exists. "Physical" doesn't exist. It's a construction of your mind.

JP has awful reactionary politics.

??? It's an owl.

I pay for Pro. It's more than worth it.

I don't expect a 9/11, but smaller scale bombings and such.

It's hard to say, but I suspect that all this Israeli carnage after Oct 7th will breed at least a couple of new Bin Ladens over the next 10-20 years. Nothing is really being solved. And they will hold America responsible. Which we are. Arab terrorism will keep happening as long as Palestinians are denied a state. That's what history suggests.

Yeah, it's a game-changer. I have Claude on my phone all the time for quick contemplations and fact-checking myself. Any topic I'm hazy on, I use Claude to fact-check and fill in context. "How many wives did Bin Laden have?" Boom: Known wives: - Najwa Ghanem (married in 1974) - Khadijah Sharif (married in 1983, divorced in the 1990s) - Khairiah Sabar (married in 1985) - Siham Sabar (married in 1987) - Amal al-Sadah (married in 2000)

You should be careful. Don't just be a spam approach machine on college campus. They will kick you out. You gotta have some tact and be less direct and less obvious.

That's where you tell him, "Have you heard of the power of Satan? Come with me to Satan worship class on Thursday. There will be free pizza."

@Raze If you are gonna take that stance then I have nothing more to say to you.

1) The book is not an annoymous account. And in Islam talking about rape is life-ending for women. Any woman who gets raped brings shame to her family and custom requires she be killed to restore family honor. So of course women are not going to come forward with their real names just to please your conspiracy minded self. 2) On an average day, Gadaffi had 30 teenage girls locked up in his basement. He would rape them for a few months or years, then discard them and replace with new ones. He did this every day for over 20 years. He did this until NATO finally bombed him out of his palace.

Being a genius doesn't mean one's theory is ultimately correct. I think Wolfram is capturing some limited aspects of reality, not the full picture.

I do enjoy their takedowns of Brand, JP, Bret Weinstein. But they are not intellectually fair in their takedowns. They don't bother to actually see the perspective of the people they criticize. Someone like JP, you can't just laugh him off or mock him endlessly. He makes valid points.

I just read 5 books on Middle East history and issues.

Okay, but then you must admit that Islamic extremism is a rampant problem in the Middle East.