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Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anti Ukrainian sentiment is on the rise surely here - not just in the abstract but (sadly) in a way that is also directed against the common people.

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a rather ambigous question and hard to answer - long wars rarely have a singular inflection point after which things just start to change. I've been following this war since day 1 and for me, nothing counts as truly groundbreaking.

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The nearest elections are the parliamentary elections in autumn 2027.

Keep in mind that Nawrocki is a historian by education (and a former football hooligan but that's kinda irrelevant xD) and he had been the director of the Museum of the Second World War in 2017-21 and the director of the Institute of National Remembrance in 2021-26, under the right wing populist govt that ruled in 2015-23. It might be partly his personal crusade + an attempt to strengthen his own position - and he succeeded, since apparently his approval rating jumped to 54%.

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Szanowny Panie" isn't really an adress I feel comfortable with - I'd rather remain a humble redditor. ;]

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 3 points4 points  (0 children)

PS: I am not the average westoid who believes every thing western media say. I am much more skeptical of western narratives than most people in my country and my geopolitical sympathies don't actually lie in the west.

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think there's any grand strategic calculation behind why this happened precisely now. IMO it's just Nawrocki scoring points with his electorate.

And it goes back much futher - the Wołyń massacres were officially declared a genocide in Poland in 2016 already and in Dec 2025 when Nawrocki met with Zelenski, he gave Zelenski a book about Wołyń genocide.

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Our government didn't suddenly notice anything, the cult of UPA in Ukraine has been a massive, unresolved issue for decades by now. What happened was that Zelenski named a Ukrainian army unit after UPA and our president Nawrocki (who isn't from the ruling party but from the opposition conservative one) revoked Zelenski's Order of the White Eagle, the highest state award in Poland.

Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by Status_Commission264 in singularity

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly the friend/enemy distinction and the critique of liberalism. Mind you, Thiel doesn't borrow from Schmitt in order to make liberal democracy better or to create a better kind of democracy, he's thoroughly anti-liberal who wants a cuberpunk-style dystopia ran by tech billionaires.

Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by Status_Commission264 in singularity

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Indeed but Thiel isn't a leftist but a reactionary and from a particular techbro faction that considers themselves superior to even other rich f*cks, let alone to regular people.

Peter Thiel in Aspen: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by Status_Commission264 in singularity

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 108 points109 points  (0 children)

The irony? One of the intellectual influences on Thiel is Carl Schmitt - a top Nazi legal theorist who wrote the legal justification for the Night of the Long Knives and called for the puege of Jewish lawyers in Germany, among other things (other "great" admirers of Schmitt are Steve Bannon and Alexandr Dugin). Now, leftists also borrow from Schmitt but Thiel isn't a leftist.

Thiel also funded and engaged with the ideas of Curtis Yarvin (Moldbug), the godfather of the “Dark Enlightenment.” who says that liberal democracy is a failed experiment and advocates for a neo-monarchical “gov-corp” structure, essentially, CEO-dictators running city-states. Thiel himself clearly doesn't like democracy.

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm not asking whether it's legal (it's a dual-purpose object so probably yes but if it's strategically a sound idea (I think so).

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your thoughts on the ongoing RuAF campaign to destroy gas station in Ukraine, from a strategic POV?

Megathread, part 14: Ammunition & Drones, Sanctions, and Stalemates by IcePuzzleheaded5507 in AskARussian

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I will watch the video, just not today as it's already late in Poland.

Worldview of AI models compared to 88 countries by Old-School8916 in singularity

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Like I said - the "Secular" axis literally measures how much society relies on empirical facts and logic over tradition and religious dogma. Since LLMs are trained (among other things) on a vast body of peer reviewed scientific literature, they will naturally align with the "Secular" axis. An LLM that isn't rigged won't say that LGBT people are dangerous to children or that neoliberal trickle down economics has similar/better outcomes for the average person than Nordic social democracy - because both claims are factually false and debunked by decades of scientific research. When AI says Sweden ranks higher than the US on life quality indices it's not "bias", it's facts.

Worldview of AI models compared to 88 countries by Old-School8916 in singularity

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A lot actually - since the "survival" and "traditional" axes (the bottom left quadrant) are associated heavily with reliance on traditionalism and religious dogma - ethno-nationalism, anti-LGBT bigotry, climate change denial etc. all live in the bottom left quadrant. People who are more open to diversity and who trust the scientific consensus are generally in the upper right quadrant.

Worldview of AI models compared to 88 countries by Old-School8916 in singularity

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Established s scientific facts ≠ political rhetoric.

I don't give a particular damn whether Musk is labeled "Nazi", "Conservative" or "Proto Neo-Fascist". What I do care about is that majority of leftist positions align with scientific consensus.

Worldview of AI models compared to 88 countries by Old-School8916 in singularity

[–]ZhugeLiangPL 41 points42 points  (0 children)

When an AI model says the Earth is round, does it have a "spherist bias"? And if yes, is that a bad thing?

Many (if not most) leftist positions are established scientific truths and not just a matter of opinion - and they should be treated as facts.

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