The numerous name-recognizable people on "X" posting AI-generated "takes" on the Iran War is _______.
A. Despicable
B. A death knell of discourse
C. Par for the course
D. An improvement on their original thoughts?
Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating in the war if if indirectly.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Prudence alongside Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of the human being's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of our aim, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain our aim.
Arist. NE 6.12.6
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
And to think all I did was wear my Alexander the Great tie to seminar
If the professors with phds in question randomly make shit up then lie about it, sure.
We drove kids from Alabama to far northern Minnesota for a grand fishing trip a couple years ago and it was a great trip in every way. So I think your kids are on to something.
Actually, the aperture is wider, potentially, eg, if protestors are still being slaughtered, for example.
So... preventive or preemptive? It matters.
There are still a few token phalangite forces as late as the Jewish war, maybe beyond, maybe. There are a couple of auxiliary tombstones that look like phalangites, too. But final Mithridatic War could be the last real time, or Alexandrian War. It's difficult to be certain.
I made progress on vol 2 recently! I keep on accepting other things, though. And a chapter-length overview of the whole Ptolemaic military, down to the end, just went to press. Kind of preview of vol 2.
Most of them have Romanized and Hellenistic infantries, to simplify it. The Ptolemies have both actual Romans, Roman-like units, and traditional units in 47. There are civic Macedonians from Macedonia armed like Romans in the next civil war, too.
As we start the fifth year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I hope and pray for peace, which Russia could bring about anytime by relenting from its illegal invasion.
I've read many books to my kids. About half an hour every night for years. We've almost finished The Princess Bride--they've not seen the movie yet--and it's been my favorite book to read to them yet. I get that's the conceit from go. Turns out it frickin works.
Pentagon weighs in on Eternal Subordination of the Son and Federal Vision?
I agree that the medium, especially there, is conducive to LLM vomit
Thinking about that obviously 90% AI screed on X in response to the somehow-PME-and-Sparta debates, and people said it was good and very well written... because they've no taste? because they're bots? ... and it makes me wonder whether LLM content on pith platforms can reshape appraisal of "good."
Right?!
*pen. Ugh.
Fair enough, although (and Bret probably mentioned this in his post) healthy skepticism is warranted over the krypteia.
Caveat: these are words from the pin of an Athenian imagining decades later what a prudent Spartan general-king would have said. Narratively, his wise counsel is immediately rejected by the war mongering assembly.
Dammit Star Wars, "I'll take your whole deck" is the plot line for a comic book maybe, but it's not how you tell a story for a movie.
Their education method was strict, abusive, and dangerous. But it was also organized around things military-adjacent, so that its products would be fit to serve as soldiers when needed.
Hyperstratified, yes, and you did not even really mention the Helot bondage. But there were no child soldiers, running or being produced. Sparta ran a centralized academy to train ascetic aristocracy. The Spartan children probably did not learn military drill in any real sense until adulthood.
I was running out of characters, and scout's honor, thought to myself "C3 may get me for this" but did the ol' "I'm gonna send it" anyway
7th century: Chalkis has the best warriors, Argos a different contender for best, Sparta the prettiest women...
2nd century: Macedon had the best soldiers, Rome the best system (and nearly the best soldiers too)...
But I'll take a flight of F-22s please, with a side of MEU and a PRSM battery.
Lest any say there's nothing worthwhile to get from the Spartans.
"Consider the vast influence of accident in war before you are engaged in it. War eventually becomes an affair of chances, which applies to both sides: who gets lucky is invisible to us until we risk it. Men going to war act first, and only disaster makes them nail down the warrant for it."
Hilarious call for dissent to civilian leadership. The lack of self awareness to raise that point, the historical illiteracy to think no dissent was offered, and the gall to think studying operational art will imbue moral courage and prudence in the civ-mil relationship.
Footage of a Ukrainian Patriot SAM system shooting down a Russian 3M22 Zircon hypersonic cruise missile near Kyiv last night.
This appears to be the first ever footage of a combat shootdown involving a HACM.
