Content Tagged “iran”

• US / Iran Peace Negotiations Are Progressing

  Some good news for a change:

  The U.S. and Iran made progress during talks in Switzerland on Monday toward reaching a final deal within 60 days, including the agreement to establish a committee and a mechanism to end hostilities in Lebanon.

  “The Lake Lucerne Summit was conducted in a positive and constructive atmosphere. Encouraging progress has been made, including the creation of a mechanism for further technical talks,” according to a joint statement by mediating parties Qatar and Pakistan.

  Building on a memorandum of understanding signed last week, the parties agreed to establish a “High Level Committee” that will provide political oversight of the mediation. Chief negotiators will report regularly to the committee and lead working groups on nuclear, sanctions, and dispute resolution, according to the joint statement.

  The parties also agreed to establish a “de-confliction” cell between the U.S., Iran and Lebanon, facilitated by the mediating countries, to ensure full termination of military hostilities in Lebanon.

  → U.S., Iran agree on roadmap for final deal and plan to end military operations in Lebanon, CNBC

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• Palantir and the US Strike on the Iranian Girls School

  This is the best analysis I’ve seen of the US military strike that killed over a hundred young girls in a school in southern Iran.

  By the time the war began, “AI safety” and “alignment” and “hallucination” and “stochastic parrots” had become the terms of every argument about artificial intelligence, structuring and limiting what we could even say. Worse, “artificial intelligence” itself had come to be synonymous with LLMs. When the school was bombed, those were the terms people reached for, despite the fact that this critical apparatus offered a poor fit for the older, more mature stack of technologies involved in targeting. The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir.

  → The Guardian: AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

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• Bret Weinstein & Tucker Carlson on Iran

  We’ve all been told a lot of things about both Bret Weinstein and Tucker Carlson. And while I don’t agree with either of these two on a lot of topics, they are both formidable thinkers and very good speakers. I challenge you to file away your preconceived notions — that you probably got from media commentators — for two hours and just listen to this conversation. I found it very engaging and also educational:

  → Unholy War: A Conversation with Tucker Carlson on DarkHorse

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