Max Bergmann
@maxbergmann.bsky.social
Director of the Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program at CSIS. Podcasts EuroFile and Russian Roulette. Fmr State Department official. DC sports, Tottenham
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Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
Reposted by Max Bergmann
"Es ist ein kollektives deutsches Elitenversagen gigantischen Ausmaßes." #China
(It is a collective failure of German elites at an epic scale. Kind of reminds me of our ties to Russia. All orchestrated to a large extent by the artist formerly known as the leader of the free world.)
(It is a collective failure of German elites at an epic scale. Kind of reminds me of our ties to Russia. All orchestrated to a large extent by the artist formerly known as the leader of the free world.)
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"Es ist ein kollektives deutsches Elitenversagen gigantischen Ausmaßes." #China
(It is a collective failure of German elites at an epic scale. Kind of reminds me of our ties to Russia. All orchestrated to a large extent by the artist formerly known as the leader of the free world.)
(It is a collective failure of German elites at an epic scale. Kind of reminds me of our ties to Russia. All orchestrated to a large extent by the artist formerly known as the leader of the free world.)