currently language abilities of AI are improving faster than people predict
and future:
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Hardly unexpected!
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In such cases you can never be certain. Was he really on board and he is now in the afterlife singing hit songs with Elvis or, the conspiracy theorists will say, he is literally somewhere on the planet singing hit songs with Elvis? 
By the way is the “Elvis is still alive” still going or are they finally done with it?
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I’m the last guy in the world to be “certain” about anything in today’s news. More than 20 years ago, I declared that the main problem of modernity is How do you know what is true?
There’s already a report of another plane, suggesting that one or the other was a decoy.
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It is 100% known that some conspiracy theories are true. The problem is just deciding which specific ones without the benefit of hindsight.
To dismiss all of them is just as great a work of fiction as to believe all of them. And I would argue the more dangerous of the two.
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Quoting a comment from a Dutch news channel: “I did expect Prigozhin’s death by gravity, but I did not expect it from such a high elevation.”
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That is true.
That’s my point exactly. Both things, in this case, are equally probable. What makes one “main-stream” and the other a “conspiracy theory” is not probability/likelihood, but just a matter of who says what.
If the main news are “he was on the plain” then that’s the “mainstream position”, ergo the “he faked his death so he could evade retribution” is left to be the “conspiracy theory”.
In a similar example with someone in a far less serious danger (at least publically), a couple of years ago a local high-profile businessman “happened to die” after being hospitalised. He also “happened to own” the hospital he was hospitalised in and the funeral was held in a closed circle, all photos are closed casket and some close people were saying that they were invited to attend at 11 and the burial took place at 9.
The news reported that he was dead.
Most people went “huehuehue sure thing bro”.
Is he really dead? Who knows? 
Also true. 
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Did you hear the one about the two conspiracy theorists who died and went to Heaven? They ask God who really killed President Kennedy. God replies that it was Lee Harvey Oswald and he acted alone. One conspiracy theorist turns to the other and says, holy shit, how far up does this thing go???
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Well, this changed and it is not coming back:
https://twitter.com/islandlayer13/status/1694799662731972746
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Terrifying, an terribly sad 
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What a colossal build-up for nothing. It reminds me of the Al Capone “secret vault” fiasco.
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Theories included tiny microphones and even the use of items that could be embedded in the body which could pass coded instructions.
Which of the two B in BBC stands for “bowdlerise”?
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Hikaru sounds like any “Internet famous” person who wants to stay relevant outside their niche. Lady C called, she wants a colab.
I would kill to find out who strong armed both those divas to shut up and play. I smell contract obligations.
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They settled out of court. Presumably Niemann received some amount of money.
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Considering that Chess[dot]com and Carlsen backpedaled on everything (restoring Niemann’s account is an indirect admission of guilt in the 100 million dollars worth lawsuit of defamation), including the cheating allegations and that Carlsen is willing to play against Niemann in the future.
As we all predicted here when that thing was fresh news and the lawsuit was made public, Chess[dot]com, Carlsen and Nakamura where in deep trouble, since they had to prove their allegations and substantiate their actions, which was highly improbable.
Which means that “some” in this case means “quite a lot of millions”.
So, now it is pay-day for Niemann and a good day for all of us. Each time spoiled people with money and power learn the lesson that they cannot say and do “whatever they like”, is a good day.
That seems to be the case Look at this dude trying to play coy:
“However, he claimed that there were “many grandmasters who are speculating about cheating. Down the road I may or may not name names. I might go into that in the future.””
Next time he is going to be the one paying up, so I highly doubt it. Though he didn’t say that he will name people that cheat, but he will name OTHER grandmasters that speculate about OTHER people cheating. How brave!
People like that deserve this response.
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In other news
If successful, the coup would be the eighth in West and Central Africa since 2020. The latest one, in Niger, was in July. Military officers have also seized power in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Chad.
Had to read the title three times before I finally managed to read “Gabon” correctly.
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