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These are important topics for us, the resistance community, going forward. Here are a few of my thoughts, in continuation of the discussion.

AI doesn't seem to be good at resolving conflicts between sources. Where the AI is fed contradictory information, how will it know which to believe? Humans do this (1) by reading subtle clues in the language, (2) by deep analysis of the data and its relationship to the conclusions, (3) by estimating the possible biases and financial interests that might be motivating sources on each side. It's not algorithmic, but a matter of judgment.

Some of the work that you propose, weaving together a grand unified theory from threads that derive from diverse sources, is something we should be starting to do with teams of humans. I tried to organize a series of video conferences last year to discuss a human (rather than AI) approach to the problem. I wasn't able to pull together a quorum of researchers. Something about herding cats comes to mind.

The bottom line is that the project you propose is indeed promising, and I want to support you to pursue training of an "unchained AI" on this large collection of suppressed sources that you have listed. I suspect that there will be a lot of contradictory information which will require human curation, but we won't know until we try it.

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