HansHill wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:55 pm
Copying this from the locked thread, to reply to it here. Nessie wrote:
Tracking people is nowhere near as difficult as you want to pretend. There are all sorts of ancestry companies, cashing in on helping people to track or prove relatives, as they settle compensation and property claims, or people want to know what happened.
Nice try Nessie. Paying to find your granny on 23&Me is in no way comparable to geolocating and quantifying a dissident minority population in wartime across borders behind the iron curtain, and you know it.
Evidencing millions of Jews resettled by the Nazis in the east 1941-4 and then liberated by the Soviets 1944-5, would be easy, as they would have left a lot of evidence.
A far more meaningful comparison would be: quantifying North Korean defectors.
I challenge you to ask your favourite LLM "how many people have defected from North Korea since its inception?" Depending which one you use it will either tell you A) we don't know, or B) give you a range. Why? Because it's very difficult to quantify a dissident minority population in wartime across borders.
If you go one step further, and ask your favourite LLM why it's so difficult, it will tell you. Those reasons include:
- Technical limitations (this despite of course, living in the age of high technology
- Political reasons - for example, China not wishing to disturb it's delicate relationship with NK, and the wider Korean peninsula
- Propaganda narratives - defectors pose risk to established narratives of sensitive topics like for example, the North Korean famine in the 90s where we believe millions of people perished
- They are an isolationist people who wish to remain as such and integrating into host-societies is not desirable if even possible
"B-b-but thats totally different!"
No. Its remarkably similar, and you know it.
I linked to just some of the databases of missing people. It is proven beyond all reasonable doubt that millions of Jews the Nazis arrested during the war, disappeared during the war. You have dodged discussing countries like Hungary, and switch to North Korea, because you want to dodge that the Hungarians evidence hundreds of thousands of their Jewish citizens were arrested, went to A-B and were never seen again. Why would the Hungarians participate in a hoax, that they assisted the Nazis to killing so many of their own people?