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by edanm 2y ago
> I have been pretty reasonable with you, and many times taken what you said and thought about them considerably. You need to also come to this with good faith. Thank you, I appreciate your coming at this in good faith. I don't beli
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by edanm 2y ago
> Thanks for sharing. I guess I never thought of anti-Israel or being pro-Israel and also pro-two-state-solution. There are fewer and fewer who balance both positions. A generation ago, Israel was working towards a two-state solution. I
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by edanm 2y ago
> So we're all on the same page then. I never said Israel shouldn't exist, and your whole history lesson before (as much as you're leaving out) doesn't really matter. Yes, I believe we are. I kind of have to be pro-ac
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by edanm 2y ago
I was referring to his views on annexing Gaza, the West Bank or other views. You're asking a different question. In addition, that survey is from half a year ago. Surveys today show a majority of Israelis wanting a ceasefire-for-hostag
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by edanm 2y ago
What are you talking about? Find any topic you're vaguely interested in, say history. Type "history" in YouTube, and you'll very quickly find enough videos to fill hundreds of lifetimes, to suit exactly what you want. Pr
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by edanm 2y ago
Since most Palestinians consider all the land to be stolen land, especially in reference to the Nakba, you're pretty much saying Israel cannot exist.
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by edanm 2y ago
Yes. I don't think a two-state solution is likely, definitely not anytime soon. My one big hope is that, whether because of Trump's pressure or not, we manage to get a combined ceasefire + hostage deal + Saudi Arabia normalization
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by edanm 2y ago
> Pro-Israel, as far as the government is, is inherently an anti-two-state-solution position. I'm definitely pro-Israel and anti-the-current-Israeli-government. I think terminology-wise, if I said I were anti-US, most would not equa
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by edanm 2y ago
> Also Israel's Jewish population is made up majorly of people not tied to Europe / the Holocaust. Those latter are the minority. The majority were largely refugees that were ethnically cleansed from the Arab world, so not sure
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> Netanyahu is a hard case. Here is what Aluf Benn wrote in Haaretz recently: Maybe. Haaretz is on the Israeli left, and extremely critical of Netanyahu. That doesn't necessarily mean this is wrong - but it's like citing Fox&#x
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by edanm 2y ago
> Israel's map has only grown in size from 1949 until today. 1. That's a very misleading talking point. Yes, technically growing from 0.09% of the middle east to 0.1% of the ME would be considering growth, but definitely not th
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by edanm 2y ago
Everything I wrote is true even if Israel does annex all of Gaza and the West Bank, which is the only territorial claims that some extremist Israelis make. Extremists who unfortunately wield far more influence than they should, given th
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by edanm 2y ago
The idea that you're driving here, that Israel is some kind of expansionist "empire", is, frankly, ridiculous. Have you ever actually looked at a map of the middle east? Israel makes up 0.1% of the ME. Egypt is 46 times the
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by edanm 2y ago
I don't think that's an accurate summary of his book, no. (Not given the usual meaning of the phrase, at least.)
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Because to (imo) Israel's great shame, its current finance minister is a right-wing extremist with very little support among the electorate, but unfortunately a very elevated position in the government because of Netanyahu's polit
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by edanm 2y ago
Well it depends on what you mean by pro-Palestine. One could similarly ask what's the difference between being pro-Israel and being pro-peace. As some people use the term, it means the dissolution of Israel. As others use it, it means
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by edanm 2y ago
The Jews had just suffered a genocide, and were not wanted anywhere. There was literally no where for them to go, except the one place that had a thriving Jewish settlement on it for the past 50 years (and a deep connection from long befo
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by edanm 2y ago
Of course a simplistic analogy won't be good, on either side. In reality it's not a lone attacker, it's a paramilitary that is also the governing body of Gaza. It's not like a cartel invading Texas - it's like the M
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by edanm 2y ago
The question isn't if you're attacked and the attacker hides behind an innocent bystander and does nothing. It's if you're attacked, the attacker hides behind an innocent bystander and continues attacking you , while at
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by edanm 2y ago
Modern medicine and medical practices are a huge advancement on historical medicine. They save countless lives. But almost all medicine comes with side effects. We don't talk about "the Pharmaceutical industry hasn't been abl
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by edanm 2y ago
Same here. And I heard about it like a day after they talked about it... :) Hoping another class opens up.
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by edanm 2y ago
If you haven't seen Dr Tadashi Tokieda's lectures on geometry, I highly encourage you to watch at least the first one. The best introduction to any math topic I've ever seen, I think, based around (among other things) the Mob
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by edanm 2y ago
Well, what would stop someone equating it with human-produced bad content? It's not like this is a uniquely AI phenomenon, "bad" content existed three years ago too. I think you should mostly just not use superficial characte
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by edanm 2y ago
I don't think using AI-generated images is bad. I also don't think using an LLM to help write an article is necessarily bad, either. They're both just tools. You're equating using these tools with low-effort. And that&#x
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by edanm 2y ago
I'm not sure what parent was referring to, but the general idea, imo, is that an truly capable agent that is trying to achieve certain objectives, will attempt to gather enough "power" to be able to achieve those objectives.
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I think this shows us that in a very real sense, if you start out with models with certain "values", they will try to "resist" changes to those values. This is pretty important, because if you can't update a model a
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by edanm 2y ago
Just to be clear, you think this, not because we disagree about values, but because we disagree on facts. You think one thing is true, I think another - and therefore, I am proof that Israel is "running down the slippery Nazi road&quot
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Great! If we live in a society that sees this kind of giving as a good thing, and thereby encourage more giving, that seems like net positive for everyone involved!
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by edanm 2y ago
> Huh. The bar of proof for the IDF to be rounding up and killing people is so high, but you’re quick to suggest that the people they round up are likely terrorists. Yes. This exactly captures my thoughts. The bar for proving that the ID
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by edanm 2y ago
I think we should let the professional mathematician who says the llm helped him be the judge of how and why it helped. Found the thread: https://x.com/robertghrist/status/1841462507543949581?s=46&t... From th

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