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by edanm 3y ago
> - having no other mitigating factors (requiring absurd amounts of space, for example) I think you can't require absurd amounts of space, because you only have P steps to access that space, therefore the space is bounded to P anywa
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by edanm 3y ago
I'm a long time reader of HN as well (to put it mildly). I think we just naturally pay more attention that things that are relevant to us so it seems like Israel is discussed more. That said, I tried to prove you wrong by searching fo
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by edanm 3y ago
Yes, I've heard so much about Malazan. I basically got into fantasy more big time a couple of years ago, and decided to start going through the most popular series, and WoT was first up, being the probably most popular. (I was and am a
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by edanm 3y ago
That's awesome, I want to read (part of?) Malazan in 2024, after having finally gotten around to reading Wheel of Time in 2022-23. And I also have a collection of YoYos! Haven't learned too much relatively speaking, but I did love
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by edanm 3y ago
Ooh fascinating! Money for the machine aside, don't they just take up a lot of space? I can't imagine having even one machine in my apartment, let alone multiple if it's a serious hobby.
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by edanm 3y ago
> Getting superintelligent AI to understand simple specifications should be a non-issue. Why would that be the case? A big part of the worry around AI-alignment is exactly because this seems very hard when you try to do it. We are used t
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by edanm 3y ago
I wouldn't call those equipment "autonomous" though, definitely not "highly autonomous". But more importantly - yes, you're right, we have built machines that are superhuman in various ways - and they have
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by edanm 3y ago
Interesting. I've wanted to learn a Lisp since reading his essays almost 15 years ago, but never had a chance until this year. Unfortunately it wasn't the best circumstances to learn Clojure - I was taking ownership of a codebase
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by edanm 3y ago
Are you doing the actual arc maintenance of HN? From your comment in that thread it seems like you do that + the moderation (how you have the time, I have no idea). Do you come from a background of Lisps? I just learned my first lisp (Cloju
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by edanm 3y ago
I apologize, and I will try to do better.
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by edanm 3y ago
> So what is your plan then? Keep millions of people in perpetual prison for all eternity? Because that's more or less what "blockade of Gaza" entails. First of all, I don't think that's an accurate characterizat
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by edanm 3y ago
> Israel did not leave Gaza, though it made a show of doing so. Just to be clear, what do you mean by this?
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by edanm 3y ago
That's a different situation. They are Ukrainian citizens. There were no Palestinian citizens before because there was no state there, neither Israel nor Palestine.
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by edanm 3y ago
> The best strategy for Israel would have been to show retraint, because now Israel is slowly ending up as the villain of this story. This rings so hollow to me. People were out protesting Israel the day of the October 7th attacks , whi
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by edanm 3y ago
> Everything you said in your comment has been debunked I'm sorry, if you seriously believe that - you are just factually wrong. I urge you - if you're serious - try to view real journalistic accounts of what is going on. They&
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by edanm 3y ago
> The thing is, bulldozing is also happening in the West Bank, which has nothing to do with Hamas. Well, "nothing to do" is a bit of a stretch. There are active Hamas militants in the WB as well, and their actions on October 7t
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by edanm 3y ago
> October 7th happened under the current approach, to assume it would be at least as bad under a 'guard let down' scenario begs the question. Look, I'm sorry, but that's wishful thinking. Israel left Gaza in 2005. G
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by edanm 3y ago
> Re bombing: Using unopposed air power to wreck civil infrastructre is pretty much the definition of terror bombing It isn't done to wreck civil infrastructure, it's done to attack Hamas that is cynically using that civil inf
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by edanm 3y ago
Well I certainly agree about most of that.
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by edanm 3y ago
But that's a completely different situation! Palestinian were never citizens of Israel. For the first twenty years of Israel's existence, they were refugees militarily controlled by other countries. So they are foreigners. You m
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by edanm 3y ago
> It's not an impossible standard to attempt to minimize civilian casualties. It's a crime of war not to. Completely agree. > Israel is incautiously bombing all over Gaza including refugee camps. They are destroying housing
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by edanm 3y ago
Yes, that was a very very mistaken plan by Netanyahu and I hope (and think) he will pay for it with this being, finally, the end of his political life. That said, what would've been your alternative? For Israel to refuse to cooperate a
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by edanm 3y ago
For the record, I am completely against the illegal settlements. Though if you're referring to the current war when you say "terror bombing", I disagree with that description of it. > Honestly, I have no idea how solve thi
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by edanm 3y ago
I'm sorry to say this so bluntly, but I believe you are mistaken about a lot of what is going on, You're making very basic factual mistakes in your comment. > So the different forms of IDs, different license plates, court sys
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by edanm 3y ago
I can't vote in the United States. Does that make the United States and apartheid regime? Of course not, I'm not a US citizen. The Palestinians who stayed in Israel became Israeli citizens, and have all the same rights as other Is
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by edanm 3y ago
> I think it's interesting to believe that Israel can effectively and permanently take out Hamas (and the like), while they cannot prevent October 7th. Either they have sufficient intelligence/surveillance or they don't. T
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by edanm 3y ago
I agree that "Total Security" is never guaranteed, but we're talking many orders of magnitude between the current situation and Total Security. It is just a true fact of the world that if Israel were to let down its guard eve
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by edanm 3y ago
I very much agree that calling any criticism of Israel anti-semitic is both factually wrong and very bad, on many levels. The main thing that upsets Israelis is when the criticism is: 1. Specific only to Israel, and/or far harsher on
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by edanm 3y ago
> Just because Hamas doesn't care about Gazans doesn't mean that Israel is giving them a reasonable opportunity to thrive, though. Yes and no. Israel definitely hasn't had clean hands these last 15 years, but on the other
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by edanm 3y ago
> Simply put, yes, killing two civilians for every one combatant is overwhelmingly civilian, although I don't believe that 2:1 ratio for a moment. And I'm struggling to see how anyone who's not ideologically possessed coul

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