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by simonh 3y ago
Who's funding what is certainly a relevant issue, but not what we're discussing in this comment thread. It's not whataboutism because I am in no way using Arab countries behaviour to justify, distract or change the subject fr
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by simonh 3y ago
There's a series of interviews with Arab Israelis on youtube. "Arab Israelis: Are you living under occupation?". You can hear them give their own accounts of what life is like for them. It's a mixed bag of course, but th
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by simonh 3y ago
I am not claiming Israel is ideal, it certainly isn't. The nakba was a real event too. There are plenty of jewish extremists. I am simply pointing out that decrying Israel as an ethno-state while giving Arab countries a free pass on th
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by simonh 3y ago
Most jews emigrated, that's true, the number killed in pogroms was not huge generally in the hundreds in any given events. Nevertheless at various times in various countries they were often banned form selling property, banned from usi
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They’re not Israeli citizens.
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by simonh 3y ago
Crime against Arab Israelis is appalling. Nothing to do with the nation state law (which to be clear is a stupid mistake), as far as I can tell it’s not even mentioned in the article.
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by simonh 3y ago
>” how Arab leaders wanted to expel/kill all Jews” I quoted the Arab leader that orchestrated the assault in 1948 on that point. I can give more if you like. Here’s the then Prime Minister of Iraq Nuri al-Said: "We will crush t
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by simonh 3y ago
I’ll ask again, can you cite any example of an Israeli Arab being denied any legal right under that law?
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by simonh 3y ago
The legal code and constitution also guarantees equal rights under the law. Can you cite an example of an Israeli Arab being denied any legal right due to that law? Don’t get me wrong, I wish that law didn’t exist. It’s a mistake, but it’s
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by simonh 3y ago
Israel has a population of around 2 million Arab Muslims. They have full citizenship, serve in the police and army, are represented in the Knesset, serve as judges and one of them sits on the Supreme Court. One of them won the Miss Israel c
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by simonh 3y ago
As OP pointed out, a billion Muslims is a lot of people. They may not have the palestinians at top of mind all the time, but a lot of them do at the moment.
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by simonh 3y ago
Of course we are. Why do you think I'm saying otherwise? Seriously, go back and look at my comments and tell me where I made any claims about presumption of innocence for humans. I look forward to your reply. The problem is with humans
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by simonh 3y ago
They’ve also been known to tear fingers and hands off. In the wild the males will sometimes tear off a rival’s testicles. Chimps are faster, more agile, much stronger than any human, and capable of extreme violence.
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by simonh 3y ago
I'm not surprised, brains are incredible, even tiny ones in organisms like insects. Is a bird's nest a tool? There's a continuum all the way up from ant nests to rocket ships.
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by simonh 3y ago
Making tools, such as bending wire to make a hook in this case, is distinct from just using found objects.
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by simonh 3y ago
Software isn’t a tool?
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by simonh 3y ago
It’d better have long term support, some customers had to wait 4 years from ordering to get one.
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by simonh 3y ago
The reason this is an issue in D&D is that by default the PCs don’t have a job. They’re freelance mercenaries, so the game needs to give them a reason to adventure, and by default that’s making money. The way out of this is to have the
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by simonh 3y ago
‘Niche money for nerds’ doesn’t sound like a world changing concept.
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by simonh 3y ago
I would contend that being friendly for non-technical users is a necessary condition to consider it working well. It clearly works, nobody is saying it doesn't.
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by simonh 3y ago
You are not addressing the point. There's a wold of difference between usable for something, and it being a good use case. You can go shopping in a monster truck, but that doesn't mean it's a good general use case for monster
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by simonh 3y ago
I think what happened is Microsoft got the raw GPT3.5 weights, based on the training set. However for ChatGPT OpenAI had done a lot of additional training to create the 'assistant' personality, using a combination of human and mod
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by simonh 3y ago
I'm not sure what point you're making. It's a 'real' AI.
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by simonh 3y ago
A main concern in AI safety is alignment. Ensuring that when you use the AI to try to achieve a goal that it will actually act towards that goal in ways you would want, and not in ways you would not want. So for example if you asked Sydney,
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by simonh 3y ago
In late stage pregnancy babies in the womb can hear voices, and can often identify their father after birth by their voice immediately after birth. Violence often includes a lot of shouting, and physiological stress on the victim which woul
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by simonh 3y ago
Except that he only found out there was a correlation between startup success and responsiveness by doing a historical analysis.
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by simonh 3y ago
>Hypothetically a battery of missiles on the moon could be launched without being noticed by anyone on earth. If your opponent puts missiles on the moon, put observation satellites in lunar orbit. Surely stealth nuke satellites in earth
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by simonh 3y ago
As against launching the thousands of nukes you already have right here on Earth, and hitting your targets within minutes. I suppose if you want to wipe out your opponents 100x over veeeery slowly rather than just 10x over in lunch time.
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by simonh 3y ago
Oh the whole tube is way bigger. Just the pressuriseable payload space is bigger than the internal volume of the space station. Here's a view of what Starship docked to the ISS would look like. Or is it the other way around? https:&#x
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by simonh 3y ago
The moon's too far away. It would take a missile a few days to get to Earth, and you need to waste energy getting off the moon in the first place. Plus putting it there. There's just no point.

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