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Or the roads the Inca built as well.

It's remarkable to me how many seem to forget there is "morality" apart from "legality". Even if this does violate some treaty somewhere, we need not wring hands over the death of …

Defend your thesis

Well, there are other things you can look at. For one, Khamenei was dictator of a regime that abducts women and recently murdered 10s of thousands of protesters in the streets. I'd…

Not a skeptic, but I've seen these studies for a while. Do we have any idea what the mechanism could be?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12713542/ (without paywall)

Agreed. I see far too many people rationalizing piracy as a principled thing to do. Instead of finding ways to improve the market such that the control of content isn't siloed in m…

Do you have an injury? Knees over toes exercises can do wonders for rehab. From a form perspective, it also helps to avoid heel-striking.

I think it's more beneficial to think in terms of incentive structures. How we structure societies and industries can incentivize virtue, but it can also disincentivize fradulance …

And even minus the BS, researchers seem more comfortable with making minor incremental improvements in established science rather than taking risks.

Yeah, it's there in every industry, though it seems more prevalent in those that are heavily reliant on taxpayer money.

If the Chixulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit us today, humans would probably survive. Even if over 99.99% are wiped out, that still leaves a decent number to figure it…

And the war would have to carry on centuries to maintain the current rate. If there is a subtle insidious plot to erode the population of Gaza over time, it is a huge flop. The fir…

Perhaps what most different about this conflict is the dearth of nations willing to accept refugees. Many if not most Gazans do in fact want to leave [1] (wouldn't you?). The unset…

Exactly. From 1950-67 Jordan occupied the West Bank and Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip from 1959-67. At no point during this time was there any desire on part of the Palestinians to…

How is it self-defeating? Hamas is able to continue fighting with the more aid they steal. By stealing aid they also increase the suffering in Gaza thus winning the propaganda war.…

The net savings are probably positive. DOGE's stated savings are 199B, so that would leave 177.3B in savings. If DOGE is overstating savings, I doubt they are doing so by 900% whic…

What is more 1930s Germany were the checkpoints and human-chains set up around UCLA to limit the movement of Jews around campus. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-09…

This is only a problem until UCLA makes a deal with the gov't, like Columbia, and gets its grant money restored.

Oct 7th was certainly not the start of the conflict, but it was at a level of barbarity that one can not consider it to be provoked. > Without a sense of proportionate response, if…

The article you link from NPR seems to mostly cite the Haaretz article. The only possible corroboration are the claims from Adil Husain, but I am hesitant to take his words as corr…

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At the end of the day, the outputs simply reflect the inputs. Initially I was of the "if it looks, walks like duck" view when it comes to LLMs and thinking. But as time progressed …

Even if the technology improves and the economics of scale reduces the cost, I still don't buy the narrative that swarms of tiny kamikaze drones will radically change warfare. Asid…